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| May 13, 2020 OZ40 | Topic: General and miscellaneous Discussion: Hat sun flap I purchased a Foreign Legion style olive drab cap at an Army-Navy store a while back. Another option would be to modify a regular ball cap. Could be done with Velcro and any style cloth or cooling cloth and the Velcro would allow you to remove the cloth and wash it. |
| May 12, 2020 OZ40 | Topic: General and miscellaneous Discussion: Oh Boy! The daily 'reporting' of deaths and new cases reminds me of the daily body counts reported during the Vietnam war. The public got stoked up by the media and the same thing is happening now with the Chinese virus. Can you imagine if the flu deaths were 'reported' in the same way? We'd never play ball and the country would never open up! That begs the question, why this virus, why now, it has to be political than anything. |
| May 12, 2020 OZ40 | Topic: General and miscellaneous Discussion: Oh Boy! Understood, I never thought in the USA we'd have to find clandestine areas to play catch. There is also a push on to attribute many deaths to the Chinese virus that are not necessarily caused or related to the virus. Too-2-to-political. We are being subjected to our first mild dose of subjugation and socialism being administered to us under the guise 'caring for us'. How do you all like it so far. |
| May 11, 2020 OZ40 | Topic: General and miscellaneous Discussion: Oh Boy! Sounds good Sully, agreed. One point though, back in 68-69 the mainstream media was too busy pushing narratives about Vietnam to push the narrative about a virus. Also, the "Woodstock" professors hadn't invaded academia yet. |
| May 11, 2020 OZ40 | Topic: General and miscellaneous Discussion: Oh Boy! I hear you Gary. July? For us northerners that's about 30-40 days from the first frost warning ! Great summer, eh? The gorilla in the room that no one wants to recognize is the mental damage to the psyche of Americans when this passes. Will the public spaces and public interactions ever be quite the same? Will the new 'good old days' now be anything prior to 2020? Thanks a lot China...…. |
| May 8, 2020 OZ40 | Topic: General and miscellaneous Discussion: Reno Tournament Jeez Louise, I guess I should have hip-checked that old lady in the grocery store who passed me so closely in the Twinkie aisle !!! I should have put her into the donut holes! |
| May 7, 2020 OZ40 | Topic: General and miscellaneous Discussion: Reno Tournament AMEN Brucesky, AMEN ! In this country with a capitalist style economy people are supposed to 'vote' with their wallet. If not enough participation then the event will be cancelled, plain and simple. If Player 'A' wants to stay home fine, I would no more force them to play than I would want them to force Player "B" not to play. For crying out loud I had to stand 10 people deep in line wearing a stupid mask outside the hardware store yesterday until 10 people left the store so I could get in to buy two ring bolts and 4 washers to fix our wooden yard swing. |
| May 7, 2020 OZ40 | Topic: General and miscellaneous Discussion: Tournaments ??? Hey, just a thought and I don't know if anyone else had a similar thought but I was wondering about this: Since it looks like there will be a dearth of tournaments this season I wouldn't mind watching select games of one if anyone had the capability of livestreaming it to the computer. Would anyone else watch? What is involved in 'livestreaming'? |
| May 3, 2020 OZ40 | Topic: General and miscellaneous Discussion: Dugouts I meant my previous comment as a light-hearted play on words..... |
| May 3, 2020 OZ40 | Topic: General and miscellaneous Discussion: Dugouts When it's time to bat maybe everyone should play with their own balls.... |
| May 3, 2020 OZ40 | Topic: General and miscellaneous Discussion: Dugouts Duck, I've yet to see an errant throw that stays where it lands....about your two qualifying words 'probably' and 'unlikely' I think we have all seen that probably and unlikely occur at the most inopportune times. Now instead of the umpire warning the team roamer to get back in the dugout should he have a fence line to police now too? Should it be up to the umpire to stop play when Fred gets too close to Tom along the fence line? Dead ball batter out, that's ballgame ! |
| May 2, 2020 OZ40 | Topic: General and miscellaneous Discussion: New Virus-Regulations Georgia has almost 4 million residents and certain counties/cities have larger concentrations of population, ATL area, etc. |
| May 2, 2020 OZ40 | Topic: General and miscellaneous Discussion: Dugouts CAT, since everyone loves the 3-2 count so much maybe we should keep the time limit the same and just go to a 2-1 count this season....on a trial basis of course (wink-wink). Also, if you let guys stand outside of the dugout in foul territory what's to stop a fielder from 'accidently' throwing the ball in their area to get an interference call late in a tight game? |
| May 1, 2020 OZ40 | Topic: General and miscellaneous Discussion: You make the call Stick, since the next batter has come up I believe this is a dead ball appeal, no run? |
| May 1, 2020 OZ40 | Topic: General and miscellaneous Discussion: New Virus-Regulations Jawood You can't slip some Doors lyrics in there and expect it to go unnoticed! Roadhouse Blues...Let it roll baby roll.... |
| May 1, 2020 OZ40 | Topic: General and miscellaneous Discussion: New Virus-Regulations Came across an interesting article yesterday by Douglas MacKinnon discussing the Hong Kong flu numbers and Chinese Virus numbers. Just over two months ago, I spoke with an infectious disease doctor who not only believed that millions of Americans had already been exposed to COVID-19, but that the lockdowns were counterproductive and we needed to let herd Immunity take hold in our nation. Two months ago. With each passing day, we are told that multiple more Americans were in-fact exposed to the virus than the “experts” suspected. Or more to the point…guessed. I will keep asking this question until the groupthink-thought-police come to arrest me: “When has it ever been sound medical or governmental practice to sacrifice – and destroy – the economic, mental, and physical well-being of the 99 percent to MAYBE protect and save the one percent...or less? When?” This same doctor I spoke with also stressed to me that the “experts” our nation and the world relied upon to shut it down, could not answer one simple question. That being: Is COVID-19 less or more lethal than the Hong Kong flu pandemic (H3N2) of 1968? A pandemic that mirrored COVID-19 in that it was highly infectious and was primarily lethal to those over 65 with pre-existing conditions. A pandemic that infected millions of Americans and killed approximately 100,000 out of a then population of about 200 million. A pandemic which worldwide, killed upwards of 4 million people. As of this writing, worldwide, there have been approximately 210,000 deaths. And does anyone else find it troubling and highly suspicious that the United States alone is responsible for slightly more than one-quarter of all deaths worldwide? How could we possibly account for one-quarter of all the COVID-19 deaths in the entire world? Easy, if say, you start counting pianos falling out windows and dropping on people as COVID-19 related deaths. As we are also learning with each passing day, in order to justify their highly controversial, extremely punishing, draconian lockdowns, the handful of politicians, officials, and experts who upended our lives and ordered those lockdowns, are being very creative and very liberal as to what constitutes a COVID-19 fatality, all of which begs the question: Are there any ethical and honest reporters left within the mainstream media who could investigate this clearly duplicitous – but officially condoned – counting method? The little real anecdotal evidence accidentally seeping into mainstream media indicates that the actual fatality rate in our nation from COVID-19 is less than the fear-merchants are displaying on their “Death Dashboards.” Potentially, far less. Unbiased professional reporting could tell us the real numbers. But then, that’s the rub. Much of the mainstream media signed up for team “Doom and Gloom” from day one. At first, they did so to create as much fear and panic as possible so they could use COVID-19 as the mother of all click-bait cash cows. Once that was accomplished, many in that same liberal media chose to keep the fear-mongering going as a political tool. Tens of millions of now desperate, depressed, angry, unemployed Americans, coupled with thousands of small business owners now out of business, have been told for weeks to “suck it up and do as you’re told” by politicians, academics, federal officials, media talking-heads, and celebrities who either have guaranteed, gold-plated jobs and healthcare plans, or seven-figure salaries, and millions in the bank. The Eighth Amendment to the United States Constitution prohibits “cruel and unusual punishment” to be inflicted upon criminal defendants. And yet, that same Constitutional consideration is not being afforded to those tens of millions of Americans whose lives have been negatively affected, or even destroyed, by draconian lockdowns which do amount to the most “cruel and unusual punishment” in the history of our Republic. And then, from within that, tens of millions of Americans numbers, comes the – purposely – uncounted number of our fellow citizens who have died as a direct result of the lockdowns. Deaths from suicide, stress, drug and alcohol abuse, physical abuse, or those who had serious pre-existing medical conditions but were scared away from the hospitals and life-saving treatment. Do those deaths count? Are those lost Americans of any importance? Do facts even matter when COVID-19 has been turned into a political football? If they still do, then some of those facts are blaring that the fatality rate for this virus is 10 to 40 times lower than the “World is Ending” estimates spit out by faulty computer models. Dr. Scott W. Atlas – the David and Joan Traitel Senior Fellow at Stanford University’s Hoover Institution and former Chief of Neuroradiology at Stanford Medical Center – recently looked at the numbers in New York City, a city that became the epicenter of the virus in the United States. Dr. Atlas – who is predictably shunned by the mainstream media because he does prefer using actual facts and statistics – recently reported that the rate of death for all people ages 18 to 45 is 0.01 percent. For people under 18, the rate of death is zero per 100,000. And of almost 8,000 NYC COVID-19 deaths fully investigated for underlying conditions, 99.2 percent had an underlying illness. The truth must matter more than flawed computer models and experts and officials drunk on power. Will anyone be held accountable for what will surely come to be known as the most tragic case of governmental, medical, and media malpractice in the history of the world? I doubt it. Douglas MacKinnon is former White House and Pentagon official and author of the forthcoming Science Fiction/Fact novel: The Dawn of a Nazi Moon: Book One. |
| April 30, 2020 OZ40 | Topic: General and miscellaneous Discussion: New Virus-Regulations I am looking at the total picture. To me, sure I want to play but I want to enjoy myself both on and off the field with my teammates and my friends on the other teams. If the total quality of the tournament experience isn't there, I probably won't be either, at least to the point of travelling any significant distance of miles. |
| April 30, 2020 OZ40 | Topic: General and miscellaneous Discussion: New Virus-Regulations Ultimately it will be a personal decision, the virus doesn't have but a few minutes of shelf life in hot weather outdoors or so I've heard. I guess we'll need healthy players on the field to start with, playing smart and using common sense. With softball players that common sense thing may be a toughie! The question is, does the intensity we play with get affected by the precautions we have to take? |
| April 30, 2020 OZ40 | Topic: General and miscellaneous Discussion: Net for Pitchers They are optional in our league. Batted balls hitting the net/screen are treated as foul balls, hit it on the 3rd strike and you're out. Pitcher must be completely behind the screen after the ball is pitched, he may then move from behind it to make a play on a batted ball. |
| April 28, 2020 OZ40 | Topic: General and miscellaneous Discussion: Reno Tournament …..and another one bites the dust.....sorry to hear that !!! I wonder how the comradery will suffer. Our team always (wives included) always goes out to eat as group usually Sat. night. If we can play ball yet not go out and have a good sit down meal in a nice restaurant anywhere that will hurt! |
