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Post by pippsheadache on Jul 29, 2021 14:17:30 GMT -5
Jeter would have made that play… He actually would have. |
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Post by pippsheadache on Jul 29, 2021 14:26:51 GMT -5
I was going to make some lame remark comparing Stanton unfavorably to an Angels OFer from the 1970s, Leroy Stanton. Leroy was one of the Mets who, along with Nolan Ryan, was traded to the Angels for a washed-up Jim Fregosi. Then I saw that Leroy was killed in an auto accident in 2019 in Florence, SC, a town I have inexplicably found myself in on multiple occasions. You'd have to be at least 50 to remember Leroy. We have to start a thread just for things of this ilk for Pipps. Like the six degrees of separation from Kevin Bacon. It would be fascinating! For a short time I worked for a company for which DuPont was our largest client. They had a facility near Florence that I went to several times. Beyond that, as Inger suggested, it winds up being a convenient place to stop for the night along I-95 on the way to Georgia or Florida. Kayaking on the PeeDee River! Home of Cale Yarborough! A genuine P-39 World War II fighter! What more could you want? |
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Post by inger on Jul 29, 2021 14:54:46 GMT -5
We have to start a thread just for things of this ilk for Pipps. Like the six degrees of separation from Kevin Bacon. It would be fascinating! For a short time I worked for a company for which DuPont was our largest client. They had a facility near Florence that I went to several times. Beyond that, as Inger suggested, it winds up being a convenient place to stop for the night along I-95 on the way to Georgia or Florida. Kayaking on the PeeDee River! Home of Cale Yarborough! A genuine P-39 World War II fighter! What more could you want? DuPont used to be a big client for me, too. In fact, they were the only decent client I had in that Wilmington office. The experimental station they had for R & D was quite a kick. Everyone that went in had to view a safety film at least once, and I think it only gave you three years of access before you saw it again. The engineers were hilarious. We had to present plans for a project once. The plans were on the verge of approval when one engineer mentioned that we didn’t present an earthquake plan. Uh-oh. My very clever manager responded that since we didn’t have one, we would just use the standard DuPont earthquake plan. Now, we had six engineers looking at each other, all with the realization that DuPont didn’t have such a plan, either. Project approved! 😂 … There were other similar instances where we were able to utilize common sense solutions to issues that they would have mired down in regulation and or policy. I once ran into one of their policies that I proved to them was afoul of propane safety code. I told the engineer that all they needed to do was waive their regulations and defer to the code page and section and I could proceed with the project immediately. He called his boss and set up a meeting with me. They decided that since I had suggested a waiver and not a policy change, they could do that without taking the situation through their safety department, as long as the safety manager himself approved it. He did. They had never though to use the term waiver or deferment. We never failed to get a job done, it was just getting around their red tape. I met similar challenges working with Longwood Gardens to install gas for their flaming fountain. Since water doesn’t extinguish gas flames, it was an easy concept. Somehow i got that one past our own safety department. A fellow salesman made a sale for an exploding scoreboard for a ball team (I think the Phillies, might have been a minor league affiliate), only to have the safety department step in and say that we were not in the explosives business. He lost a lot of money on that one! |
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Post by inger on Jul 29, 2021 15:02:33 GMT -5
Wow. The room is empty. You guys act like we don’t have a chance! 😂
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Post by inger on Jul 29, 2021 15:04:49 GMT -5
I’m not going to finish watching. Time to get ready for work… only 95 degrees today. Looks like a nice day… 🍳💀🍖😰
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Post by anthonyd46 on Jul 29, 2021 15:10:24 GMT -5
They even ground into dps when its 14-0
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Post by Renfield on Jul 29, 2021 15:16:23 GMT -5
We have to start a thread just for things of this ilk for Pipps. Like the six degrees of separation from Kevin Bacon. It would be fascinating! For a short time I worked for a company for which DuPont was our largest client. They had a facility near Florence that I went to several times. Beyond that, as Inger suggested, it winds up being a convenient place to stop for the night along I-95 on the way to Georgia or Florida. Kayaking on the PeeDee River! Home of Cale Yarborough! A genuine P-39 World War II fighter! What more could you want? I think, technically, Cale Yarborough was from Timmonsville. But, point stands. |
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Post by rizzuto on Jul 29, 2021 15:29:08 GMT -5
Sorry for bailing but I had to take Greta to the veterinarian.
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Post by pippsheadache on Jul 29, 2021 15:32:09 GMT -5
For a short time I worked for a company for which DuPont was our largest client. They had a facility near Florence that I went to several times. Beyond that, as Inger suggested, it winds up being a convenient place to stop for the night along I-95 on the way to Georgia or Florida. Kayaking on the PeeDee River! Home of Cale Yarborough! A genuine P-39 World War II fighter! What more could you want? I think, technically, Cale Yarborough was from Timmonsville. But, point stands. One of the DuPont guys was showing me points of interest and I probably lost track of municipal boundaries. But it was a long time ago. I remember thinking there were more Hardees per square mile than any place I had ever seen. |
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Post by pippsheadache on Jul 29, 2021 15:32:59 GMT -5
Sorry for bailing but I had to take Greta to the veterinarian. Your time was better spent at the vet's. |
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Post by desousa on Jul 29, 2021 15:37:50 GMT -5
Happy I missed this one. 10-10 when Cole starts. Not good.
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Post by pippsheadache on Jul 29, 2021 15:42:03 GMT -5
For a short time I worked for a company for which DuPont was our largest client. They had a facility near Florence that I went to several times. Beyond that, as Inger suggested, it winds up being a convenient place to stop for the night along I-95 on the way to Georgia or Florida. Kayaking on the PeeDee River! Home of Cale Yarborough! A genuine P-39 World War II fighter! What more could you want? DuPont used to be a big client for me, too. In fact, they were the only decent client I had in that Wilmington office. The experimental station they had for R & D was quite a kick. Everyone that went in had to view a safety film at least once, and I think it only gave you three years of access before you saw it again. The engineers were hilarious. We had to present plans for a project once. The plans were on the verge of approval when one engineer mentioned that we didn’t present an earthquake plan. Uh-oh. My very clever manager responded that since we didn’t have one, we would just use the standard DuPont earthquake plan. Now, we had six engineers looking at each other, all with the realization that DuPont didn’t have such a plan, either. Project approved! 😂 … There were other similar instances where we were able to utilize common sense solutions to issues that they would have mired down in regulation and or policy. I once ran into one of their policies that I proved to them was afoul of propane safety code. I told the engineer that all they needed to do was waive their regulations and defer to the code page and section and I could proceed with the project immediately. He called his boss and set up a meeting with me. They decided that since I had suggested a waiver and not a policy change, they could do that without taking the situation through their safety department, as long as the safety manager himself approved it. He did. They had never though to use the term waiver or deferment. We never failed to get a job done, it was just getting around their red tape. I met similar challenges working with Longwood Gardens to install gas for their flaming fountain. Since water doesn’t extinguish gas flames, it was an easy concept. Somehow i got that one past our own safety department. A fellow salesman made a sale for an exploding scoreboard for a ball team (I think the Phillies, might have been a minor league affiliate), only to have the safety department step in and say that we were not in the explosives business. He lost a lot of money on that one! DuPont was fanatical on safety issues. Almost irrationally so. My grandfather, father, all my uncles, half the people I knew worked for DuPont. It was almost mandatory. One of my uncles was a chemist at the Experimental Station you visited. It was a great company at one time. But they started over expanding in the 1990s and today it's a shell of what it was. Sad. But a great and enduring legacy in this neck of the woods. |
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Post by rizzuto on Jul 29, 2021 15:56:32 GMT -5
Positive note:
Florial
continues to do something every game. 1-2 with a walk. 990 OPS but cannot get regular playing time.
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Post by kaybli on Jul 29, 2021 16:02:56 GMT -5
Positive note: Florial continues to do something every game. 1-2 with a walk. 990 OPS but cannot get regular playing time. There is zero reason Gardner should be playing over him besides blind loyalty to days gone. |
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Post by inger on Jul 29, 2021 16:10:03 GMT -5
Positive note: Florial continues to do something every game. 1-2 with a walk. 990 OPS but cannot get regular playing time. He needs more “development”, during which they’l adjust his hand position which will lead to a recurring wrist injury. He snd Hicks will share centerfield for the next five years as they exchange I.L. stints. Gardner will continue to play cf when they are bot on the IL at the same time. At the end of the seasons, Gardner will still have the most at bats and fielding chances of the three. Meanwhile, Dominguez will rot in AAA waiting for the trio to stop blocking him. He’ll eventually be known as “Pop, The Alien”… |
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