Mashed Potatoes
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Ah yes... drunken parties.
I'd rather remember what a good time I had instead of having a friend tell me or seeing a video of it.
But that takes all the mystery out of it!!!
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A final note, during the pregame at like 11:00 someone acquired a plane with a banner like at the beach, and flew it around Heinz field multiple times. The banner said "Pittsburgh is Ravenstown AFC N Champs." Amazing.
http://www.profootball24x7.com/fan_pic_popup.php?id=64&num=08&image=banner.jpg
Ooooohhhhhhh!!!! I got my brother to also put money on the Ravens before the season started, could be looking at some big money.
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Ladies and Gentlemen: The reason this thread exists!
That's brilliant, IHM. I hope you stayed 'til the end, to taunt those punk-ass Stillers fans leaving early.
Indeed I did, there's a wonderful picture of me and my brother standing up and Squealer fans with their heads in their hands, empty seats galore, beautiful!
That's classic right there. Nicely done.One of my friends had a similar experience at Heinz Field last year. He was rocking his Ravens jersey and was getting harassed non-stop during the game. One guy in particular was being obnoxious about it. When my buddy went to the bathroom, the guy followed him in and got in his face. My friend isn't one to back down, so he grabbed the guy's shirt, headbutted him, and knocked him out. He said that when he got back to his seat, some of the Steeler fans actually said thanks because that guy was a real cocknose*.
*I have no idea where I got this term. Maybe I heard it somewhere, maybe I made it up. It doesn't really matter. What matters is that you understand what I'm saying.
That's so strange because almost the exact same thing happened to me. Went to the bathroom and some guy from our section followed us and explained how he would like to kill us, then pushed my brother unprovoked, so I pushed him into a bunch of other Squealers fans, then they surprisingly took our side and restrained him for being a jackass. Unfortunately I didn't get to actually throw any punches because the other fans were good people, who would've thunk it? They're still cocknoses though.
A final note, during the pregame at like 11:00 someone acquired a plane with a banner like at the beach, and flew it around Heinz field multiple times. The banner said "Pittsburgh is Ravenstown AFC N Champs." Amazing.
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If you guys ever have the means, go to a game at Heinz field, drink an excessive amount of captain morgans, and 8 natty lights during the pregame alone. Make a bet with a friend's friend that the winner gets to piss on the losers jersey. Then act like a jackass in the opposing team's stadium, continue to drink, maybe get into a fight or two, and taunt as the Ravens demolish the squealers.
Then rain down your golden stream of justice on the authentic Joey Porter jersey.
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Hot bod! B O D for me. Check out that bod. I want I want your hot bod!
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I am miserable san diego
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More thanks here for the ongoing work.
I think the opening list of links should all go to updated player rankings, wherever possible, and that links to definitions and explanations should go below in the "Notes" section. So for example, while the new link to the wOBA material is useful, it belongs in the lower section rather than in the upper section. And there maybe 1970's updated wOBA stats can be linked when it's ready.
Good looking out, I meant to keep them separated as you suggested, but I never clicked the first link 1970 provided so I wasn't sure if it was the explanation or the rankings. Anywho I fixed it.
Also 1970 or Tony or Scottie can you guys change the thread title from Stick to Sticky? Thanks!
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Well, Mr. Italianstallion/Chris and I just went out tonight and hey, here I am in the drunk thread. Brewer's Art = happy.
It has taken entirely tooooo long to type this message accurately.
k, night.
I was just at the Owl Bar on Wednesday, it was packed! Ropewalk last night.
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Am I wrong in thinking that Drungo has had a list like this up on the Hangout for well over a year?
Check the OPS Misleading? thread, he was one of the posters who advocated the idea.
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Thanks to the work of Baltimoron and now, we have the beginnings of a comprehensive advanced statistics list. Anyone with more links, important and concise notes, or organizational ideas just post them here or PM me, and I'll edit the original post. It will become a sticky, and eventually incorporated into the hangout.
Availability is only the first step though, once the list is finalized I'll start a weekly series on a specific statistic. How is it calculated, where is it applied, what are its strengths, deficiencies, and limits...etc. Soon we will all be "cooking with gas."
Quick Links to Super Stats - the best and most comprehensive measures
EQA (Equivalent Average)
VORP Pitchers (Value Over Replacement Player)
WPA Leaderboard
wOBA (Weighted On Base Average)
OPS (On base Plus Slugging percentage)
RC27 (Runs Created per 27 outs)
DIPS (Defense-Independent Pitching ERA)
PMR (David Pinto's Probabilistic Model of Range)
WXRL Basically VORP for relievers.
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Notes:
EqA - EQA and the EQA based counting stats EQR, RAP, RAR, RARP. Comprehensive (includes stolen bases), highly correlated to actual runs produced (EqR is the companion counting stat), park and league adjusted, consistent in that it is relative to a league-average baseline that is set to the same number (.260), calibrated to mimic the scale of batting average (i.e. a .300 EQA is comporable in scarcity to that of a .300 batting average).
VORP - Value Over Replacement Player. The number of runs contributed beyond what a replacement-level player at the same position would contribute if given the same percentage of team plate appearances. VORP scores do not consider the quality of a player's defense.
OPS - simple to calculate, adding OBP to SLG. Correlates well to Runs Created (RC/27), but is inaccurate to the extent that OBP is actually at least 1.5 times more important than SLG.
RC27 - Runs created per 27 outs (Estimates how many runs per game a team made up of nine of the same player would score)
DIPS - A pitcher's ERA, independent of the defense behind him. This formula, based on essays by Voros McCracken, assumes that all pitchers have consistent BIPA (Balls In Play Average. Batting Average Against, not including home runs or strikeouts), and adjusts accordingly. The DIPS ratios on ESPN use the DIPS 2.0 formula, are not park-adjusted, and do not adjust for knuckleball pitchers.
WPA - Win Probability Added, is a system in which each player is given credit toward helping his team win, based on play-by-play data and the impact each specific play has on the team's probability of winning.
Here's a link from January 06 at the USS Mariner that talks about the defensive fielding stats available. link It doesn't have great info on the Fielding Bible (because it hadn't yet come out), but is not bad otherwise. Here's a good link discussing the Fielding Bible
wOBA - wOBA
Tangotiger's website is a great resource. Not really easy to digest, but very valuable.
PMR - Its system for evaluating fielding range. It calculates the probability of a ball being turned into an out based on six parameters:
1. Direction of hit (a vector).
2. The type of hit (Fly, ground, line drive, bunt).
3. How hard the ball was hit (slow, medium, hard).
4. The park.
5. The handedness of the pitcher.
6. The handedness of the batter.
For each ball in play, the program sums the probability of that ball being turned into an out, and that gives us the expected outs. Dividing that by balls in play yields expected defensive efficiency rating (DER). That is compared to a player (or team's actual DER), or how many balls in their "area" were turned into outs. Its the next step beyond UZR and unlike the fielding bible, is freely available on the web. PMR is explained here and here, or in a short video 5 minute video here (the video is pretty easy to understand).
WXRL - It takes into account the game situation when a reliever enters, when he leaves and gives credit for the difference by evaluating the relative win probabilities. Inherited runners, bequeathed runners, and leverage are integral.
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2 have been bothering the **** out of me.
1. DLP technologies with the little girl and the elephant, "it's amazing, it's the mirrors." I just want Ray Ray to come out of nowhere and crush the little red head mid sentence. What the hell does she know anyway? Why is she smugly lecturing adults? She probably can't even read yet but somehow understands the science behind high definition television? Bull****!
2. "This is oouuurrrr country!" Maybe it's because I hate country music but that stupid, wanna be patriotic montage makes me want to punch a wall. Oh yea, why am I supposed to buy a Silverado again? Because I'm American? I will never purchase a Silverado just because of that commercial.
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Keg races are the most fun thing ever. I've been involved with 2. The first was two teams of 12, took 1:14 minutes (the 2nd place team finished about 15 seconds after the winning team). The second was two teams of 15, but the team I was on had 4 girls who had like 6 beers each. Took under an hour (exact time not known because time-keeper was also a contestant and didn't remember so well).
You haven't been drunk until you and 10 buddies empty a keg in under an hour. Man, thats fun.
Freshman year after final cuts all the lacrosse freshman had to start off the night by killing a keg. There were 11 of us, and the tap was not allowed to stop. So we all had cups and just stood in line, filled up, got back in line and had to kill our drink before we got back to the front. I forgot what the exact time was but it was literally as fast as you could possibly drink it. I can proudly say I was the only one who didn't puke his face off. Thanksgiving break you guys wanna do an OH keg race? I know MatosIsGod is down, and that giant can put down some liquid.
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I Heart Miggy + BustaJ2632 > John-OH on any weekend night, no doubt. That includes Thursday, and I don't even know if IHM drinks Thursdays, but I'll cover him.....rails at cstone will take care of that. It Is On.
We have a keggerator in our house, there's really no night where beer isn't consumed. Sophomore year I actually made thursdays popular on campus by starting "blackout thursdays" in our dorm suite/fraternity house (we got kicked off campus). The title says it all, luckily the girl I was hooking up with at the time got drunk but could remember stuff, so there were stories aplenty. Tonight however I'm not asleep because I've got the flu.
Cornerstone's alright but if you want a true middle America experience. Come to The Palms in Lexington, VA. It's a wonderful mixture of townies, Keydets from the Virginia Militrary Institute, and W+L preps.
For the record my new favorite drunk song is "I Only Wear My White Tees Once (remix)" by The Federation. Hyphy movement in full effect!
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Does your resume identify you as "I Heart Miggy?"
Touche salesman
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If I didn't have to worry about other people's perceptions about me, I would totally make this thread look like amateur hour. Not one of you would compare to me.
Strong words John, strong words. But if you want to come for the title of official OH drunk you best come stronger than that.
Too scared about people judging you to expose your true self? Weak sauce.
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I Heart Miggy may have overtaken Goober Noodles as OH official drunk. Anyone second the motion?
I'm the juggernaut *****!!!!!!
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Last night I started by playing 6 games of 1 v 1 ruit. Then had a couple more bronsons and some crazy mixed rum drink in a zebra mug. Went out to a party with the zebra mug I took from another house and used it all night to refill from the kegs. Later on I see the girl whose mug it was, she claimed she was going to kick my ass. So I drunkenly told her to bring it on and that I could crush her. Surprisingly she accepted immediately put me in a headlock and tried to take me to the ground, but I slipped out of it and she fell on her ass then was too embarrassed to continue.
Corey: 1
Significantly larger girl: 0
Next thing I know I wake up in bed full and my heart really hurts. I look down and there's 21 dollars worth of sausage and green pepper pizza that I'd consumed. It literally felt like my heart was going to explode. Anywho all better now, probably do it again tonight.
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When we bought our house there was a really nice wet bar in the basement. And you better believe there is a keggerator built into the bar. We haven't hooked it up yet, but we will be soon. I wish you all could see our basement, it's a thing of beauty. Miggy, wish your liver good luck for me.
Screw my liver he doesn't have a say in the matter. If he had a choice he would've packed up his bags and peaced out a long time ago. Best of luck with your bar, you better throw some bangin parties with that thing. I'm very happy for you.
Did you buy it or build it?We and my roomates want to get one. They have them at Best Buy for about $350. Or, we can get a kit for about $100 to turn a regular fridge into a kegerator. The problem is we can't find any fridge that is sized like a kegerator other than actual kegerators. I'm not sure a full-sized fridge would fit nicely in our basement drinking area.
There was already an old fridge in our living room area when we moved in that's larger than a keggerator but not full size. We bought the parts and assembled it ourselves. I can't put into words how wonderful it is. I get a little teary eyed every time I pull on the lever and cold brew pours out. It's just SO EASY!
Every decision now it's like should I...
A: Go to class
B: Skip class and pour myself a frosty one
A: Do my homework
B: Screw homework and pour myself a frosty one (though these activities can be combined)
A: Go to sleep
B: Start drinking heavily
My Orioles recliner is literally 5 feet from the tap.
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Bad news liver, we have a fully functional keggerator at our house now.
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I can't believe nobody has *****ed about local car commercials. Scott Donahoo? Antwerpen? Bob Bell? I can't think of one local car dealership whose ads are even mediocre. They're all horrendous.
Scott Donahoo was my little league coach! He was willing to work with all the kids after games, and even had me over his house. I always knew he was intense and strange, but I was still shocked when he got into used cars and put out crazy commercials. Due to my past relationship they don't annoy me, I just kind of smile and nod my head like what the **** happened?!
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Pooooooooop!!!!!!!!
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4)Taylor Hicks Ford commercials: "POSS-AH-BILL-IH-TEEEEEEEEZZZZZ!!!!!!!"
5)Red Roof Inn commercials: "MUUUUULTI-TASKING!" and, "The chances of me working are. . .REMOTE! BWAHAHAHAHA!"
I actually think these commercials are so bad that they're entertaining. I sing along with old man Hicks and the guy dancing on his bed.
I mean, a guy with grey hair awkwardly dancing around as if he's hip? That's funny.
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"Men should act like men. And beer should taste like beer."
So men should act like crotch-scratching' date=' flannel wearing, grunting jerks who drink nasty beer in a can? GAH![/quote']
Clearly you're right, but why do I find myself nodding every time the beer can falls on the feminine male?
Coors Light commercials are my least favorite. Who the hell came up with "the coldest tasting beer" slogan? It's the coldest? Really? I can't stick a Natty Light in the freezer to make it even colder? Temperature is a measurement of mean kinetic energy in a given area, not a taste! Screw you Coors Light, your beer tastes like piss.
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After a hard day's work helping the in-laws install some Pergo flooring I drank 4 Natty Boh's and had a glass of Irish Mist on the rocks while floating around in their pool. After an hour drive home, I feel pretty good right now.
NMS, I believe this thread is post here when you're drunk, not post here when you're comfortably buzzed. Capitalizations? No spelling errors? Decent grammer? No, no, I don't buy this at all. Drink 4 boilermakers and a couple more Bohs then come back.
New most hated Commercial
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Yea it's not even that impressive, the winning robot already took a couple solid shots from the red opponent before it got to the truck. All the Dodge Ram had to do was finish the job. A Miata could've won at that point.