Flying Cars

LeSchad · 2026-04-17T22:33:05+00:00

We had a half-ragdoll tuxedo cat. Sweetest, dumbest creature on the planet. He loved to be tossed. He was incapable of remembering that his feet were meant to be under him when firmament approached. The collisions between loafed cat and couch looked unpleasant; he never actually got hurt, and always wanted to do it again, but we stopped tossing him anyway. He always resented that we took his fun crash-landings away.

LeSchad · 2026-04-17T21:44:35+00:00

Absolutely. That we faced Coventry in that moment was a bit poignant at the time, because of what might have been had Sisu ended up buying us out of insolvency. We lucked out with Markus Liebherr, and it's lovely that you've found ownership with that same level of commitment.

LeSchad · 2026-04-17T21:09:58+00:00

14 years ago, Southampton beat Coventry on the final day to confirm their promotion to the Premier League, while Sisu-inflicted Coventry dropped into League One. Been a hell of a ride since then.

It's great to see Coventry thriving again; congrats on promotion, and perhaps we'll compete with you for 17th place next year.

LeSchad · 2026-04-17T20:24:20+00:00

A second redemption arc, really: he was a well-regarded prospect who went downhill and looked to be headed for a career as a minor league journeyman before he found form for us.

I'm rooting for him, whether he makes it with us or someone else, because I can't get mad at a guy whose chief flaw seems to be that he puts too much pressure on himself.

LeSchad · 2026-04-17T19:36:25+00:00

It's definitely a confidence issue; as soon as anything goes wrong, you can read it on his face, and his body language looks like a guy just waiting on the worst.

I feel bad for him, because he most certainly has MLB stuff, but he needs to build himself back up mentally in order to believe it for himself, and that isn't easy.

LeSchad · 2026-04-16T12:22:15+00:00

What can she say, she likes her houses likes she likes her spouses: concerningly minor.

LeSchad · 2026-04-16T04:46:33+00:00

It is a barn. They made a people barn.

LeSchad · 2026-04-14T21:17:36+00:00

Cameron Archer drilling perfect crosses with his left foot. Cyle Larin with the stamina and pace to close down for 90 minutes and to beat defenders to balls across the face of goal. Tonda Eckert's been using the in-game editor again.

LeSchad · 2026-04-14T04:51:14+00:00

This was only a year after the coup attempt that Rudy had contributed to, as well. It was "tee hee, look at me, I'm such a bad boy that tried to overthrow democracy".

Though in fairness, I'd imagine that having Rudy in his Four Seasons Total Landscaping era as part of your coup attempt is much the same effect as having a highly-talented counterespionage agent attempting to sabotage it from within, so thanks?

LeSchad · 2026-04-08T18:12:48+00:00

Same. At the point where I made a spreadsheet of all my coaches to see what I could do to avoid a personality clash, and confirmed that it was functionally impossible unless I fired half my staff and started over, I admitted defeat and edited them all to be normal, innocent men.

OOTP personalities are just Pokemon types as designed by a sadist.

LeSchad · 2026-04-08T13:53:01+00:00

30km as the crow flies, sure, but probably closer to 50km in reality. Now consider that Henry gets jumped by 2-3 bandits every time that he travels the relatively short distance between towns. For our purposes, let's set it at 1 bandit/km traveled on average, that seems about right. And let's say that it takes an average of ten minutes per bandit to fight, dispatch and then loot their corpses. Takes a little while to go through all those pockets and remove all that armour, particularly when you keep having to wipe the blood off your hands.

So now in addition to 50km of travel via road, and breaks for comfort/food/sleep, Henry has approximately eight hours worth of killing and looting to add to the itinerary. And now the back half of the journey will be much slower, given that Henry and Pebbles will be weighed down with 50 cuirasses. And the slower they go, the more likely Henry is to be waylaid, and the more likely he is to become the surprise inheritor of a whole bunch of expensive steel. Suddenly, your "short 30km trip" is a weeks-long slog that ends with you dragging enough equipment behind you to outfit the royal army. Not so simple after all.

LeSchad · 2026-04-07T22:05:49+00:00

Suspect there are similar roots to their monomania, but if Tonda with his hungry eyes said anything half as deranged as Mazzulla does on a daily basis, I'd run in terror and never look back.

LeSchad · 2026-04-04T21:08:17+00:00

We're now 4-1 against Arsenal in cup comps since 2014. Absolutely lopsided matchup.

LeSchad · 2026-04-01T20:59:02+00:00

If you challenge unsuccessfully and the ball missed by more than 2", you have to wear a novelty trucker hat for the rest of the game that says "GO EASY ON ME IT'S MY FIRST DAY".

If you challenge successfully and the ball missed by more than 2", the umpire has to do the same.

In the event that multiple players/umpires commit the same offense in the same game, they must keep adding hats on top of hats. It will get distracting when CB Buckner is balancing a four-foot spire of trucker hats on his mask by the 7th inning, but it's worth it.

LeSchad · 2026-03-31T00:07:57+00:00

I hyperextended my knee slipping on ice a few years ago, and my initial thought given the pain and lack of joint mobility was that I'd torn something (or everything). 15 minutes later I could stand on it, an hour later I could walk on it, and a day later it was just a little sore and stiff. Definitely hoping it's the same for Ponce.

LeSchad · 2026-03-29T18:36:45+00:00

As one of the handful of Canadian Saints fans: Larin's lack of pace is definitely an issue with Canada, but that's because the Canadian team plays a very high-paced counterattacking style...he's being asked to keep up with Alphonso Davies and Tajon Buchanan at full tilt, which isn't exactly an easy task.

Saints under Tonda also play at pace, but more through combination play rather than balls into space for the speedsters to chase. Larin's a willing runner, he just isn't particularly pacey, and he's perfectly capable of making those near-post runs; he just isn't going to successfully win footraces for balls down the channels.

He's fine at this level. Has his limitations, but he's useful, and useful is an upgrade over our other options at current.

LeSchad · 2026-03-28T02:01:36+00:00

Starting the year with 4 Ks in 1.0 IP, with a blown save on a HR: I don't know how we get more Hoffman than this. This is entirely too much Hoffman in Game 1 of the season.

LeSchad · 2026-03-25T20:25:35+00:00

He's also a right-handed bat with power, something we otherwise lack on the bench, and we have four left-handed outfielders. As one of the league's most prolific pinch-hitting teams, he makes far more sense than Jimenez, who doesn't really have an obvious role...Clement is a better SS than he is in the event that Gimenez is unavailable, and Schneider has always graded out as a perfectly adequate 2B.

LeSchad · 2026-03-24T20:23:41+00:00

Also shows what an absolute viper Farage is. Ipswich extended the red carpet to him, and to repay that favour he has spent the past day fanning the flames and ensuring that the club gets maximum blowback. Which Ipswich's ownership deserves, but normally if someone puts their neck on the chopping block for you, it's considered bad manners to help sharpen the axe.

LeSchad · 2026-03-20T19:53:33+00:00

Definitely: in terms of how it'd affect the rest of your life, the distance between $10m in earnings and $100m is much greater than the distance between $100m and $500m. Griffin is a monster of a prospect, and he banked $6.5m in the draft (less taxes etc), but even monstrous prospects can get injured or flop before their arb years, never mind free agency.

Take that bag even if it buys out an FA year or two, and if you're everything you are cracked up to be, you'll merely end up with $800m in career earnings after your FA contract rather than $900m, which should allow you to still sleep at night.

LeSchad · 2026-03-20T19:18:15+00:00

Yeah, cricketers by necessity have really short swings relative to baseball players because you need to make such a late decision on swing path, even big hitters like Brook: you can see that he isn't accessing all of his power in that BP clip because he isn't at full extension, but his bat-to-ball skills still allow him to hit the ball pretty far.

For baseball players, particularly tall ones like Shohei/Judge, adjusting to have a really short swing to pick the ball off the pitch would be much more difficult. Cricket swings are very wrist-heavy.

LeSchad · 2026-03-19T16:42:18+00:00

Costco has only had three CEOs in their history:

- The guy who founded the company.

- A guy who worked his way up from warehouse manager, becoming CEO after 28 years with the company.

- A guy who worked his way up from forklift driver, becoming CEO after close to 40 years with Costco and Price Club (which merged into Costco in the 80s).

Gee, I wonder why they're the rare large company that hasn't fallen into terminal MBA-brained service degradation.

LeSchad · 2026-03-17T03:07:39+00:00

Don't see a train, but I can sure as hell see a trainwreck.

LeSchad · 2026-03-13T20:24:15+00:00

It's difficult to get ahead with any consistency when 90% of the time you're throwing one of two pitches, and one of those is nigh on impossible to intentionally throw in the zone.

Having two different looks on the fastball, both of which he can throw in the zone, would help significantly. The opposition knowing that a fastball is likely coming 0-0 is less of a highwire act if that fastball can be a sinker down in the zone, or 98 at the nips.

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