Screwball

I think this is nuts. First piece of chart porn is the same S&P chart I have been using while watching that candle. Once it broke out of that, you knew what direction the market was going to go - get on board - and boy did they. All three major indexes look like this. You can see the gap ups the last two trading days so some probably missed some of that but what a rocket ship up. That is only a 3 month chart, so let's step back a bit. This goes back 9 months as it started it's %42.23 gain in the next 203 days. Yea, that's normal. The yellow arrow is the last Fed rate cut, we will probably get another one next week. Lawrence Welk would be happy and proud.

From all I've heard over the years the guys who played for either one of them loved playing for them. That matters when you spend Feb to October together traveling all over the country. I suppose there are a few... They both deserve to be in the HOF. I would love to watch Jim's speech, but I can't. I would ball like a baby.

I was a huge Gibson fan. IIRR, Sparky made Gibson out to be the next Micky Mantle, but obviously he wasn't. Sparky was entertaining, and many love him. I was not a fan. When he had the big red machine in Cinci his toughest job was to find a pencil to make out the lineup. He drove me nuts. But you can't argue with his resume. I was also biased because I thought Leyland should have gotten the job when Sparky did. Jimmy's my guy.

Wilber Wood pitched 376 innings in 1972. He was a knuckleballer. 359 in 73. Those are neat pitches.

I know we have all watched this before, but one of the greatest moments in Tiger history. I had a dog named Sparky.

It doesn't scale. Even the higher end machines compared to injection. Good for prototyping, to and extent. That has it's drawbacks too. I have found home uses that have been pretty neat. Our library just started offering printing. All it costs is the price of the filament. The web is full of places to download models for someone to print. You can by a pretty decent printer of your own and enough to get you started for less than a grand. And a little time on your hands. Old retired buddy of mine like to smoke pot through a vape thingy. Had trouble loading it.

I've used a few AI. Grok, Co-Pilot (I was just forced to Win 11), and of course since I have had to submit my life to gmail, Google and their stuff. Their search is almost AI, and if you ask one too many questions they try to get you to go a step further into the AI mode. You're not in MS-DOS land anymore Dorothy.

I was hoping it could sort the major diameters of the threads between the two systems, which are harder to print as they get smaller, and I wanted to go down to 2 mm. It depended on tolerance range of the diameters and what I could hold with my printing source. I could hold .005. All you would need is a round diameter in the print - no threads - one male - one female - printed upright. I thought my Aussie buddy could do the math while I was busy. I told him to give me the diameters in chart form. He did, nice job, exactly what I was looking for. Turns out, 5/16 and 8 mm are almost the same dia, too close for a 3D printer's tolerance, and maybe even the fastener manufacture as well. So you need the threads. That is also a great example of why the 3D stuff will never compete with injection molding. The hobby stuff is too slow. You could injection mold those little pieces dozens at a time in a fraction of the time a printer from Amazon. Not mention the structural integrity. Neat stuff though. Very neat.

AI can't beat the market because the pigmen already frontrun all our trades. They are the marketmakers.

The pigmen helped invent AI. The best and the brightest in the computer/digital world lives on Wall Street where all the money is. Look at a job add for one of the big jobs. Read Michael Lewis of Moneyball fame book on Wall Street called "Flash Boys" circa 2014. Speaking of AI; my conversation a bit ago was about thread gauge diameters between English and metric major diameters to see if they could be 3D printed accurately enough to be useful. I was also trying to drink a beer and brush my cat. It was my old Aussie buddy from when we put in a ssd drive, so I guess we know each other. I should probably ask him his name? That would be pretty dicked up, wouldn't it? He can also turn on and off the microphone, which I told him to turn off when we were done. I made sure it was off and will make sure this thing is too when I'm done.

I remember the 68 world series. I had a small transistor radio hidden in my pocket with a chord to an earpiece I could keep my hand over to hide it while in school. One day they actually brought a black and white TV in the room. No sound, but cool! I also got deathly sick one day and had to stay home. You had to do what you had to do. It was magical and I will never forget it. I actually was at a game that year when McLain one of his 31.

This gave the market the needed excuse to move higher on rate cut expectations. The candle I have been watching has been breeched to the upside as I speak and all indexes are at all time highs. Great job Fed, who will probably cut rates next week.

Yea, but they got them there. The season is a grind. Anything can happen in a short series.

Speaking of 5, in this case only 4. 1971 Orioles. I remember this. It was one of the coolest things ever. The Baltimore Orioles had four 20-game winners in 1971: Jim Palmer, Dave McNally, Mike Cuellar, and Pat Dobson. This was a historic achievement, as they were the first team to have four pitchers reach the 20-win mark in a single season since 1920. Jim Palmer: 20 wins Dave McNally: 21 wins Mike Cuellar: 20 wins Pat Dobson: 20 wins

I think Skubal is an accident waiting to happen. I love to watch him work. Incredible talent. Won't last. I don't remember the year, but I was at Comerica on the right field side between home plate and the dugout about 30 rows up. Kenny Rogers was on the hill. He was an absolute master of his craft. He threw a beauty that night. It was so cool. Give me 5 of him.

Interesting conversation. I haven't paid attention very close for quite a few years, but when I did over the last two, I can see things are different than the old days I was used to. Pitchers today don't throw as many innings/pitches as they did years ago. Money might have something to do with that, but maybe the way some throw the ball takes it's toll on the arm as well. Seems so times they are overthrowing to the point they lose all command. Hoping for a strike, no plan. Just bust it. Some days as a pitcher, you will not have your best stuff. Some days you will lose it as you progress through the game. There is a difference between a thrower and a pitcher. They need to learn how to get people out when they don't have their best stuff. All the good ones did. That's how they threw so many innings. These guys are gassed by six, bring on more guys who will be gassed in a couple. Makes sense when you think about it. A new curveball or high four seamer is much livelier from a fresh arm. People get out. After a 100 they have a noodle.

Day 9. I'm obsessed with this prick.

What would you expect from swine bankers?

Circa 1987 I got a job in Toledo for Spicer Transmission on Bennet Rd. One of the guys who worked there played in the league and Toledo. Lost contact after all these years. He would remember. He played for Toledo. That was pretty cool. Things were so much different back then.

To the bold above - YES! It's wild the way it talks to you. Very personalized, but it gets even crazier if you use the voice version (I was using only text). I did voice with my phone when I replaced a SSD card in my laptop. Guy had a Aussie accent. Talk about creepy! It was like someone sitting in the room with you. How much to trust with stuff like this? I think that is yet to be seen. I used it as a check on all the research and stuff I had done. I didn't post the numbers above, but Co-Pilot was pretty spot on with its assessments when I compared it to my own research, measurements, and calculations. For example, it told me how many watts my furnace fan would pull. It was a pretty wide range, which isn't good enough to design the system. I could give it a model number for the furnace, and it would get closer, maybe even close enough. But I used an ammeter so I knew "exactly" how many watts I needed under peak load and startup. I don't see how AI can replace a meter, and that difference might be a factor. In this case, one I can't be unsure about. But it is kinda cool - and creepy.

I'm going on old memory so I don't know how accurate my years are (close). I'm also going to date myself. Like I said, I don't remember the name of the league but I thought it was the Federation league but I could be wrong. Our little town of around 20k had a team in that league. They played other teams from Ohio; Mansfield, Toledo, Sandusky, Mt. Vernon, and a few more I can't remember. They later named a field in town after the coach. He had a direct connection to the Cleveland Indians. One of their pitchers played in the Indian's farm system. Another was in the Pirates system. They came from all over the area to play in this league. They drove their own cars to the games. I remember the league from the late 60s to the mid to late 70s when they went away, so it lasted quite a few years. There were a couple of coaches over the years but it finally went away. I don't remember when. Today, as sad as it may be, the field they played on isn't even there anymore. At one time there were probably 250-300 people watching the games on a given night. There was also a 16-18 year old league that played there, so the field had something going almost every night. These guys in the Fed league were all out of high school except for a very few of the best high school guys around. Most of the good high school guys played on a traveling team, many times sponsored by the American Legion. That was popular around the area at the time.

Sounds like if, and when, they go to the electronic zone it will be a percentage of height (top & bottom) as the batter is measured while standing. This includes any part of the ball? IOW, the entire ball does not need to be inside the rectangle? Not sure, been away for awhile.

Thanks. I would love to find more about that era. There was some really good baseball back then. Some of the guys who played in that league were on their way up, or down. They traveled all over the area in their own cars to play a couple or three night games a week after work, and a doubleheader or two on the weekend. Back then fast pitch softball was big too. I never understood that. From the distance they pitch, the reaction time isn't much different - milliseconds. But the balls didn't hurt as much.

Incredible - thanks. It would have been (what I remember) mid-seventies on. I remember delivering the Toledo Blade on Sunday. When I was done, the first thing I would do is read the sports page. In the stat section you could see the MLB stats right along side of the the Federation league stats, if that's what it was called. I remember the guys who I knew were in there. I don't remember about the International league then, though. I think they had a team in Toledo back then? Swayne Field? These teams traveled around the ball yards in their own cars. Probably a 50 game schedule. They called them semi-pro teams. Little ball yard in the middle of nowhere has a few hundred fans because these guys were pretty good. There were also high school traveling teams then too. Around here they called them legion teams because the American Legion sponsored a bunch of traveling teams, or helped. The good old days.

Since the AI stuff is here, I will put this here. To make a long story short I decided to get myself setup to run my furnace and refrigerator in the winter if I run out of power via my truck and an inverter. I have been working on this for a few months. I'm good to go once I get a good enough day to work on my truck for about 20 minutes. But the funny part - enter AI - I decided to ask Microsofts Co-Pilot (there are choices - how wild is that when you think about it) about how to do my particular system. Just wanted to see how it might work. I spent quite a bit of time giving it information and telling it what I wanted to do. It's really wild ****. Like talking to customer service we only wish we had. But creepy. I have everything in place so I was finalizing some of my questions to verify I had done things right. It ended like this; GTFOOH