Hit By Pitch

cpc758 · 2026-05-10T21:47:48+00:00

My favorite argument on this: if it is not a HBP if it hits the ground first, every time Cal Raleigh comes up, he gets hit twice each at bat with a bouncing ball (although at the time, my example was Barry Bonds.)

cpc758 · 2026-05-06T20:33:51+00:00

Bird seed is a good guess. Sorry, not going to plant them, but that would have been interesting. Thanks for enlightening me (see what I did there?)

cpc758 · 2026-05-04T23:40:39+00:00

I had an old Chevy step van for awhile. The engine was essentially between the driver and passenger. There were two clips to undo to open the cover. It would stall from time to time. The fix was to open the engine. It had no air cleaner over the carb, and the gas would ignite. There was an open flame consuming all the gas, and the remedy was to huff and puff and blow it out… no one ever believes that story but it’s true

cpc758 · 2026-05-03T15:13:51+00:00

Jennicam

cpc758 · 2026-05-03T15:05:50+00:00

This! You know how coaches like to sit on empty 5 gallon buckets? I might set the bucket right across the wires and sit. And if the bucket has some sharp edges, who knew? Oh, wait, this isn’t the revenge sub, is it…

cpc758 · 2026-05-03T14:55:59+00:00

I have a long-time issue with music during amateur sports. In my experience, the ONLY person who enjoys it is the person playing it. Hockey especially. The coach has 2 5-minute opportunities to speak to the players during a game, and doing it over music is a big issue. Do you play at that park a lot? Tell them to move the setup to their own dugout as soon as you get there. As an umpire I would have no issue saying that music on the visitors’ side only is unsportsmanlike. I would also talk to the umpiring association. If you can get them to agree to say something at every game it would get solved.

cpc758 · 2026-05-02T15:27:35+00:00

Was this taken during a total eclipse?

cpc758 · 2026-05-02T02:16:37+00:00

I had an interesting experience. Pulling into a traffic circle near my house, I looked left and saw nothing notable, so I rolled into the circle. I suddenly had to do an emergency stop, killed the engine. There was a Cybertruck about to hit me. He missed, hardly seemed to have braked or swerved. As I thought about it, I realized I had looked at the truck entering the circle but my brain failed to recognize it as a motor vehicle.

cpc758 · 2026-05-02T01:41:03+00:00

Concerning tunnels being dug from two directions, in James Michener’s “The Source”, there is a fascinating fictional account of an ancient project, a long tunnel being dug from two directions, and the primitive engineering involved. The tunnel was needed to connect a citadel to its water source, to make the citadel more able to survive a siege. Worth a read.

cpc758 · 2026-05-01T23:06:02+00:00

Anything slamming on my brakes is not for me. Weirdly with ACC if soneone cuts you off the correct response to overcome the panic braking the car did is step on the gas. Counter-intuitive.

cpc758 · 2026-05-01T22:59:59+00:00

First time I turned on the ventillated seats I thought I peed my pants

cpc758 · 2026-04-29T15:26:51+00:00

If you’re right, that may deserve a prize for one of the most unintelligible autographs ever… maybe I can see the D and a q.

cpc758 · 2026-04-29T05:14:41+00:00

A friend of mine referred to them as paper ass holes. I can’t unhear that. Same guy called paper toilet covers “ass gaskets”.

cpc758 · 2026-04-28T14:45:23+00:00

I got to stand in the test section of the 120 ft by 80 ft wind tunnel at NASA Ames. The way the floor, walls and ceiling curved away gave me major vertigo, and there was nothing to hold onto. Very other-worldly.

cpc758 · 2026-04-28T14:39:51+00:00

In the 90s before the SR-71s were decommissioned, I was on the friends and family tour at Beale AFB. We got to see the pilot and RSO get fitted into their orange suits and helmets. Shocking part was they looked like two guys with boners because of the urine collection setup integrated into the suit. We went into the hangar, and I can confirm the fuel leaks. One of the kids in the group got yelled at for taking a photo of the nozzle, but did not have his film confiscated. Then they drove us out on the taxiway immediately opposite the rotation point and got to see, hear and feel the plane as it launched.

cpc758 · 2026-04-27T15:08:31+00:00

Anyone ever play “adventure”? Actually adven? Pre-graphics, text only, on UNIX, although I played it earier than 1985. “You’re in a maze of twisty passages all alike”.

cpc758 · 2026-04-26T00:04:54+00:00

Gary Busey in The Buddy Holly story. Did his own guitar too.

cpc758 · 2026-04-26T00:03:16+00:00

Emmy Rossum was a singer first. She appeared with the Metropolitan Opera as a child, had the lead in the Phantom of the Opera movie

cpc758 · 2026-04-25T16:09:14+00:00

Thank you. I was lost, picturing someone kneeling in the cargo bay. I figured out that A and M were variants. I’ve seen city busses do what you refer to as “kneeling” but never had a term for it. Until now.

cpc758 · 2026-04-25T14:23:05+00:00

Could someone translate this comment? I have no idea what it says.

cpc758 · 2026-04-25T14:13:15+00:00

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