40/70 Benchmark

Part of it is that the NBA is so cliquey.....and the super stars only conglomerate to form their circle jerk teams in certain cities. Good luck in that landscape if you aren't a destination.

Right....common during a rebuild....which began after the 4th title in 14 years.

I think your take is tone deaf. The Red Sox have won 4 titles in the past 17 years, and are ahead of schedule in a rebuild coming off an off season in which no one gave them a chance in hell. I would have said the same thing he did. Claiming that they were closer to missing the PS than winning a WS is dumb because they did make the post season. Celtics are a different story...they have a young core that has evolved into perennial underachievers and don't have much room for upward mobility as a team. The Red Sox can get any star they want if they pay up, the Cs can not.

How was your experience with PD I, Steve? Were you hopeful that was going to trend north enough?

I know.

My locale. Don't you have a puppy to rescue? lol

I think my futility season of 1978-1979 was one of these.

This is what I was getting at in a since deleted post....the WORST pattern is a coolish regime fraught with deconstructive interference, like this. I woud take 2019-2020, or 2011-2012 over this.

I have no idea why you break his balls over falling six wins shy of a WS title when they weren't even supposed to contend...you act as if they underachieved. It makes no sense.

This is why I laughed when you asked if I was going to blog about last night.

If it changes things up, then I welcome it. Anything is better than a coolish pattern laden with desonctructive interference. Its the absolute worst and I would rather an all out torch.

I Implore people that are in this primarily for snowfall, which I would venture to say is the majority of us, to check out on this conga line of nuisance dribble. If you just want to nerd out over the science of prostate milking to 1001 mb lows, then this is the pattern for you. But if you are emotionally invested in fun winter storms, get out and stay out until further notice. I don't need the headache of precipitation type issues from episodes of .01" QPF.

Do you hate to see it?

The extended range ICON your Clarence?

Yes, this is what I was getting at it in my exchange with scooter...I know he is aware, just saying. I made an annotation illustrating this last week. Often times at this latitude, the most detrimental impact of RNA on snowfall is that is provides deconstructive interference for SWs, rather than rendering it too warm to snow...the latter is more common points south.

Sorry to hear about your diagnosis. Get well and here's a to a better weather pattern in the new year.

People forget that even the great seasons have a shitty month...February and March 2011 were meh....mid January to mid Feb 1996....bleh...hell, December through most of January 2014-2015, and even March 2015.

@Snowcrazed71I apologize for posting your PM, but in the future, please do not DM me a slew of insults. If you do not have the balls to call me names publicly, then don't do it period. You are taking this too personal, man. I have nothing against you...I was just trolling you because you were heated.

The thing is....when you lose a significant portion of the early winter, and then end up near average, it implies a pretty damn good period or two.

That is the essence of what I missed in December....the RNA was deeper and less variable. The lower heights also hung around AK a bit longer than I had thought early on in the month. Pretty small misses in the grand scheme of things have a very big sensible impact and can really flush a forecast.

I think he over embellishes in an attempt to derive humor from a sea of weather shit.

We really only had two stick-bomb winters when your kids were growing up....2006-2007, and 2011-2012.

Take that, and stick in your deep, dark no-no place!

Well, that is a subjective ratter.....I am speaking of a statistical ratter in terms of total seasonal snowfall.

I disagree, but we'll see. Stratosphere dependent.