Screwball

The irony is off the charts. John Bolton has made a career as a part of the killing machine to people all over the world, along with being a liar, and war criminal.

How about a little chart porn. I love chart porn. Below is a chart of the S&P going back to March. You can see the low bubble at 4835.04 (4/7/2025) and the high bubble at 6764.58 (10/10/2025). That's about a 40 percent rip if I did the math right. That's nuts. If you look up at the very top right, there is some interesting things going on. Let's look at a closer picture. The trading day after the market hit the top bubble, Thursday 10-9, it took a big **** on Friday. Since then the trading days have not been outside of that large candle printed that Friday. I think that is something to watch.

I will always get more complicated due to technology, but they forget (or fail to acknowledge it) the most important rule of design - the KISS rule - keep it simple stupid. I worked in a test lab starting in 1987 where we were laying the ground work for where we are today. We did some incredible stuff, then the bean counters took over...

I'm not surprised. To make a long story short, I have a 2016 Colorado, purchased new from a dealer. A few months ago i noticed my temperature gauge going up into the hot zone, then coming back to normal. I took it to the dealer, they put in a new thermostat, sensor, and flushed the coolant system. Over 850 bucks - and it didn't fix it. They wouldn't do anything about it, unless I paid more money. For what? Fixing a problem you already failed to fix? So I took it to another dealer. This one only cost me 650 bucks, and they failed to fix it as well, and they had it for 3 days. WTF? But I did get this piece of paper that was a GM service bulletin that said, and I quote; Condition deemed normal by engineering at this time. Translated - they have a piss poor design that they can't fix, and a recall would be too expensive - so we will **** you over and then let the non-existent customer service take care of the rest. TL;DR - you are ****ed.

It ain't senility.

I saw a clip of Mitch having a fall today, and another with Pelosi getting assisted. Why are these fossils still there? If they had any integrity they would have retired long ago, along with many others. They didn't because they don't have any integrity, not one ounce. We are governed by a bunch of worthless paid off and blackmailed creeps, every last one of them. And if you don't play the game you don't get there. Anyone who believe otherwise has their head firmly stuffed up their ass.

The public can't do jack **** about it (or because) the political dip****s are nothing but paid off whores who spend all their time fundraising and lying to the masses of sheep who still believe in their **** and get away with it instead of stringing them up by their nuts. (I'll probably have the goons banging on my door tomorrow for that) I can't wait for the next chapter of how we bail out the bankers when this massive cluster **** of a bubble blows up.

I would argue a capitalist system doesn't bail out swine ****ing bankers to the tune of trillions (or anyone else for that matter). But that's what the whores in DC get paid to do. The financial blowup of 2008/2009 was one of the greatest wealth transfers to the .01% in history.

I looked for that game (1968 and Gibson) and the box scores I found did not include pitch counts, which I think is more important than innings pitched. Would be curious to know how many. ON EDIT: found it - says 159 - that's quite a few

Digital scanners it sounds like. I've seen them used for scanning things you want to 3D print. Pretty slick. Thing is, how far away are the cameras, and how will the distance affect the accuracy?

How much difference is the box from the strike zone defined by the ABS system? According to what I can find, but don't know how accurate. From a search: MLB electronic strike zone percentages Top of the zone: 53.5% of the batter's height Bottom of the zone: 27% of the batter's height Total height of the zone: 26.5% of the batter's height ( 53.5%−27%=26.5%53.5 % minus 27 % equals 26.5 % 53.5%−27%=26.5%) Other details The zone's width is set to match home plate, which is 17 inches. The ABS system calculates the strike zone at the midpoint of the plate, unlike the traditional home plate zone which could include any part of the plate. This definition is used for the automated ball-strike system and is different from the traditional umpire-called zone, which may have been more lenient.

Oh. Who's being naive, Kay?

I was looking into how they will determine the strike zone when/if they go to that at some point. I couldn't find out too much on how the technology worked, but it reads like it is all done with cameras. I assume this is also used to place the zone on the broadcast? Don't know. Would like to know more. Those must be some really good cameras and the technology pretty impressive. I would like to know more.

It was very light and no outline. I couldn't tell if it was there all the time or not. Kind of messed up.

If I added the numbers in the box score correctly, between the two teams there were a total of 472 pitches.

Interesting. A couple of things stuck out to me in that article... Bold mine. I don't live in Michigan, but **** that. Let them pay for their own profit motive, not my taxes. No ****, Sherlock. NO, tell us it ain't so! Houdini would be proud. What a cluster ****.

Thanks, I was curious about that. Hard to tell as the game was going on. There were only a few pitches I thought they missed on but hard to tell. Of course they were at crucial times, but most times are... I do remember a few times I yelled "where the **** was that?."

Me too. The game is that close. There were a few busted bats. He was a few milliseconds from a base hit. "missed it by that much" I didn't think they would turn over the steal/tag call but they did. Probably got it right too. Just wild stuff all night. It was too hard to see the strike zone on the broadcast but didn't look like we got any favors there either. Is there data on that from some home plate robo cop?

If I read the box score correct, the game went 4 hours and 58 minutes. I've been out of this for a while, but old. This was one of the most incredible and intense baseball games I have ever watched. It had a little bit of everything. Both sides. They both were incredible. The strike out of the big guy on pitch 99 at 101. Here it is big boy - hit it - he didn't. Might the next time. 🙂 I'm old school pitching wise (I watched Lolich back in the day several times) but I'm glad they pulled Skub. I think he was gassed. Then the Raleigh throw to second that some called the greatest throw ever (it was very good, no argument there) but Dingler said hold my beer later in the game. Both teams had chances over so many. It was like Houdini a few times. I don't know how they got out of some of those jams. 2 thru 5 went something like 0 for 23. Not good, no argument, but if I remember right, there were a few balls hit hard, but right at someone. That happens, that's baseball. In a game like that, especially being the road team, they needed a break. I'll call it luck. They didn't get one. Still and incredible game.

he probably can't bunt

a run would be good here

Parker is Joe DiMaggio like in center field, but Joe the janitor at the plate. What a shame.

Unless you are in the Tiger lineup

Probably a good idea to pull Skubal. Intense game, threw 99 I think. He might have been gassed.

After looking at upper 90s and then junk, you are going to all dicked up timing wise.