It's been a while since I did baseball CoCs three days in a row. It's hard not to be excited now, though.
48 thoughts on “May 25, 2017: The Brooms”
Enjoy it while it lasts. Hope for the best but prepare for the worst should be the motto of the 2017 Minnesota Twins.
We already had the worst -- it was called 2016 Season.
...and a good morning to you too sunshine!
Man, it is weird when statfreak hijacks SoCal's account.
All they have to do is win every game Santana and Berrios start and then win about one out of every three started by everyone else. It's simple, really.
That strategy should play fine through the post season too.
It worked in 1987.
It's weird how rarely they've followed these directions since.
It's pretty much worked in EVERY post season.
The first sentence is soooo true (slide 2). But then, why mess with perfection?
"Buckaroo Banzai" is already the greatest film in history, hitting all the required '80s notes. Rock band performance? Check. Aliens out of nowhere? Check. A hero who has ties to America and Japan? Check. The most style? Yup. Bring it all back. As for casting, it's impossible to think of a replacement for Peter Weller, but Ryan Gosling is an ideal Perfect Tommy Replacement. And Jeff Goldblum hasn't aged at all so just put him back in the cowboy outfit and let New Jersey return in all his giant hat glory.
Dude, Kevin Smith almost had the TV series. I'm not a Kevin Smith fan, but I do know he holds the movie in high regard so I would hope he wouldn't damage it.
It's been a while since I did baseball CoCs three days in a row
FTFY 😉
I was wondering who would get this out of the way. I mean, yeah. I used to put undue stress on myself to get them posted, but they're going to get posted anyway, and a variety of voices is fine.
It's kind of amazing how the image automatically* syncs up with the theme
*yeah, right
I often wonder when - nay, if - hungry joe sleeps.
So I'm Book of Face friends with a guy I met at a SABR convention a few years ago. He's a journalist for a publication that covers businesses​ around Rochester, NY, and his name is a Ben Jacobs. Someone went to his FB page today to make fun of him for being the snowflake who complains because his glasses were broken while he was getting his ass kicked.
Sheesh.
Un believable...
I am saddened that we live in a world where not only this happens, but on such a cool website as this, we have to mask a response behind a "forbidden zone" button.
I think people use FZ out of an abundance of caution or sometimes as a signal. A lot of the things I've seen lately haven't really been Forbidden Zone material. But as we've seen in the past there are reasons for having the feature (though the world is much different now).
I sure hope the Lakers are draft Lonzo Ball. It will make it so much easier to root against both of them.
This is mesmerizing.
i prefer this one:
Jose Berrios, nasty Strikeout of Trumbo (92mph Sinker sandwiched between 2 slices of filthy Curveballs). pic.twitter.com/bpwCKjbMSl
Indians rained out today so the Twins will start their homestand with a 2-game lead.
I just watched the scene in which Officer Meow-Meow Fuzzyface tried to interview Todd (while holding a pen that wasn't actually a Bic) about the escaped chicken (named Becca whose favorite Baroque composer is Bach). Beyond brilliant.
Game 7 of the Wales Conference Finals heading to overtime.
Game 7 of the Wales Conference Finals heading to a second overtime.
That was fun.
Tonight's music question: I have a particular song that sound strange when burned. The vocal elements are regular volume, but the percussion and much of the music are much, much quieter (some select musical parts seem to be normal volume). Thoughts?
At what bit rate did you burn the music? How fast was your transfer speed?
Don't know. But it is literally just one song that this issue happens with.
Suggestion:
Re-rip or re-download.
Yeah... I should. But then I'm out the purchase price, and on principle I hate that idea.
If downloaded, I doubt the original file is the issue. Also, you aren't allowed to download the file again for free?
And if it was the problem, it wouldn't fix it.
(However, see Phil's comments about bad internet connection maybe flubbing his cutting the opening off a track using Rhu_Ru's link.)
(However, see Phil's comments about bad internet connection maybe flubbing his cutting the opening off a track using Rhu_Ru's link.)
Download issues would result in hiccups in playback, not a persistent issue with the background percussion. It would be like downloading an image and it turns out sepia-toned. The failure mode is impossible without an active man-in-the-middle attack.
Right... I wasn't thinking about the specific problem.
I've had the file a long time (probably ~ 10 years), so I don't recall the circumstances of its acquisition.
Except to say: it was almost certainly not ripped, since I don't own a physical copy of that song anywhere.
Probably not purchased then either. (When did iTunes sales start being significant?)
It opened on April 28, 2003, and has been the largest music vendor in the United States since April 2008,[2] and the largest music vendor in the world since February 2010.
I would say at least since 2008.
Crap, "10 years ago" isn't as early as it used to be.
If you've paid once, go for an costless (though unsanctioned) distribution channel.
If you need help navigating, you know my email address.
Reading this, my thought is that it's related to channels. It's as if the main elements are the center channel and everything else was de-emphasized. You have to try hard to get music that contains more than two channels, so I wonder if it's where you're playing the song. It could have a single channel and the speaker system is doing a poor job converting it to stereo or surround. Too many variables so it's hard to pinpoint it on anything.
I have routinely played the song in vehicles and on a relatively decent kitchen radio/CD player. So... yeah, that actually makes a lot of sense to me.
11. Minnesota Twins (25-18; Previous: 15): They can see your skepticism; it’s written all over your power rankings.
Enjoy it while it lasts. Hope for the best but prepare for the worst should be the motto of the 2017 Minnesota Twins.
We already had the worst -- it was called 2016 Season.
...and a good morning to you too sunshine!
Man, it is weird when statfreak hijacks SoCal's account.
All they have to do is win every game Santana and Berrios start and then win about one out of every three started by everyone else. It's simple, really.
That strategy should play fine through the post season too.
It worked in 1987.
It's weird how rarely they've followed these directions since.
It's pretty much worked in EVERY post season.
The first sentence is soooo true (slide 2). But then, why mess with perfection?
Dude, Kevin Smith almost had the TV series. I'm not a Kevin Smith fan, but I do know he holds the movie in high regard so I would hope he wouldn't damage it.
It's been a while since I did
baseballCoCs three days in a rowFTFY 😉
I was wondering who would get this out of the way. I mean, yeah. I used to put undue stress on myself to get them posted, but they're going to get posted anyway, and a variety of voices is fine.
It's kind of amazing how the image automatically* syncs up with the theme
*yeah, right
I often wonder when - nay, if - hungry joe sleeps.
Unbelievable...I am saddened that we live in a world where not only this happens, but on such a cool website as this, we have to mask a response behind a "forbidden zone" button.
I think people use FZ out of an abundance of caution or sometimes as a signal. A lot of the things I've seen lately haven't really been Forbidden Zone material. But as we've seen in the past there are reasons for having the feature (though the world is much different now).
I sure hope the Lakers are draft Lonzo Ball. It will make it so much easier to root against both of them.
This is mesmerizing.
i prefer this one:
oh my.
Indians rained out today so the Twins will start their homestand with a 2-game lead.
I just watched the scene in which Officer Meow-Meow Fuzzyface tried to interview Todd (while holding a pen that wasn't actually a Bic) about the escaped chicken (named Becca whose favorite Baroque composer is Bach). Beyond brilliant.
Game 7 of the Wales Conference Finals heading to overtime.
Game 7 of the Wales Conference Finals heading to a second overtime.
That was fun.
Tonight's music question: I have a particular song that sound strange when burned. The vocal elements are regular volume, but the percussion and much of the music are much, much quieter (some select musical parts seem to be normal volume). Thoughts?
At what bit rate did you burn the music? How fast was your transfer speed?
Don't know. But it is literally just one song that this issue happens with.
Suggestion:
Re-rip or re-download.
Yeah... I should. But then I'm out the purchase price, and on principle I hate that idea.
If downloaded, I doubt the original file is the issue. Also, you aren't allowed to download the file again for free?
And if it was the problem, it wouldn't fix it.
(However, see Phil's comments about bad internet connection maybe flubbing his cutting the opening off a track using Rhu_Ru's link.)
Download issues would result in hiccups in playback, not a persistent issue with the background percussion. It would be like downloading an image and it turns out sepia-toned. The failure mode is impossible without an active man-in-the-middle attack.
Right... I wasn't thinking about the specific problem.
I've had the file a long time (probably ~ 10 years), so I don't recall the circumstances of its acquisition.
Except to say: it was almost certainly not ripped, since I don't own a physical copy of that song anywhere.
Probably not purchased then either. (When did iTunes sales start being significant?)
I would say at least since 2008.
Crap, "10 years ago" isn't as early as it used to be.
If you've paid once, go for an costless (though unsanctioned) distribution channel.
If you need help navigating, you know my email address.
Reading this, my thought is that it's related to channels. It's as if the main elements are the center channel and everything else was de-emphasized. You have to try hard to get music that contains more than two channels, so I wonder if it's where you're playing the song. It could have a single channel and the speaker system is doing a poor job converting it to stereo or surround. Too many variables so it's hard to pinpoint it on anything.
I have routinely played the song in vehicles and on a relatively decent kitchen radio/CD player. So... yeah, that actually makes a lot of sense to me.
This is the blog for the Minnesota Twins' photographer. He has some really good behind-the-scenes stuff you rarely get to see.
He's a good follow on Twitter.