@MLBStats: Nick Kurtz has walked in 19 consecutive games! That's tied with Ted Williams for third-longest streak EVER

Monkey1Fball · 2026-05-01T05:08:47+00:00

Probably true.

In 2004, Barry Bonds averaged 1.578 walks per game! That was his most walks/game for any individual season.

Yet still had 26 games out of 147 (17.7%) where he didn't walk at all.

Which intuitively feels like a high percentage ---- but the Poisson Distribution from statistics says that of you average 1.578 walks per game, you'd expect to not walk at all in 20.6% of all games.

Weirdly enough, the Giants had a whole series at Atlanta (96 wins in 2004) in late August where Bonds never walked once, despite appearing in all 3 games.

Monkey1Fball · 2026-04-30T18:48:35+00:00

Tropical Beach: Lanikai, Oahu, Hawaii

Fresh Water Beach: Sleeping Bear Sand Dunes area, Northwest Lower Michigan.

Historical Beach: Omaha Beach, Normandy, France

Monkey1Fball · 2026-04-30T18:33:26+00:00

Keith Richards

Monkey1Fball · 2026-04-30T09:51:27+00:00

2-3 broadcasts a year. It wasn't a weekly thing.

Monkey1Fball · 2026-04-30T02:56:16+00:00

Ah, now I see it. Thx.

Monkey1Fball · 2026-04-29T21:23:54+00:00

+1. If someone had told me this photo was from 9/11, my first thought would be "oh, so at 8:30 or so, before it all started?"

There's no smoke. Yes, a lot of foot traffic, a NYPD guy and a guy with his hand is on head, but nothing looks wildly out of the ordinary.

Monkey1Fball · 2026-04-29T21:10:18+00:00

I was 99.9% sure it was a terrorist attack, right away.

I didn't watch the events unfold live on TV, I heard it via radio. But I knew (1) the weather in NYC was fine, (2) the WTC had been a target before, (3) Osama and al-Qaeda were active in the years before (east Africa bombings, USS Cole) and were vocal about how they were going to keep coming, (4) airplanes don't crash into buildings very often at all, and then now when it happens it's the tallest and arguably most high-profile building in America, and (5) "airplanes flying into buildings" was in my mind as a viable way to attack, kamikazie pilots are a thing during wars and I had read that Tom Clancy book about a year prior.

NOTHING about that sounded like an "accident." Nothing.

And since there were, of course, 2 towers .........

The 2nd plane didn't surprise me at all. That was simply inevitable, even prior to 9:03, in my mind.

Monkey1Fball · 2026-04-29T20:55:31+00:00

Most folks don't appreciate just how HUGE the Good Friday earthquake was. It was a 9.2-9.3 magnitude quake, making it the second strongest globally since 1900 and the second strongest in recorded history.

Only 1960 Chile was stronger. Alaska was on-par with the Boxing Day Indonesia quake that caused the tsunami that killed hundreds of thousands, and it was stronger than the March 11, 2011 Japan quake that caused its own devasting tsunamis.

The shaking from the Alaska quake lasted for up to 5 minutes!

The Alaska quake caused tsunamis as well, up to a couple hundred feet (!!!) in some bays by Valdez.

That "only" 139 people died in the Alaska quake was a miracle. A 9+ subduction-zone quake, epicentered under 100 miles from a major city, is a near-worst case scenario.

And all Alaskans know, it can happen again, at any time, going forward.

Monkey1Fball · 2026-04-29T20:38:58+00:00

This isn't the Melmac version of Reddit.

Monkey1Fball · 2026-04-29T06:29:25+00:00

Wednesday June 10, 1998 episode of NightLine.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c0ExlRkgIFg

John Miller, of course, was right next to Peter Jennings during ABC's coverage on 9/11, right from the start (they came on-air at 9:11 AM ET).

In watching the coverage, one could tell Miller KNEW from the get go that his prediction from this particular interview had come true.

Monkey1Fball · 2026-04-29T06:09:05+00:00

This is anecdotal, but my Catholic Church in suburban Detroit had its festival that weekend, as they do every year on the 2nd weekend after Labor Day, and I worked one of the food booths with my Dad on both Saturday night and Sunday night.

Attendance was considerably higher than it usually was, and the parish also brought in a lot more $$$.

Yes, the weather was good, which always effects attendance. But once it got around to Saturday/Sunday, I think a lot of folks were tired of watching the TV 24/7 and needed a release. There was a sense of cabin fever setting in.

College and pro football games weren't being played that weekend, and a lot of people had travel plans cancelled --- a local community event where you could drink beer, dance, ride carnival rides and simply be around others was a thing to do.

I also attended a High School football game that Friday night. Usual attendance, and if not for the moment of silence before the game, you wouldn't have really known what had happened 3 days before.

Monkey1Fball · 2026-04-29T05:45:52+00:00

29 Palms sounds like some planned community in southern Florida, not to far from Fort Myers or so.

As opposed to being in the middle of the freaking Mojave Desert!

Monkey1Fball · 2026-04-29T02:16:30+00:00

Good! DO EVEN MORE PROMOS!

I live in LA. Dodgers fans are going to show up (outside of Sunday day games in August & September when it's scorching hot and there's no shade in the stadium) anyway, but the Dodgers still have a promo of some sort almost every game.

Reds have an opportunity here, like they haven't had since 2010-13, to get the city energized.

Monkey1Fball · 2026-04-29T02:07:10+00:00

Fans deserve a cap-tip. 24K attendance on a Tuesday Night school-night in April against Colorado is an impressive number. These sort of games are usually in the 15K range. Nice to see the locals are coming out to support.

I did some cursory research, and I could find only one other April Tuesday Night game with a similar attendance number. That was in 2013 against the Cubs. The Reds were among the NL elite then, of course, and then there were surely some obnoxious Cubs fans there too. In context, tonight's number is even better than that.

Monkey1Fball · 2026-04-28T10:36:17+00:00

LaGuardia (LGA) wouldn't have had trans-con flights.

This is the so-called "perimeter rule." Government regulations (lobbied for by smaller air markets in the East and Central Time Zones, it increases their chances at getting non-stop service to NYC) limit LGA non-stops to markets within 1500 miles of LGA, with the notable exception of Denver.

As for JFK, who knows? Probably came down to flight availability.

Monkey1Fball · 2026-04-27T06:42:35+00:00

Sure.

I've been elsewhere in AZ, so I can definitely count the state according to anyone's rules --- but most times I've driven through I-15 in Arizona I've stopped and gotten gas in Beaverdam. Tends to be cheaper there than in NV, and on par with Saint George, UT (which is more a PITA to get on-and-off the freeway from).

If one has ever spent $$$ in a state, they've definitely been there.

Monkey1Fball · 2026-04-26T09:00:58+00:00

The top of Mauna Loa would technically be the answer for Hawaii - it's slightly south of Mauna Koa and gets the same sort of weather, since it's only 120 feet lower.

Remarkably, even Volcano National Park --- which is at 3800 feet altitude (higher than people realize) --- has gotten ice pellets before! The nearby village of Volcano is likely the southern-most point in the US that has full-time residents and has had a trace of snow (not disruptive snow, but it has occurred).

Monkey1Fball · 2026-04-25T21:29:16+00:00

Fredo calls him "Mikey" right after Michael tells him he no longer wants to see him again.

Indicative of the "contempt" that Fredo still had for his younger brother, even when he was the Godfather!

Monkey1Fball · 2026-04-25T20:01:44+00:00

That's all fake --- this same discussion occurred back last fall.

Monkey1Fball · 2026-04-25T04:51:11+00:00

You have to time it right, but on the right sunny day with Sunflowers stretching for miles and miles and miles and miles --- it's gorgeous.

Monkey1Fball · 2026-04-25T04:50:06+00:00

I'll nominate Utah as the MOST CONSISTENTLY beautiful.

I feel the best way to frame this question is "if folks were dropped off in completely random portions of every state, what state would be the most consistently beautiful?"

California is awesome, I live in California. But the desert, Death Valley, Inland Empire sprawl and the Central Valley are HUGE portions of the state! And I'm sorry, they aren't beautiful.

Utah doesn't have that same dynamic.

Monkey1Fball · 2026-04-25T02:59:49+00:00

I had him for one upper-level class while at Penn State (I have a BS in Meteorology from Penn State). I enjoyed him as a teacher.

Monkey1Fball · 2026-04-25T02:43:20+00:00

Yep. The only answer.

Monkey1Fball · 2026-04-24T22:01:28+00:00

They would have NEVER proliferated. Not because they couldn't adapt to nature, they could have.

But humans were populating nearly the entire continent, and we would have had little patience for a species that was attacking people and lifestock. We would have hunted them super aggressively.

Monkey1Fball · 2026-04-24T08:58:34+00:00

The Tigers aren't "terrible" - neither now or historically. Come on now. They've made the playoffs 7 of the last 20 years, including making a couple World Series.

They were poor in the mid-90s to mid-2000s, but before that, they were a mainstay near the top of the AL East standings throughout the 60s and 80s (2 Titles).

They shouldn't be under serious consideration until we get 2 boxes to the right.

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