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Then you didn't have any compulsive rats. The kid that allegedly was my best friend, was a thorough rat, among other attributes, I won't go into here. He was also a practical joker.
When he pitched for the Orioles, his catcher was almost always Clint Courtney (aka. Scrap Iron). Courtney mostly played for the 1st Washington Senators, before coming to the O's. Wilhelm was virtually unhitable. Courtney used a larger sized mitt to catch him.
One of the classiest moments in baseball happened in the recent past. Adam Wainwright's last game, when the Manager came out to take the ball from him, his teammates Yadier Molina and Albert Pujohls walked off the field with him. A truly poignant moment.
That is high praise, I'm pleased to see that you recognize Billy Wiliams for what he was. A true Hall of Fame player who should have been elected on the first ballot.
Willy Mays set the gold standard for five-tool players. None before or since have bested him. He will always be in a class by himself in that regard.
In my mind the best three outfielders of all time are Aaron. Mays, and Ruth. (in alphabetical order) We can debate about who was better. Ruth clearly had the better overall offensive numbers. Aaron's run production is still the best ever. Mays was great at everything, and his defense was better than either Ruth or Aaron.
When he pitched for the Orioles, his catcher was almost always Clint Courtney (aka. Scrap Iron). Courtney mostly played for the 1st Washington Senators, before coming to the O's. Wilhelm was virtually unhitable. Courtney used a larger sized mitt to catch him.
One of the classiest moments in baseball happened in the recent past. Adam Wainwright's last game, when the Manager came out to take the ball from him, his teammates Yadier Molina and Albert Pujohls walked off the field with him. A truly poignant moment.
Bill Veek was known for unusual promotions. The 1979 season was filled with more promotions. On April 10, he offered fans free admission the day after a 10–2 Opening Day defeat by the Toronto Blue Jays. On July 12, Veeck, with assistance from son Mike and radio personality Steve Dahl, held one of his most infamous promotions, Disco Demolition Night, between games of a scheduled doubleheader, which resulted in a riot at Comiskey Park and a forfeit of game 2 to the visiting Detroit Tigers
Finally got on my walk around 10:30pm. It was still 80F and when I got home an hour later it was 81F and the lightest drizzle had started my last 1/4 mile. Luckily there was an ok breeze while walking. Humidity was higher than normal for us but probably still low for most of you guys.
A little over an hour after getting back it’s 77-78F.
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Bill Veek was known for unusual promotions. The 1979 season was filled with more promotions. On April 10, he offered fans free admission the day after a 10–2 Opening Day defeat by the Toronto Blue Jays. On July 12, Veeck, with assistance from son Mike and radio personality Steve Dahl, held one of his most infamous promotions, Disco Demolition Night, between games of a scheduled doubleheader, which resulted in a riot at Comiskey Park and a forfeit of game 2 to the visiting Detroit Tigers
Good morning all. Flo. Keep the coffee coming please
A warm, cloudy day.
Taking Dawn to the dentist. (And bringing her back.)
Youngest grandson visiting after school
Finally got on my walk around 10:30pm. It was still 80F and when I got home an hour later it was 81F and the lightest drizzle had started my last 1/4 mile. Luckily there was an ok breeze while walking. Humidity was higher than normal for us but probably still low for most of you guys.
A little over an hour after getting back it’s 77-78F.
That's good that you find the time and stay with the program. I should do the same.
I'm guessing you have an iwatch. That'll keep it interesting. I have a Garmin and it is neat to see the path taken when completed. But my paths are normally to the post office to send defunct models back or pay RG Rokko, or to Family Mart convenience store to pay for Yodobashi camera train stuff. If my credit card worked for these, I'd probably just stay home. So buying trains is actually good for my health! haha
Good morning healthy train people! It’s humid in So. Central Wisconsin. It’s 70f degrees, the humidity is 98% the dew point is 69 degrees and the severe storms are coming again. It looks like all the windows in the neighborhood Ai can see are moisture covered. Somewhere between 1:30 and 4pm per the WeatherChannel’s radar app the storm will arrive. That should be around the time a couple friends and me will be driving back from a layout building session 45 minutes north of home. We’ve driven together in some tough snow events but this will be the 1st severe rain event.
Air conditioning: the upper part of the house AC is set at 76f degrees. The lower level is turned off. The lower level rarely has gotten above or below 68. Radiant Heat throughout the house in Winter is set to 72 but the lower level is set to 66 which means it rarely comes on. I do run it a few times a year just to check. The whole house continuous fans, 3 of them, run all year. The lower level floor is stained concrete with radiant heat tubes. There are a couple area rugs down stairs and my aisles in the train room are 3/4” foam squares. Other than that the concrete floor is exposed. The house framing is 2x6” filled with foam. The siding 1/2” 2x8’ plywood with 1” foam over that. The actual exposed siding is brick and vinyl. The house is very efficient. I never question people as to how they set their thermostats because we all have different needs and wants. But I do occasionally chuckle. If the AC was set to 65 I’d freeze but I’m in shorts and a T-shirt at 68.
I’m being picked up at 8 to head 45 minutes to Baraboo. We normally work to 1 head to lunch and home from there. He wants the layout operational for RiverRail 2026 in May. I’m not sure if we can make it but the layout owner is confident. We work every other week here and the owner though has finally started doing some needed little things between the crew coming. Today we start the last major part of the framework. The too many turns of the 3 track helix. All the backdrop framework is now installed and has been mudded and sanded at all joints and a thin scratch coat done. The guy doing the mudding told the owner a few months ago he didn’t want to piecemeal sections at a time. Over 6 days spread out over June he did it all himself and a couple weeks ago it looked great. The owner has since painted it a sky blue since I was last here, it looks great in pictures. Besides the helix today 3 of us will be installing the led light tubes on each of the 3 levels. Sounds daunting on a 3 level layout but the wiring is setup in sections. Based on 2 other layouts set up this way and mine it will move quickly.
Hot and hoomid again, with a chance of p.m. storms, hey its summer on the right coast, waddaya want?
After dinner last night I sat down to watch the latest installment of the Secret of Skinwalker Ranch, I hit the recliner and made it through the previous episode and dozed off during the new episode. I then watched the behind the scenes follow up show before retiring at 10:30. I'll catch up on YouTube tonight. After 6 seasons you would think they would have figured all of the "secrets" out by now! Anyway for the uninitiated it is a show about some high strangeness at a ranch in Utah. Strange lights, cattle mutilations, magnetic anomalies, GPS failures, UAPs and other weird happenings.
Not sure who won last night, (or is the game tonight?), but once again pandemonium reigns over the network. I think I have it fixed, but strange things like network switches unplugging themselves. We have a camera pointed at the switch, but it shows nothing. Must be light biters or ghosts, not sure at this point.
Never heard about the Disco sucks riot in 1979. I was in basic at Lackland AFB at the time and one instructor told us that John Wayne had passed away, about the news we heard during our 6 week visit to Texas.
71 @ 5am. 100 by 5pm. Humidity is at the dewpoint 50, but will start dropping to 20%-30% by noon.
Normally the summer heat & sun wouldn't be stopping me from doing outside stuff, but after a 3rd recent skin cancer I try to limit my expose to before 10am or after 5pm.
