Banach Space Program

For the record, we always were taught and then taught our players to yell "Ball! Ball! Ball!" because you could say it way faster and louder

Oh hell yeah, those look great!

I was thinking "that looks like a taco bowl," but somehow denigrating what you made for some reason

"What the fuck is a Yellow Tango?"

You've already gotten the answer, Alphonse and Gaston.

You'll often see such a play when a ball is hot into a Bermuda Triangle area on the field, between an infielder and two outfielders or two infielders and an outfielder.

Such a situation is shown in a montage in Major League

Yep yep. When I was teaching, I shared produce from my garden with the office ladies and genuinely talked with them about their grandchildren.

Magically, my copies and papers and scheduling was always fantastic

Afternoon is a traditional "Wrigley" thing, they play way more day games than other parks, were the last to have lights, etc.

There's also a ton of shade at Wrigley, as long as you're not in the bleachers.

Having two Tommy John surgeries, a forearm strain, and oblique issues also didn't help

MLB does not need a salary cap.

That said, this is an incomplete comparison, because MLB's postseason is widely acknowledged to be more random than others.

MLB teams have an average playoff drought of 2.17 years, with 2 teams >10 years and 4 teams >5 years.

NFL is 1.96, 1 >10 yrs, and 2 >5 yrs.

I was worried that Cleveland might try to sign him to a similar deal like the Pirates apparently are, and am glad they are not.

(If he had played any outfield the last two years, I'd have been much more worried)

Do you have it set to "Discourage apps from showing my account to logged out users" in the Privacy/Security settings?

I think that might be why

I don't appear anywhere...

Bob Costas talking to Al Michaels in BASEketball. Bob is saying, "You're excited? Feel these nipples!"

Ah. Well, then just keep it, and let the orderer figure it out. Nobody is going to want that food in the half-hour minimum it'll take to figure it out

Call the burrito taxi company and tell them. They'll likely tell you to keep it

Me, a week ago: "I don't know any Bad Bunny songs, this should be fun."

Me, tonight: "Holy shit, I've actually heard 10-15 seconds of all these songs as walk-up music"

Awakenings happen all the time, huh?

Tom's was a must-stop every time after we went out to play @laplanck.bsky.social's school in league games

He genuinely gave them way more than any other speaker ever did, and I'll always appreciate that

He was brought in to my HS to give a speech for a yearly fundraising dinner. As part of that, the speaker would also give a speech to the students.

Vitale was the only one I saw with two different speeches, one only for the kids, and the only one who spent time with them outside the speech.

I am not Googling it, but I won't try to stop you

Entirely fair. Internet has shown me too many things I wish I didn't know, that stuck in my brain

Alas, I am sorry, I thought you already were aware

The creepiest thing I've ever seen advertised is the detached foot version of the fleshlight, which IIRC is called the Vajankle

When the Jackets were shitty earlier this year, I took to following their games on the computer play-by-play while watching Murder She Wrote.

Shortly after, they fired the coach and are now 11-1 in the last 12.

And I have to continue following on the computer and watching MSW

Went to a celebration of life for the dad of one of my oldest friends today.

Ran into a guy I play softball with that I met two years ago.

Turns out, the guy and my buddy's dad worked together in Nashville more than thirty years ago.

Funny how the world spins close sometimes

I asked if she was interested, she chuckled, said "not really," and then we talked about the music playing, the weather outside, and my most recent trip to Atlanta and Athens.

It's a bad idea to give unwanted math lectures to the person you're paying to repeatedly stab you over several hours

I have never been anything but me. I don't think I could