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Jay wrote:

KEN-JENNINGS wrote:

i'm pretty aware of what the current list of advanced metrics captures and teases out.  I also know certain teams employ their own statistics and metrics gathering.  I'm not going to divulge what I feel isn't being accurately captured and teased out because I'm hoping I can create something that will open the door in the Halos for me to get a job in their scouting department.

It would be a cool job but they pay near slave wages

Ilocano wrote:

Jay wrote:

KEN-JENNINGS wrote:

i'm pretty aware of what the current list of advanced metrics captures and teases out.  I also know certain teams employ their own statistics and metrics gathering.  I'm not going to divulge what I feel isn't being accurately captured and teased out because I'm hoping I can create something that will open the door in the Halos for me to get a job in their scouting department.

It would be a cool job but they pay near slave wages

Data hackers?

ALBANY - The state's highest court says the tax man can get his share of lap dances.

The Court of Appeals, in a 4-3 decision Tuesday, said exotic stage and couch dances do not qualify as "dramatic or musical arts performances" and as such should not be exempt from sales taxes.

The justices, who were shown videos of dancers performing their routines in bikinis, ruled that if ice dancing and other forms of entertainment - including sporting events - are taxable, so too are lap dances.

The decision, which reverberated through the New York strip club industry, dealt a stinging defeat to the Albany-area jiggle joint Nite Moves, which had challenged the state Tax Department's policy following an audit and is now on the hook for up to $400,000 in unpaid taxes.

Under state law, tickets for some artistic forms of entertainment, like classical music performances, concerts and Broadway shows, are exempt from sales tax.

"Surely it was not irrational (for the state) to conclude that a club presenting performances by women gyrating on a pole to music, however artistic or athletic their practiced moves are, was also not a qualifying performance," the justices wrote in the majority decision.

The four-judge majority included female justices Carmen Beauchamp Ciparick and Victoria Graffeo.

In a dissenting opinion, Judge Robert Smith argued the court was being too prudish, and he drew a comparison between Hustler magazine and the New Yorker to make his point. He called lap dances "distasteful."

"Perhaps for similar reasons, I do not read Hustler magazine," wrote Smith, who was joined in his dissent by Chief Justice Jonathan Lippman and Judge Susan Read.

"I would rather read the New Yorker," Smith continued.

"I would be appalled, however, if the state were to exact from Hustler a tax that the New Yorker did not have to pay on the ground that what appears in Hustler is insufficiently "cultural or artistic." "

W. Andrew McCullough, a First Amendment lawyer who represented Nite Moves, said he is considering a federal lawsuit against the policy.

"I am bitterly disappointed," McCullough said, arguing that the state had no business playing art critic.

The court's decision frustrated New York's strip club industry, whose members say they pay millions of dollars in unwarranted sales taxes each year.

"For them to make the interpretation that exotic dance does not have the same artistic value or expression as other forms of dance is absolutely incorrect," said Jeff Levy, executive director of the Association of Club Executives of New York.

"I have never seen anybody fall asleep watching an exotic dance but I have seen people fall asleep at the ballet," Levy added.

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