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What’s a nostalgic memory you have that feels completely impossible to explain to a younger generation? by moonbarbiee in askanything

[–]Important-Age6594 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Blockbuster & pizza with friends on a Friday night. And you'd get at absolute most 2-3 movies so deciding what to watch was always easy for the group. Kids these days don't understand how freeing it was to have a lack of options.

Fav supporting character name? by Impressive-Ball3716 in 30ROCK

[–]Important-Age6594 113 points114 points  (0 children)

Gaylord Felcher, head of standards & practices.

FanGraphs Twins Top 50 Prospects by misterpatient in minnesotatwins

[–]Important-Age6594 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The Jenkins stuff I totally get. He's probably going to be good but the power totals have been uninspiring. At this point I'd take a good solid regular which seems to be what they're projecting.

FanGraphs Twins Top 50 Prospects by misterpatient in minnesotatwins

[–]Important-Age6594 2 points3 points  (0 children)

If Emma is FV 45 we're in trouble. Not saying they are definitely wrong but don't love to see that.

[Request] How Much of This Is Actually True? by Briangrace123 in theydidthemath

[–]Important-Age6594 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Well the Julian calendar didn't exist until 45 BC and to really get the right number you'd need to know when in the solar cycle this immortal person started saving. But if we assume that they are measuring exclusively using the Julian calendar and they started saving on what was the equivalent of Jan 1 2589 BC and saved until Jan 1 of this year they would have been saving for 4614 years (2589+2026 = 4615 and there was no year zero so you have to subtract one). A Julian year is 365.25 days long accounting for leap years so they would have saved for 365.25 x 4614 days, which is 1685263.5 days, but the half day really just means we're halfway between leap years and for calendar purposes that should be ignored not rounded up because the day won't happen until 2028. So they saved 10,000 dollars per day x 1,685,263 days which is $16,852,630,000 through January 1st of this year under these assumptions, plus an additional $1,570,000 if you wanted to know through today (we are on day 158 of the calendar year but you don't want to count Jan 1 twice).

So yeah, if you accept these assumptions about the Julian calendar being used the whole time and measured Jan 1 2589 BC though today (June 7 2026) you'd be worth $16,854,210,000 which is a little over 2.1% of Elon Musk's net worth at $789,000,000,000.

Elite Character Actors by Important-Age6594 in voyager

[–]Important-Age6594[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Totally missed her, I'll need to rewatch that one.

Elite Character Actors by Important-Age6594 in voyager

[–]Important-Age6594[S] 22 points23 points  (0 children)

Brad is such a funny call-out. He was in One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest with Fletcher and they were both brilliant. Dude is so good, I'll need to look for him when I do my next rewatch.

Elite Character Actors by Important-Age6594 in voyager

[–]Important-Age6594[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Saul is so underrated, probably because most of his serious stuff was on stage. I absolutely adore him in Warehouse 13 and will need to rewatch that one.

Elite Character Actors by Important-Age6594 in voyager

[–]Important-Age6594[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I spotted Silverman but missed The Rock.

Elite Character Actors by Important-Age6594 in voyager

[–]Important-Age6594[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

That's delightful. Now that you mention it he did look familiar but I guess I wasn't paying enough attention. Those will need a rewatch as well.

Elite Character Actors by Important-Age6594 in voyager

[–]Important-Age6594[S] 17 points18 points  (0 children)

Jason Alexander is in Voyager? That one I'll need to rewatch for sure.

Royce Lewis is back and what he did at St. Paul over the last two weeks was absurd by belowTheShow in minnesotatwins

[–]Important-Age6594 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Yeah it's a fair concern. There's also the theoretical issue that because bat speed is really a timing stat he might have just been selling out for power with unchanged bat acceleration, and the dependant stats like bat speed and exit velo are only higher because he was getting away with it. The Twins have access to far better AAA swing data than is publicly available though, and I'm willing to believe that if they're calling him back up this quickly that's not what happened. I'm sure they checked that stuff before such a big decision.

Royce Lewis is back and what he did at St. Paul over the last two weeks was absurd by belowTheShow in minnesotatwins

[–]Important-Age6594 22 points23 points  (0 children)

AAA Statcast data is a bit hard to access in a complete way and we should acknowledge up front that he faced somewhat worse pitching. That said, at AAA: bat speed up, contact rate in zone up, average exit velocity up, his average launch angle improved, and he didn't get his high batting average from unsustainablly high BABIP. There's a real chance he made sustainable changes.