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Post by domeplease on Aug 20, 2023 17:53:20 GMT -5
Got hit by winds of 50MPH with wind gust up to 90mph. A ton of rain (good, we needed it). Little damage so far. Expect the worst tonight. In the washed up dirt foiund a hole with a very old bottle in it. Thought what the hell and rubbed and out popped a Genie and said to me I will grant you one wish and only one wish... So me thinking about the Hurricane getting worse I said can You stop the Hurricane? The Genie replied, Sorry Do Me not even I have that much power. But since I couldn't grant your wish I will grant you another... So I thought and thought and then it hit me and I said, "Can you fix the Yankees and have them win the 2023 WS? The Genie rubbed his jaw and said, Hmm, lets take a look at that hurricane again... We made it thru Hillary but just North of us Mulege and St. Rosalia go clobbered = See the videos on CNN & MSNBC |
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Post by kaybli on Aug 20, 2023 18:06:34 GMT -5
Got hit by winds of 50MPH with wind gust up to 90mph. A ton of rain (good, we needed it). Little damage so far. Expect the worst tonight. In the washed up dirt foiund a hole with a very old bottle in it. Thought what the hell and rubbed and out popped a Genie and said to me I will grant you one wish and only one wish... So me thinking about the Hurricane getting worse I said can You stop the Hurricane? The Genie replied, Sorry Do Me not even I have that much power. But since I couldn't grant your wish I will grant you another... So I thought and thought and then it hit me and I said, "Can you fix the Yankees and have them win the 2023 WS? The Genie rubbed his jaw and said, Hmm, lets take a look at that hurricane again... We made it thru Hillary but just North of us Mulege and St. Rosalia go clobbered = See the videos on CNN & MSNBC Happy to hear you’re still in one piece dome! |
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Post by inger on Aug 21, 2023 1:19:54 GMT -5
Got hit by winds of 50MPH with wind gust up to 90mph. A ton of rain (good, we needed it). Little damage so far. Expect the worst tonight. In the washed up dirt foiund a hole with a very old bottle in it. Thought what the hell and rubbed and out popped a Genie and said to me I will grant you one wish and only one wish... So me thinking about the Hurricane getting worse I said can You stop the Hurricane? The Genie replied, Sorry Do Me not even I have that much power. But since I couldn't grant your wish I will grant you another... So I thought and thought and then it hit me and I said, "Can you fix the Yankees and have them win the 2023 WS? The Genie rubbed his jaw and said, Hmm, lets take a look at that hurricane again... We made it thru Hillary but just North of us Mulege and St. Rosalia go clobbered = See the videos on CNN & MSNBC It sucks for anyone anywhere to take the brunt of the Hurricane, but since I don’t know those other people or anything about their towns I’ll just say I’m glad you and Tequila made it through with all your “feathers.”… |
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Post by inger on Aug 21, 2023 1:50:42 GMT -5
Ex Yankee Mason Williams is 32 today. His last season was 2021, and his career slash was .265 .308 .366 .673 81.
He was he darling amongst Yankees prospects for a time and a good reminder that the answers are not always in the farm system. He only wound up with 289 PA in his career, most coming for the Reds after the Yankees decided to move on from him.
Though he wandered from the Yanks to the Reds, to
The Orioles, he was never traded. AlwYs simply released and signed else were a free agent.
Yes, there are players like him in our minors right now, which is why aggressive call ups and six-year plans are unreliable ways to build a team. Once getting drafted (Williams was a 4th rounder for the Yanks), there are quite a few look
Great in the low minors, even AAA that just can’t make it over the hurdles to become a MLB regular…
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Post by domeplease on Aug 28, 2023 19:52:35 GMT -5
I THINK I DATED HER ONCE: The World's Deadliest Animal: The Mosquitoes; The animal you see in the photo is a mosquito. It looks basic and yet it's built like a perfect machine. Upon examination with an electron microscope and other modern devices, the mosquito forms as follows: On her little head there are exactly 100 eyes. In her mouth, which can hardly be seen even under a microscope, 48 teeth. In the chest, one for the center and two for the wings, there are 3 hearts and in each heart 2 auricles and 2 ventricles. This little mosquito has a heat receptor to find living things with heat. The heat sensitivity of this device is one thousandth of a degree Celsius. A very advanced blood analyzer, and also an anesthetic device to easily absorb the blood, so that its victim does not react to the sting. And also an anticoagulant device to be able to absorb the blood. There are six tiny blades on its suction pipe; with four of them he makes a square incision and with the other two he forms a tube to absorb the blood. They also have claws and hooks on their feet to hold on to their food source. 
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Post by inger on Aug 28, 2023 19:56:57 GMT -5
I THINK I DATED HER ONCE: The World's Deadliest Animal: The Mosquitoes; The animal you see in the photo is a mosquito. It looks basic and yet it's built like a perfect machine. Upon examination with an electron microscope and other modern devices, the mosquito forms as follows: On her little head there are exactly 100 eyes. In her mouth, which can hardly be seen even under a microscope, 48 teeth. In the chest, one for the center and two for the wings, there are 3 hearts and in each heart 2 auricles and 2 ventricles. This little mosquito has a heat receptor to find living things with heat. The heat sensitivity of this device is one thousandth of a degree Celsius. A very advanced blood analyzer, and also an anesthetic device to easily absorb the blood, so that its victim does not react to the sting. And also an anticoagulant device to be able to absorb the blood. There are six tiny blades on its suction pipe; with four of them he makes a square incision and with the other two he forms a tube to absorb the blood. They also have claws and hooks on their feet to hold on to their food source. View Attachment I should lie outside naked tonight to see if I can get a free blood analysis, complete with A1C. Although our mosquito season is over, there may still be a couple buzzing around… |
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Post by rizzuto on Aug 28, 2023 20:23:13 GMT -5
I THINK I DATED HER ONCE: The World's Deadliest Animal: The Mosquitoes; The animal you see in the photo is a mosquito. It looks basic and yet it's built like a perfect machine. Upon examination with an electron microscope and other modern devices, the mosquito forms as follows: On her little head there are exactly 100 eyes. In her mouth, which can hardly be seen even under a microscope, 48 teeth. In the chest, one for the center and two for the wings, there are 3 hearts and in each heart 2 auricles and 2 ventricles. This little mosquito has a heat receptor to find living things with heat. The heat sensitivity of this device is one thousandth of a degree Celsius. A very advanced blood analyzer, and also an anesthetic device to easily absorb the blood, so that its victim does not react to the sting. And also an anticoagulant device to be able to absorb the blood. There are six tiny blades on its suction pipe; with four of them he makes a square incision and with the other two he forms a tube to absorb the blood. They also have claws and hooks on their feet to hold on to their food source. View Attachment Imagine if they were the size of birds... |
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Post by BillyBones on Sept 8, 2023 12:19:23 GMT -5
I was watching the Turner Classic channel yesterday, and they had a filler short film between features that involved a late 1940's player from the Oakland PCL team doing all sorts of things with a baseball. He had a couple teammates in Oakland uniforms helping him, by hitting fungos and throwing or catching. The guy hit baseballs and caught them from every position you can imagine, lying down, hanging upside down, etc. etc. He caught balls every way one possibly could. His best trick however, was his ability to throw two or three baseballs in one throw and have the balls go to two or three different players. He would take three baseballs in his hand and throw perfectly to a pitcher, a second baseman, and a guy in short left-center. The key was how he held the balls. The ball to the pitcher was in his palm, the one to the second baseman was above it on his middle finger, and the one to the LF was higher on his index finger. The balls would go perfectly to those positions. It was fairly impressive. I didn't catch his last name, but his first was Johnny. Has anyone ever heard of such a guy, or even, perhaps, seen this film?
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Post by rizzuto on Sept 8, 2023 12:45:35 GMT -5
I was watching the Turner Classic channel yesterday, and they had a filler short film between features that involved a late 1940's player from the Oakland PCL team doing all sorts of things with a baseball. He had a couple teammates in Oakland uniforms helping him, by hitting fungos and throwing or catching. The guy hit baseballs and caught them from every position you can imagine, lying down, hanging upside down, etc. etc. He caught balls every way one possibly could. His best trick however, was his ability to throw two or three baseballs in one throw and have the balls go to two or three different players. He would take three baseballs in his hand and throw perfectly to a pitcher, a second baseman, and a guy in short left-center. The key was how he held the balls. The ball to the pitcher was in his palm, the one to the second baseman was above it on his middle finger, and the one to the LF was higher on his index finger. The balls would go perfectly to those positions. It was fairly impressive. I didn't catch his last name, but his first was Johnny. Has anyone ever heard of such a guy, or even, perhaps, seen this film? Was his last name Ingerson? Wearing a sombrero? Could have been a relative of one of our own. Can’t be sure unless he also went to the concession stand and asked for a well-done hotdog with BBQ sauce as the only condiment. |
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Post by BillyBones on Sept 8, 2023 14:03:11 GMT -5
I was watching the Turner Classic channel yesterday, and they had a filler short film between features that involved a late 1940's player from the Oakland PCL team doing all sorts of things with a baseball. He had a couple teammates in Oakland uniforms helping him, by hitting fungos and throwing or catching. The guy hit baseballs and caught them from every position you can imagine, lying down, hanging upside down, etc. etc. He caught balls every way one possibly could. His best trick however, was his ability to throw two or three baseballs in one throw and have the balls go to two or three different players. He would take three baseballs in his hand and throw perfectly to a pitcher, a second baseman, and a guy in short left-center. The key was how he held the balls. The ball to the pitcher was in his palm, the one to the second baseman was above it on his middle finger, and the one to the LF was higher on his index finger. The balls would go perfectly to those positions. It was fairly impressive. I didn't catch his last name, but his first was Johnny. Has anyone ever heard of such a guy, or even, perhaps, seen this film? Was his last name Ingerson? Wearing a sombrero? Could have been a relative of one of our own. Can’t be sure unless he also went to the concession stand and asked for a well-done hotdog with BBQ sauce as the only condiment. You mean our inger? No, this guy looked like a normal person to me. Just kidding. He didn't look like he would know the first thing about spreading gravel, though. A relative of inger, perhaps. Genetics are a tricky thing, and sometimes there will be what was used to be called a throwback in the next generation. Such an event could have produced inger, I guess. |
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Post by pippsheadache on Sept 8, 2023 16:50:49 GMT -5
I was watching the Turner Classic channel yesterday, and they had a filler short film between features that involved a late 1940's player from the Oakland PCL team doing all sorts of things with a baseball. He had a couple teammates in Oakland uniforms helping him, by hitting fungos and throwing or catching. The guy hit baseballs and caught them from every position you can imagine, lying down, hanging upside down, etc. etc. He caught balls every way one possibly could. His best trick however, was his ability to throw two or three baseballs in one throw and have the balls go to two or three different players. He would take three baseballs in his hand and throw perfectly to a pitcher, a second baseman, and a guy in short left-center. The key was how he held the balls. The ball to the pitcher was in his palm, the one to the second baseman was above it on his middle finger, and the one to the LF was higher on his index finger. The balls would go perfectly to those positions. It was fairly impressive. I didn't catch his last name, but his first was Johnny. Has anyone ever heard of such a guy, or even, perhaps, seen this film? BillyBones, I saw a clip of that guy (or somebody just like him who did all those things) several years ago. It seemed almost superhuman. This same guy could also throw strikes from a moving car and throw strikes to two different catchers at the same time using both hands. Very entertaining. It reminded me a bit of the amazing Eddie Feigner of The King and his Court who you and others may well remember too since he was around for ages. I saw him pitch back in the early 1960s against a local semi-pro team -- he was a softball player who pitched using only a catcher, a shortstop and a first baseman. He would throw from behind his back, from second base, from between his legs, sitting down and blindfolded. Even watching him in person you couldn't believe what he was doing. One of my favorite sports experiences ever. The great golfer Walter Hagen used to travel the world giving exhibitions with an Australian trick-shot artist named Joe Kirkwood. Kirkwood was a pretty good professional golfer, although I don't think he ever won any significant tournaments, but he would do things like put the ball from the tee onto the green on a par three hole while standing on one leg and using one arm, or hit a ball that was teed up on a person's mouth, or make putts with his back to the pin while using a mirror. I think in every sport there is somebody who does a trick version. Of course the Harlem Globetrotters perfected that skill set. |
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Post by BillyBones on Sept 8, 2023 17:31:46 GMT -5
Thanks for the reply. I hoped someone might have seen this guy. If you remember that the vehicle he also threw and caught from was a WWII Jeep, then it was the same guy. You're right about many sports having their specialists in tricks. I like billiards, and the number of trick billiard shots are legendary. I spent a good deal of time learning systems of banking on a table in order to hit or make a shot. One of them involved 5 banks and making a ball at the 6th rail. Believe it or not, that came up in a tournament once where the 8 ball was close to a hole, but they had left me corner-hooked and there were some opponent balls still on the table to prevent a one or 3 rail kick at the 8 ball. But, in a rare piece of luck, the 5 rail shot was open, and in another rare piece of luck I made the 8 ball. I got a big round of applause, and some nice money, but the loser never congratulated me and quickly left. I got a lot of questions about how I knew that shot, but really if I hit the first rail at the right spot, and right speed, the geometry of the table was going to take the cue ball to that spot. I guess that all the "tricks" rely on something the player knows.
I was going to look up anything about this baseball player, but can't find his last name. My guess is ther film is his legacy and claim to fame. Regards.
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Post by pippsheadache on Sept 8, 2023 17:57:25 GMT -5
Thanks for the reply. I hoped someone might have seen this guy. If you remember that the vehicle he also threw and caught from was a WWII Jeep, then it was the same guy. You're right about many sports having their specialists in tricks. I like billiards, and the number of trick billiard shots are legendary. I spent a good deal of time learning systems of banking on a table in order to hit or make a shot. One of them involved 5 banks and making a ball at the 6th rail. Believe it or not, that came up in a tournament once where the 8 ball was close to a hole, but they had left me corner-hooked and there were some opponent balls still on the table to prevent a one or 3 rail kick at the 8 ball. But, in a rare piece of luck, the 5 rail shot was open, and in another rare piece of luck I made the 8 ball. I got a big round of applause, and some nice money, but the loser never congratulated me and quickly left. I got a lot of questions about how I knew that shot, but really if I hit the first rail at the right spot, and right speed, the geometry of the table was going to take the cue ball to that spot. I guess that all the "tricks" rely on something the player knows. I was going to look up anything about this baseball player, but can't find his last name. My guess is ther film is his legacy and claim to fame. Regards. BillyBones, I found the guy. His name is Johnny Price and the film is called "Diamond Demon." It was made in 1947 and is available on YouTube. Worth 8 1/2 minutes of anybody's life to watch it. Price played briefly in the majors when he was signed by Bill Veeck, mainly to provide entertainment before the game. Unfortunately he committed suicide in 1967 at the age of 55. But he was fun while he lasted. |
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Post by inger on Sept 8, 2023 18:40:39 GMT -5
Was his last name Ingerson? Wearing a sombrero? Could have been a relative of one of our own. Can’t be sure unless he also went to the concession stand and asked for a well-done hotdog with BBQ sauce as the only condiment. You mean our inger? No, this guy looked like a normal person to me. Just kidding. He didn't look like he would know the first thing about spreading gravel, though. A relative of inger, perhaps. Genetics are a tricky thing, and sometimes there will be what was used to be called a throwback in the next generation. Such an event could have produced inger, I guess. I think my mom might have had a beauty and the beast affair with a local puma… |
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Post by inger on Sept 8, 2023 18:53:32 GMT -5
Was his last name Ingerson? Wearing a sombrero? Could have been a relative of one of our own. Can’t be sure unless he also went to the concession stand and asked for a well-done hotdog with BBQ sauce as the only condiment. You mean our inger? No, this guy looked like a normal person to me. Just kidding. He didn't look like he would know the first thing about spreading gravel, though. A relative of inger, perhaps. Genetics are a tricky thing, and sometimes there will be what was used to be called a throwback in the next generation. Such an event could have produced inger, I guess. Ahh William my osseous friend, you already know me well… |
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