When to leave a baseball game / Snakes / Koch Brothers

The best way to go to sleep that I know of is listening to a baseball game.  Been doing it all my life.  When I was a kid I had a little transistor radio that I would have on next to the bed.  Now it's my iPhone on the MLB Network.

Being retired I can actually stay up and watch the west coast games and they are costing me sleep as I valiantly try to stay awake until 12:30.  Last night?  Could not make it to 1:15.  That power outage killed my chances (there were 2 power outages in MLB stadiums last night).

Normally I'll pack it in if one team is winning and it looks dire but NOW I have a cheat sheet on when to leave or turn off a game.  Follow these rules and you can shut off or leave a game 95% of the time and know the out-come.  The average game time is 5 minutes shorter this year with an average is now just about 3 hours (compared to Collage football which is near 4 hours).

Taking all the games from 2010 to 2015 here is when you can comfortably leave a game and 95% of the time you will know the winner.

Inning - Runs ahead/or behind

1st - 6 runs
2nd - 6
3rd - 5
4th - 5
5th - 4
6th - 4
7th - 3
8th - 2

In 2016 with 1,750 games if you used that cheat sheet and left, only 61 times would you have been wrong to leave. 96.5% correct  AND you would have saved 1,612 hours of your life.

But for me it's not a big deal. I personally do not believe games take too long and enjoy even the last out.

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All day yesterday we were having issues with slowness with the internet.  Took a speed test and we were at a below dial-up speed of 0.7megs download.  NOT GREAT!!  LOL

So I called Charter and they reset everything - back to the 58.7meg DL this morning - HOWEVER - they said bring my modem and router in and exchanged it for free to get up to 200 meg - or whatever is the fastest speed available in Columbus (probably more like 100 but we shall see).

Which brings up a question.  I know that the State Government does not allow another internet company to service Columbus and I wonder how long these regulations (started 7 years ago?) will last.

I have had almost zero issues with Charter but always looking for faster cheaper.  I know Sun Prairie government TRIED to form their own company but it was FUBR.  Governments are not for profit businesses and especially when you don't have actual business people trying to form a business.

ANYWAY - we shall see what I get.

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The biggest mystery in US history is how a country can go from electing a brilliant, caring, sincere African American as President, and 4 years later replace him with a stupid, sexist, white supremacist pig.

It's almost like another country sabotaged us.

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OH - here is the silly rumor of the week.

Why is Columbus Government denying Sprecher a liqueur license. Is Cercis Brewing causing this and is our government dirty?

ummmmm - well, since Sprecher will be serving Cercis brewing beer I doubt there is any collusion between them and city government.  Also since Sprecher has had their license for a while now and is opening August 8th it's not an issue.  Fast lanes (NOT owned by Sprecher it seems) will have 48 taps AND a State of the art  pizza oven and will be open from 10:00 to midnight or longer. 

Columbus is also getting ready for a new wood fired pizza place with their 1000 degree ovens about that time also.   James Street Pizza. Opening soon.

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Seems when you become 1% dehydrated (hiking a moderate speed for 1 hour will dehydrate 1.5%) will cognitive flexibility by 12%.

Off Your Mental Game?

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Trump is considering lowering taxes for the top 1% which will cost the other 99%  $1.2 BILLION over the next decade.   Seems fair.

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Coke is raising it's prices and blaming Trump.  Aluminum tariffs are just the beginning.  Meanwhile the Koch Brothers came out and said they will no longer support Republicans candidates that do not believe in fiscal responsibility and they pulled all of their funding OUT of three crucial Senate races.

They said Trump is KILLING our economy long term and they will support whichever party believes in free trade and economic responsibility (which it seems the Republicans have abandoned).  Even the Koch Brothers believe Trump AND Walker (in a 60 Minutes interview before the election) are buffoons.

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Backyard panoramic.

 OH - weeding yesterday when I saw a tail disappear.  Upon further investigation in was a 2 foot long Garter Snake.  Then I find out it's common our our neighborhood as others showed photos of THEIR snake in their yard.

Eat some ground Squirrels please before our basement caves in. 

Where are the Cooper Hawks when you want them. We have a special on ground Squirrels this week.

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WEATHER - long slow steady climb in temps up to NEXT Thursday (the 9th) when we hit 90.  Columbus STILL has not had real rain now for 10 days.  Had a Trace yesterday. Maybe even less then a trace.

Chance of rain Thursday.   Otherwise pretty much the same every day. Sun, pop up Thunderstorm and sun.

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