There has been a lot of talk in media AND social media and especially dumb ass Mike Heller on sports talk radio the last few days about Craig Council refusing to bunt with a man on 2B and no out and needing ONE run. Statistics all say 1 out man on 3rd (66.0%) is better then no outs man on 2nd (61.4%) for scoring ONE run.
BUT WAIT - there is a factor nobody seems to talk about - The player at the plate and his ability to bunt the ball in the first place. I looked at Strat-o-matic cards which have bunting ratings and the Brewers are totally pathetic bunters. Seriously - a bunch of bunting hacks. I think every pitcher is a better bunter then almost every batters. Zach Davies is the best bunter on the Brewers (he is REALLY good). Sogard is good and Arcia is good. The rest? blah. They are rated "D" bunters.
HOWEVER - the average TOTAL runs scored goes down. That 1 extra out decreases the chances of scoring multiple runs. 0 out man on 2nd the average is 1.1 runs, 1 out man on 3rd = 0.95.
Mike Heller pisses me off so often with false stats. He was interviewing a Chicago sports writer and he said all of Wisconsin believes Joe Madden the manager of the Cubs is a God. WHAT? where did he make up that garbage? Seriously? The Chicago sports guy said in Chicago they really dislike Madden and he would not be the manager if the Cubs lost the world series.
In fact he said he was amazed at how Cub fans turned on him even after the WS victories. The guy is a blundering fool (he did not say that - I did). He also said the Cubs really get UP for playing the Brewers but seem to go back into a shell when playing other teams and yea, the Brewers REALLY have their attention for being the real deal.
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In another gripe - the far left is turning into the far right with fake news. All of those images of children being taken away and put behind fences? Totally fake.
People need to realize that Obama started it. This image is from 2014 when the Obama administration detained children.
HOWEVER - Trump has tightened the screws a little more and is detaining children AFTER ripping them from their families. Just sayin' and keeping it honest.
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I have a new lens, a NIKKOR 105mm Micro 2.8 Expect some close up photography to start popping up. Nikon has the best glass in the world! Canon has the best camera, Nikon has the best glass.
Took this from about 15 feet away
Too bad it's a black and white lens and not a color one. :-)
This was hand held from about 6 feet with the wrong settings. Just taking snap shots!
I had a Macro lens (I think they call them Micro now) lens 4 years ago and was taking photos in the garden with a tripod. I finished and folded everything up and went inside. The unfolded the tripod with camera attached and set it down.
BAM CRASH - one leg was shorter then the other and the camera fell RIGHT in the lens head first with a sickening sound! Lens was ruined. I was so so sad. Finally have a new much better one.
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Then there is Rudy Giuliani who's week went for being very bad to finding out he has been fornicating with his 2nd cousin for 14 years! WHO KNEW - I guess he didn't.
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Big Martian dust storm on Mars covering 14 million square miles. The rover Opportunity is in power fault mode but might not survive. It's been a good run. For a rover was scheduled to live 90 days and it's nearing the 15 year mark!! COME ON OPPORTUNITY YOU CAN DO IT. Channel your inner raccoon (hopefully every knows what that means).
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Mediterranean Diet? Fake. Seems the study was not very scientific and results were skewed.
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National Polls. I will say it again. The National polls were correct. They said Hillary would win by 5% and she sort of won by a little less. Trumps approval rating is slipping again. While his disapproval rating is steady his approval ratings are slipping in the last few weeks.
The BIG movement has been in the Generic Polls which have been right on for a few decades. Right now Democrats have a 47.1% chance of taking Congress while the Republicans have a 39.4% chance but ever since early May this has been a constant widening.
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And then there is California and IHOB.
In California they are considering splitting into 3 separate states. No really they are. But only 17% of Californians think this is a good idea. With that said Walker is thinking about splitting Wisconsin into two States. Dane County would be one state, Danesconsin, and the rest of the state fould be Walkersconson.
and IHOB - Really? The International House of BURGERS? REALLY? But reports are saying their burgers are really very good. hmmmmmm - Five Guys or IHOB.
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A Harvard economist and biostatistician published a paper saying the new EPA policy's will cause 80,000 America deaths in the next decade.
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In the last three days four new houses in the Kestrel Ridge area have begun to be built. That leaves I lot left untouched. We were the 7th house to build here.
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and now the bad news - WEATHER
We're still good today but about 5 tomorrow morning humidity will begin to rear it's ugly head and dew points will be nearing 70. I still don't think heat index will reach 100 but 98 should feel just as bad.
We start to cool off Monday and next week should be fantastic. about 82 degrees with low dew points.
Cheerio!
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