21 thoughts on “October 6, 2022: Ever The Mystery”

1. It gets even harder when your mother is in a nursing home and really doesn't have room for anything. We usually end up getting her chocolates, which we then help her eat.

   1. I have been getting my Mom Harry & David's pears for her birthday for several years. One of her sisters used to do that for Christmas every year, so memories. She loves them.

      1. Cool idea to keep a family tradition going.

         1. We had the reverse in our family.

            My great-great-grandmother would get my uncle the same cherry cordials for Christmas. After she passed, my mom thought she'd get them for him too to keep the tradition alive.

            He unwrapped it and just let out a "G---------D IT! I thought I was rid of these things!"

            Turns out he hated them but didn't have the heart to tell g-g-ma.

            Everyone had a good laugh about it.

            1. That's an awesome story.

2. Been itching to make some predictions for the postseason? Now you can.

3. Jason Tyner's only MLB HR came on a day Johan went 7 innings and struck out 12 and got a no decision

   box score

   1. My mom was so giddy when he got that Home Run.

   2. Johan's only career HR came in a game where he threw a 3 hit shutout.

4. Did I not mention I got to see Nick Mason (Pink Floyd) perform the other night? Was a great time!

   1. We were there! Loved every minute of it. Mrs. Twayn wasn't very familiar with old Pink Floyd but she loved it, too.

      1. Excellent! Just a lot of unique classics (that I’m also not familiar with even though I’m a huge Floyd fan) presented by a great and humble band.

5. Women's Rugby World Cup (all matches on Peacock, not sure of any cable or OTA broadcasts on any NBC properties)

   Tournament starts with round-robin pool play. There are 3 pools of 4 teams each. Top 2 in each pool advance to the knockouts, as well as the best 2 of the 3rd place finishers. So it'll be real rough to be one of the 4 teams that don't advance.

   Team	Pool	Current World Ranking
   New Zealand	A	2
   Australia	A	7
   Wales	A	9
   Scotland	A	10
   Canada	B	3
   USA	B	6
   Italy	B	5
   Japan	B	13
   England	C	1
   France	C	4
   South Africa	C	11
   Fiji	C	21

   Things kickoff at 8:15PM Central on Saturday night with South Africa v. France.

   Relevant USA fixtures:

   USA v Italy - Sunday 6:45 PM Central
   USA v Japan - Saturday 10/15 11:30 PM Central
   USA v Canada - Sunday 10/23 9:15 PM

6. Rob Manfred on Aaron Judge’s 62-homer season:

   “I think that over the history of the game there have been different eras, the ball performed differently, the equipment was different and I think the best way to handle it is let fans make their own judgment as to what records are most significant to them.”

   Rob Manfred: ‘Let fans make their own judgment’ about Aaron Judge, home run record | The Athletic

   Shorter Rob Manfred:

   

   How hard would it be for the Commissioner to say “Aaron Judge’s 62 home runs are the American League single-season record.”?

   1. Bandbox asterisk

      1. BandBronx*

   2. What I want to know is who's barbecue sauce is featured in that photo?

      1. That's definitely Mark Zuckerberg's favorite - Sweet Baby Ray's

   3. Putting any doubt into the validity of Judge's record to me just makes it look like he's acknowledging that players are still on all sorts of PEDs that they just can't/don't/won't detect with their current testing. Which is probably true, but we can't know if it's true of Judge or he's just genetically blessed plus has incredible diet+training information/support and lives on the edge of the rules without stepping over the line.

      Either way, Manfred yet again proves to be a dipshit.

      1. All I know is that Judge had been injured for most of the past couple seasons, turned down a long term contract, and is now having a career year. For people to act like this is the "real" home run record is ridiculous.

         1. Ha, I hadn’t paid that close of attention for some of that context. I try not to be super cynical, but at the very least these guys have to be playing in the gray areas.

            Partly I think steroids finally tore apart the whole myth that you could be too strong/“musclebound” or whatever, which was an incredibly dumb thing that baseball people actually said, and since the late ‘90s, incoming players have been increasingly committed to strength training, at the very least in the offseason, so at least some of the strength of modern-day players is due to that.

            But also partly due to HGH.

            The only thing we really know is whether or not someone tests positive, pretty much the only objective way we can judge the whole ordeal.

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