Around Baseball 2018

[5ToolPhenom]

A-Rod in the booth for ESPN on the SF/LA broadcast. He's actually quite personable on the air. I'm pleasantly surprised.

[P2F]

Mike Trout 0-6 today.. not a memorable Opening Day for him.

Bust.

[P2F]

Hey guys, I wonder if anyone knows of a good site with free streaming games? I'll probably pony up for MLB TV sooner than later, but I was wondering if there was any alternatives in the meantime.

www.sportshd.me

[Hobbs]

The reddit stream I used today worked pretty well. Is MLB TV really even worth it?

[5ToolPhenom]

This is great. Thanks! Love the avatar BTW! Rodneys the best

[5ToolPhenom]

Damn, Giants are making Kershaw look pretty ordinary. Panik took him deep and he's already given up 7 hits and 2 walks over 4.2 innings

[Bobthe4th]

The reddit stream I used today worked pretty well. Is MLB TV really even worth it?

Only if you either instead to watch delays of games, pick the audio, or watch through your phone or games console IMO. HD streams are easy to find.

[Jimcanuck]

Damn, Giants are making Kershaw look pretty ordinary. Panik took him deep and he's already given up 7 hits and 2 walks over 4.2 innings

Kershaw doesn't look comfortable.... has issues with the back

[metafour]

See, here's your problem with this line of thinking... "women don't want these kinds of jobs" is because that's basically how a lot of women are raised, the problem isn't that there aren't openings for women, any competent hiring manager would hire the best qualified person, but because women are discouraged from a young age from pursuing STEM, they don't. Frankly, I think that's a very, very stupid way to raise kids, and it's probably costing us some damn good STEM types that could be doing amazing things for us as a society.

No, you are 100% wrong. Any psychologist worth anything knows that there are clear gender-differences in behaviour which ultimately play a giant role in occupational interest, hence why despite massive environmental intervention in Western nations to "push females into STEM", the number of females who are willing to do that type of systemic-based work barely fluctuates. No society proves this more than the Scandinavian nations who are ahead of everyone else in "workplace equality" (and have been for decades) and yet somehow possess the greatest ratio of female to male nurses, and male to female engineers on the planet (its like 20 to 1 or 25 to 1 for each). You see, in these first-world nations where there is little poverty, when you give people the option to do anything they want (ie: you downplay environmental factors), you naturally empower biological factors which drive females to jobs that revolve around compassion, caring, nurturing, etc....ie: nursing, teaching, pediatrics, etc. You see far greater female participation in STEM fields in developing nations like India, Southeast Asia, China, etc. which practice far stronger forms of "patriarchy", why? Because there is a giant environmental factor which pushes females to those higher paying fields in those countries: the economic need to provide for your family which may be a bunch of farmers or other poor rural peasants. Girls in these nations aren't "taught" to be IT professionals or engineers, you are talking about societies wherein females are still expected to do nothing but take care of the family, yet alas the economic factor of the environment they belong to gives them a reason to strive for those jobs. That doesn't exist in Canada, or Sweden, or Norway, etc, etc, (or at least it exists at a far less significant rate).

We have entered a dark-age in academia wherein biology supposedly no longer exists, all driven by this bullshit notion of post-modernist egalitarianism. The idea that everyone, regardless of gender, is some sort of "blank slate" is absurd and utter bullshit. They have found behavioural differences in infants that are barely weeks old. They've also found significant links between testosterone and behaviour. They know that children with higher levels of testosterone will develop communication and social sense at a slower pace. The reason why males dominate STEM is because the male brain is wired towards interest in those tasks; just like females dominate nursing, primary education, psychiatry, PSW work, etc, etc. Anyone with a working brain should understand why the sex that is tasked with birthing and raising children would have a natural biological preference towards working with kids, for instance.

[jays4life19]

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[BTS]

No, you are 100% wrong. Any psychologist worth anything knows that there are clear gender-differences in behaviour which ultimately play a giant role in occupational interest, hence why despite massive environmental intervention in Western nations to "push females into STEM", the number of females who are willing to do that type of systemic-based work barely fluctuates. No society proves this more than the Scandinavian nations who are ahead of everyone else in "workplace equality" (and have been for decades) and yet somehow possess the greatest ratio of female to male nurses, and male to female engineers on the planet (its like 20 to 1 or 25 to 1 for each). You see, in these first-world nations where there is little poverty, when you give people the option to do anything they want (ie: you downplay environmental factors), you naturally empower biological factors which drive females to jobs that revolve around compassion, caring, nurturing, etc....ie: nursing, teaching, pediatrics, etc. You see far greater female participation in STEM fields in developing nations like India, Southeast Asia, China, etc. which practice far stronger forms of "patriarchy", why? Because there is a giant environmental factor which pushes females to those higher paying fields in those countries: the economic need to provide for your family which may be a bunch of farmers or other poor rural peasants. Girls in these nations aren't "taught" to be IT professionals or engineers, you are talking about societies wherein females are still expected to do nothing but take care of the family, yet alas the economic factor of the environment they belong to gives them a reason to strive for those jobs. That doesn't exist in Canada, or Sweden, or Norway, etc, etc, (or at least it exists at a far less significant rate).

We have entered a dark-age in academia wherein biology supposedly no longer exists, all driven by this bullshit notion of post-modernist egalitarianism. The idea that everyone, regardless of gender, is some sort of "blank slate" is absurd and utter bullshit. They have found behavioural differences in infants that are barely weeks old. They've also found significant links between testosterone and behaviour. They know that children with higher levels of testosterone will develop communication and social sense at a slower pace. The reason why males dominate STEM is because the male brain is wired towards interest in those tasks; just like females dominate nursing, primary education, psychiatry, PSW work, etc, etc. Anyone with a working brain should understand why the sex that is tasked with birthing and raising children would have a natural biological preference towards working with kids, for instance.

Jesus that was savage

[ChrisS]

No, you are 100% wrong. Any psychologist worth anything knows that there are clear gender-differences in behaviour which ultimately play a giant role in occupational interest, hence why despite massive environmental intervention in Western nations to "push females into STEM", the number of females who are willing to do that type of systemic-based work barely fluctuates. No society proves this more than the Scandinavian nations who are ahead of everyone else in "workplace equality" (and have been for decades) and yet somehow possess the greatest ratio of female to male nurses, and male to female engineers on the planet (its like 20 to 1 or 25 to 1 for each). You see, in these first-world nations where there is little poverty, when you give people the option to do anything they want (ie: you downplay environmental factors), you naturally empower biological factors which drive females to jobs that revolve around compassion, caring, nurturing, etc....ie: nursing, teaching, pediatrics, etc. You see far greater female participation in STEM fields in developing nations like India, Southeast Asia, China, etc. which practice far stronger forms of "patriarchy", why? Because there is a giant environmental factor which pushes females to those higher paying fields in those countries: the economic need to provide for your family which may be a bunch of farmers or other poor rural peasants. Girls in these nations aren't "taught" to be IT professionals or engineers, you are talking about societies wherein females are still expected to do nothing but take care of the family, yet alas the economic factor of the environment they belong to gives them a reason to strive for those jobs. That doesn't exist in Canada, or Sweden, or Norway, etc, etc, (or at least it exists at a far less significant rate).

We have entered a dark-age in academia wherein biology supposedly no longer exists, all driven by this bullshit notion of post-modernist egalitarianism. The idea that everyone, regardless of gender, is some sort of "blank slate" is absurd and utter bullshit. They have found behavioural differences in infants that are barely weeks old. They've also found significant links between testosterone and behaviour. They know that children with higher levels of testosterone will develop communication and social sense at a slower pace. The reason why males dominate STEM is because the male brain is wired towards interest in those tasks; just like females dominate nursing, primary education, psychiatry, PSW work, etc, etc. Anyone with a working brain should understand why the sex that is tasked with birthing and raising children would have a natural biological preference towards working with kids, for instance.

Bingo.

It’s interesting that in places where woman have the least equality, least freedom and the most oppression, they are represented in STEM fields at a higher rate.

Left wing nut jobs can’t get it through their heads that the average woman has no interest in becoming plumbers, construction workers, sanitation workers, software engineers etc etc etc

Woman place more value on work/life balance. They want less stress and responsibility. One of my best friends works a corporate job and she has had opportunities to move up, make more money and have increased responsibilities. She has flat out told me she doesn’t want the added stress.

[nmrch]

This is great. Thanks! Love the avatar BTW! Rodneys the best

I love Fernando Rodney because no matter how much change Baseball is going through every year, he's a constant, he just does what he does, both in a good and a bad way.

[nmrch]

No, you are 100% wrong. Any psychologist worth anything knows that there are clear gender-differences in behaviour which ultimately play a giant role in occupational interest, hence why despite massive environmental intervention in Western nations to "push females into STEM", the number of females who are willing to do that type of systemic-based work barely fluctuates.

Before Jobs, Gates, Wozniak etc made Tech Nerd Culture cool in the 80's, Computer Science for decades was a field dominated by women. Ofcourse, just empty rage being masqueraded as an intellectual philosophy is more entertaining than real historical analysis though.

[metafour]

Bingo.

It’s interesting that in places where woman have the least equality, least freedom and the most oppression, they are represented in STEM fields at a higher rate.

Left wing nut jobs can’t get it through their heads that the average woman has no interest in becoming plumbers, construction workers, sanitation workers, software engineers etc etc etc

Exactly. It is literally known as the "Scandinavian Paradox", because the more they try to push women into engineering and STEM, the more they end up with female nurses and other female-dominant jobs. The only way you can force someone to do something that they have no biological interest in doing is if you place them in a position wherein their livelihood depends on it; hence why as you mentioned you see females in the least free and most oppressed societies on the planet flocking to STEM.

These dumbasses think that if you force girls to play with cars that they will grow to become mechanics. No, idiots: boys naturally play with cars because a large part of male biology revolves around a need to understand how things work, which later develops into an interest in becoming a mechanic. Girls don't want to be fucking mechanics. The ones that do, are statistical outliers, and I'd bet if you tested them you would find that they ALL possess far greater levels of testosterone than is normal for a female to possess.

They've proven this shit all the way down to chimps (give female and male chimps a choice of toys, the male will choose to play with a truck, the female will start nurturing a doll), yet somehow in 2018 we're living in this delusion wherein its supposedly all a toss-up, because god forbid we come to the unfair conclusion that males and females aren't equal, and their interests vary significantly. You have professors losing their jobs because they dare to bring up the legitimate and factual conclusion that male intelligence falls on the ends of the bell-curve, whereas females are distributed along the median. What this means on a global sense is that the majority of the smartest AND dumbest people on the planet are always going to be males. The ratio is something like 8 to 1 males to females when it comes to genius-level intellect.

[Boxcar]

No, you are 100% wrong. Any psychologist worth anything knows that there are clear gender-differences in behaviour which ultimately play a giant role in occupational interest, hence why despite massive environmental intervention in Western nations to "push females into STEM", the number of females who are willing to do that type of systemic-based work barely fluctuates. No society proves this more than the Scandinavian nations who are ahead of everyone else in "workplace equality" (and have been for decades) and yet somehow possess the greatest ratio of female to male nurses, and male to female engineers on the planet (its like 20 to 1 or 25 to 1 for each). You see, in these first-world nations where there is little poverty, when you give people the option to do anything they want (ie: you downplay environmental factors), you naturally empower biological factors which drive females to jobs that revolve around compassion, caring, nurturing, etc....ie: nursing, teaching, pediatrics, etc. You see far greater female participation in STEM fields in developing nations like India, Southeast Asia, China, etc. which practice far stronger forms of "patriarchy", why? Because there is a giant environmental factor which pushes females to those higher paying fields in those countries: the economic need to provide for your family which may be a bunch of farmers or other poor rural peasants. Girls in these nations aren't "taught" to be IT professionals or engineers, you are talking about societies wherein females are still expected to do nothing but take care of the family, yet alas the economic factor of the environment they belong to gives them a reason to strive for those jobs. That doesn't exist in Canada, or Sweden, or Norway, etc, etc, (or at least it exists at a far less significant rate).

We have entered a dark-age in academia wherein biology supposedly no longer exists, all driven by this bullshit notion of post-modernist egalitarianism. The idea that everyone, regardless of gender, is some sort of "blank slate" is absurd and utter bullshit. They have found behavioural differences in infants that are barely weeks old. They've also found significant links between testosterone and behaviour. They know that children with higher levels of testosterone will develop communication and social sense at a slower pace. The reason why males dominate STEM is because the male brain is wired towards interest in those tasks; just like females dominate nursing, primary education, psychiatry, PSW work, etc, etc. Anyone with a working brain should understand why the sex that is tasked with birthing and raising children would have a natural biological preference towards working with kids, for instance.

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