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Re: Cow Bell Question - 2 months ago

Cardinal. No s. They suck, but they're grammatically correct.

Re: Who’s our biggest embarrassment? - 2 months ago

Bill is giving Anne a run lately...

Re: Who’s our biggest embarrassment? - 2 months ago

scoop85 toddlose Just curious on everyone’s thoughts. Doesn’t need to be political. Every institution has someone that they wish wasn’t associated with their Alma mater. As much as I might like to say Ann Coulter, this guy has to be #1ChatGPT swears Baruch Goldstein was at Weill, but I can't find corroboration and Cornell is not anxious to claim him. Yet.

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

This ticket good to redeem the next ten years of puncture snark I would otherwise have felt the need to post here. I think we can all thank the author.

Re: Ben Robertson transfer - 2 months ago

ugarte BearLover I’ll ignore your condescending last sentencethat's the only one that mattered!

Re: Ben Robertson transfer - 2 months ago

The CHL gets far more great players than the NC$$. That used to be because of prejudice by the Canadian hockey community against US colleges: the Pussy Effect. Then it was the momentum of their historical reputation plus scoping the field to include players unable to count: the SEC Effect. Now, well, we'll find out. I strongly suspect you can matriculate 4 years at some schools without

Re: Sabermetrics - 2 months ago

CU2007 Luckily they have WAR which takes everything a player does on the field and puts it into one simple, easily understandable number. I stop paying attention when it gets to the level of fip, xERA etc xFoo is Foo normalized with median = 100. It's wonderfully intuitive. Edit: no it isn't. That's Foo+. Never mind.

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

stereaxWar of the Worlds-esque. Wow.Fun fact: there is no evidence the War of the Worlds caused a panic. It is a classic urban legend.

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

Jeff Hopkins '82 Trotsky 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 fiv

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.