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Re:Say It Is So: Baseball’s Disgrace on Tuesday February 25, 2020 @06:49PM (#22418814)
I'm the Astros fan who created http://signstealingscandal.com, so I'm definitely not saying they didn't cheat. They cheated in the regular season (I documented over 1,100 bangs). And I'm almost certain the Astros were cheating during the 2017 World Series. An interesting point though, in Darvish's 2 World Series starts (1 away, 1 at home), he threw 3.1 innings and gave up 8 earned runs (4 in each game). The other Dodgers pitchers threw 13.2 innings in those games and gave up 0 earned runs. I think it's possible the Astros were stealing signs and Darvish was tipping pitches.
Re:Say It Is So: Baseball’s Disgrace on Tuesday February 25, 2020 @06:24PM (#22418637)
That's actually not true. There was one swing and miss. Tom Verducci said so himself in his SI article the day before he went on MLB Network and said there was zero (https://www.si.com/mlb/2020/02/20/astros-cheating-scandal-cl...). The Statcast data show one, too. I have no idea why Tom Verducci changed from one to zero. It really doesn't change his point if it's one or zero.
Re:How America Uses Its Land on Wednesday August 01, 2018 @08:04AM (#17661695)
It doesn't matter if he was under oath — lying to Congress is a crime, oath or not.
Re:Naming things (2015) [pdf] on Friday August 18, 2017 @12:32PM (#15047630)
I always name from general to specific — left to right.

Example: client_project_element-name_20170818.txt

When sorted by name, similar items are grouped together.

Re:Google Fonts Redesigned on Tuesday June 14, 2016 @01:47PM (#11903825)
Long overdue and very nice! I would like to filter by OpenType features, though (e.g., serif font with oldstyle figures).
Re:A Simple Web Developer's Guide to Color on Wednesday April 06, 2016 @11:20AM (#11439337)
I've written a Sublime Text package to convert RGB colors (hex, RGB, & RGBa) to HSL or HSLa. You can convert selected colors or all colors in a file.

https://packagecontrol.io/packages/Hex%20to%20HSL%20Color%20...