Screwball

3 minutes ago, CMRivdogs said:

And of course it had to be the Raiders on the losing end of Harris' Immaculate Reception...

My closest Steeler story is we had the audacity to schedule our wedding the same day as the Steelers playoff game against Denver in 1978. Received a a good ribbing from the Western Pa contingency. All in fun. They timed the trip from the motel to the church, left at the end of the third quarter.

The wedding party was down the aisle and my wife was waiting with her father to start when the Pittsburgh crew came in and barely beat her. It's become part of family lore. My uncles and their wives basically became parents after ours passed.  

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

46 minutes ago, gehringer_2 said:

it dipped to ~6250 on 'Tariff Day' (Aug 1 last year). Hit that and it would just about be down 10% = "a correction"

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...

We need some chart porn. The weekend is upon us and the markets are closed. WTI closed around $98 and I will spare you the chart porn on that, but let's peek at the S&P. As documented above, the 6550 level was the main support going back to October of last year. The market has traded above that since.

Until today. The first chart is a 9 month by day showing how we just breached the support to the downside. Not a lot under that, and a gap to fill. The second chart is today's one minute action where it bounced around that level until around noon, an then took a poop. Now a close, on a Friday in a bad place if you believe in the technicals.

Today

21 hours ago, CMRivdogs said:

VCU upset UNC, I have ties to neither school. My wife’s a UVa grad and I grew up near VaTech. Richmond’s just up the road so anyone who can cutdown the Carolina Blues is considered a friend. An oh yea, Duke almost got there’s handed to them. That would have made it a very good day

The MAC got smoked today and should tell us how bad they really are. It seems like it's all about money.

Of topic, but this is an investment thread. 🙂

6 hours ago, CMRivdogs said:

Western Pa roots. However back in the 50s and 60s the Stillers were much the Same ole Lions. 
I started following the team in the early 70s. Not quite a Yinzer, but they are among the teams I watch. 
 

It wasn’t until a few years ago that I learned that Old Man Rooney was from Coulter, Pa. Just a few miles from where my Pa ancestors had settled.

Growing up in the middle of Browns country here in Cornhole, Ohio made me a Steelers fan. My best friends were Browns fans - but we got through it. Their team of the 70s were great memories. Jack Lambert follows me on Twitter. How cool is that. He was my favorite guy. Went to Kent State. Football was different then.

Steeler fans are rabid and travel well.

4 hours ago, gehringer_2 said:

They announced pulling the plug on the 'metaverse' effort after sinking $80B into it.

https://www.cnbc.com/2026/03/18/meta-horizon-worlds-metaverse-vr.html

I will stop short of saying the Zuck **** is an evil ****. I wouldn't trust anything out of that creeps mouth.

5 minutes ago, oblong said:

AI has made FB almost unusable other than direct communication with people you know/trust and established groups you are a part of.  You all know I love space and get fed so much crap that's just plain wrong.  Nothing harmful but a 7 paragraph AI written spiel that looks like it was written by AI 4 years ago while still learning.  Same extends to entertainment.   

 

And when someone dies or a tragedy happens you get AI photos related to that.  "Oh, a flood happened, here's Mick Jagger, dressed like Mick Jagger, helping out."  "Oh, Robert Duvall died, here's his widow holding his Emmy and Oscar on his couch crying".

My mom reads this stuff and will say "I didn't know Jason Benetti had cancer and was dying".  Why did she say that?  It was on her Ipad.

 

Agreed. I have noticed it has recently gotten worse. I use a fake name instead of my own just for privacy and it allows me to read the local stuff, which is usually a real hoot. I think I read somewhere recently they are laying off more people. That will certainly make it better. /s

9 minutes ago, CMRivdogs said:

Fortunately that turned out to be false

https://sports.yahoo.com/articles/steelers-legend-mean-joe-greene-172806163.html

Wow, that's wild! I don't remember where I read that but it might have been FB. I should know better if that's where it was. You can' trust squat on that site.

Good news just the same. He is one of my all time favorites. 

Add Mean Joe Greene of the Pittsburgh Steelers. 

6 minutes ago, gehringer_2 said:

Glad to hear it's still there. Our refinery group would do Mancy's when bonuses were paid.

They had huge baked potatoes with the great steak. French onion soup was good too. You didn't go hungry. It was known as a top shelf place back in the late 80s and 90s when I was close. Not sure about now, but there are still there.

I'm rooting for Miami and Akron, and mid-majors in general.

Roots in Ohio and the U of Toledo.

3 hours ago, casimir said:

Speak of the devil, it was closed for planned maintenance one day this week.

The history of the Great Lakes (on edit; shipping), which Toledo was a large part of, is really neat stuff. Not far from the Spicer plant on Bennett, on Phillips Ave, is the famous Mancy's Steakhouse. Captain McSorley of the Edmund Fitzgerald lived in Toledo in the off season and was a regular there as it was told.

But a pain in the ass at times. 

1 hour ago, Deleterious said:

$13 spread on WTI to Brent right now.  Usually hovers around $5 if I'm not mistaken.

 

yep

This is absolutely insane:

The world is quite literally facing what appears to be the largest energy crisis in history.

US crude oil futures are now trading at a $20+/barrel DISCOUNT to Brent, also one of the largest on record. As the US increases production and taps into reserves, the EU is facing a full out energy crisis.

European natural gas prices are up another +30% today and physical crude oil prices in Oman and elsewhere are trading at $150+/barrel. In other words, the gap between Oman and US prices now stands at ~70%, or ~$70+ per barrel.

It has become so bad for Europe that the market is now pricing-in 2 interest rate HIKES in 2026, even as the US removes sanctions on Russian oil.

US rate cuts in 2026 are almost entirely priced-out as a result with Core PPI inflation on PRE-WAR data rising to its highest since February 2023.

The entire global economy just took a complete 180 degree turn in 3 weeks. The next few months are going to be historic.

6 hours ago, Deleterious said:

Reports of a few wallets making large bets on this.

 

Some think this is AI. There have been reports BN is dead. Then some video's came out with him in them proving he is alive. This was one of them. Some think they are fake. The first casualty of war is the truth.

Who knows in today's world.

Quote

“When everything Americans believe is false, our misinformation campaign will be complete.”
― William Casey CIA Agent Head under Regan

Yea no ****. Why would you believe any of these assholes? Ever?

1 hour ago, Deleterious said:

Gold is doing a thing.  Down about 10% the past day or so.

So is Silver.

WTI crude around $96. Of note, Natty gas up about 5% but nowhere near where it was in January. It will be interesting to watch that price since they are blowing up gas installations in the Middle East. It's been reported Europe prices have jumped significantly. Have to wait and see what happens here.

For those who energy shop, and did so recently to lock in pricing, you might be a happy camper in the next few months. 

The Fed can only monetize what .gov spends.

I'll dismiss all the other word salad and say they are not cutting rates today.

Unrelated, kind of, crude it back to $98 and change for WTI. Brent over $100.

3 hours ago, oblong said:

March 16, 1966 - Gemini 8 launches and comes home early after a near deadly situation. Neil Armstrong and David Scott performed the first docking of two spacecraft in orbit. A major hurdle for the Apollo lunar missions. It was the 40th anniversary of the Goddard rocket mentioned above. Shortly after they docked they starting in a roll and assumed the problem was the agena rocket they docked with so they released it. That made it worse and they were rolling almost one revolution a second, nearing blackout.  They stabilized by using the reaction control system which meant the mission was over. The first man to walk on the moon and the first man to drive on the moon nearly died in space. 

I was 10. In those days that stuff was off the chart incredible and cool. Our black and white TV made it look real. We all wanted to be Astronauts.

Funny, I was just looking at this. Chart porn incoming. WTI crude over the last week. After the big gap up on Sunday night it has went the other way. This is the tape says - that's all that matters. Doesn't have to make sense.

So we look at the support/resistance levels. Once the euphoria was over on the weekend it has been bouncing around the $92/93 level after taking a dip to the $80 range for a few days. Now back to $95.65 as I type this.

Pump prices are already going up here in Cornhole. Small sample size. 

Brent is higher. Wall Street is no doubt making money on arbing the spread.

5 hours ago, casimir said:

That old POS is still there.  And it still gets stuck in the up position from time to time.

That was always so much fun. One night after work from the transmission plant on Bennett Rd, I got stuck for a boat. I was the second car from the bridge. Neat view. I was kind of neat.

Not so neat when it didn't go quite down either...

They guy that could have played Cruise was in the 82 movie. Donald Sutherland. He would have been 27. I think he was underrated. 

Burt Lancaster is best remembered as Moonlight Graham. 🙂 

WTI crude gapped up at open to $102.44, but has since closed the gap at is trading at $99. 

The first casualty of war is the truth. BS only goes so far.