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Not necessarily...you know all these ninas double dip (or worse) now, lol

You never know...It's like Manning vs. Brady in his earlier years. Brady gave Peyton (whose playoffs struggles are well documented) fits...but then the 2006 playoffs came and he finally beat Brady, and then finally got that ring! Sometimes it just needs to be the right year...ya never know!

What exactly is a CV? Cape Verde hurricane?

I don't see this defined but apologies if already answered: What does IKE and TJ stand for?

As someone who lives in Baltimore City, what's the closest low light pollution place in Balt. County I could go to?

I know this is a more serious post, but forgive me I got a little stuck on this: There's a place called Cockroach Bay? Lololol That is funny--hey they oughta be able to survive anything

In that state I worry about how many other places of businesses have that mindset, smh

Mr. Socko??

Saw others saying that the lighting around the eye mat suggest otherwise.

The fact that the potential peak from this thing was so high that the "weakening" last night from the EWRC meant it got down to "just" a high end 4 is dizzyingly insane! That's the threshold with this thing, and now it's intensifying again...as you said: unreal! I see LF predictions are at Cat 3 but I'm wondering about that...especially with what seems to be the tendency of every hurricane strengthening right into LF.

Are you sure using the NAM for a hurricane is a good idea? (I'm actually not sure but I never see the experts in the tropical thread use it for that).

Oh you do more than that--you are an anchor in that thread, my friend. And that post was uber informative and red tagger worthy (What's your background?)

The heck is that dude gonna do in a hurricane???

Ah so you're retired? Decided you were finally done trying to moderate all of us simpletons?

Weenies crashing the site, lol

Is it wise to consider the recent trend of storms not weakening (or even strengthening) upon landfall, or is it better to just take each storm on it's own?

More like 24 hrs isn't it? Think it was still a TC 11 am yesterday (but someone can correct me if I'm wrong there)

Which coast?

With the trend the last several years of maintaining (or gaining) strength right up to land fall, it's hard to assume that. Not the most scientific take in the world, but...it's happening so often now it seems!

Bro what the...I got to bed and thing is barely a Cat 1...now it's a frickin' high-end Cat 4??? Oughta add another letter to RI: ERI (extremely rapid intesification). Sweet mercy

I don't get why a stronger nina would be better, though...Wouldn't it just be a stronger version of what doesn't work? Lol

There is no way anyone can honestly draw a line from Hyde to why this season ultimately failed. Before the season started there was no reason to fire the hitting coaches because the RISP numbers and situational hitting was great last year! So, no crystal ball there. And what can you say Hyde did to make us lose this postseason series? Some people are getting rather ridiculous saying it's his fault because somebody didn't bunt, or this player was placed too high in the order, or playing McCann (despite the fact he called a great game and Burnes prefers him over Adley). And overall you can't even point to the team being overall unfocused/undisciplined (not talking about at the plate per se, but just in general). And clearly he had NOT lost the clubhouse like some were suggesting. This is a problem in one area: the hitting. Now it IS Hyde's responsibility to fire those hitting coaches--keeping them after what happened would kinda be malpractice, imo But otherwise? You can't really blame him for this. Now my first guess is they don't fire him and probably give him one more year to get things right with new hitting coaches.

Agree and agree. I have never seen a lineup so hopelessly stuck in a mental rut for months--so much so that they just couldn't break out of it even when facing elimination. I kept saying this team needed a therapist/sports psychologist, not just coaches! I don't get how you collectively slump that badly. I guess whenever the bad habit started, it got harder and harder to correct the longer the slump went on? And maybe they got more and more anxious at the plate and just started swinging at everything? Who knows, smh Gunnar was disappointing and kinda surprising because he hit pretty well in the postseason last year! So what ever the mental bug was this year got him too, smh

Yeah we had two bad luck balls yesterday...I think O'Hearn stung another one and the infielder just snagged it and threw him out, smh Two hits that would've changed everything!

So...little to no snow, Orioles keep losing in the playoffs, Ravens started off 0-2 after also losing to KANSAS CITY in the playoffs...well, that all the things I root for and they've all let me down over the last year. Terrible.