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I am terribly saddened by this news. I honestly thought the poor man would just go with age. And his wife, also. I am forever grateful to have seen Nash in person some years back when he gave a lecture at the University here.
I wonder how he worked out his game theory calculation for not wearing a seatbelt.
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Not nearly as compelling as Schliemann's story, but it's always nice when success on J! is reaffirmed as something to aspire to…

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/24/style ... -alex.html
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The Stanley Cup Final begins tonight at 5 Pacific on NBC. That won't matter for the majority of J! watchers, but may affect some viewers getting tonight's episode of J! at the usual time. The next weekday hockey game on NBC would not be until game 6 on June 15.

The NBA Finals begin tomorrow on ABC, so that will affect many viewers in the west who will not see J! at the usual time. KGO is showing J! at 10:30.

Next week it's T & Th for the same pattern on June 9 & 11. Game 6 (and there will be one) will be on Tuesday, June 16. If the series goes to 7 games then that would be on Friday the 19th.

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Vermonter wrote:Not nearly as compelling as Schliemann's story, but it's always nice when success on J! is reaffirmed as something to aspire to…

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/24/style ... -alex.html
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Silver Screen Test, my movie trivia game show. Watch some of the episodes On-Demand.
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Is anyone else excited about switch pitcher Pat Venditte being called up to the big leagues?

This is what his glove looks like:

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Linear Gnome wrote:Is anyone else excited about switch pitcher Pat Venditte being called up to the big leagues?

This is what his glove looks like:

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http://screengrabber.deadspin.com/pat-v ... 1709442520

3rd clip is awesome. Swihart knows exactly what Vendiette's doing and everyone else is all WTF?
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The announcer: "...smaht in this ballpahk."

The A's pitcher reminds me of Dick Van Dyke playing a pitcher (Hank Lumpkin) who threw both ways in the "Hillbilly Whiz" episode of The Phil Silvers Show.
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Volante wrote:Swihart knows exactly what Vendiette's doing and everyone else is all WTF?
Seems like switch-hitters now need to have a double-earflap helmet at the ready when they play the A's, to avoid a walk back to the dugout.
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trainman wrote:
Volante wrote:Swihart knows exactly what Vendiette's doing and everyone else is all WTF?
Seems like switch-hitters now need to have a double-earflap helmet at the ready when they play the A's, to avoid a walk back to the dugout.
Likely won't happen. Tho maybe they'll instruct the ball boy to have the alternate in hand close by.

Anyway, game time is faster this year than last; I'm okay with a little novelty delay. If it becomes a regular issue, we'll see.
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Volante wrote:
trainman wrote:
Volante wrote:Swihart knows exactly what Vendiette's doing and everyone else is all WTF?
Seems like switch-hitters now need to have a double-earflap helmet at the ready when they play the A's, to avoid a walk back to the dugout.
Likely won't happen. Tho maybe they'll instruct the ball boy to have the alternate in hand close by.

Anyway, game time is faster this year than last; I'm okay with a little novelty delay. If it becomes a regular issue, we'll see.
Against a switch-hitter, the switch-pitcher has to commit to one side for the entire plate appearance.
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silverscreentest wrote: Against a switch-hitter, the switch-pitcher has to commit to one side for the entire plate appearance.
Yes, but that doesn't prevent a switch hitter coming to the plate before the pitcher decides with the wrong helmet on then having to get the right one.

But, I imagine that'd happen so rarely that I'd rather the hitter stick to their routine with the helmet they want. (I can't get Baseball Reference data because their search feature requires a paid subscription, but other sources lead me to believe that around only 60 players out of 750 on the active roster can switch hit.)
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An important piece of the Trivia Canon will now need to be rewritten. Affirmed in 1978, you are now condemned to the dustbin of history.
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9021amyers wrote:An important piece of the Trivia Canon will now need to be rewritten. Affirmed in 1978, you are now condemned to the dustbin of history.
http://www.j-archive.com/search.php?sea ... mit=Search

Affirmed won without ear plugs. :)

When J! does use American Pharoah let's hope it's the FJ! round so we can see the misspellings.
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MarkBarrett wrote:
9021amyers wrote:An important piece of the Trivia Canon will now need to be rewritten. Affirmed in 1978, you are now condemned to the dustbin of history.
http://www.j-archive.com/search.php?sea ... mit=Search

Affirmed won without ear plugs. :)

When J! does use American Pharoah let's hope it's the FJ! round so we can see the misspellings.
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The end of the steroid era in baseball ruined my favorite piece of sports trivia: until 2008, the last player to lead his league in home runs while hitting less than 40 was Fred McGriff in both the American and National leagues. Now nobody gets to 40 homers in a year, and I don't know who the best players in baseball are.

I miss knowing that more than I'm going to miss knowing Affirmed.
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9021amyers wrote:The end of the steroid era in baseball ruined my favorite piece of sports trivia: until 2008, the last player to lead his league in home runs while hitting less than 40 was Fred McGriff in both the American and National leagues. Now nobody gets to 40 homers in a year, and I don't know who the best players in baseball are.

I miss knowing that more than I'm going to miss knowing Affirmed.
At least the city of Cleveland not winning a championship since 1964 is not going to change. My wish is for the Bills to be alone as the 0-4 Super Bowl team.
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MarkBarrett wrote:My wish is for the Bills to be alone as the 0-4 Super Bowl team.
One of my coworkers called them the BiLLLLs.
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MarkBarrett wrote:...My wish is for the Bills to be alone as the 0-4 Super Bowl team.
Keep dreaming, Mark. I don't think it's gonna happen this year.
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MarkBarrett wrote:
9021amyers wrote:The end of the steroid era in baseball ruined my favorite piece of sports trivia: until 2008, the last player to lead his league in home runs while hitting less than 40 was Fred McGriff in both the American and National leagues. Now nobody gets to 40 homers in a year, and I don't know who the best players in baseball are.

I miss knowing that more than I'm going to miss knowing Affirmed.
At least the city of Cleveland not winning a championship since 1964 is not going to change. My wish is for the Bills to be alone as the 0-4 Super Bowl team.
What about the Vikings? They might not have them in a row like my Bills do, but they are 0-4 as well.
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