Conquer Club

Are clearly the best team in MLB.

Miles away from the second best. Lee, Halladay, Hamels, Blanton.. Ruiz, Utley, Howard, Victorino, Pence, Thome...

Are you going to make a thread for every baseball team?

Don't limit me.

bump!

This thread makes me both sad and angry.

The Philadelphia Phillies.
As opposed to the Texas Phillies?

I thought this was a thread about ponies...

The mane man.

The two east divisions are extremely stacked this year. I doubt the Nats'll hold on due to their age, but the AL is a complete toss-up.

Unless the Sox get some consistent pitching, there's no chance we'll get far in the playoffs even if we make it in.

Related and not truly worthy of its own thread:

http://www.ajc.com/sports/atlanta-brave ... 56183.html

Army of GOD wrote:

Greatest mascot in history. There are times at Phillies games where I spend most of my time watching the Phanatic.

I don't understand mascots. Like, it seems like they just hire any stupid douchebag to be a mascot. They always seem to be getting in fights or just being generally antagonistic.

I'm not talking about the Philly Phanatic specifically, it just seems like that with all mascots.

Or maybe I just have confirmation bias because of the end of Ace Ventura

Army of GOD wrote:Or maybe I just have confirmation bias because of the end of Ace Ventura

I had never heard "confirmation bias" before so I googled it, and I was very familiar with the concept but not with the name.

But seriously, wtf.

Wikipedia wrote:A series of experiments in the 1960s suggested that people are biased toward confirming their existing beliefs

1960s? Friedrich Nietzsche dedicated big part of his work to tell us this.. Almost 100 later but hey, let's credit those lemmings with it..


And the whole beginning of the article is like... "spoken words appear to be a way to communicate. people, when under pressure or when they find themselves all of the sudden without a texting device at hand, appear to use primitive sounds to try to express something, but thanks to great discoveries made in 2034, we now know that this is not a mental disorder, but somehow a primitive ..."

thegreekdog wrote:Greatest mascot in history. There are times at Phillies games where I spend most of my time watching the Phanatic.

I love the Phanatic. But I'd put him as equal with the San Diego Chicken in his prime.

nietzsche wrote:

Army of GOD wrote:Or maybe I just have confirmation bias because of the end of Ace Ventura

I had never heard "confirmation bias" before so I googled it, and I was very familiar with the concept but not with the name.

But seriously, wtf.

Wikipedia wrote:A series of experiments in the 1960s suggested that people are biased toward confirming their existing beliefs

1960s? Friedrich Nietzsche dedicated big part of his work to tell us this.. Almost 100 later but hey, let's credit those lemmings with it..


And the whole beginning of the article is like... "spoken words appear to be a way to communicate. people, when under pressure or when they find themselves all of the sudden without a texting device at hand, appear to use primitive sounds to try to express something, but thanks to great discoveries made in 2034, we now know that this is not a mental disorder, but somehow a primitive ..."

You're a man of science, nietzsche, and you are aware of the role of testing, aren't you?

BigBallinStalin wrote:

nietzsche wrote:

Army of GOD wrote:Or maybe I just have confirmation bias because of the end of Ace Ventura

I had never heard "confirmation bias" before so I googled it, and I was very familiar with the concept but not with the name.

But seriously, wtf.

Wikipedia wrote:A series of experiments in the 1960s suggested that people are biased toward confirming their existing beliefs

1960s? Friedrich Nietzsche dedicated big part of his work to tell us this.. Almost 100 later but hey, let's credit those lemmings with it..


And the whole beginning of the article is like... "spoken words appear to be a way to communicate. people, when under pressure or when they find themselves all of the sudden without a texting device at hand, appear to use primitive sounds to try to express something, but thanks to great discoveries made in 2034, we now know that this is not a mental disorder, but somehow a primitive ..."

You're a man of science, nietzsche, and you are aware of the role of testing, aren't you?

Yes, but that doesn't mean it isn't true if an experiment hasn't showed it truth. And, if Nietzsche hadn't made it that clear with its philosophy they, perhaps, hadn't started the experiments to begin with. We are in a positivistic era, and I do think it's great and all, but reason and science isn't all.

They could have typed: "The great philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche theoritized about it around 1870, and almost 100 years later we had some PhD graduates to run a little experiments and turns out that what that guy they called Nietzsche understood out of sheer genius, was truth after all. We should apologize ourselves for our lack of insight"

You know what's awesome about Wikipedia? (You should make an account), add that information, cite with (sustainable) links, and bam, you've made an impact.

There is hardly anything holding you back. Make a difference, nietzsche. Live up to the name which you bear.

(If you want to be more positivistic, I'd scratch out "great" and put in "renown." "Great" seems a bit too normative.)

BigBallinStalin wrote:You know what's awesome about Wikipedia? (You should make an account), add that information, cite with (sustainable) links, and bam, you've made an impact.

There is hardly anything holding you back. Make a difference, nietzsche. Live up to the name which you bear.

(If you want to be more positivistic, I'd scratch out "great" and put in "renown." "Great" seems a bit too normative.)

I've done that a few times, one time recently, ask AoG.

As always BBS, you will keep at it no matter if I uncover for you the elixir of immortality. You know what I mean, but you want to win the argument, but you should pick a better opponent for your debating skills, for as you know, my English is not great renown.

When someone discovers a cheap, efficient, green energy source, you'll probably give the credit to the 100 experiments that confirmed that it was indeed cheap, efficient and green.

BTW, Matt Cain is pitching a perfect game thru eight.

I remember in high school, I had to do a project on colonial Virgina, and the first paragraph of the Wiki article on Virgina had something along the lines of "All Virginians are giant fucking cunts"

Army of GOD wrote:I remember in high school, I had to do a project on colonial Virgina, and the first paragraph of the Wiki article on Virgina had something along the lines of "All Virginians are giant fucking cunts"

I'd would've written "All Virginians are virgin."

That would've been unfunny