Here is a two-part half-assed Jill (I notice it but can only work up faux outrage): Baseball pitchers do NOT pitch 9 innings--they pitch 9 half-innings (or whatever the number is). In addition, they cannot pitch 4.2 innings (as that is 4 and 20% when the number is more accurately rendered as 4.67 innings which--to be true to the first Jill would be 14/54 outs for a full game...
I was thinking along these lines as well. Why is a pitcher's ERA still based on the ratio "as if he pitched nine innings?" NO ONE pitches 9 innings anymore. And don't get me started on relievers who pitched ONE inning last night and threw 12 pitches so they can't pitch today.
I'm of the school that says the ERA is actually a poor indicator of pitching performance. Earned runs are too often dependent over time on the defense a pitcher had behind him. Not that there's a realistic chance of the ERA losing its media luster anytime soon but, even with their flaws, the FIP (Fielding Independent Pitching) and xFIP (taking the variability of ballparks into consideration) stats looking at a pitcher's run prevention independent of the performance of the team's defense when he's on the mound, are much better indicators, as far as I'm concerned. Certainly not perfect, but offer a more pure picture of pitching performance.
Answer to golf teaser. If it lands in the hazard, have to play it as is, though I honestly think they’d put a live fish back in the water like flicking a bug. If it lands in play out of the hazard, a dead fish is a loose obstruction to be removed, a live one an outside agency and you should determine its affect on and re-place the ball. Save the fish.
I do leave a lot of common and/or average comments. But to me the short story "A Logic Named Joe" is a classic that predicted much more than anyone could expect in 1950. Do check it out.
So did you skillfully edit my wordy description of the horror that is cotton balls (if so, good job) or are there two of us? I would love to know I am not alone.
It was you. I screwed up, I think, and overcondensed it. You hate them not just because it's hard to get at the pills. You don't like the look and feel, right?
Correct. I can feel the fibers pull apart deep in my teeth, if that makes any sense. You can plug up a pill bottle with something else and I’d be fine. I kinda shudder at cotton candy too, but it isn’t as bad.
BTW just because I want my car thermostat setting and any set of exercises I do to be divisible by 2 or 5 does not make me OCD😉 (But I recommend never sharing this information with a trainer or it will be used to make you do more.)
>>>it wasn’t USPS. It was a scam. Don’t fall for it.
I have a general rule: If it isn't from somebody I know closely and personally, OR it is, but I had no idea it was coming, I give it NO information. NONE. If it's from somebody I know and it sounds legit, I send them a SEPARATE text asking about it. Never click links.
I think an important point was missed in the discussion of the lyric in “Born in the USA.” Springsteen wrote Born in the USA as a kind of protest song, “go kill the yellow man” was MEANT to indicate a racist attitude
Lauren Boebert is NOT attractive--oh my god how can anyone possibly find her attractive??
She is like every icky moronic high-school she-bully, inexplicably propelled into the US Congress.
I mean: objectively speaking. Marjorie Taylor Greene is more attractive than Lauren Boebert, and that's... that's just... I'm sorry, I need to go lie down now.
I believe the term 'ferret face' was coined for Boebert. And Greene's face looks like 2-1/2 pounds of bread dough. You'd think they'd try to compensate by developing a pleasant personality...
With that permanent moue of distaste, she strikes me as a tarted up version of Dana Carvey's "Church Lady" --- having it off with her pastor, when she's not lecturing everyone else about their choices. Nothing the least bit attractive about her or her sister "mean girl," MTG. "Beauty is as beauty does."
Here's one for the the books --- actually two for the books I recently came across. Since MLB started tracking pitches in the late '80s, there have been only two times (so far) when a pitcher won a game without throwing a pitch and both involved DMV (good enough for hip-hop, good enough for me) teams. The first was Orioles' B.J. Ryan in 2003 and then Alan Embree of the Rockies accomplished it against the Nats in 2009. Without looking this factoid up, how did this happen ? Magic and "Who cares !" are not acceptable answers.
You like a golf teaser? Golfer hits out of the shallows of a pond, ball comes out, with a little fish that lands on it. How is the next shot played, given the ball lands 1) inside or 2) outside of the hazard area and the fish is 3) alive or 4) dead? I know they don’t call them hazards anymore.
You are correct. But there have to be two additional criteria, your team has to be behind or tied when you enter the game and has to take the lead before you're replaced.
Re: the guy who you said blew the interview because he laughed in saying someone was "as queer as a three-dollar bill,” wouldn't he have lost the job just for using the phrase, laughing or not?
I answered no and then immediately got it. Ignorance is bliss, but I am more blissful for having gotten it, so clearly the adage is a lie.
It depends on the person.
I happen to know that Jonathan's tattoo actually says, "I'm With Stupid" but the hand gesture pictured is absolutely correct... :-)
"Not enough spices. It needed some curry." - OK, THIS made me LOL right out loud!
I laughed, too. How about curried lobster? It ought to taste like curry. Might as well be beans.
I love cilantro, and for those of us not genetically cursed, it tastes nothing like soap.
Here is a two-part half-assed Jill (I notice it but can only work up faux outrage): Baseball pitchers do NOT pitch 9 innings--they pitch 9 half-innings (or whatever the number is). In addition, they cannot pitch 4.2 innings (as that is 4 and 20% when the number is more accurately rendered as 4.67 innings which--to be true to the first Jill would be 14/54 outs for a full game...
I was thinking along these lines as well. Why is a pitcher's ERA still based on the ratio "as if he pitched nine innings?" NO ONE pitches 9 innings anymore. And don't get me started on relievers who pitched ONE inning last night and threw 12 pitches so they can't pitch today.
Obviously 4.2 is 4 and 2/3, but no one can read that in agate font. Just think of it as base 3, I guess.
In base 3, 4 and 2/3 would be 11.2, even more confusing.
You’re right. I guess that shows where my math skills end.
ERA is just relative doesn’t matter the denominator or how many innings modern pitchers actually pitch IMHO.
I'm of the school that says the ERA is actually a poor indicator of pitching performance. Earned runs are too often dependent over time on the defense a pitcher had behind him. Not that there's a realistic chance of the ERA losing its media luster anytime soon but, even with their flaws, the FIP (Fielding Independent Pitching) and xFIP (taking the variability of ballparks into consideration) stats looking at a pitcher's run prevention independent of the performance of the team's defense when he's on the mound, are much better indicators, as far as I'm concerned. Certainly not perfect, but offer a more pure picture of pitching performance.
Answer to golf teaser. If it lands in the hazard, have to play it as is, though I honestly think they’d put a live fish back in the water like flicking a bug. If it lands in play out of the hazard, a dead fish is a loose obstruction to be removed, a live one an outside agency and you should determine its affect on and re-place the ball. Save the fish.
I do leave a lot of common and/or average comments. But to me the short story "A Logic Named Joe" is a classic that predicted much more than anyone could expect in 1950. Do check it out.
So did you skillfully edit my wordy description of the horror that is cotton balls (if so, good job) or are there two of us? I would love to know I am not alone.
It was you. I screwed up, I think, and overcondensed it. You hate them not just because it's hard to get at the pills. You don't like the look and feel, right?
Correct. I can feel the fibers pull apart deep in my teeth, if that makes any sense. You can plug up a pill bottle with something else and I’d be fine. I kinda shudder at cotton candy too, but it isn’t as bad.
BTW just because I want my car thermostat setting and any set of exercises I do to be divisible by 2 or 5 does not make me OCD😉 (But I recommend never sharing this information with a trainer or it will be used to make you do more.)
I can only do sets of exercises by counting Fibonacci numbers…
I loathe cotton balls, as well as their synthetic versions.
3 syllable letter: the great Norm MacDonald noted in a noink of mine: “ID is a strange abbreviation, “I” and then it’s “Dentification.””
Toothy?
>>>it wasn’t USPS. It was a scam. Don’t fall for it.
I have a general rule: If it isn't from somebody I know closely and personally, OR it is, but I had no idea it was coming, I give it NO information. NONE. If it's from somebody I know and it sounds legit, I send them a SEPARATE text asking about it. Never click links.
I think an important point was missed in the discussion of the lyric in “Born in the USA.” Springsteen wrote Born in the USA as a kind of protest song, “go kill the yellow man” was MEANT to indicate a racist attitude
Lauren Boebert is NOT attractive--oh my god how can anyone possibly find her attractive??
She is like every icky moronic high-school she-bully, inexplicably propelled into the US Congress.
I mean: objectively speaking. Marjorie Taylor Greene is more attractive than Lauren Boebert, and that's... that's just... I'm sorry, I need to go lie down now.
I believe the term 'ferret face' was coined for Boebert. And Greene's face looks like 2-1/2 pounds of bread dough. You'd think they'd try to compensate by developing a pleasant personality...
With that permanent moue of distaste, she strikes me as a tarted up version of Dana Carvey's "Church Lady" --- having it off with her pastor, when she's not lecturing everyone else about their choices. Nothing the least bit attractive about her or her sister "mean girl," MTG. "Beauty is as beauty does."
I like her looks, she would be bad for me though, like gluten.
Like strychnine more like it.
Also: eeeeeeewwwwwwww
Here's one for the the books --- actually two for the books I recently came across. Since MLB started tracking pitches in the late '80s, there have been only two times (so far) when a pitcher won a game without throwing a pitch and both involved DMV (good enough for hip-hop, good enough for me) teams. The first was Orioles' B.J. Ryan in 2003 and then Alan Embree of the Rockies accomplished it against the Nats in 2009. Without looking this factoid up, how did this happen ? Magic and "Who cares !" are not acceptable answers.
You like a golf teaser? Golfer hits out of the shallows of a pond, ball comes out, with a little fish that lands on it. How is the next shot played, given the ball lands 1) inside or 2) outside of the hazard area and the fish is 3) alive or 4) dead? I know they don’t call them hazards anymore.
Called into the game then picked off the runner to end the inning where they got the winning runs?
You are correct. But there have to be two additional criteria, your team has to be behind or tied when you enter the game and has to take the lead before you're replaced.
Half-inning
'Juggle', in the boebert Q/A! What a hoot!
Sorry. What do the Qs and As possess?
Re: the guy who you said blew the interview because he laughed in saying someone was "as queer as a three-dollar bill,” wouldn't he have lost the job just for using the phrase, laughing or not?
Yes, agreed. But his insouciance about it rankled them even more.