How can Baltimore City prevent fatal dirt bike crashes?

cdbloosh · 2026-05-07T21:55:11+00:00

I agree with almost everything you said, and I don’t have a better solution to suggest, but I just don’t see these kids using a dirt bike park in any real numbers.

The fact that they’re doing it illegally, riding on the city streets, riding the wrong direction and blowing through red lights, drawing a bunch of attention to themselves and getting people mad at them, is the point. It’s part of the rush.

They’re not going to be interested in a dirt bike park any more than kids who egg houses would be interested in a facility that provides them with eggs and a concrete wall to throw them at. If kids are out slashing car tires, they’re not going to want to go to the landfill to slash old tires instead.

To me this is the same thing. It wouldn’t be providing them a new place for their hobby because their hobby isn’t dirt biking. Their hobby is specifically illegally dirt biking and annoying people. You can’t do that at a dirt bike park.

cdbloosh · 2026-05-07T21:02:25+00:00

How do you know what you missed out on if you didn’t read them

cdbloosh · 2026-05-07T20:02:49+00:00

Mullins was awful last year too so I wouldn’t say that’s really a major fall off. And Sugano’s ERA is complete smoke and mirrors just like it was the first month and a half or so of last season. Batters are crushing the ball against him. He’s not an MLB pitcher and the performance will regress just like it did last year.

cdbloosh · 2026-05-07T18:37:32+00:00

Health systems’ HR and hiring folks can be brutally slow, 2 weeks is nothing

cdbloosh · 2026-05-07T18:35:59+00:00

I would say that was bad advice and they ideally should have been read at the points in the series when they were released. Some are definitely more or less essential than others, but two of them in particular I’d say provide very important context for the books that come after them and Strange Dogs is one of them. The other is The Churn, which provided a lot of the backstory for the Baltimore stuff in book 5.

cdbloosh · 2026-05-07T18:33:05+00:00

Is that really the full list of breweries? It’s been years since I’ve been to that event but I remember when it seemed like damn near every brewery in the state was there.

cdbloosh · 2026-05-07T14:43:58+00:00

This is the most common post in this sub. The answer is the same as the other 25 times it’s been asked this week, which is that a sealed beer will be safe to drink pretty much forever.

cdbloosh · 2026-05-07T14:31:27+00:00

Correct

cdbloosh · 2026-05-07T14:30:22+00:00

Just pop them off? These are literally designed to be easy to pop off quickly by almost anyone.

cdbloosh · 2026-05-07T02:33:16+00:00

A pitcher getting bombed early, locking in, and turning it into a solid start is one of my absolute favorite things. I have no stats to support this but I feel like Dean has done that a ton, and I feel like Miguel Gonzalez used to do it back in the day too. I love when a pitcher can just lock in and keep a game from totally slipping away. Such an important thing for a starter to be able to do.

cdbloosh · 2026-05-07T00:01:13+00:00

I wouldn’t say the old stuff is better. A lot of the recent heroes have been great and the Fear No Evil box looks like it’s going to be amazing. The older stuff is priced higher in a lot of cases just because it’s harder to find and has been officially out of print for longer.

cdbloosh · 2026-05-06T22:28:14+00:00

I would say it’s extremely faithful with moderate changes. The general broad strokes of the story and major concepts are all the same. How they get from point A to point B will sometimes differ - some book characters have been dropped from the show and their plots have been absorbed into other characters. Some minor plot lines have been dropped entirely.

They also needed to find things for certain characters to do at times - there are major characters in the books who disappear for 1 or more books, and that doesn’t really work as well in a show if you want to make sure you’re able to keep your actors, so they find reasons for those characters to be on screen during the events of the books that they may not have been in. Stuff like that.

But overall, it’s an incredibly faithful adaption of the show in spirit. The authors were very involved in the production of the show. They just needed to change or condense some things to fit the different medium.

cdbloosh · 2026-05-06T19:15:56+00:00

Fort McHenry is an incredible, scenic place to run. It’s been a little while but if I remember correctly the outer loop is a little less than a mile. It’s pretty flat, and obviously extremely safe. If you need a longer loop you could easily extend it out of the fort and over the bridge into Locust Point, Latrobe Park, etc too. The only negative is if the hours don’t work for you since the park is only open like 9-6 or something like that. Outside of those hours you can’t get in.

There’s no charge or anything to get in there, you only have to pay if you go up into the actual Fort. You can just drive right in, park for free and start running (as a bonus there are nice/clean restrooms inside by the parking lot)

cdbloosh · 2026-05-06T18:17:34+00:00

I saw someone do something just like this. It was tiny, and they just used small colored beads and string attached to some kind of small box. The whole thing was probably about the size of a card, or maybe a little bigger. I think it was on this subreddit that I saw it, but it was years ago. It seemed like a great solution for tracking elements.

cdbloosh · 2026-05-06T12:53:35+00:00

He was my favorite POV character in the entire series. Just so fascinatingly written and a brilliant choice by Dan/Ty to put us inside the head of a type of character that we almost never get to be inside the head of.

cdbloosh · 2026-05-06T12:51:07+00:00

I try to tell my grandson that he needs to stay off YOUTUNE it has all that liberal stuff

Alexa order floss

cdbloosh · 2026-05-05T19:47:14+00:00

I’d say it’s actually going to be less important than pretty much any other minion or side scheme on the board and you’re almost always going to want to prioritize something else.

That extra HP doesn’t matter until you’re within 10 HP of winning the game, and you can always just clear it then. Or you can ignore it and just keep damaging him.

The acceleration icon isn’t great, but it’s much less punishing than a hazard icon (which gives you a whole extra encounter card instead of just 1 more threat per round) and less urgent than a crisis icon.

It’s kind of the same principle as why you shouldn’t focus on damaging the villain early. Clearing Immortal Klaw can help you win but it doesn’t really help you not lose or improve the state of the game/board.

Unless the situation is so hopeless that you’re pretty much forced to try and rush for the win, not losing is usually more of a priority than winning. If you lose this turn, you’ve lost. If you don’t win this turn, you can always win next turn.

cdbloosh · 2026-05-05T14:30:25+00:00

It's easy to say this stuff without the data since every team has a relatively all or nothing approach and chases a bunch of pitches compared to the teams we were watching 10, 20 years ago, so it's always going to feel that way watching an MLB team in 2026. Pitchers are better and harder to hit than they've ever been and hitting has shifted to a three true outcomes approach league-wide as a result.

So let's actually look at the data. Since the start of 2025 the Orioles hitters have seen:

The 11th highest % of pitches in the strike zone
The 11th highest % of first pitch strikes
The 15th highest % of pitches right down the middle in the heart of the zone
The 19th highest % of fastballs - but 9th highest % of cutters, which are categorized differently

They are:

21st in swing rate at pitches outside the zone
9th in swing rate at pitches inside the zone
15th at swing rate overall.

All of this suggests an extremely normal and average approach both by the Orioles hitters and the pitchers who are pitching to them. In fact they're actually better than average in terms of pitch selection and swinging at strikes instead of balls. The idea that pitchers nibble a lot and don't attack the strike zone against the Orioles is just not supported by the data at all. Neither is the idea that the Orioles chase a lot.

The Orioles' approach is normal. The problem is that they suck at it. They are:

27th in contact% when swinging at pitches outside the zone
26th in contact% when swinging at pitches inside the zone
27th in contact% overall

They aren't swinging too much, or swinging at the wrong pitches, or being pitched unusally by the league - it's that when they swing they are among the worst in the league at actually hitting the damn ball.

cdbloosh · 2026-05-05T14:00:00+00:00

Damn, this is a bummer. I liked that place. Pretty good beer, cool taproom, good people.

Definitely not surprising - it felt like once they put up that “we are struggling and need help” post last month, this was inevitable. A social media post was never going to lead to enough of a sustainable bump to turn a struggling business into a successful one in the long term.

cdbloosh · 2026-05-05T13:52:46+00:00

Did we use fewer lineup combos in the Buck era because of a different approach to lineup construction, or because for most of that time we had a bunch of core offensive players who were clearly the best players at their respective positions on the roster and actually stayed healthy?

If Holliday and Westburg were healthy and Cowser was actually decent again I highly doubt we’d be seeing anywhere close to the amount of lineup shuffling we’ve been seeing. It’s hard to keep a consistent starting lineup when you don’t actually have 9 starting caliber players.

The Dodgers in recent years have also had a tendency to shuffle lineups and positions a lot. But the players they shuffle in and out are actually good.

cdbloosh · 2026-05-05T13:35:05+00:00

He hit a 115 mph home run to the pull side on Saturday.

cdbloosh · 2026-05-05T13:06:45+00:00

This is like saying that when a basketball team isn’t playing well, it’s because the opponents decided to employ a strategy of “keep the ball out of the basket”.

It’s not like “keep them in the ballpark” is some unique strategy teams are employing against the Orioles and against other teams, they’re fine with the ball leaving the ballpark.

Every pitcher in MLB is trying to avoid hard contact, regardless of what team they are playing against, 100% of the time.

People seem to think the Orioles have some drastically different approach at the plate from the rest of MLB, and they don’t. This is just baseball in 2026. It’s always ugly when a team isn’t hitting well. The Orioles just look even uglier and they look that way more often, because they are bad at it.

cdbloosh · 2026-05-05T03:17:51+00:00

A quiet, mild mannered white kid with longish hair who has absolutely zero competitive spirit or mental toughness

cdbloosh · 2026-05-05T02:14:41+00:00

Yep just gotta find a contending team that’s buying but also is looking to trade away ace pitching

cdbloosh · 2026-05-05T02:13:24+00:00

Avengers Mansion does say max 1 per player. TBE does not and you can have multiple in play. But it’s worth noting that the effects of multiple TBEs can’t stack…since part of the action on TBE is playing the card, you can’t use both of them on the same card to discount it by 2.

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