A sad day today as Phyllis from Mulga has passed away. She absolutely hated Colin Cowherd
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11-year old Wayne Dougan was unknowingly an early sabermetrics guy, although I had a few misses.
- I was always a huge OBP guy. I never understood why people didn't care about it (back in the early 90's).
- I thought W's were overrated from a pitching perspective, at least compared to ERA.
- I knew RBIs were always a function of what the guys in front of you did. Relatively worthless stat.
- My big miss was slugging percentage (didn't care), but to be fair I thought HRs were very important (but so did everybody else)
- I also think SBs are important - and I'll die on that hill despite what the analytics say.
I don't agree that he never had a really good year. The most no hitters in history was 4 by Sandy Koufax, and Ryan had 3 in one year. The year Palmer beat him.
And I don't think wins should be a major component since your teams ability has more to do with that than the pitcher.
I'm not saying he didn't have any great years. And I 100% agree with you on wins. I'm just commenting that it didn't seem like he got completely screwed over by not ever winning the Cy Young.
The Angels were next to last in the AL in runs in 73, when Ryan finished 2nd in CY voting. His splits are stupid from that year. He *should* have won and did get 9 of the 23 first place votes, but as said above, Palmer had worthy stats....just hard to put his numbers over Ryan's.
Watched King of Collectibles on Netflix a few weeks ago - 3.5/5.
Renewed my interest in looking for ball cards. Hit up 2 estate sales last week but no cards. Got on FB marketplace and a guy is selling his dads boxes of cards that have been sitting in the garage since the dad bought them at a police/drug auction in the early 90's. About 125K cards for $100.
I'm sure they are all commons from the 80's/90's. The first box of 500+ was. But I enjoy the search and going through the boxes. Will provide weeks of entertainment.
I'll be looking for Nolan Ryan's and pulling those but I bet they've already been pulled out.
Renewed my interest in looking for ball cards. Hit up 2 estate sales last week but no cards. Got on FB marketplace and a guy is selling his dads boxes of cards that have been sitting in the garage since the dad bought them at a police/drug auction in the early 90's. About 125K cards for $100.
I'm sure they are all commons from the 80's/90's. The first box of 500+ was. But I enjoy the search and going through the boxes. Will provide weeks of entertainment.
I'll be looking for Nolan Ryan's and pulling those but I bet they've already been pulled out.
Over/ Under on number of Tammys in the state of Bama?
50,000? 1,000,000?
50,000? 1,000,000?
I always think back to this article. The Shame of College Sports
The sport is completely broken.
Bi-vocational referees sure don’t help the situation.
I believe bi-vocational-curious is the preferred nomenclature.
At least, but I don’t think there’s a Tammy under the age of 30.
Edit: looked it up. Less than 100 Americans born in 2021 were named Tammy, but it was a top 10 girls name in the 60’s and 70’s.
Put this on a plaque in downtown Indy...
Going to Churchill this Saturday for my dad's birthday, he has never been. Looking forward to it!
My significant other and her family were on the backside for Oaks and Derby day. That is the way to do it, avoid the crowd and the drama. I would've went, but was on call over the weekend.
Another reason I stayed back is because, at 37yo, I need a Total Hip Replacement. For the last 10 years, I've had reoccurring pains inside my groin, lower back, waistline, and the pain usually radiates behind my knee and calf. I had to walk (be rolled) down to the ER 3 weeks ago, when, right after I had gotten to work, I couldn't put any weight AT ALL on my left l.
Doc says IV Pain meds, x-ray, and CT scan. I say no to everything except the CT scan (I know the costs and necessity.) Comes back an hour later to say, I have Avascular Necrosis of the Femoral Head - bone death right at my hip joint. Scheduled for cortisone injections next Friday, but that's a place holder, still going to need a total hip.
I explain that at 8 months old, I had a septic hip that needed to be operated on. Doc knowingly says that explains it, and if you x-rayed my hip from 1 year old to now, once a year, you could watch the degeneration in real time.
It's just messing with my mentals more than anything right now. I work in surgery, so I see it first hand. Hip cases can get medieval. And I'm very young to have it done. I'm more nervous about the anesthesia than the procedure, but the pain is UNBEARABLE. Ready for relief. It hurts to stand, lift, sit still, anything. And that's what the job is. I feel useless at work, useless at home, really doing a taxing job on my depression.
Thanks for letting me vent about it. Nobody cares because it's not them in pain. I get it, not out for fake sympathy or thoughts and prayers, nobody needs to lift my name 😂.
The Derby is always a must rewatch at least 10 times. Two Phil's might need a jockey change moving forward. Made his move too soon. Disarm ran a big race. One day, Japan will win one, but not anytime soon.
Again, thanks for the allowance to vent. Have been struggling with this information
My significant other and her family were on the backside for Oaks and Derby day. That is the way to do it, avoid the crowd and the drama. I would've went, but was on call over the weekend.
Another reason I stayed back is because, at 37yo, I need a Total Hip Replacement. For the last 10 years, I've had reoccurring pains inside my groin, lower back, waistline, and the pain usually radiates behind my knee and calf. I had to walk (be rolled) down to the ER 3 weeks ago, when, right after I had gotten to work, I couldn't put any weight AT ALL on my left l.
Doc says IV Pain meds, x-ray, and CT scan. I say no to everything except the CT scan (I know the costs and necessity.) Comes back an hour later to say, I have Avascular Necrosis of the Femoral Head - bone death right at my hip joint. Scheduled for cortisone injections next Friday, but that's a place holder, still going to need a total hip.
I explain that at 8 months old, I had a septic hip that needed to be operated on. Doc knowingly says that explains it, and if you x-rayed my hip from 1 year old to now, once a year, you could watch the degeneration in real time.
It's just messing with my mentals more than anything right now. I work in surgery, so I see it first hand. Hip cases can get medieval. And I'm very young to have it done. I'm more nervous about the anesthesia than the procedure, but the pain is UNBEARABLE. Ready for relief. It hurts to stand, lift, sit still, anything. And that's what the job is. I feel useless at work, useless at home, really doing a taxing job on my depression.
Thanks for letting me vent about it. Nobody cares because it's not them in pain. I get it, not out for fake sympathy or thoughts and prayers, nobody needs to lift my name 😂.
The Derby is always a must rewatch at least 10 times. Two Phil's might need a jockey change moving forward. Made his move too soon. Disarm ran a big race. One day, Japan will win one, but not anytime soon.
Again, thanks for the allowance to vent. Have been struggling with this information
They should pull a Hoops Weiss move and just report on everything 3-6 weeks after it had happened.
The good news is this pain can be fixed with surgery. Perfectly normal, at 37, to be worried about a hip replacement. I’d be nervous too.
Just gotta remember things could go right, too.
Just gotta remember things could go right, too.
That sucks Paintrain, hope the surgery comes quickly and goes well.
My old mother in law got her hip replaced last year. They did the “anterior technique” and she went in for surgery at 8AM and was home at 2PM. Quit being a pussy.
Seriously though the advances in joint replacements the last 10 years has been unreal. The big concern with getting it done young is the fact you have to get it replaced in 20 years but at the pace things are advancing in 20 years that’ll be a piece of cake. I mean remember when 15 years ago a torn ACL for an athlete was a death sentence? That surgery is routine now.
Seriously though the advances in joint replacements the last 10 years has been unreal. The big concern with getting it done young is the fact you have to get it replaced in 20 years but at the pace things are advancing in 20 years that’ll be a piece of cake. I mean remember when 15 years ago a torn ACL for an athlete was a death sentence? That surgery is routine now.
I knew a guy that had hip surgery and literally DIED later. It was my grandpa and he died at 86, nothing to do with the hip surgery though.
Is that the Bo Jackson diagnosis? Damn, buddy. Get you the best doctor out there.
Older neighbor had hiccups for years when I was growing up. I was like 14 and felt so bad for the guy. He was in his 70’s and couldn’t sleep or eat. Deteriorated to nothing. So awful to watch.
Did you guys know they pack your nose full of cocaine if they can’t stop the nose bleed
@paintrain_cat, I have two friends in their late 20s/early 30s who had total hip replacements in the last year (both some kind of congenital issue with hip structure that caused labrum tears). They were both super nervous and both have done amazingly well. Both also said they wish they had done it years ago. They were both back in the gym within 6-8 weeks. My uncle has had bilateral hip replacements and said the same. It's terrifying, no doubt, but it will be a complete gamechanger. AVN is a rough go, sorry you've had to deal with that.
Yeah, but they'll probably DIE someday, pretzel.
How about Booker yesterday basically accusing Jeff Drummond of being responsible for this portal mess?
I had dinner with both sets of grandparents last night and they were talking about how scary the beetus is.
Grandma: I know a lady who had Type 1, and she made all these lovely desserts and they were so delicious and she never ate any of it! Never cheated on her diet, checked her insulin, all that. And then she got cancer and died about 5 years ago. How scary is that?
Me: ...
This was about 5 minutes after my 91 year old grandpa told a story about when he was young and watched a "bunch of blacks" play basketball and "the one team were the blacks, you know, and the other team were (insert racial slurs). You could just tell. And the other blacks called them that, too. Anyway, they could just jump over the rim, it was something else." Well, that story is something else, gramps.
I don’t know the age you have to hit to lose your filter, but I am looking forward to it. My MIL has started saying some wild shit in the past couple of years.
Forget kids say the darnedest things, Olds say the weirdest crap apropos of nothing.
Hey listen bud, I think you have enough to worry about where you are at. Wrong place wrong time.
-I've never had much of a filter...but I've started letting loose some of the shit* that rattles around up there. It's fun.
*nothing cruel...I've always thought that folks the prided themselves on "calling in like it is" were just making excuses for being subhuman, miserable bastards.
-related: playing doubles with my buds last night...I teed up an opponent (Jay)with a weak backhand which he subsequently destroyed and my partner (prominent local architect) says: "I could hear Jay's erection." There is a lot to unpack there.
Country AF F5
Waymore's Blues - Waylon
Slide Off Your SatinSheets - Johnny Paycheck
Fox On The Run - Tom T Hall
Don't Call Hima Cowboy - Conway Twitty
Muleskinner Blues - Dolly
Waymore's Blues - Waylon
Slide Off Your SatinSheets - Johnny Paycheck
Fox On The Run - Tom T Hall
Don't Call Hima Cowboy - Conway Twitty
Muleskinner Blues - Dolly
Careful, if you talk about any physical activity around here it gets people worked up.
You know what's crap? We spend a ton of money (significantly more than other countries) on our university system so that a great majority of us will get smarter. Yet even a moderately simple thing like figuring out a good system for college sports that benefits the player, the school and the fans is too much for them. And though they all espouse values like being "climate conscious", they do things like put UCLA and USC in the Big Ten where the travel will be a huge cost & impact to the environment. And let's not even start talking about the more pressing issue of how they've got the US population in trillions of dollars of debt - much of which was a complete waste.
So how about this... piss on the universities.
So how about this... piss on the universities.
I think it's more tied to when you retire as opposed to age. When you don't have to worry about being fired, let it loose!
- My daughter has had pinkeye all week so guess what- I woke up all goo-eyed this morning. I look like shit. No adult should have F’ing pinkeye.
- Hip/knee/shoulder replacements are all simple procedures these days with robotics. Minimal incisions, blood loss or muscle tissue damage. Technology baby.
- Look I like the idea of Keshad Johnson- tough, physical, experienced SOB who will certainly make a huge difference on D and in transition offensively. BUT I’m afraid halfcourt offense will once again be a grind. Maybe Cal will play him with Bradshaw a bit. Could work.
- Gridiron Cats being slept on a bit or is it just me?
- Hip/knee/shoulder replacements are all simple procedures these days with robotics. Minimal incisions, blood loss or muscle tissue damage. Technology baby.
- Look I like the idea of Keshad Johnson- tough, physical, experienced SOB who will certainly make a huge difference on D and in transition offensively. BUT I’m afraid halfcourt offense will once again be a grind. Maybe Cal will play him with Bradshaw a bit. Could work.
- Gridiron Cats being slept on a bit or is it just me?
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