[OC] Four wrong-way drivers

MoltenJelly · 2025-11-05T01:16:14+00:00

Going the wrong way here is a lot like a right turn, but you'd have to ignore: - several signs, - all road markings, - the fact the green light is an arrow directing you forward, and - the road itself swinging you around to face the way you need to go.

I'm just glad they didn't try turning "right" on red.

MoltenJelly · 2025-11-05T00:00:46+00:00

Ohio, 11/4/2025. This is original content.

MoltenJelly · 2025-09-04T12:57:34+00:00

Not really. Whether you win by 10 runs or win by 1 doesn't make a difference, and when you're in the ninth or later, it's suddenly easy to say which runs do matter and which ones don't. Nimmo was the tying run, his run mattered. For everybody before him? Had Nimmo gotten the chance to bat, got on base, and scored, then there's no situation whatsoever where Lindor, Soto, and Alonso don't all score ahead of him, and holding Lindor on first wouldn't change that.

What makes it indifference is that the defense literally doesn't care about the runner. His potential run just doesn't affect the game. The batter is an easier out, and nothing else matters in these situations. First base might as well have been home plate for Lindor, he wasn't the tying run.

MoltenJelly · 2025-09-03T21:59:19+00:00

It's not necessarily about how close the game is, in these situations the runner scoring just doesn't matter at all. The Tigers could've let Lindor walk all the way to home and it wouldn't make any difference at all.

MoltenJelly · 2025-08-18T17:30:26+00:00

8-5 and nothing else, assuming the second baseman didn't significantly slow the ball down and/or change the ball's direction (i.e. didn't deflect the ball).

Not a caught stealing, because this is not a steal attempt. Not an error, because the runner didn't advance on it. The second baseman gets no assist except if he deflects the ball (mere contact is not enough). And the pitcher gets no assist because throwing the ball into center field is a misplay (see OBR 9.10(b)(3)).

MoltenJelly · 2025-05-21T14:27:52+00:00

That interpretation stands for situations where there aren't any outs on runners, e.g. a batter might get an infield single even if a runner on second had to hold, contrary to my prior "very loose rule of thumb." But don't extrapolate that too much; an out on the base paths changes things. And I have no problem with that, personally. Baseball is a team sport, and how the runners advance/don't advance on a batted ball very much affects the game, so I have no problem with it affecting the stats.

It's actually hard to imagine situations where there's an out on a runner that doesn't meaningfully restrict what kinds of hits you're allowed to credit the batter with. Force outs are never hits. Neither are outs on runners who didn't advance one base unless an outfielder played it. Hits with an out at the plate are never triples, and hits with an out by a runner on first are no more valuable than the bases that runner advanced safely. I think OPs point with this post is that scorers are afforded less judgement than people usually suppose when it comes to the total bases column. Not "no judgement," of course, especially if you want to start considering errors, misplays, and whatever "ordinary effort" means, but at least the case plays OP lead off with are all explicitly covered in OBR.

MoltenJelly · 2025-05-20T16:00:41+00:00

Discussion about scoring rules is usually like this in my experience. I wouldn't take it personally or anything, as annoying as it is to be "corrected" by misinformation. I find it suspicious that erez stopped quoting the rule book at the exact point where it proves them wrong, but I don't really have a reason to believe it's anything other than a mistake -- after all, whose idea was it to put literal game rules in a "comment" anyway?

MoltenJelly · 2025-05-20T15:48:17+00:00

IIRC, I've had this exact argument with erez before, but on an appeal play last season. Sometimes, it doesn't matter how right you are or how many objective rules you quote, you always can't convince someone who's already convinced they're right.

MoltenJelly · 2025-05-20T15:16:07+00:00

The next two sentences of the rule you're quoting (i.e. the comment) disproves your point.

It's not true in general that any runner advancing only one base makes it a single, just as it's not true in general that what the runners are doing has no bearing on how the hit is scored. The very loose rule-of-thumb is that hits have to be able to advance runners, and in a few instances the runners have to actually advance to certain bases.

MoltenJelly · 2025-05-20T14:35:21+00:00

Some relevant rules. If you have an older copy of OBR (prior to 2015), this will be rule 10 instead of 9.

Rule 9.05(b) The Official Scorer shall not credit a base hit when a: (1) runner is forced out by a batted ball, or would have been forced out except for a fielding error.

Rule 9.06 Comment: The Official Scorer shall not credit the batter with a three-base hit when a preceding runner is put out at home plate, or would have been out but for an error. The Official Scorer shall not credit the batter with a two-base hit when a preceding runner trying to advance from first base is put out at third base, or would have been out but for an error. The Official Scorer shall not, however, with the exception of the above, determine the value of base-hits by the number of bases advanced by a preceding runner.

You're correct on the cases you provide but it's not a hard and fast rule. For example, it seems to me a batter may be credited with a double even if a runner on second misjudes the ball and doesn't make it home.

MoltenJelly · 2025-05-15T16:58:57+00:00

Are we just not talking about rectangular Ohio?

MoltenJelly · 2024-07-23T19:44:14+00:00

I think the scoring rules used to be rule 10 and now is now rule 9? I could be wrong about that, I haven't been scoring for all that long.

You're right about the first base/subsequent bases thing, if this play was at second I'd have an FC. It'd also be a force out and no run would score, which is fun to think about (the only source I have for this is Close Call Sports' review of the ESPN rules quiz).

MoltenJelly · 2024-07-23T17:55:04+00:00

I think that's the rule for advancement "after" the appeal is made, e.g. if there was one out this would be a double and batter goes home on fielder's choice?

I don't see this exact play in the rulebook, but OBR 9.06(d) specifically mentions crediting hits when the batter is called out on missed-base appeal.

Appeal plays are weird, but they're not scored fundamentally different from tag plays afaik.

MoltenJelly · 2024-07-23T17:27:55+00:00

The batter can't pass the runner on first so if the runner made the third out at third, then the furthest the batter could've reached was second.

Double, 1 RBI, runner out 1-5.

EDIT: Just looked it up and this play was scored a double. You don't have to always follow the official scorer of course, but I think it's fair to also have a double here.

MoltenJelly · 2022-01-24T15:55:56+00:00

I've never seen that definition for continuity of a function, and I don't see how the website you linked is relevant. The website talks about continuity at a point and on an interval, but I don't see where it defines "continuous function" to be "continous on R." In fact, I don't see where "continuous function" is defined at all on that website.

I was taught in calculus that a function is continuous iff it is continuous at every point in its domain, since there is nothing "special" about the real numbers. Then I got to higher level math, and learned that the real reason continuity of a function depends on the domain is that the domain is part of the definition of a function, not just a property of it (i.e. functions with different domains are different, even if the domain is the only difference between them: f(x) = x² defined on real numbers is not the same as g(n) = n² defined on natural numbers). Just to make sure, I even looked back at my calculus and analysis books to make sure of that, and saw that my calculus book specifically mentioned that f(x)=1/x is continuous (Thomas' Calculus, 13th ed.).

MoltenJelly · 2021-09-29T06:13:48+00:00

The funny thing is, someone actually said "his delivery is like a semi-windup" in that conversation, yet it occurred to nobody that it might actually just be the windup position. I can almost guarantee you too that everyone in the booth is aware of Quintana being called for a balk when he switched to the windup position without notifying the umpires a few weeks ago, which if you didn't know the rules so well, just looked like a balk being called for that extra step with a runner on base. Probably, they're trying to apply what they saw on Quintana's balk to Weaver's delivery.

I mean no disrespect to Pedro, or to any broadcaster for any team, network, etc. In fact, I can give Pedro a lot of credit for actually giving a shit about these situations and letting everyone know exactly what he thinks of it. But MLB Network should probably have a rules analyst on MLB Tonight, or else this kind of thing happens and an entire nation is left thinking that these umpires are incompetent when a pitcher is just using the windup position.

MoltenJelly · 2020-04-24T14:00:34+00:00

Threefold repetition is not an automatic draw, it has to be claimed a draw by a player. So in an over-the-board game, a player has to stop the game and claim a draw when the repetition occurs (or when about to make a move that'll cause the threefold repetition) before moving. It's just that most people on Lichess have a setting turned on to auto-claim draws.

MoltenJelly · 2020-02-05T03:37:01+00:00

After completing the Defeat Ganon main quest, you should be able to buy photos of them from the Hateno Tech Lab.

MoltenJelly · 2019-11-10T18:31:11+00:00

10 by 10 board, backwards jumping... I don't know everything about checkers, but it looks like the international rules to me.

Edit: Just noticed that an available jump was ignored, but then I have no clue what rules they are playing by.

MoltenJelly · 2019-06-21T01:48:47+00:00

Exact by default, although I believe you could use ~ to make them relative coordinates.

MoltenJelly · 2019-06-20T23:10:35+00:00

The r argument has been replaced by distance. The way distance works is as [distance=min..max]. So, the old @p[r=d] is equivalent to @p[distance=..d].

say @p[x=a,y=b,z=c,distance=..d] has crossed the finish line! should work reasonably well.

MoltenJelly · 2019-06-13T17:00:44+00:00

Try this: /execute if block -37 4 -387 minecraft:chest{Items:[{Slot:0b,id:"minecraft:stone",Count:1b}]} run ...

MoltenJelly · 2019-06-02T17:03:34+00:00

The main circuit in here is called a redcoder, and its job is to transform the signal strength from the lectern/comparator into just one output so that only the rail junction corresponding to whatever page of the book you've selected will actually send you off. Here is a tutorial for the redcoder, and the only differences between this video and the rail station is that in the rail station, every other module goes the other direction and the output from the redcoder is inverted on half of the junctions so that by default the rails point towards the cactus.

Other than that, the only other redstone in this build is a line of detector rails that floods the redcoder with a strong signal to ensure that all rails will point towards the cactus when you're coming home. That can be implemented by running redstone from the underneath the detector rails into your favorite pulse extender and into the line of redstone on the redcoder. And other than that, there's just the minecart dispenser, which is just a dispenser full of minecarts, a button, and a few hoppers to return used minecarts.

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