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Post by pippsheadache on Aug 23, 2024 12:01:37 GMT -5
Didn't see much Yankees this week but driving home through Virginia/Maryland last night I found O's/Astros on the radio and listened. How was Myrtle Beach JEG? A few of us on here have some history there. Do you have any connection to the Carolina Beach Music scene? Or was this for golf? Or just getting to another beach environment, which you clearly enjoy. Sounds like you came back through the Chesapeake Bay Bridge Tunnel. |
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Post by JEGnj on Aug 23, 2024 12:10:02 GMT -5
This was our 5 trip and my niece just started Coastal Carolina. I love the beach and entertainment areas. On the way home we stop at Buc-ees and South of the Border 95 north and South. I have been to Outer Banks twice a did the CBB Tunnel.
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Post by inger on Aug 23, 2024 12:10:55 GMT -5
Didn't see much Yankees this week but driving home through Virginia/Maryland last night I found O's/Astros on the radio and listened. How was Myrtle Beach JEG? A few of us on here have some history there. Do you have any connection to the Carolina Beach Music scene? Or was this for golf? Or just getting to another beach environment, which you clearly enjoy. Sounds like you came back through the Chesapeake Bay Bridge Tunnel. Speaking of the Chesapeake Bay Bridge Tunnel, just curious: what is the ungodly toll for a passenger car now? Last rime I took it, it was $24 bucks. A few years ago I heard it was up to $40… |
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Post by JEGnj on Aug 23, 2024 12:13:15 GMT -5
How was Myrtle Beach JEG? A few of us on here have some history there. Do you have any connection to the Carolina Beach Music scene? Or was this for golf? Or just getting to another beach environment, which you clearly enjoy. Sounds like you came back through the Chesapeake Bay Bridge Tunnel. Speaking of the Chesapeake Bay Bridge Tunnel, just curious: what is the ungodly toll for a passenger car now? Last rime I took it, it was $24 bucks. A few years ago I heard it was up to $40… Not sure. Luckily my 2 times down I was assisting my buddy who purchased a house there. I went with him. |
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Post by chiyankee on Aug 23, 2024 12:48:03 GMT -5
The Astros are just ripping through the league now like a farm combine ripping through rows of corn.  Love that agricultural imagery Chi. You've put down some Midwestern roots. lol, that's from my PA childhood. I used to be a corn detasseler when I was a teenager. A good summer job that kept us all out of trouble, although farms didn't have to pay kids under 18 minimum wage so they didn't. Did you know there's male and female feed corn? If you detasseled the wrong gender, you could ruin the whole field. Corn is beautiful! |
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Post by pippsheadache on Aug 23, 2024 13:08:22 GMT -5
Love that agricultural imagery Chi. You've put down some Midwestern roots. lol, that's from my PA childhood. I used to be a corn detasseler when I was a teenager. A good summer job that kept us all out of trouble, although farms didn't have to pay kids under 18 minimum wage so they didn't. Did you know there's male and female feed corn? If you detasseled the wrong gender, you could ruin the whole field. Corn is beautiful! Oh man that is great. Wholesome honest work. Yeah I did know that about corn. My Grandfather had a fairly large farm and used to grow Country Gentleman Corn and Silver Queen Corn. We loved playing in those cornfields in early autumn and the hypnotic sound of the corn rustling in the wind. Anything that provides niblets! I agree corn is beautiful. |
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Post by azbob643 on Aug 23, 2024 13:22:35 GMT -5
lol, that's from my PA childhood. I used to be a corn detasseler when I was a teenager. A good summer job that kept us all out of trouble, although farms didn't have to pay kids under 18 minimum wage so they didn't. Did you know there's male and female feed corn? If you detasseled the wrong gender, you could ruin the whole field. Corn is beautiful! Oh man that is great. Wholesome honest work. Yeah I did know that about corn. My Grandfather had a fairly large farm and used to grow Country Gentleman Corn and Silver Queen Corn. We loved playing in those cornfields in early autumn and the hypnotic sound of the corn rustling in the wind. Anything that provides niblets! I agree corn is beautiful. Visited "Field of Dreams" a few years ago. Corn “knee-high by the Fourth of July”...unfortunately we visited in June.  |
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Post by pippsheadache on Aug 23, 2024 13:33:10 GMT -5
Oh man that is great. Wholesome honest work. Yeah I did know that about corn. My Grandfather had a fairly large farm and used to grow Country Gentleman Corn and Silver Queen Corn. We loved playing in those cornfields in early autumn and the hypnotic sound of the corn rustling in the wind. Anything that provides niblets! I agree corn is beautiful. Visited "Field of Dreams" a few years ago. Corn “knee-high by the Fourth of July”...unfortunately we visited in June. Great photo Bob. That one is still on my bucket list. Iowa is a surprisingly picturesque state. |
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Post by azbob643 on Aug 23, 2024 13:37:34 GMT -5
Visited "Field of Dreams" a few years ago. Corn “knee-high by the Fourth of July”...unfortunately we visited in June. Great photo Bob. That one is still on my bucket list. Iowa is a surprisingly picturesque state. Actually, that's a photo of a display at the field. Frankly, it's a bit disappointing. I wouldn't recommend a special trip...we stopped there on the way up to Minnesota. |
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Post by pippsheadache on Aug 23, 2024 13:39:42 GMT -5
Great photo Bob. That one is still on my bucket list. Iowa is a surprisingly picturesque state. Actually, that's a photo of a display at the field. Frankly, it's a bit disappointing. I wouldn't recommend a special trip...we stopped there on the way up to Minnesota. Okay. I thought maybe you had a drone or went up in a small plane. |
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Post by azbob643 on Aug 23, 2024 13:46:26 GMT -5
Actually, that's a photo of a display at the field. Frankly, it's a bit disappointing. I wouldn't recommend a special trip...we stopped there on the way up to Minnesota. Okay. I thought maybe you had a drone or went up in a small plane. For all the complaints about wind turbines, they're ubiquitous in Iowa...generating 62% of the state's energy. |
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Post by cocopugg on Aug 23, 2024 14:40:37 GMT -5
Astros blast the O's 6-0. Yanks lead moves to 1.5 Astros are playing scary good ball right now. Hopefully they're peaking early and come back to earth by late September/October. As big a shambles as their rotation was early in the season, that's as good as it is now: Hunter Brown is 10-3 with a 2.32 ERA since mid-May. Framber Valdez is 8-0 in his last 10 starts with a 2.11 ERA. Yusei Kikuchi is 2-0 in 4 starts since being traded to Houston with a 2.42 ERA, with 31 K's in 22 2/3 innings and just 7 Bb. Ronel Blanco has actually been the weak link lately, 1-2 in 6 starts with a 5.33 ERA, but he's 9-6 on the season with a 3.14 ERA and the lowest H/9 in the AL. Justin Verlander is the FIFTH starter, just came off the IL Valdez, Kikuchi and Verlander have a history of pitching very well against the Yanks as well. Just like the Yanks' current rotation, right? I wouldn't want to face the 'Stros yet again. That team is very scary, especially come playoff time...and the way the Yankees man-handled them this year, a head to head confrontation with them, may not give us the result Yankee fans have been waiting 15 years for...Damned Astros! |
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Post by qwik3457bb on Aug 23, 2024 16:06:11 GMT -5
As big a shambles as their rotation was early in the season, that's as good as it is now: Hunter Brown is 10-3 with a 2.32 ERA since mid-May. Framber Valdez is 8-0 in his last 10 starts with a 2.11 ERA. Yusei Kikuchi is 2-0 in 4 starts since being traded to Houston with a 2.42 ERA, with 31 K's in 22 2/3 innings and just 7 Bb. Ronel Blanco has actually been the weak link lately, 1-2 in 6 starts with a 5.33 ERA, but he's 9-6 on the season with a 3.14 ERA and the lowest H/9 in the AL. Justin Verlander is the FIFTH starter, just came off the IL Valdez, Kikuchi and Verlander have a history of pitching very well against the Yanks as well. Just like the Yanks' current rotation, right? I wouldn't want to face the 'Stros yet again. That team is very scary, especially come playoff time...and the way the Yankees man-handled them this year, a head to head confrontation with them, may not give us the result Yankee fans have been waiting 15 years for...Damned Astros! Highlights the difference in management, but also in competitveness of the divisions. The weakness of the competition of the West was correctly judged by Astros management so that despite the 12-24 start with their starters' getting hammered almost every game, they believed in Hunter Brown and stuck with him through his horrendous first 6-7 starts, and believed in Spencer Arrighetti, allowing him to work through his first terrible 10 starts or so, and now they're reaping the rewards. Even if the East were as weak as the West, do we have confidence that Cashman would've stayed with two talented starters struggling with their development long enough to gain command of superior stuff and become solid rotation starters, assuming there were two similarly talented starters to deploy in the Yankees' farm system? |
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Post by inger on Aug 23, 2024 21:01:56 GMT -5
Great photo Bob. That one is still on my bucket list. Iowa is a surprisingly picturesque state. Actually, that's a photo of a display at the field. Frankly, it's a bit disappointing. I wouldn't recommend a special trip...we stopped there on the way up to Minnesota. The worst ever for me was 4 corners… bummer… |
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