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It certainly could. That was my pitching glove. I had a fielding glove that is smaller, but broke in even more. 🙂 I had another that was completely wore out and I finally had to retire it. Hated breaking in new gloves. When not in use, wrap a baseball in it. They don't do it today I don't think, but back then (70s) we rubbed them down with neatsfoot oil to soften them up. Things were much different 50 years ago. A funny little story. In 1994/1995 I coached a high school team. By that time all they had were aluminum bats. I suppose due to cost? Doesn't matter I guess. Anyway, I had an old wooden bat at home (I made one in shop class and used it, but it broke and never made another) so I took it to a practice late in the year. The kids were amazed. They never saw a wooden bat, and of course never hit a ball with one. It was neat to watch them all gather around and "wow" over that bat. We had to have extra batting practice so everyone could use it just to see what it was like. Oh wow, that was cool!!! No ping. A crack of a ball on a wooden bat. Music to the ears. The glove also traveled. In 1973 it rode in a car from a ball game in Mansfield, Ohio to our hometown (about an hour drive) with 4 other guys on the team, a case of beer, and a bong that was the head of Richard Nixon. The bowl was his nose, you sucked on his head, and his ear was the carburetor. 🙂 I wasn't quite old enough to drink, but nobody cared.

Your brain will be just fine. If you play enough it comes natural and you think nothing of it. Can you imagine how many thousands and thousands of balls you have fielded over the years?

I can't compare to that. Pretty. This one is just about broke in. You can tell at the bottom the leather laces are different. Local grocery, display of shoe laces. Scissors, a small screwdriver, and we fixed them ourselves. My web busted one night and about got my nose broke.

Gloves matter, depending on where you are. Pitchers want big gloves to help hide the ball. Outfielders would too for that one that just got away. Infield is a time thing. You have little. Smaller glove is better. I'm sure today they can get custom made gloves, just like bats. I don't know if the difference between bigger/smaller 3rd base glove and a SS would matter, but if that's what they want to do, and can, why not? A pitchers glove and a SS/3B guy was like a boat anchor and something you could catch a ball with. :-). Of course that was when Denny McClain was winning 31 games.

This one was funny. Simple geometry. Didn't need to italic diagonal, hypotenuse would have worked.

John Daly not only knocked the snot out of the ball, but some of the best hands around the greens I've ever seen. Incredible touch. His upside was huge. I'll bet he would be a ball to party with. 🙂

Thank you very much. That's is very helpful.

Couple of questions if you don't mind. I do 3D printing as well. Are those images a flat picture mounted on a 3D modeled base? Are the pictures 3D printed as well. Kind of hard to tell from the picture. Did you use the HueForge software to create the base? IOW, is HueForge the 3D modeler? That's a start, and I hope that makes sense.

I haven't followed either wreck, and I was not in the car. But... If it is that sort of stuff, which sounds like pain killers. One must wonder if he has to do that to compete. He's no spring chicken. Body hurts. Need meds. One of the best golfers to ever walk the planet, and without saying, they are all intense competitors. Do what you gotta do. Wasn't he going to try to play the Masters?

Crude (WTI) did hit $100 today. Incoming chart porn. First crude a few minutes ago which is a live one minute chart. This is one we have been following above. S&P 9 month by day. Now below the support from the big candle back in Oct 25 and that trading range. Market tried to go higher, but failed. Yellow arrows are Fed rate cuts. Ain't much under there.

What's up with him and cars? He should just hire a driver. No pun intended.

That made me think of the number on the right side of the decimal point. We got the penny thing going on rounding to a nickel. If I make a trade on Wall Street it settles 4 digits to the right of the decimal point. How ****ed up is that. Math arb... for banksters.

The chart porn is interesting. WTI crude daily as it flirts around that $93.46 level. This support/resistance level was established back in Oct. 2022, then again in 9/23. Now went goofy in the last 6 months or less. Crude daily one minute This one zoomed in a tad from a 5 year chart of Crude. I didn't remember it hit $130 back in March of 22. On to the S&P porn. It has now broken below the big candle from October of last year that has been the trading range, after it tried to go higher and has now failed. Including three rate cuts from the Fed. Daily 9 month chart. We can plainly see it broke under the 6550 level. There isn't much under there, if you are a chart guy. This chart doesn't go back far enough, but there are gaps at 6028 and 5720. Adding, those two red candles from the last week are .27 from the same lows. Funny how that works. Maybe AI. 🙂

I remember that. Those guys were pretty good.

Helium is also used in MRI machines as a coolant.

I've been using the Win 11 co-pilot to work on a 3D print project. It has been helpful. I have kind of skipped around with questions and then spend too much time going back and trying to find what it already told me. So here we go... I told it I was tired of searching things you linked above. You should time stamp replies and have a search feature. Reply: And then it moved on. So I guess that's not happening. I might have to ask why it doesn't change the code to do so. Well ****, why not, while I'm here. XXX stuff is mine. That's some ****in' wild ****.

Bonus porn. Crude looks like the reciprocal; WTI light sweet.

Chart porn. Today was fun to watch. It looked like it was going to be another ugly day given what went on over night, depending on what you hear, read, and believe. Also as shown above, if you are a chart guy, we didn't close in a good place Friday. Broke to the downside of a significant support level. One might think the market tanks on Monday. I can't use the S&P as above because they were not open until 9:30 today, but the this is the e-mini S&P futures. First chart shows the trading range we have been in since the big **** it took back in October of last year (left yellow arrow). The arrow pointing to the right shows how the market turned around today after the news about the war hit the airwaves at 7:05 according to the candles. First a 9 month chart by day. Watching the daily minute print really shows how crazy it was. The big green spike higher was at 7:05. Has now gave some back. Wild ****. I'm sure some had a really bad day.

Great shot. I've talked to the local golf pro from our one and only country club quite a few times. He comes in our little $hithole bar. We both agree most people, including most golfers, don't realize how good these guys really are. This is another example. There are very few people in the world that can hit that shot. They are fricken machines.

Mancy's was the high end place. If I remember right, there was a Rudy's Hot Dog on Sylvania not far from Mancy's. I don't think it's there now. Quick and nice little place, good food. I go through there every once in a while, and if I get close I go to Ideal Hot Dog on Alexis. Best Chili Mac on the planet.

Thanks Biff. That is an improvement. Not sure about the portability. Seems there are several versions.

I was watching that game, and at that time a rabid fan. To this day I don't know if he caught it.

Adding. We used to do a home away Tiger game each summer. One trip was to Pittsburgh to see the Tigs vs. the Pirates. Incredible county to drive through, beautiful. The island the stadium (along with 3 rivers for football) is really nice. Great trip. If you get the chance, do it. We were lucky it was a day into night game so it was light and dark. We stayed there on the island and walked everywhere. Shops, food, bars. Neat place. Garmin got us lost on the trip there. Wasn't updated. Ended up in Paris, PA. Told the Boss, I told you I would take you to Paris. 23 miles on a little winding county road through the hills. We even went though a small panhandle of WVa. Read a sign leaning against a power pole; FAR WOOD

The low was 6212 that day. A soft level of support. There is some above that as well, around 6350ish. The charts say, and I'm guessing some are betting, the gap at 6028 gets closed as they all do. Giddy up!

The Steelers vs. Raider rivalry was one for the ages (best ever according to Jack). Nasty too. Tatum, the assassin. Lambert with no front teeth. Would have been early/mid 70s. Maybe around 2000 ish they had a halftime show on Monday Night with some of those guys getting honored for something. They interviewed LC Greenwood and asked how he thought he would to today (then). Not real good. Why? Can't beat anyone up. LOL! Turkey Jones of the Browns pile drove Bradshaw into the field on his head. I thought he killed him. While Lambert said we should dresses on them. Too funny...