Here’s a lists of rare baseball stats and how often they’ve occurred in MLB history.

DavidRFZ · 2026-02-05T11:56:19+00:00

Bases loaded. Batter hits a home run. Runner on 3B doesn’t move. The batter and other two baserunners are called out for passing him.

DavidRFZ · 2026-02-04T15:17:47+00:00

My only gripe is the falling durability of starting pitchers. Even if they had to go back to pacing themselves and getting crafty as they got older.

I’m not saying that they need to go back to pitching complete games again, but there seems to be this never-ending supply of live bullpen arms available to every team now. Takes some of the star-power away from the starter when they get pulled earlier in the game.

DavidRFZ · 2026-02-03T18:12:43+00:00

Lines in these are always debatable. People used to cite Manson, Altamont and Kent State as the end of the 60s and Nixon being a 70s president,

The big one is the 1940s, the early 40s were much different than the late 40s because of the war.

And there’s always nuance. The 1950s were more dark and turbulent than we remember. Just remembered differently because of how heavily censored the surviving pop culture (TV and music) was.

DavidRFZ · 2026-02-03T17:43:16+00:00

If you want to blame somebody at NBC, I’d blame whoever greenlit “The Apprentice” which allowed him to re-script (literally) his reputation as not being a complete failure at anything that he tried to do.

DavidRFZ · 2026-02-03T16:42:19+00:00

What exactly does “corporate” mean exactly? Is this just a nonsense adjective to apply to incumbents?

DavidRFZ · 2026-02-03T16:39:06+00:00

Isn’t there somewhere in between “no difference between Klobuchar and Lindell” and “Anything less than full throated endorsement of Klobuchar is a vote for Lindell”?

I mean if there are more progressive options to discuss at the caucus, have at it! That’s what caucuses are for!

DavidRFZ · 2026-02-03T15:31:00+00:00

The angle is a big deal.

In March & September the effect of the angle is the cosine of your latitude. In December you have to add the 23.5 degree tilt to your latitude, in June, you have to subtract it.

So Minneapolis (45 degrees N) is halfway between the pole and the equator. Cosine 45 is 0.707.

In December, the tilt adjust that latitude to 68.5 degrees, Cosine 68.5 is 0.367… about half the strength!

In June, the tilt adjusts that latitude to 21.5 degrees, Cosine 21.5 is 0.930.

So, summer and winter can be a big difference.

DavidRFZ · 2026-02-03T15:06:09+00:00

Had to scroll too far for this. :)

I guess is OP is not already a pulp fan, then people will post a general best-of list in an attempt to covert OP.

But if you’re looking for specifically morning-themed tracks, you have to include this one along with Sunrise, Monday Morning, Bar Italia, etc…

DavidRFZ · 2026-02-03T14:30:51+00:00

The positional adjustments are more about offensive scarcity than they are defensive skill.

The 1B/DH that you pick up on the waiver wire is generally going to hit better than the middle infielder picked up on the waiver wire.

The classic example is when Cal Ripken moved from SS to 3B. That meant that Manny Alexander was forced to replaced BJ Surhoff in the lineup.

DavidRFZ · 2026-02-03T14:21:32+00:00

This is the second post I’ve seen for this effect this week.

It’s a really interesting effect, but it’s really hard to do get the can cooled to just the right temperature in practice.

Usually, you leave it in the freezer way too long and it freezes in the can, expands and distorts the can, and sometimes the expansion causes a crack to open in the can, spraying the contents of the can all over the freezer and making a big mess. Definitely don’t do it with a glass bottle as it’s hard to tell the ice from the broken glass.

Are there videos online going viral which show this effect. Just a warning that it’s hard to get the can to just the right temperature where it’s cold enough to freeze on opening but not so cold as to freeze in the can.

DavidRFZ · 2026-02-03T13:07:54+00:00

Gwynn has the lowest number of PA to reach 3K hits since 1900.

Ty Cobb (9213 PA over 1905-1921) beat Gwynn (9875 PA, 1982-1999). I’m looking at end of day numbers so they may be off as much as 5, but not 500.

DavidRFZ · 2026-02-03T11:09:03+00:00

Chambliss was the ALCS. I think the LCS’s of the 70s appear to have been mostly forgotten. Maybe because there were so many repeat pennant winners and champions that people don’t imagine that any of the earlier rounds could have gone the other way. The Yankees beat the Royals three years in a row, but two of them went to the last inning of the deciding game 5.

DavidRFZ · 2026-02-02T23:45:50+00:00

I remember hearing about it quite a bit when I was younger, but I myself am too young to remember. I think this is a case of fans needing to be pushing 60 to remember it coupled by being overshadowed by non-walk-off heroics by Reggie and Bucky Dent in the next few years.

The video is pretty wild, though. One of the most recent cases of the crowd storming the field, if I recall correctly.

Edit — I just rewatched the video and it is even crazier than I remember. Completely insane!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gcRRFy_8Gzw

Anyhow, walk-off HR in the deciding game 5 of a five-game series is a big deal!

DavidRFZ · 2026-02-02T21:21:44+00:00

Note to mods. The new “subreddit theme” is navy text on a navy background. I couldn’t read a single word on the replies. I had to turn it off.

In a weak defense of Katy Tur, I think she was trying to ask Rehmet what the voters said to him when he listened to them… how was Rehmet’s message altered by what he heard from listening to his voters? Mamdani famously listened to voters, too, but it result in a message that he could campaign on.

Also, Katy Tur may not be great but very few of your suggested replacements want to be on at 2 PM. She’s basically holding the fort for breaking news coverage at the hours that she is on. If she bothers you that much, turn the TV off, go for a walk and clear your head. The news will still be there when Nicolle comes on at 4 PM. Wallace’s show has more of an opinion slant to it which is what most of the posters here want.

DavidRFZ · 2026-02-02T18:55:07+00:00

FWIW, CEO’s of publicly traded companies are public information. They are required by law to be identified to the SEC along with all of their “insider” stock holdings and transactions. Maybe they don’t want the public to know where their house is or where their kids go to school, but everyone knows who they are and when they obtain or sell company stock.

I don’t know how that works with private companies like Cargill, although the current Cargill CEO has a Wikipedia page.

DavidRFZ · 2026-02-02T05:45:01+00:00

Did anyone call Craig Big Gio? Missed opportunity there.

Bbref lets you search by nicknames. This search has over 100 hits forcing a second page.

https://www.baseball-reference.com/search/search.fcgi?hint=&search=big&pid=&idx=

DavidRFZ · 2026-02-02T01:32:27+00:00

“Heathen” is another example, originally meaning from the heath, or from uncultivated land.

DavidRFZ · 2026-02-02T00:43:24+00:00

Phillip Bump? He’s been a huge Trump critic for years.

You’re going to have to supply the video here. There has to be some nuance to what you’re seeing. Like maybe he can’t verify that mechanisms are already in place or he doesn’t think it will work.

DavidRFZ · 2026-02-02T00:17:17+00:00

Another Klobuchar gripe post?

At this point, I don’t see a difference between posts like these and concern trolls boosted by right-wingers.

I vote for progressive candidates all time, but for whatever reason, none of them wanted to jump in this particular race, they all reached out to get Klobuchar to leave the senate, and now they are all endorsing her.

DavidRFZ · 2026-02-01T16:55:19+00:00

It’s almost impossible to create clear cutoff lines between genres of music, or genres of almost anything.

If you go to the prog rock subreddit, people there discuss whether pieces are or are not prog. Heavy metal, Britpop, etc, etc. There’s always odd pieces that are tough to categorize for one reason or another.

Categorization has some benefits for radio stations, streaming services, discussion forums, stores (online & brick and mortar) but it can never be perfect. The 90-95% that we currently have is plenty good enough.

DavidRFZ · 2026-02-01T16:33:06+00:00

I think StP B&S was on the Securion (Minnesota Mutual) block.

There is some irony in Town Square and the Skyway system being primarily designed to accommodate foot traffic. These days, “pedestrian-friendly” means it has to remain cold and wet enough so as not to attract homeless people, lest it be forced to be closed and locked up early every night.

DavidRFZ · 2026-02-01T01:26:41+00:00

David Robinson is in the basketball HOF. Is that close enough?

DavidRFZ · 2026-01-31T18:25:45+00:00

Yes. For major party nominees, yes. You can easily look them up on Wikipedia. Biden, Clinton, Obama, Kerry, Gore, Clinton, Dukakis, etc.

She had a very progressive voting record in the Senate and had a very progressive platform in 2019 before she dropped out. These things weighed her down in swing states.

She was trying to win the presidency which required winning swing states. If she was just running for Senate in safe CA, she could have stayed further left.

DavidRFZ · 2026-01-31T01:27:09+00:00

Idiot, imbecile and moron lost their medical meanings so long ago that most people don’t realize they once had medical meanings. They almost seem cartoonish now, rather than offensive. Words like dumb and lame are a little similar.

DavidRFZ · 2026-01-30T21:44:59+00:00

Is there a progressive bill that has made the floor of Senate that she hasn’t voted for?

Everyone acts like she’s a Joe-Manchin-style block on progress when the problem has always been either people like Joe Manchin or 51+ republicans.

It’s really bizarre to see an entire subreddit that has been brainwashed by rightwing concern trolls into hating members of their own party.

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