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Re: We're gonna be in the news again - 2 months ago

Both sides have sociopathic leaders who long ago decided the only way out is genocide. Now it's a race. If you accept that axiom, all following actions by both make sense. All well and good. Just don't pretend either side's leaders are any different. The way to peace, short of mass death, is each side's population of humans rises up and takes out the ghouls at the top of their own ticket, w

Re: Sabermetrics - 2 months ago

chimpfoodMan if you think OPS is sabermetrics there’s some stuff out there that will blow your mind Yes, yes, I know, I am not saying OPS is complex. I'm saying its values are not suggestive. It's Celsius, not metric tensors.

Sabermetrics - 2 months ago

As an Old, I have trouble with the values of OPS as intuitively graspable for goodness/badness. But I think I have an analogy with BA, the most intuitive for those of my vintage: OPS/3 Thus:1.000 elite .900 good .800 above average .750 average .700 below average .600 bad .500 Mets bad Is this broadly correct?

Re: Cornell lacrosse 2025 - polls 4/21/25 Cornell #1 - 2 months ago

Jeff Hopkins '82 CU77 billhoward Larken Kemp in has the teams in these brackets going into the weekend of April 28: Gotta love the man's prose style. He opens with "Hours from Ulaanbaatar, at the edge of the Mongolian steppe, where the horizon stretches unbroken and silence rides the wind, the Mongol Derby begins." Lacrosse is not mentioned until paragraph five. He was also great f

Re: Opponent and other news and results of interest 2024-2025 - 2 months ago

abmarks Trotsky vs. the rest of Ivy This is the operative word. Right now we are the smartest kid in the Upper Class Twit of the Year contest. I'd love it if within my grandchild's lifetime we were measuring ourselves against someone other than Special Olympians. If you're in the same conversation as Dartmouth re: academic integrity, you're doing something very very wrong. There are oth

Re: Opponent and other news and results of interest 2024-2025 - 2 months ago

vs. the rest of Ivy This is the operative word. Right now we are the smartest kid in the Upper Class Twit of the Year contest. I'd love it if within my grandchild's lifetime we were measuring ourselves against someone other than Special Olympians. If you're in the same conversation as Dartmouth re: academic integrity, you're doing something very very wrong.

Re: Opponent and other news and results of interest 2024-2025 - 2 months ago

CU2007 Trotsky Never change, Colgate. (I had no idea about CC. Fuck them.) A more detailed (and prettier) treatment. A far, far more detailed (less pretty) analysis of Cornell. (tldr: we suck, but not compared to the other Ivies.) The scatter plot and trending charts are most interesting. I would have expected us (and the Ivies in general) to have become less scumbag-ridden in the

Re: Ben Robertson transfer - 2 months ago

abmarks upprdeck they would have to remove all the Canadian kids wouldnt they to pay NIL like that? Not necessarily. Was reading an article that talked about workarounds. If the Canadian kids get a different visa than the standard student visa was one way. Another was getting the nil for services rendered in Canada. And the third was an example where you sold your nil rights to a company

Re: 2025-26 Incoming Freshman and Transfers - 2 months ago

If my math is still adequate, we will have 8 draft picks on the squad, none of them seniors: Pick Dr Cl Name 70 23 Jr Castagna 76 22 So Fisher 83 22 Jr Fegaras 108 23 Jr Stanley 165 24 So Ashton 179 24 Fr Veilleux 182 22 Jr Devlin 188 23 Jr Walsh Have we... reloaded?

Re: Opponent and other news and results of interest 2024-2025 - 2 months ago

Never change, Colgate. (I had no idea about CC. Fuck them.) A more detailed (and prettier) treatment. A far, far more detailed (less pretty) analysis of Cornell. (tldr: we suck, but not compared to the other Ivies.) The scatter plot and trending charts are most interesting. I would have expected us (and the Ivies in general) to have become less scumbag-ridden in the last 40 years b

Re: Cornell hosting the Ivy League Tournament - 2 months ago

billhoward upprdeck i wonder if they can even get permission to fly the drone over campus that fast the way things move in campus. Not to politicize this august forum but ... some might say at least in the past, one could paint the drone body in the colors of the Palestinian flag. It'd be seen as the cries of an oppressed people, and untouchable by Cornell. <yes, is joke, too> Even better

Re: 2025-26 Incoming Freshman and Transfers - 2 months ago

All 3 incoming this Fall?

Re: Ben Robertson transfer - 2 months ago

underskillCan’t Cornell get Larry Tannenbaum to fund a men’s hockey collective and just try to buy a championship? If the funding model is moving in the same direction as everything else in this benighted timeline, this may not be far from truth. In a world where title hopes are the probability of having hatched a billionaire asshat overcompensating for his (it's always his) deficiencies IRL

Re: Cornell in the Movies - 2 months ago

George64 In White Lotus, perhaps the most obnoxious character, among a host of really unlikable characters, Shane Patton, apparently went to Cornell, at least he wears a Cornell cap in episode 4, season 1. He is wearing it again later in the season. He is the most vile fictional Cornellian since the Objectivist waiter in Dirty Dancing. White missed the mark, though. Shane is pure Dartmouth

Re: Ben Robertson transfer - 2 months ago

Re: HARVARD SUCKS - 2 months ago

Yeah.

Re: Cornell lacrosse 2025 - 2 months ago

RichHthe "wahhh, we're not getting any 5***** A+++ rated recruits" Chicken Little panic has been happening with varying frequency for the past 15 years. Yet we still have continued to field some exceptional teams with regularity.Also true of hockey.

Re: We're gonna be in the news again - 2 months ago

Endanger our students. Fine. Endanger our money. Prepare to die.

Re: Opponent and other news and results of interest 2024-2025 - 2 months ago

"Officer, I'd like to report a murder."

Re: Ben Robertson transfer - 2 months ago

The Rancor Dafatone VIEWfromK BearLover Robertson has almost no chance of an NHL career. I wasn't even considering the possibility that Jacob MacDonald or Joakim Ryan would play in the NHL based on their time at Cornell yet both have played in the league. Maybe you wouldn't call it a career but since I don't think Cornell turns out finished products it's kind of hard to really know Also, im

Re: Opponent and other news and results of interest 2024-2025 - 2 months ago

abmarkskeyboard karen If this is original it should get the Nobel Prize for Literature. Bravo.

Re: Opponent and other news and results of interest 2024-2025 - 2 months ago

Simon Haoxi Wang is wild. 6-6 defenseman from Beijing, committed to BU.

Re: Recruits 2025 and Beyond - 2 months ago

scoop85 Trotsky BearLover Trotsky ugarte Dafatone One player doesn't mean anything, but now is as good as time as any to note that our highest draft pick ever (14th overall), Sasha Pokulok, played two alright-but-not-great seasons for Cornell then never made the NHL.IIRC Pokulok was pretty good at Cornell but had concussion/injury issues in some of his early years in the pros before decamping ove

Re: Recruits 2025 and Beyond - 2 months ago

BearLover Trotsky ugarte Dafatone One player doesn't mean anything, but now is as good as time as any to note that our highest draft pick ever (14th overall), Sasha Pokulok, played two alright-but-not-great seasons for Cornell then never made the NHL.IIRC Pokulok was pretty good at Cornell but had concussion/injury issues in some of his early years in the pros before decamping overseas.I don't re

Re: Recruits 2025 and Beyond - 2 months ago

ugarte Dafatone One player doesn't mean anything, but now is as good as time as any to note that our highest draft pick ever (14th overall), Sasha Pokulok, played two alright-but-not-great seasons for Cornell then never made the NHL.IIRC Pokulok was pretty good at Cornell but had concussion/injury issues in some of his early years in the pros before decamping overseas.I don't remember concussions

Re: Recruits 2025 and Beyond - 2 months ago

BearLover CAS With the addition of Vellieux & Fisher, we should have 7 drafted players on next year’s team. If DiGuilian gets drafted, we will have 8. When was the last year Cornell had 8 or more draftees on the team? Long, Pirtle, & Hiscock all had outstanding years, but assume are too old to be drafted. I think Cornell had 9+ drafted players at points in the mid-2000s. We were recrui

Re: Next Cornell Men's NCAA Tournament appearance - 2 months ago

One thing comes to mind is the CHL treats its players like trash, and hey suddenly there is competition and if you abuse a guy he's gone. That can only be good news for players. More importantly, a choice you make at 15 doesn't preclude getting a degree. I don't know what it will do to us, but I like it in principle. Choices are good.

Re: Next Cornell Men's NCAA Tournament appearance - 2 months ago

617BigRed We make NCAA tourney plenty of times, we should always be in contention via winning at Placid - issue is when will we finally get thru a Regional Final to make the Frozen Four again?We have made it plenty of times, but that is in no way guaranteed. That's the point. Look at the history of all teams in the NC$$. CC, once a regular, hasn't appeared since 2011. Clarkson had a domi

Re: 2025-26 Incoming Freshman and Transfers - 2 months ago

underskill I wonder if Casey is going to try to rebalance the class sizes at some pointIt tends to happen on its own. Large classes have a tail of frosh who never see the ice, hence they never develop, hence they continue to get beat out by incoming guys the next year, and eventually they leave.

Next Cornell Men's NCAA Tournament appearance - 2 months ago

This is a temperature check for the fanbase. Men's team.