I can’t remember where I read it yesterday, and I’m too lazy to look for it, but it seems to have held true through three games of the World Series: four-hour games are the result of analytics. Because everything can be broken down into statistics, managers are using numbers to determine when pitchers are pulled at specific points in the game. NOT LIKE IN MY DAY when he’d simply walked the bases loaded or wasn’t considered man-enough to pitch his way out of a jam. No sir – the second the stats say so, he gets pulled and in comes a fresh pitcher for as few as one at-bat. This is all Billy Beane’s fault.
MLB is confused as to why people stop watching their product? NFL games might be long, and the rules somewhat arcane, but football is positively scintillating when compared to the drudgery that is trying to follow a four-hour, nine-inning game these days.
And I say this as a guy who loves baseball & makes a goodly sum of money off it each summer.
But as long as the Not-Expos lose, then I’m a happy boy.
Tonight’s sports:
- MLB:
- Game 4: Astros at Not-Expos – 8:00PM | FOX / Sportsnet
- NHL:
- Leafs at Habs – 7:00PM | CBC / Sportsnet1
- Blues at Bruins – 7:00PM | NBCSN
- Flames vs. Jets – 10:00PM | CBC / NBCSN
- the outdoor Heritage Classic from Regina (“rhymes with ‘fun'”), SK
- CFL:
- Roughriders vs. Eskimos – 7:00PM | TSN3
- NCAA: (games of note)
- Arkansas at Alabama – 7:00PM | ESPN / TSN2
- UCF at Temple – 7:00PM | ESPN2
- Texas Tech at Kansas – 7:00PM | FS1
- Notre Dame at Michigan – 7:30PM | ABC
- Colorado State at Fresno State – 7:30PM | ESPNU
- California at Utah – 10:00PM | FS1
- Washington State at Oregon – 10:30PM | ESPN
- Rugby World Cup
- Semi-final:
- Wales vs. South Africa – 5:00AM | NBCSN / TSN
- Semi-final:
Please enjoy the rest of your weekend. I’m having company for the games tomorrow – all my friends who tried dying during the summer. There’s the guy I went to Ohio with that has cancer, and the old beer vendor from Nat Bailey Wakezilla might remember – he had an octo-pass in August. If I can get them out to a bar later on, I’ll look like the best catch of the bunch!
Currently drunk at 4 a.m. Rugby was fun to watch; got the result I wanted though it was quite the grind.
For the 69th time in 5 years, Baghdadi is rumored to have been KIA. The funny thing is, I’m not even being that hyperbolic.
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Poll question, as I just got the phone call from one of the junior guys…
Based on the image above…which pump would you turn on and run?
If you guess correctly, congrats, you are smarter than three millwrights and a goddamn fucking mechanical engineer on the customer’s end. Mo (the new kid) called me up because he could not get them to stop and listen to him that something was wrong.
Apparently they ran this pump dry for the last two hours and now they want to know why it won’t fucking turn.
This is the cooling water system for their medium voltage drives…
Um, the one on the left?
I have no idea either.
Yes the one on the left.
I just got off the phone with the engineer and his argument is that we don’t have position indication on a fucking butterfly valve.
I love it when people say we need to have unions like they have in Germany…as if incompetency of this level would somehow be tolerated by a German union.
My guess was “the one that has its valves open” – meaning the one on the left – was my reasoning right?
Yes.
Jesus fucking Christ, for real? Like…I don’t even know what to say. My two years dealing with swimming pool pumps as a lifeguard is all I need to be competent in that industry?
Oh wow. That company should definitely be buying every warranty it can.
The one that doesn’t look like it’s been off since 1981
My guess would be the one on the left. The valves look open and assuming lighting isn’t an issue, the pump looks burned to shit due to overheating and wear and tear.
The best part is my boys already won a damn game and I can get to grillin’ proper!
Skol vikings lets win this game.
Skol vikings honor/////
I turned on SNL…
Why does this show still exist?
Controlling the bounds of acceptable-to-global-corporations satire
I honestly don’t know. I got turned off when they started normalizing bigot politicians, but completely turned off when they tried to out Trump, Trump. The sketch doesn’t work when the event they’re trying to satire is already so surreal.
A song to help the contemplation.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q-5hLiZnJhU
Feeling some 80’s shit tonight.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-sFK0-lcjGU
Ugh, I guess the Nats are regressing, huh?
Greetings from Arkansas. I have spent the last three weeks trying to unfuck a steel mill with four of our new hires.
A customer of ours was doing some welding work near the drive room. The two workers left to go smoke…and they left the torch lit. So naturally the wire tray for main power to the drive room caught fire. About 30 drives and two controllers have heavy smoke and water damage. The end user expected this fixed in three days.
Fast forward to this morning, they blew up their water cooled drive. This is about a $1.5 million fuck up. The drive didn’t protect itself. It turns out that the prior shutdown, on startup, they had a specific fault. So they eliminated the protection in the software. Since they removed this protection, during a power spike, the drive exploded. Cue the last four hours I have lost in meetings where I continued to have to explain why removing safety protection in logic will cause this. Their management continues to argue that we somehow remoted into the drive, even though the drive is completely isolated from the outside world.
Also, earlier this year, we warned them that they had to get PM done on the drive by us by May or their warranty was voided. They decided to just void the warranty. So now they are bitching about that.
On a positive, ND lost. So I’m at a break even point.
Is your boss Satan?
Not really. This was supposed to be a simple, training trip, based on what the customer originally told us.
Their original email was literally “We had a small issue. We would like the low voltage drives inspected” so we were expecting something rather simple. Instead, it’s been a nightmare.
This equipment has a LOT of smoke damage. The IEEE standard is to just junk everything because smoke residue can be so corrosive and conductive. On top of this, they sprayed down the equipment to put out the fire.
From a training perspective, its been quite good. These four kids are learning a shitton. But they are also learning that a three day assignment can turn into a two month assignment instantly.
“… And that’s why you always leave a note!”-level understatement by Dude
Just run around yelling Roll Tide until you leave.
How can you you unfuck a steel mill?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CxEU5Mzb6FM
So it turns out that JSD is part of the CIA-Mossad team that unleashed Stuxnet on the world.
But, for real, this seems like a job for your company’s lawyers to tell the client to go fuck themselves sideways.
https://thumbs.gfycat.com/NastyFailingKitty-mobile.mp4
This is karma for Brian Kelly going back to Cincinnati last week to celebrate his 2009 UC team while wearing a clover lapel pin. Nothing like subtly reminding his ex-players that he used them only to bolt to Notre Dame and let them get slaughtered against Florida. He didn’t just leave; he told them at the Senior Dinner. That’s an advanced level of douchebag.
I genuinely wish him harm.
C’mon Khakis, onside kick!
The sooner I get to sleep the sooner rugby starts. Am a bit tempted to take some melatonin.
Take it. It increases the chance that your dreams are more vivid and you might be able to remember them fully when you wake up.
Fuck Notre Dame.
This guy gets it.
Surprise role reversal!
Nah. I believe in consent.
Watching the strain, and can’t figure out why the leader of the badass zombie vampire things is a fucking muppet.
Is that fucking show still on? I stopped after season 1, my DVR record it up till season 3 though . Only part I really dug was the little girl
Month of macabre continues…..
Don’t think it’s still on. Just checked it out because they’re not releasing the new season of Castle Rock all in one go and needed something to marathon
Also just realized this dude is Marlowe from the Wire, so there’s that.