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A's didn't lose! Yay!

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Now they are 5 games back, Mariners six. Absolutely must at least get a split against the Bronx bombers.

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Darren Baker pro debut. That's a nice catch he makes.

https://twitter.com/Nationals/status/1430895557137027072

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Despite their best efforts, Giants win

https://www.mccoveychronicles.com/2021/8/25/22642257/san-francisco-giants-mets-recap-kris-bryant-taijuan-walker

Midway through the bottom of the ninth inning in Wednesday’s game between the San Francisco Giants and New York Mets, my friend and colleague Eric Stephen — noted Los Angeles Dodgers writer, bless his soul — dropped a comment in our MLB Slack channel.

they are trying to out met the mets

Indeed, the Giants were trying to out-Met the Mets, a task that requires tripping on your shoelace, smashing your head into the ground and losing a tooth, then tying your shoelace while accidentally standing on your other shoe’s shoelace, thus tripping on that shoelace when you stand up, and digging your lost tooth into your forehead as you fall to the ground a second time.

It’s not an easy task, and the Giants, despite being one of baseball’s best teams, were unable to accomplish it even though they tried very, very hard.

Wow did they try hard.

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At one point, the score was Kris Bryant 1, Kris Bryant 1. He made a throwing error on a routine play, where he could have recorded an out by tagging out a passing runner, which produced the Metz' run, but also had the HR to offset it.

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Dodgers beat the Padres in 16 innings, the longest MLB game of the year

https://www.truebluela.com/2021/8/26/22642320/dodgers-padres-longest-game-2021-aj-pollock-shane-greene-16-innings

Walker Buehler and Blake Snell were both brilliant on Wednesday night, but they were long forgotten by the time this one ended. The Dodgers beat the Padres 5-3 in 16 innings at Petco Park, the longest extra-inning game since the new format started in 2020.

AJ Pollock hit a two-run home run off reliever Daniel Camarena — the Padres’ ninth pitcher of the night — in the 16th inning for the game-winner.

Since the runner-on-second rule was instituted in 2020, the previous longest MLB game was 13 innings, done four times.

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holy crap what an exercise in futility. Padres got no hit for 9 innings in the middle of a 16 inning game.

Cronenworth got on base for 6 straight innings without stepping into the batters box. The Padres had run out of position pitchers in the 10th. The pitcher was the 5th batter.

In the 11th the Padres had a runner on 3rd with 2 outs. They intentionally walked Machado and Cronenworth to load the bases to pitch to the pitcher and got out of it.

Because the pitcher was the last out, the rule allows the team to decide to choose the previous batter so he was on 2nd to start the 12th.

In the 13th the same thing happened and both he and Machado were intentionally walked and the pitcher made the last out so he was out there again in the 14th.

In the 15th he was intentionally walked with 2 outs to make the bases loaded and the pitcher made the last out.

In the 16th he was on 2nd to start the inning.

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Dodgers did their best to contribute to a Padres win. It was only in extra innings because an LA error scored the SD run. And for no imaginable reason, the Dodgers ran themselves into an unforced out, and effectively out of the inning. by a runner on 3rd on balls not hit out of the infield.

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When Muncy got in the rundown he started to go back because it was a line drive that just bounced before Machado gloved it. He was probably worried either he would've gotten tagged out at 3rd or Machado would turn the double play so he tried to get into a rundown to have the runners try to get to 2nd and 3rd. Unfortunately Machado made a good play and got him out after throwing to the catcher. This ended up being a good play since it kept them out of a double play.

For Will Smith I think it was 1st and 3rd and he went and got into a rundown and I think they had 2nd and 3rd after. It was late so I don't totally remember this one.

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Both were instantons decisions, but both were brought on by terrible base running straight out of Little League. I've heard a number of comments by game analysts about how bad base running fundamentals have become, and its absolutely a fact, and at all levels.

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In the 15th after the Tatis HR with 1 out, they got Machado out and walked Cronenworth with the bases empty to get to the pitcher.

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Padres used, I think, 8 pitchers on Tues for a bullpen game. 9 pitchers yesterday even though, surprisingly, Snell went 7.2 innings. He had about 105 pitches and Tingler allowed him to come out for the 8th. I guess that's how much faith he had in the bullpen. to be fair, he still had velocity and pretty good command. Will Smith just went to and got a 96 FB about 2 balls above the strike zone and hit it out.

Dodgers used 4 relievers (?) on Tues and all 9 yesterday. So they are in better condition with Scherzer going today. Padres have Darvish coming off the IL so they'll probably need some bullpen help.

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Padres actually used a 10th pitcher, though not to pitch. They had long since used all their bench personnel to hit for pitchers, and had to use a pitcher to hit. SD went the last 2 innings with a pitcher in his 5th game.

Other high(?)/low-lights included Dave Roberts having the Dodgers issue 7 intentional walks, more than the Yankees have handed out all season, and more than the Astros issued in the entire season 2 years ago, and 2 intentional balks, one of which actually counted. The first one was committed before the plate umpire had put the ball back in play after a dead-ball situation, so they had to commit another.

This game may have set back situational hitting 50 years.

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And the last reliever was the pitcher that hit the grand slam off Scherzer about a month ago

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The Padres actually had 2 pitchers pinch hit. Musgrove and Weathers. Both had good cuts. Weathers was against Graterol and grounded out to the pitcher on a 101 mph 2 seamer up in the zone.

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I know I have never seen a single game that had 47 players appear in. I'm sure Dave Roberts loved it!

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Wonder what the launch vibrations are like.

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That rocket is sort of NSFW

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How long before there is Rule 34 content?

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My former managing partner (rip) did a leveraged buyout of Estes in the 80's, then sold it to TCW Capital.

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I built a lot of Estes rockets back in the day. The coolest was an F-14 Tomcat with a swing wing that glided for recovery.

http://archive.rocketreviews.com/reviews/all/oop_est_tomcat.shtml

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I was with a friend of mine who flew this. Indeed, very cool.

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I would've loved this one. I had quite a few airplane models that I made and hung on my ceiling. I had the first "F-19" stealth model that was actually incorrect. I think I also got the F-117 one, had an SR-71, and I think an F-15 on my ceiling.

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(now I have that damn Bo Burnham "Jeffrey Bezos" song stuck in my head)

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(it costs $69)

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I thought you were joking!

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the jokes write themselves!

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Noice!

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absolutely

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Elsewhere in college

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USC & LSU will meet in week 0 in 2024 in Las Vegas. Coach Orgeron was asked about his matchup against his old employers, who noted "You know, geeeees goh dohn heeaah [unintelligible gravely voice sound] LSU dohn deee-ah Vegas deeeez da doze and deeeeeaah le dem aaaah USC [laughs, then breathes through nose while awaiting next question].

https://twitter.com/RossDellenger/status/1430656287054999556

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that could be entertaining if only for the LSU fans taking on the inherent dare of drinking bars dry in Vegas

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They won't be the first or last to try, and I bet they make a pretty good run at it!

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[CBS] NCAA pours a glass of water, adjusts reading glasses, and then picks up ASU's file.

[JokerSayingHereWeGo.gif]

https://twitter.com/dennisdoddcbs/status/1430934060503912454

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SEC's Greg Sankey, Big 12's Bob Bowlsby respond to Big Ten, ACC, Pac-12 announcing alliance formation

https://www.cbssports.com/college-football/news/secs-greg-sankey-big-12s-bob-bowlsby-respond-to-big-ten-acc-pac-12-announcing-alliance-formation/

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Pac-12 says it's not pursuing any plans for expansion at this time

https://www.espn.com/college-football/story/_/id/32090530/pac-12-says-not-pursuing-plans-expansion

The Pac-12 will not pursue expansion "at this time," the conference said Thursday, ending speculation about whether the 12-team league might try to add any of the eight schools that will remain in the Big 12 after the eventual departures of Oklahoma and Texas to the SEC.

The unanimous decision came just days after the Pac-12, Big Ten and ACC announced an alliance that ultimately aims to "stabilize a volatile environment" throughout college athletics by collaborating on weighty issues facing the industry and agreeing to create a future scheduling partnership.

The Pac-12's decision is a boost to the Big 12's chances of adding teams and remaining a viable conference, but the reality remains that the Big 12 will have to add schools from the Group of 5 conferences to become whole again after Texas and OU leave.

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I like this decision. No reason to arbitrarily add teams that may not fit within the Pac-12 vision (research institutions with good academics).

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move-in day for first-years! hustled to campus before 8 to get a parking spot

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talked to a kid who is going to be a freshman and living in unit 3.

apparently in a triple it is so tight that he has to send his parents home w/ the suitcases that he packed all his stuff in.

i was local and lived in Clark Kerr, so i never had any space issues.

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Bowles Hall for me! I remember thinking, what f—k kind of place is this? Lol, was fun but yeah, never would do that again

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The only time I was in Bowles was for the Halloween Party with HSB freshman year. It definitely was an interesting place.

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I helped make that punch the year I was there! (97) It had a ton of booze in it.

Maybe the most amusing day though was the naked run through Stern and campus. We showed up at the designated meeting spot with just socks covering our privates, and these old alums from the 70s showed up totally naked and accused us of being ninnies for wearing the socks. One guy was so mad he stormed off in the direction of Telegraph, and I was thinking, is he going into town like that?

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I was there once for a party. Some kind of punch was served - probably Everclear punch. Was hungover the next day.

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i 100% threw up after that party. not exactly sure what or how much alcohol i consumed

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Oh you definitely did. For quite a while.

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"The suitcases" - I had ONE! army duffel bag, ONE!

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Exercitus Romanus-issue

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Only one owner

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Also lived in Clark Kerr as a freshman

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Norton triple. Yeah it was super tight. I estimated my room size to my kids and they were shocked.

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Spens-Black Triple - it was cramped but I was able to keep my bags in my room

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oh geez. I was in Foothills and had a reasonably manageable double, but I also moved cross-country and packed the bare minimum to avoid that issue

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Today in Covid

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OUR CRUMBLING DEMOCRACY

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The City of Naples (Florida) spent 3 years and hundreds of thousands of dollars to sue the owners of dangerous seawalls that fell into disrepair.

https://www.winknews.com/2021/08/24/dangerous-seawalls-naples-sues-property-owners-turns-out-city-owns-them/

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That seems odd. That sort of infrastructure would not typically be privately held in CA.

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F*** Around and Find Out Part 3.

Remember when Lin Wood, Sydney Powell, and the rest of the "Kraken" filed all those stupid cases to challenge the elections, then got referred to a Federal Judge for a hearing about sanctioning? The Kraken famously crashed and burned at that hearing because they were in a real court. Well, Judge Parker has issued her order. She blasted the Kraken and ultimately published a 110 page order. In summary, all 11 were referred for investigation to be disbarred from every Bar Member jurisdictions, pay some (but not all) defendant legal fees (eg, City of Detroit), and be required to complete 12 hours of CLE within 6 months.

https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.mied.350905/gov.uscourts.mied.350905.172.0_2.pdf

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Nice. It's going to take shit like this to stop Trumpers from doing things like this. Prevent them from practicing law. Of course they'll probably just be hired by some right wing org

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You think this is going to stop them? They'll just become more unhinged.

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Four U.S. Marines among the dead following suicide bombing at Kabul airport

https://www.marketwatch.com/story/four-us-marines-reportedly-killed-in-kabul-airport-explosion-2021-08-26

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Update: 10 Marines dead

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I hope this isn't taken as evidence that we shouldn't be leaving the country. If anything, it's evidence we should have been out a long time ago.

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Yes but the war hawks, IDC, conservatives will try to use it as a reason to stay.

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Very unfortunate. The media and GQP finally got what they wanted, dead Americans so they can continue their wall to wall coverage.

Meanwhile, no mention of the 200+ Americans dying each day in Florida due to Covid or the 20+ Americans that died in Tennessee due to flooding.

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Mike Pompeo takes his own arrows over the Afghanistan collapse

https://www.politico.com/news/2021/08/26/mike-pompeo-afghanistan-collapse-506927

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Anyone have a telescope. I have 2. 6" Refractor and a 10" Dobsonian.

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I have a 6" reflector. Can get some super views, but only a manual mount that is a challenge to get oriented properly.

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Meade - uh it's longer than 10"

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These days I mostly use a 3.5m, but have spent plenty of nights on 5m and 10m as well.

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Big glass.

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I don't but I love the Night Sky APP on my iphone.

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i wish i did. but w/ the light pollution in the greater NYC area not sure how much i would see. definitely will get one for the future house in the mountains.

observational astronomy is bit of a dying art. i had a bit of exposure to it because of enthusiastic friends, but it is 100% possible to get a phd in astronomy/astrophysics and never be required to go outside and identify even something as obvious as the Moon!

today most of observational astronomy is automated. you ask for telescope time but you don't even have to go to the observatory anymore, especially the big ones.

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True enough. I use a remote telescope in Arizona for imaging, It's sort of like a timeshare. Light pollution in the Berkeley Hills is Bortle 7, can still see some deep sky objects but it's not optimal at all.

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stars twinkle, planets and other things out there do not.

something about a star being essentially a point of light.

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Scintillation

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correct: atmospheric turbulence changes the brightness of stars. Planets take up much more area in the sky (looks the same to us, but it's a significant difference) so the turbulence averages out and has less of an effect

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These two Pro subthreads – well, actually Pro and PRO – are frightening and confusing me...

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blame it on heyalumnigo. he is always posting in the wrong section

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oh weird. I searched for pro and didn't see it so I thought someone forgot to add it.

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I thought that...he went rogue and ignored SGBear's setup ;-)

after I wrote the above, I realized why "frighten and confuse me" sounded familiar. Any takers?

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La Vuelta today just rolled thru the town of Montoro. (i am watching live coverage as i DBD)

it looks like a typical pretty white-roofed city in Andalusia and it seems like it gets pretty hot there:

On August 14, 2021, the weather measurement station of Montoro (AEMET) recorded an air temperature of 47.4°C (117.3°F) at 17:20pm, setting a new national-wide record for temperature high in Spain. This breaks the old record of 47.3°C set in the same place on 13 July, 2017.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montoro

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CAL

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Go Bears!!!

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We've been watching Reply 1994, which is fun, but no where as good as Reply 1988. Still enjoyable.

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