Good morning!!!!

[RedNeckGeek]

Good Morning!!!! 52F @ 5:15AM. Abundant sunshine. High 73F. Winds light and variable.

For the first time in a week, this morning when I woke up I was able to flip a switch and have a light come on. Technology is wonderful, but only when it works.:laughing: For the next ten days, highs will be in the seventies with no rain, and winds will stay at or below 6 MPH. The power came back on at about six last night, and it looks like it'll stay that way for a while.:thumbsup:

I ordered a UPS for the satellite modem, wireless router, and network attached storage unit yesterday. When it gets here, I'll replace the battery in it with the biggest marine battery Walmart sells. If that works out, I'll get another one for the entertainment center. The UPS also has built in surge suppression, which would have been handy with all the power ups and downs over the past week. I haven't found anything that was damaged yet, so I consider myself lucky.

L4N and Drew, hope your drives go smoothly and safely today. L4N, please close the door behind you when you leave; we don't need any snow down here this early.:laughing:

Nice job on the mushrooms, Eric. Do they impart a strange smell to the smoke when they burn?

Nice job on the new axe, Paul. You gonna share a few licks with us?

In dash navs are never as good as the portable ones, and the dealers charge for the upgrades.:2cents:

Has anybody else's computer started doing automatic spell correction here on TBN lately? Not sure when exactly it started here, but I'd sure like to know how to turn it off!:muttering:

Just upgraded the iPhone to iOS 13.2 from 12 something, and so far so good. I'm keeping my fingers crossed it stays that way, though.

Off to town for groceries and gasoline today, got a buddy comin' up with with a pair of steaks this afternoon for some much needed R&R. But first I'll get the valves adjusted on the generator, just in case.

Hang in there, gang, Friday's comin'.

 

[wngsprd]

69 and rainy, going to 76. Rough storms forecasted tonight.

Mostly, nice looking stove/fire. I'll start our first tomorrow, as a few nights in the low/mid 30s are predicted. Hard to believe Don has his first freeze before us.

We took my wife's Highlander to the dealer yesterday for its annual state inspection. The state fee has gone up over the years and is $20 now...so it's nice that the Toyota dealer still does the inspection for free...I know they are mostly looking for something to fix and make money. A nice grocery store and Harbor Freight are across the highway, and a good Mexican restaurant, so we make a half day of it.

Enjoy Halloween!

 

[toppop52]

Every RH batter tonight has ran the same way. No runner runs totally in the box, especially RH.

Might be the technical rule, but only enforcing it due to the first baseman reaching in front of him, in a World Series game, is poor umpiring.
I was an umpire once.

And it’s not like football out of bounds. You can step in or on the line without being out.

It is like football, I umpired also, now it’s not an absolute if he steps out early and gets back in without interfering in the judgement of the umpire, then he is ok.
And while I don’t disagree that it looks like selective enforcement, they are correct in the technical rule.
But what matters is they still won! A 93 win wild card team knocked off the giant and Verlander once again showed his WS pitching lacking, he is 0-5 now.

 

[toppop52]

Got my rule book out.

Can be called out if Runner attempting to profit by running too far from the baseline, or outside the 3 ft line while advancing to 1st. (Avoiding a tag)

Fielder must not be in baseline unless reasonable chance for him to receive thrown ball. Benefit of doubt is given to the runner.

Don’t see anything about running inside the line

You can’t physically touch first base without stepping inside the line.

Seems to me the first baseman interfered by reaching across the line.

Found another one, a runner hit by a thrown ball while running on the baseline is not out.

I said inside the line, I mean inside the marked box, I have always referred to that as the base path, not the narrow line that connects the bases. At any rate, the people in charge all agreed the call was correct, and it was. I didn’t like it but it was correct. The fielder is only entitled to impede the runner if he is making a play with reasonable expectation of catching the ball. The ball hit his glove and the runner didn’t attempt to avoid contact.

 

[toppop52]

I suspected that what Eric meant, but why spoil the fun. . I know wild cherry trees get like that.

Either David’s up late or I’m up too early, or both.

I got to bed at 1230, been awake since 430. Nerves are bothersome.

I did get in bed around 10, but I’m awake multiple times and like you I’ve been awake since around 4. I think mine is due to lack of 02 at times.

 

[toppop52]

72 with a dew point of 68, air you can wear! Warm, humid and windy with big storms tonight. Most of yesterday’s rain missed us to the west and north. We have freezes forecast for the weekend. I guess I gotta get out the jeans and park the shorts.
Have a good day all.

 

[buckeyefarmer]

I said inside the line, I mean inside the marked box, I have always referred to that as the base path, not the narrow line that connects the bases. At any rate, the people in charge all agreed the call was correct, and it was. I didn’t like it but it was correct. The fielder is only entitled to impede the runner if he is making a play with reasonable expectation of catching the ball. The ball hit his glove and the runner didn’t attempt to avoid contact.

in batters box feet position matters. The lines are considered part of the box, and any part of the foot may not be out of the box. Which is why the batters destroy the box lines.

The ball hit the runner in the leg as he stepped on the bag. SAFE is the correct call.

His right foot came down in foul territory. The fact his left foot was in the grass down the line doesn’t matter. He was clearly on the line when it mattered.

Where’s Billy Martin when you need him? He would have kicked dirt all over that ump.

I meant Earl Weaver.

 

[PJSprog]

32°F and snow flurries this morning, going up to 38° today. Back up in the 50s tomorrow, and near 60° on Monday. Our one day peek at Winter today.

Not a big baseball fan, but having seen the video of the questionable call, I, too, find it a bit questionable. When I think of someone running outside the baseline, I think of the guy making a wide berth around an attempted tag. Yet, no one ever questions those big wide swings guys make when rounding a base to the next one. How is that not "outside" the baseline? As with most things in professional sports, the officials decide depending on how they feel that day. There's no other way to explain the MLB strike zone. In the end, of course, it didn't affect the outcome of the game - unlike the Don Denkinger thing in the '85 Series. Congrats to the Nats.

 

[PJSprog]

Oh, Canada.... The Montreal Expos move to Washington, and Presto - 54 years later they win the world series!:cool2:

Interestingly enough, check, the same thing happened when the Quebec Nordiques moved to Colorado, then finally won a Stanley Cup their first year there.

 

[jbrumberg]

Good Morning Everyone!!!!

An overcast, drizzly, showery 55ºF for today’s low temperature; a drizzly 59ºF presently; and I anticipate a break in the rain and an afternoon high in the mid60ºF’s before the weather gets interesting later tonight with lots of rain and wind. The coy-wolfs were quite vocal last night. They must have been pretty close as tough guy Brogen was strangely silent and would not leave the deck while on tether.

Bill- I wish you safe travels and a return home before the snow starts falling tomorrow.

Eric- I am glad to see you posting I need to order that Japanese movie- “The Attack of the “Mushroom People,” AKA “Matango” about a man in a padded cell tells of being shipwrecked on a foggy island with toadstool-eating tourists.

I heard quite a few far fetched stories from/in the confines of a “padded’ cell, but none as as this one. I heard lots of crazy/paranoid talk of Martians, Zionists, Communists, “Lesbos,” “Faggots,” and many times just “Them” . Actually every office that I ever had working at the psychiatric hospital was formerly a “seclusion room.” BTW I never saw a padded cell; they were no longer used as it was much more cost effective to just “medicate” or restrain the psychotically agitated individual.

We have never gotten a Halloween trick or treater here. Wifey still buys candy “just in case”

It looks like many of us will experience different “attention getting” weather events today. I hope that everyone stays safe and sound.

Don’t eat the mushrooms!!!!!!!!!!

My + thoughts and prayers.