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January 07, 2015
SportsFilter: The Wednesday Huddle:
A place to discuss the sports stories that aren't making news, share links that aren't quite front-page material, and diagram plays on your hand. Remember to count to five Mississippi before commenting in anger.
That is insane.
posted by yerfatma at 12:59 PM on January 07, 2015
Stan van Gundy telling his Pistons to form a fucking wall. vine link
posted by NoMich at 01:10 PM on January 07, 2015
Bill James is a beast!
posted by BornIcon at 01:54 PM on January 07, 2015
Stan van Gundy telling his Pistons to form a fucking wall. vine link
And it worked!
posted by grum@work at 03:32 PM on January 07, 2015
Bill James made predictions
Do you think I can get him to look at the stock market for me?
posted by Howard_T at 12:00 AM on January 08, 2015
Bill James made predictions about the next 25 years of HOF elections...in 1994.
Bold indicates was elected.
Red indicates was elected that year.
1995 Mike Schmidt, Jim Rice
1996 Don Sutton, Pete Rose
1997 Steve Garvey, Phil Niekro
1998 Gary Carter, Al Oliver
1999 Nolan Ryan, George Brett
2000 Robin Yount, Carlton Fisk
2001 Andre Dawson, Dave Winfield
2002 Eddie Murray, Ozzie Smith
2003 Dave Parker, Jim Kaat
2004 Dennis Eckersley, Ted Simmons
2005 Wade Boggs, Cal Ripken Jr.
2006 Rickey Henderson, Paul Molitor
2007 Tony Gwynn, Roger Clemens
2008 Kirby Puckett, Dale Murphy
2009 Jack Morris, Lee Smith
2010 Tim Raines, Ryne Sandberg
2011 Barry Bonds, Joe Carter
2012 Brett Butler, David Cone
2013 Alan Trammell, Lou Whitaker
2014 Goose Gossage, Don Mattingly
2015 Jack McDowell, Greg Maddux
2016 Fred McGriff, Dwight Gooden
2017 Frank Thomas, Ruben Sierra
2018 Ken Griffey Jr., Roberto Alomar
2019 Jeff Bagwell, Juan Gonzalez
Any of the predictions that are red after 1999 are great, simply because that player hadn't retired yet and therefore the year of first induction was still to be determined.