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Sigh… Why are there “a couple million deer strikes each year”? Because this is an exceptionally difficult driving situation. It usually occurs at night or in low light. Deer move fast and are relatively small and have evolved to blend into the background. Most deer strikes happen at full speed because drivers have almost no time to react. I’d love to see FSD evolve and improve to the point that deer strikes very rarely or never happen. I don’t know how realistic that is, but it would be awesome. I know this will shock you, but I do not see this story as the pwn on FSD that you guys do. You’re trying to apply an incredibly advanced standard of performance that vastly exceeds what human drivers do today. I don’t know that any autonomous system will ever advance to the point that animal strikes never happen.

Username and all... Y'all are doing YGIFS proud carrying on the legacy.

So if Cole has zero responsibility on this play, why does he point to first? Is it A) a helpful reminder to the 1B that he needs to touch the bag for the out, or B) an after-the-fact acknowledgment that he fucked up his responsibility on the play and that Rizzo will need to do things on his own? It's about 63 feet from the pitcher's mound to 1B. If Cole is moving full effort, he 100% beats Betts to the bag. Mookie's avg top speed on basepaths in 2024 is 26.7 ft/s - he's actually in the bottom third of the league. Martin Maldonado's avg top speed is 23.1 ft/s. I think it's safe to say that Cole could take Maldy in a foot race. Let's just assume Betts immediately reaches his top avg speed out of the box, it takes him 3.37 seconds to get to the bag. Using Maldy as an analog for Cole, it would take him 2.72 seconds to get to the bag. So let's just fuck off with the "Betts was always beating Cole to the bag" argument.

Went on a Salmon fishing day-trip in AK back in September, the week after Walz had been named as Harris' running mate. There were six of us on the boat - the female guide/boat captain, my Dad and me, a couple in their late 60's from San Antonio, and a 90-yr-old codger from MA who liked to talk. At some point in conversation, it came up that I was retired military, which apparently gave the codger the green light to ask a bunch of strangers what we all though of Walz's military service. You could tell he expected the "hurr-durr stolen valor" answer, but before I could open my mouth to tell him to fuck off as politely as possible, the lady from SA piped up with "this boat is too small to have conversations like that." The topic changed and the rest of the trip was great.

It's 1:22 PM CDT on Thursday and OU sucks and Gerrit Cole still hasn't made it over to cover 1B. QFT

He has three more years of team control with the A's. The Yankees can't "sign Rooker." They can try and trade for him.

The Void is upon us.

Don't go Sandy Bullock'ing our Plaza party!

Needs flight tracker and curtain analysis.

MLB stepped in and banned them from G5.

Agreed. Not quite ready for the great void to be upon us.

Thank God he touched the front of the bag.

Another RBI for Freddie.

Holy shit. John Smoltz is explaining that the front of the bag is closer than the middle or back of the bag.

Do you stand on the beach and negotiate with the ocean to stop being wet? Do you bargain with Mt Everest so that it does not stand so tall? Do you treat with the moon in an effort to stop its phases? No you do not because these things shall not come to pass until the earth tumbles into the sun. Neither do you ask John Andrew Smoltz to keep his fucking yap closed.

Michael Jackson's corpse celebrating being left off of this list.

I wanted to grow up to be her Mr. Mom.

Has Cashman said who cheated them this time yet?

Odom probably the most talented guy on the field tonight. He should have started out with “How does a bastard, orphan, son of a whore…”

It's a fair point... only six chunk plays in the second half. Kentucky and aggy both bring solid defense, but so did OU. The big problem against Georgia wasn't really our playmakers getting corralled, it was pressure on QE. Throwing downfield doesn't fix that.

The offense had 16 plays for more than 10 yds on Saturday, and half of those went for over 20, and one play over 30. If you define "chunk plays" as a gain of 10 yds or more (seems reasonable), over 75% of our yardage on Saturday was from "chunk plays." Sure you want more... but the offense has playmakers. You don't have to put the football at risk downfield to let them make plays. I'm fine with short, high-percentage throws that can turn into something big with our athletes. For comparison, Vandy had a total of 8 "chunk plays" (which is too many) and only one of those went for over 20 yards (a 21-yd) reception. Their two biggest plays of the day (19 and 21 yds) happened on the final drive when PK went into a bit of turtle mode by only rushing 3. Texas "out-chunked" Vandy 302 yds to 124 yds. Texas was one dumb penalty and a competently called defense during the 2-minute drill from this being a respectable 3-TD win over a ranked team on the road.