Hedy and Cain

On this day in history in 1970 Doc Ellis of the Pittsburgh Pirates pitched a no-hitter while tripping on LSD.  Oh the 70's were so much fun!

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In case you missed one of the all time best running the bases play in history (well sort of).   Seems nobody has ever seen this before.  Both announcers and post game announcers had never seen it and Council said it was brilliant.

On this play if Cain touches 2B Yelich is out.   What you don't see in this video is Heyword running in from CF pointing at first base yelling nobody is there.  ummmmm  instead of POINTING - maybe run there?

and of course the next batter drives both in.



In strat-o-matic they rank base running and stealing bases separately.  Base running they look at every play when a player is on base and if he advances or not and so forth.  Cain is rated as a 1-17 base runner.  I have never seen a 1-18 so basically Cain is one of the best base runners in the Majors.  It showed last night.

Yelich (1-16) actually made the mistake by taking off too early.  If he plays correctly the end result is he is on 2B and Cain is out at first. 

The Brewers this year are ranked #1 in the NL for base running. Cubs are #2. 

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The democrat's lost in the Districh 42 race because of gerrymandering.   If you look at the district Columbus is cut out of the square.  Columbus is the most liberal city in the area and SHOULD be in District 42. 

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This whole Trump North Korea thing.  First of all I loath the racist bigoted woman groper but have had zero issues with his taunting and threatening nuclear war with the other crazy dictator. Does Crazy + Crazy = Sane?  This is not a zero sum win or lose situation.  If we can take one step backward from nuclear annihilation is this a bad thing?

However. The US gave a lot away for a weak promise and a bullet point agreement with no timeline and absolutely zero specifics.  Only 389 meaningless words so far. Sort of like signing the infrastructure package (how is that one coming along).  More empty promises. But in this case I hope child President pulls it off. 

Still . so far nothing but a photo op for both sides and SO FAR Kim is winning.  He got want he wanted without giving "us" anything.  We shall see.

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Canada produces 60% of all newsprint and America raised the tariffs on newsprint from 6.2% to 22% in March which has led to layoffs in the newspaper industry.

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Hedy Lamarr - there is a new NETFLIX documentary called "Bombshell".  She completely

took apart a music box and reassembled it when she was five.  Her dad would constantly explain how things worked.

Her problem in life was she was what most people called the most beautiful woman in the world at the time.

In the movie Ecstasy - she had the first on screen simulated orgasm and she did love posing nude.  She would work on a movie for 16 hours getting pumped with speed (as all actors did back then) and then go home and invent things.

When the world was losing to the Germans she quit acting to invent something that would help win the war,  What did she invent?

You are using it right now.  WiFi, Blutooth, GPS and frequency hopping so submarines could not jam our torpedo.

THEY NEVER USED IT - she was a woman and the military took her amazing invention and stored it away to used 20 years later.  Instead the Military told her instead of "inventing" things America would be better served to sell war bonds. Se sold something like $40 million.

She never received a penny for her invention. She also reinvented plastic surgery.  Instead of cutting here and here cut here and do this which is still used today.  There were dozens of things that made life easier for America that came out of Lamarr's brain.

Her life was a mess because Dr. Feelgood (a real person) was pumping her full of meth to shoot movies.  In fact most movies you see the actors are speeding. Charlton Heston was cranking pretty good in the Ten Commandants!

Aspen Ski Resort was Hedy's invention.  She build it out of nothing.   Anyway - I have always thought she was awesome but did not know The Rest of the Story.



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OK - gotta mow the lawn today. It's already Wednesday and it's been 2 days since the last mow.  Its going to get HOT HOT HOT this weekend.  Heat index nearing 100 Saturday and Sunday.

The humidity starts ramping up Friday. Today and tomorrow are GREAT but Friday the heat index hits 91 with 99 on Saturday and 98 on Sunday. Monday will be like Friday with some scattered T-Storms and a beautiful week after that. 

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I'm channeling my inner Ansel Adams

 Nuff for today - gotta mow.

Rod