Nottso
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When you have a lineup full of guys hitting .240, I better understand the need to try to manufacture runs. When you have 5 guys hitting .323, constantly giving away outs on the bases is remarkably foolish. I kinda like RR and I've been a fan of the running style of play, but this makes perfect sense.
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I'm down with OBP. Yeah, you know me.
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Exactly. Great analogy.
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Axford Nice!
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I'd like to see the Crew set up a gigantic, obviously fake, complete caricature of telescope, with a half-barrel for a lens, on top of Bernie's slide next time the Pirates come to town. Bernie could then relay the stolen signs down to one of the racing sausages via 2 gigantic tin cans and a length of string. Or better yet, semaphore flags. Just make the entire production as ridiculous as humanly possible.
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Braun, Biogenesis and the Whole Crazy Thing
Nottso replied to splitterpfj's topic in Milwaukee Brewers Talk
Working link: http://www.jsonline.com/sports/brewers/ryan-brauns-account-supported-by-biogenesis-director-969pg3q-205509821.html -
Not that it still isn't a huge steal, but it would be 10 starts of Greinke and a compensation pick for Segura+. The angels don't get a comp pick for greinke since he wasn't on the team for the whole season. Yes, but the Brewers would have gotten a comp pick if they had lost Greinke through FA as opposed to trading him. So, they gave up 10 Greinke starts and the comp pick for Segura et al; and I'm sure glad they did.
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2013 Season in form of a GIF (daily updates)
Nottso replied to torts's topic in Milwaukee Brewers Talk
Wrecked 'im? Dang near killed 'im! -
While some may disagree, I know others on here have lamented (as have I) that the movie "Long Gone" is unavailable on DVD. Luckily, someone has uploaded it to YouTube in .avi format. This makes me happy.
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Indeed it was. Thanks for sharing.
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That bomber wastrel calmly left that bomb beside a bunch of 8 year old kids and strolled away casually. I could put my hands on his neck and look him right in the eye as I slowly strangle him,
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"You can't stop solid contact, and you can't forgo the "typical" outcome of putting a ball in play." Clearly you've never witnessed any of my attempts at baseball, because I assure you that I can do all of the above, in craptacular fashion.
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This was 25 years ago and is the entire story. His van was parked right in the parking lot of the bar in which we had been drinking. In the front lot even. He didn't even start it to move to the rear. Keys were in the pocket of his jeans that he was no longer wearing. There were 20 of us in the group and all willing to testify that he didn't drive an inch but it didn't matter. Drunk human + keys inside the vehicle = OWI (at that time).
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When I was an apprentice, we'd always go out after night school. One guy in my class had a conversion van, and one night felt like he shouldn't drive so he got undressed, crawled in the bed, covered himself and went to sleep. About 4 am, the cops showed up, awakened him and gave him an OWI because he and the keys were both inside the vehicle. This was probably the most "unjust" OWI that I ever heard of but he'd driven drunk many, many times and didn't get caught, so perhaps it was Karma or whatever. He did fight it in court... and lost.
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Apparently I didn't understand then, as it read to me like you thought you could tell that Yo isn't an alcoholic because he doesn't look like your Grandpa. (And Grandpa's motorized bike needs to get "stolen" or disabled before he causes an accident or gets arrested again.) As for their behavioral patterns we know so little about pro athletes, what they do and are really like as people, that it isn't funny. I'm often amazed at how well they keep things private.
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As a lifelong alcoholic/addict I can assure you that we look no particular way whatsoever. While you may be able to look at some people and know that they drink to excess, it is completely impossible to look at someone and know that they don't. Completely.
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Absolute truth.
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I concur, although I still can't get any more or any less outraged by the ".22" number.
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As to the whole "how many drinks over what period of time" thing I can add a little more. I didn't mention it earlier as I did not want to pick nits in my discussion with Jim, although Jim did touch on it when he mentioned that alcohol is largely absorbed in the stomach/small intestine. More specifically, the duodenum (first part of the small intestine after the stomach). I had Roux En Y Gastric Bypass surgery in '08 (down 225 pounds, thank you). Anyways, the gist of RNY is that a portion of the duodenum is removed along with stapling the stomach so that it has less capacity. My surgeon was adamant that I don't drink afterwards as it could be fatal. Bypass patients have died from alcohol poisoning after very few drinks because without the duodenum, the alcohol is pretty much "mainlined" right into the bloodstream. The point here is that different people have different lengths/function of the duodenum (as well as many, many other variables) and all of these BAC calculators are based on averages. Yo very well may have had 12 beers in 5 hours... or maybe he only had 6 beers in 5 hours... or maybe he had 37 beers in 5 hours. Without counting, we simply cannot know and no online calculator can tell us. And what does it really matter anyways? Yo did a bad thing. I hope he doesn't ever do it again. But any outrage based on supposition, or based on numbers that are gleaned from supposition, seems rather pointless to me.
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I would be less upset with a .09 than with a .22, because it takes more than twice as much drinking to get to a .22 than to get to a .09. I understand your logic there and I can pretty much accept it, but try this one just for grins: 2 guys are drinking and get caught driving. One guy is .20 and shows little, if any, impairment while the other guy is .10 and can't even stand up. Is the .20 guy "worse" than the .10 guy? The only point I'm trying to make here is that the numbers are extremely deceiving in these situations. Possibly more so than in any other situation and it gets a lot of people in a lot of trouble. BAC isn't a measure of impairment, it's just the best way law enforcement has to measure if a person has been drinking. It doesn't even measure how much they've been drinking to any real degree of certainty. It can't. The "one ounce of alcohol metabolized per hour" is an average at best. On the flip side of your "his BAC may have been much higher earlier" thought, it also may have been much lower. He might have left the bar "kind of okay" but as he was driving home those last 2 or 3 shots hit him. It's all very inexact science to say the least. And again, I'm not condoning his actions or excusing them in any way. It's just that the fact that he blew .22 doesn't make it any better than if he blew .32, or any worse than if he blew .12, and it certainly doesn't tell me his level of impairment. I just wish he hadn't done it at all.
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Some are probation holds, child support warrants, any number of reasons. I added this to my post above... And yes, Yo was obviously impaired but you seem to be incensed that he was at .22. Would you be somehow less incensed if he had blown .09 and showed the same impairment? And if so, why?
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My wife books people into jail on a regular basis that are at .4 or higher and you'd never know they were drinking if you didn't smell it on them. Yes, these tend to be 'career' drinkers, but the point remains, .22 is not a measure of drunkenness. There IS no way to determine drunkenness by amount of alcohol consumed. It simply cannot be done. There is no metric. Tolerance, body mass, body mass composition, metabolism, intestinal makeup (length/health/composition of duodenum), liver function, among many other things all factor into how alcohol affects an individual person. Edit: And yes, Yo was obviously impaired but you seem to be incensed that he was at .22. Would you be somehow less incensed if he had blown .09 and showed the same impairment? And if so, why?
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Too many of you are hung up on ".22" and how drunk you think Gallardo must have been. There are people out there that can be at .4 (5 times the legal limit) and walk and talk perfectly, showing no drunkenness at all; there are also those who are fall-down drunk at .04 (half the legal limit). .08 is not a measure of drunkenness, as such a measure simply does not exist. .08 is simply a limit, just like a speed limit. It's also quite low in the grand scheme of things. 2 beers can definitely put one at .08 or above. The best way to avoid a DUI is to not drink and drive at all. Picture this: you have 2 beers and you are perfectly sober, but you get pulled over for a taillight out or for "rolling" a stop sign. You, my friend, are getting a DUI. And again, none of this excuses Gallardo. These are just the facts, given to you in hopes that you may avoid getting a "sober DUI" (which does happen). Over the limit is over the limit.
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Most people that get a DUI (mistakenly) think that they're "fine" to drive. That's not an excuse, but it is a reality.
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I just hope they keep the urine troughs in the men's rooms. Nothing beats good video of a drunken frat boy, bodysurfing in a river of pee.
