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A homeless man pretends to be a mejdoub, faking it until he makes it, if you will. It eventually catches up with him.

A one sided, first person conversation by a fighter. Accusations fly.

A friendship between a woman on holiday and a boy

A man keeps a beautiful garden. He comes home at night happy. His wife thinks this happiness signifies that he has found a treasure. She poisons him thinking he won't tell her about the treasure. He sleeps for four days due to this poison. He wakes with no memory of anything and life goes downhill from there.

Not into this one

Managerial jobs, HOF votes, all that is needed for those are a certain set of looks, as it so happens.

Hey yo! A stork stops for a drink at a watering hole and encounters a hyena. "... he had been told that if the hyena can put a little urine on someone, that one will have to walk after the hyena to whatever place the hyena wants him to go. "

Statcast and the evolution of the modern day front office.

Salam calls for his cat nightly. The cat has the same name as a neighbor girl, the girls mom doesn't like that this dude is calling on his girl. So she kills the cat. He curses her, causing her daughter to fall down onto a piece of glass. The girls mom goes to the police. The policeman checks in on Salam. Salam arranges for a gift of one thousand francs to be delivered to the cop, getting the policeman transferred.

Statcast and how it took the atomic view of on field scouting to a subatomic view.

Clearing up some myths on scouting and how it works. Modern day analytics are changing how scouting is done.

Couldn't concentrate on this, couldn't get into it.

Talking about how these stats should now be how Hall of Famers are decided, not with feelings and memories. WAR is a perfectly valid metric for deciding a HOF'er. Jack Morris should not be in the HOF.

UZR and dRS are currently the best available fielding metrics to the lay public. Though not complete.

Again, best friends fight. This time over a girl. "The difference between Lahcen and Idir was that Lahcen liked to drink and Idir smoked kif. Kif smokers want to stay quiet in their heads, and drinkers are not like that. They like to break things."

ERA is just one part of a nuanced story told about a pitcher. Along with BABIP, FIP, RA, K% and others, it is difficult to distill a pitcher's performance into one number. It is also difficult to predict future performance with these numbers, and that is what is eating up most front offices these days.

A photographer leaves his hotel at night, finds himself by the river and onto a boat. The boat takes him downriver to a brothel of sorts, a very seedy place. He loses his shoes.

wOBA is a weighted stat for on base measurement. Because each event that avoids an out is weighted differently, this is more accurate than OBP.

Slugging percentage measures power in a batter and correlates with run scoring better than straight batting average, but not as well as OBP. Adding OBP and slugging together (OPS) is not a great measure of an individual player, however, it is a pretty good run scoring predictor for a team.

OPB is king. A baseball game is measured in outs, OBP can give you a general idea of how well a player does to avoid those outs.

Fielding percentage is fallible because it uses errors in calculation. Errors are objective and the definition of one has changed many times over the decades.

Stolen bases only help when you don't get caught and make an out, and even then does it take multiple stolen bases in a game to increase run expectancy by one.

Donald's dick of a dad makes for a very drama filled Christmas.

skipped this one, just couldn't get into it