40/70 Benchmark

We usually have at least one GTG among SNE members, usually around the holidays. We have them in CT sometimes....you should come if we have it down there. Most of them are in Worcester because of its central location...its relatively equidistant to many locales. Yea, totally sarcastic...obviously I know there is a great deal of validity to your posts.

I hit 89 yesterday...just missed.

Oh yea...M Cloudy 86.4

You are such a sally...I have had 7 consecutive subpar seasons...sure, your lows are lower than mine, but you had a good a couple of good seasons in 20-21 and 21-22 capped off with an epic blizzard, which became yet another nightmare amongst my rolodex of sordid winter traumas.

Cora is a fine manager, but the relationship ran its course...he's only here because his family is rooted here, not because he is passionate about this team. He was the right hire last decade, when they were a veteran team closing on a title. He isn't the type of guy that likes to cultivate young talent.

His plate discipline is Soto like.

I love their young core...but ownership and management needs to stop getting in their owm way, and need to start adding as opposed to just switching out pieces. Cora needs to go.

Not worried in the least about him. His skills so far are among the best rookies in the game.

I do watch the Sox mainly for Anthony, though.

Other games....I have the Extra Innings package.

I haven't been bit all season...beauty of sitting in an air conditioned room watching baseball.

I know its going to be an awful bout of SA that day, so they usually go hand in hand.

Sorry for the OT....I'll let Wiz discuss CAPE for next Monday...I'm sure that will get everyone's rocks off-

Bugs die, so no pests....plants and grass die so no yard work, its comfortable and the weather is more interesting. NVM snowfall because I know someone like Scott is gong to vent about that in a response, but the storms are more noteworthy. All set with waiting 5 decades for a viable tropial threat or John Henry to shell out a deal for an interesting player.

Reason #132,432 why I can't stand summer. I can't wait until I stop sweating and everythng dies.

Going to be relatively slow sea ice melt.

When in doubt, just lump it in with CC and no one can ever prove you wrong

Oh...wait until Bluewave sees this post implying hope for the future He's going to come in with some tweet from a Japanesse nanna in the hills of nothern Japan bitching about how poor her onion crop is, and tie it to death to NE US winters for all of eternity.

Yea, no great anticipation with that this season...I know where its headed based on solar. But I think we could steal a round or two of decent blocking early and late season based on QBO data.

I certainly do not argue with the idea of a +NAO/-EPO this season.....just get some semblance of variability with resepct to the PNA and I will roll with that, though folks in Virginia may feel differently.

Well, even those 4 seasons 2021-2022 through last season....the only one that didn't have a fighting chance in the northeast was the 2023-2024 El Nino, which isn't a relevent analog this season. I would take 2021-2022, 2022-2023 with a slightly less extreme RNA, or last season with a bit more precip. Its not the death-knell some are making it out to be, though it certainly slams the breaks on the notion of any imminent, major regime change. That doesn't really tell me anything that I didn't already know because I have already conceeded another solid -PDO winter looking at how low it is right now...a cursory glace back throughout history seals that. Raindance was pimping 2022-2023 as an early analog...which I would be fine with. I'll take my chances on not having the west coast trough extend to the Baja again...December and March would have been great.

Oh, man...that is confusuing. Wayyyy too many dashes.

Some of these seasons aren't that warm.....its heavily biased by years like 1982-1983, which really isn't relevent this season. It certainly gives pause for expecting a repeat of last season, but I would hang myself over it.

I doubt another dry winter.

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