buddha

i get your point, and i havent read the whole complaint. but those text messages mean nothing, and the part of the complaint cited in that other tweet isnt evidence, its merely speculation on the part of the drafter.

its like calling someone "chief", without the racism.

i dont understand how that shows any racism.

maybe youre right on gehringer. but i think the negro league numbers are very inflated.

i think there is no doubt the best black players would have done well in the major leagues. i also think there is no doubt that the best white players would have done just as well or better in the negro leagues, simply because the player pool for the negro leagues was much smaller. but the only definitive evidence we have is the numbers we have and stories that come down to us, the veracity of which we dont really know. were oscar charleton and josh gibson better than ty cobb and charlie gehringer? we'll never know. all we can go on is what they did at the time they did it. and by those measures, they were not.

second half of his career ops+: 93, 97, 107, 91, 102, 93, 89, 144, 95, 70. he was average to below average for most of the decade outside of a fluke season toward the end when he was platooning and playing a lot of dh. look, great player for sure. but he's a bit overrated because of the ironman streak and how much chris berman slobbered all over him constantly. i dont know how much better he was than derek jeter in the final analysis. and i would definitely rank him below gehringer.

at least ranking between eras has generally the same universe of teams, games played, conditions of play, etc. there are a few differences in the ball over the years, but nothing like the differences between mlb and the negro leagues. and the pool of players for the negro leagues was much smaller. a lot of barnstorming more than a set league. not that there wasnt a set league for a lot of the history, but not for all of it. i dont think the two leagues were equal and that the mlb pool of players was much deeper, but both leagues were diminished by the absence of the other league's great players.

i think ripken is actually overrated. he played a long long long time that helps his war, but he wasnt all that great for the second half of his career.

then they get into the usual rating of negro league players, which is almost impossible to judge.

bryece harper better than charlie gehringer. ok. those lists are designed to make you mad to get clicks. and it works.

the part where they called him an embarrassment to baseball because of lies al stump wrote in a book?

sorry middle eastern guys, you're all white now.

and his name is red savage. how can he not be a red wing?

no it isnt. and "selective data". ok chas. lol. data that disproves your point is "selective." with an insult on top of it! lol. this is all an exercise so you can call someone a "brah".

https://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/33138638/top-100-mlb-players-all-nos-100-51 stupid list (bryce harper?), but lots of tigers on it. cant wait to see how they underrate cobb.

data about supreme court justice appointees is not an anecdote, brah.

that's not an anecdote, but at least you got to use the word "brah" in a derogatory way. so good job.

#NHL GameScore Impact Card for Detroit Red Wings on 2022-01-31: #LGRW https://t.co/6MS0JVVwvU

what a miss by veleno. on a night he was mic'd up too. good win, although all i really wanted was for seider and raymond to outplay zegras. i've sort of given up on the calder. raymond has slowed down once bert was moved to line two and zegras has the showy plays that make highlights, so he'll likely win. but seider is the roy. he's gotten even better as the season has gone on. he plays on pp and pk, he goes up against the other team's best all night, and he' carrying dead weight like osterle or dekyser around every shift. he's been amazing. but unless he get some awesome goals or hits he wont win.

no, he could not do that

right. because i was talking about "americans" and as you note above "you dont care what the average american thinks." so youve spent the last two pages arguing what tater wants to argue about (republicans are racists, rinse repeat) and not what i was talking about. its been two pages of us talking past each other.

what part of "americans" dont you understand? again, youre making your point about how you think all republicans are racist. i'm saying "AMERICANS" largely support "immigration". "americans" includes more than just republicans. did you even look at that link i posted, or did you just google muslim ban until you found an article that said republicans liked it?

i said 75% of americans are supportive of "immigration". that's true. i know you think all republicans are racist. we get it.

all those things were unpopular with americans except maybe the wall. so what's your point? other than maga sucks, which yeah we get it.

youre right, im not arguing with what you wrote because what you wrote has nothing to do with what i was talking about. its the usual tater rant of things tater wants to rant about. most americans love the idea of "immigration." all the polling says so. but they hate illegal immigration and see it as a problem. thats not just your bogeyman "maga trump people," thats most americans. so im not sure what all your ranting about walls and muslim bans has to do with that. and just so you know, truno's "muslim ban" was very unpopular wirh americans. https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.nytimes.com/2015/12/16/upshot/how-unpopular-is-trumps-muslim-ban-depends-how-you-ask.amp.html