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It’s supposed to be something like 100 degrees this Thursday and Friday. Sounds like a good time to go see Oppenheimer.

I remember hearing that Japanese and European pressings sounded better because they were pressed on “virgin vinyl”, whereas American pressings were on recycled vinyl. That was some 40 years ago, though. I have a pretty good ear but I can’t tell whether I actually heard the difference, or simply told myself I could. Remember half-speed masters? Same thing. Sound was probably related to the quality of your equipment than anything else.

That’s what we get when they turn over this function to private companies. They are accountable only to their shareholders.

Flip side tipping advice: if you can, tip in cash even if you use credit or debit card. Waitstaff love getting tips in cash because it’s money directly in their pocket tonight (assuming the House doesn’t skim it), not delayed; and it’s not automatically-reported income they have to claim on their tax return like a card tip would be, which saves them, what?, 25% or so?, of the tip if that’s the way they want to play it. Related mini-tip: if you tip in cash while paying by card, on the bill, in the tip box, instead of writing “0”, which just looks bad, write “cash” instead. I don’t know whether that flags anything with the House or IRS or whatever, but absent knowing that, it feels like writing “cash” is better than writing “0”.

Never undertip to make a point. Out with a friend, meal on him, and he was unhappy with the service, so he said he was going to tip them 10%. I said come on, you can’t do that, you have to give them at least 15% here. He said, no, he was going to teach them not to give bad service. (I didn’t think the service itself was so bad, but he was unhappy with it.) I said, well look, if you’re not gonna give them 15%, then just stiff ‘em. That’ll get your point across. He was taken aback some by that. He’s like, nah, I can’t stiff ‘em. I have to give them something. I said, well, if you’re gonna give them something, then give them at least 15%. He asks, why shouldn’t I tip them 10% if I want? Well, you can if you want, you’re the customer. But if you do that, then no one is happy. They’re unhappy and think you’re a **** for undertipping them, and you’re unhappy because you had to give them anything at all for service you didn’t like. Nobody wins there. So either give them 15%, or stiff ‘em. At least someone will be happy. He laughed at that. He thought I was being funny, although I was totally serious. So he tipped them 10% and we left. And he was unhappy at having to tip her at all, and I presume she thought we were both dicks because he undertipped them. So I got to lose by extension on this one as well. Next time I’m just going to leave the difference in cash when he’s not looking.

Doubtful since we weren’t in the market for long contracts on good players, and good players who have options weren’t in the market for us. Maybe it will be a little better for that kind of thing this winter.

Wouldn’t be happening if you were listening to the radio feed running a batter or two behind. 😉

Can’t be making much wasting time here.

Look lien the people in the room agree with that.

I’m still not voting Trump.

Both the MLB app and the Sirius radio feeds are well over a batter behind Gameday, which makes the combination unusually today. It would not shock me to learn that this is a tactical ploy to get people to subscribe to Peacock for the live more-up-to-date feed.

All of a sudden, looks like TORK! might end up hitting 25 or maybe even 30 bombs this year.

If it does get delayed they will wait until late evening, if they have to, to get the game in. Padres are not coming back.

Plus, once we make Englert walk the plank along with a suitcase with $50,000 in it, who we gonna replace him with?

He was always planning to sell no matter what. The only possible way he was going to buy to contend is if a bunch of these guys turned out to be All-Stars this year, after all.

Fulmer was replaced by Drew Smyly, and the cardinals have just brought in Drew VerHagen. It’s a Tiger Pitcher Party!

And indeed it was a short day for Michael Fulmer: 2.0 3 1 1 1 2. Not a terrible line.

Old friend of ours starting here on the north side: Here’s the first pitch of the game, on which he served up a bomb: The next two pitches were hit hard, too. Unless he can fix something minor the dugout, probably a short day for Mike

Also, that Rogers Hornsby was one of the original five players in the Hall. That’s what the second banana said in the Cubs-Cards Apple game. It took Hornsby five years to get not the Hall.

But .. but ... there is no coastal bias!

Is one of those technical problems the prop bet probabilities they show on every pitch?

Yeah, well, who would you rather have as president? A guy who talks like a Queens stevedore, or a guy who's fallen off a bike?

Reads like somebody is being won back … 😉

It’s considered income only if it’s income. If it’s P2P, or P2B, or B2P as in a refund, then no.

I happen to have Apple TV+ for a month because my wife wanted to catch up on Ted Lasso, so I’ll be watching. Also watching a great seven-part documentary on Apple+ about how the year 1971 changed music forever. It is surprisingly excellent for its clips, pics, and interviews.