Screwball

Everything is so ****ed up even the stock market doesn't know what to do.

This day in history for the music lovers. Probably not on history dot com. 🙂 I remember this. I'll use Wiki as the source. California Jam - this day in 1974

That guy made one of the greatest plays I have ever watched. I was sitting along the 3rd base line down around 3rd. The batter hit a ball right in front of the plate and it bounced so high it looked like a pop-up. Right down the line toward 3rd. I watched Aurelio. He turned his back to the plate looking over his right shoulder, the ball landed right beside him, which he short-hopped, turned and fired a bullet to 1st base. Out. One of the most incredible plays I have ever seen. It gets even better. We were heading home going back to Ohio and sitting at a streetlight somewhere by the park. Hot, windows down. He pulls up right beside us. I'm the passenger. I look over there and tell my buddy - hey, look - that's Aurelio. Yep, sure was. I yelled - hey, great play on that high hopper - never seen anything like that. Thanks, glad you guys had a good time. Light changed, he was off. Off the charts cool.

Neat and interesting conversation about gloves. At the end of the day I think it boils down to a personal preference. Gloves matter. It is one of our tools. Speaking of tools, back in the day they rated people on the 5 tools. Fielding, throwing (arm strength), hit, hit for power, and run. The glove is only part of one of those tools, but you want what you want. What is comfortable for you, what do you like, and also what position. That matters, without a doubt. The pitchers glove is bigger to help hide the ball while he's deciding what to throw and moves the ball in his glove to get the grip he wants. That is something they watch - tipping pitches. A big clunker of a glove doesn't work so well with a 100 mph shot at 3rd base. But only part of one tool. Nothing game changing. Unlike hollow bats (in the old days), roids, and baseballs that should have Titleist printed on them. 🙂

It certainly could. That was my pitching glove. I had a fielding glove that is smaller, but broke in even more. 🙂 I had another that was completely wore out and I finally had to retire it. Hated breaking in new gloves. When not in use, wrap a baseball in it. They don't do it today I don't think, but back then (70s) we rubbed them down with neatsfoot oil to soften them up. Things were much different 50 years ago. A funny little story. In 1994/1995 I coached a high school team. By that time all they had were aluminum bats. I suppose due to cost? Doesn't matter I guess. Anyway, I had an old wooden bat at home (I made one in shop class and used it, but it broke and never made another) so I took it to a practice late in the year. The kids were amazed. They never saw a wooden bat, and of course never hit a ball with one. It was neat to watch them all gather around and "wow" over that bat. We had to have extra batting practice so everyone could use it just to see what it was like. Oh wow, that was cool!!! No ping. A crack of a ball on a wooden bat. Music to the ears. The glove also traveled. In 1973 it rode in a car from a ball game in Mansfield, Ohio to our hometown (about an hour drive) with 4 other guys on the team, a case of beer, and a bong that was the head of Richard Nixon. The bowl was his nose, you sucked on his head, and his ear was the carburetor. 🙂 I wasn't quite old enough to drink, but nobody cared.

Your brain will be just fine. If you play enough it comes natural and you think nothing of it. Can you imagine how many thousands and thousands of balls you have fielded over the years?

I can't compare to that. Pretty. This one is just about broke in. You can tell at the bottom the leather laces are different. Local grocery, display of shoe laces. Scissors, a small screwdriver, and we fixed them ourselves. My web busted one night and about got my nose broke.

Gloves matter, depending on where you are. Pitchers want big gloves to help hide the ball. Outfielders would too for that one that just got away. Infield is a time thing. You have little. Smaller glove is better. I'm sure today they can get custom made gloves, just like bats. I don't know if the difference between bigger/smaller 3rd base glove and a SS would matter, but if that's what they want to do, and can, why not? A pitchers glove and a SS/3B guy was like a boat anchor and something you could catch a ball with. :-). Of course that was when Denny McClain was winning 31 games.

This one was funny. Simple geometry. Didn't need to italic diagonal, hypotenuse would have worked.

John Daly not only knocked the snot out of the ball, but some of the best hands around the greens I've ever seen. Incredible touch. His upside was huge. I'll bet he would be a ball to party with. 🙂

Thank you very much. That's is very helpful.

Couple of questions if you don't mind. I do 3D printing as well. Are those images a flat picture mounted on a 3D modeled base? Are the pictures 3D printed as well. Kind of hard to tell from the picture. Did you use the HueForge software to create the base? IOW, is HueForge the 3D modeler? That's a start, and I hope that makes sense.

I haven't followed either wreck, and I was not in the car. But... If it is that sort of stuff, which sounds like pain killers. One must wonder if he has to do that to compete. He's no spring chicken. Body hurts. Need meds. One of the best golfers to ever walk the planet, and without saying, they are all intense competitors. Do what you gotta do. Wasn't he going to try to play the Masters?

Crude (WTI) did hit $100 today. Incoming chart porn. First crude a few minutes ago which is a live one minute chart. This is one we have been following above. S&P 9 month by day. Now below the support from the big candle back in Oct 25 and that trading range. Market tried to go higher, but failed. Yellow arrows are Fed rate cuts. Ain't much under there.

What's up with him and cars? He should just hire a driver. No pun intended.