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  1. Coming back from Spain Wednesday and will be depressed after a great trip. But the chance (emphasis) of a MECS over the weekend will help take the sting out. Doesn’t snow much in Barcelona. But what a great city!
  2. Here we come Spain! 12 days in Madrid, Seville, and Barcelona. I was gonna rent a car in the latter and drive to Andorra and the Pyrenees -- I'd certainly see snow there -- but it's just not feasible. 3 hour drive each way and nowhere to park once you get to the postage stamp capital of the multiverse. But still playing with the idea of renting a car in Seville and going to Gibraltar. I want to see the coast of Africa and the only place in Europe they have monkeys (other than zoos, of course). And, yes, we'll be on the lookout for Barcelona's notorious pickpockets.
  3. I propose that slipping in the basement, as I just did, from standing water resulting from a near 3" rainstorm, should warrant an LSR to Sterling. After all, I could have landed on my head instead of my butt (since I was half asleep) and killed myself, and that would have had a direct cause-and-effect relationship with the elements.
  4. 95 thru the Carolina is as dreadful a stretch of interstate there is. No scenery, lots more traffic than you would think. Done it many times and hate it evermore. Rt. 1 is (or was) somewhat nicer. Meanwhile, rain. Almost carbon copy of last Sunday night except we won't get a surprise dusting around 3 this morning.
  5. When the word "damp" was first coined, it was on a day like today.
  6. Found a nice site on phasing storms (although I'm sure it's been posted before): https://www.greatlakes.salsite.com/Phasing_Storms.html
  7. My wife's picking up my daughter at uni. Central NY was predicted 4-7". Hamilton got about the same kind of dusting I did. Ha.
  8. Did not expect this. Grass mostly covered, moderate snow (although lightening up now), some slight glazing on neighborhood streets.
  9. Lots of folks might have seen this already, but here's a clip from one of last night's Tennessee tornadoes. 0:19 to 0:25 or so is not something you see everyday: (Alert for a bit of *colorful* language; flagged because I'm not sure what this site's policy is on that.)
  10. Well Rubenstein -- as noted -- was born in Baltimore so I imagine he wouldn't try to move them. From the admittedly threadbare article -- although Bloomberg is a very legit source -- I get the vibe he's just another filthy-rich guy (although is $4.6 billion even considered "filthy rich" these days?) who wants a plaything. But if he's hands-off and willing to spend to, say, extend Henderson and some of the other burgeoning stars, that's not so bad. Certainly better than John Angelos, whose tenure as O's all-but-in-name owner can't be terminated quickly enough.
  11. Good to see we still do fog well around here.
  12. BWI: 27.2" DCA: 17.2" IAD: 31.2" RIC: 15.2" Tiebreaker -- SBY: 9.2" My front yard: 365.22" (actually 26.2")
  13. Sounds great, do you know if they will be posting a summary of proceedings?Can anyone attend, if they hold it next year?
  14. Warning: quintessential weenie question incoming. If the UA and surface setup before the great Appalachian storm of 1950 had been offset to the east by, say, 200 miles, would the DC area been hit with Pittsburgh-level snows? All weeieeism aside, that 1950 storm has always fascinated me. Blizzard in Pittsburgh while 40 and rain in buffalo.One of my favorite novels, Suttree by the late Cormac McCarthy, was set in 1950 Knoxville and he did the research so throughly that the unprecented Arctic outbreak in that storm’s wake (5 in Knoxville) featured in the book. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Appalachian_Storm_of_1950 The NCEI snowfall map from the storm actually paints DC/Baltimore in 2-6”. https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/news/great-appalachian-snowstorm-november-1950
  15. I guess the O's shouldn't feel so bad about the sweep by the Rangers. Texas is taking apart the Astros so far. Seven game winning streak in the postseason ongoing.
  16. Orioles were in the postseason then as well
  17. Might very well have been a H/R but if it was, that’s an equally stupid move by Hyde. Leading off the sixth or even eighth I could see it but not the ninth. Add it to his collection of poor game 1 stratagems. Anyway onto today. Great thing about baseball it doesn’t give you much time to rehash the past . G-Rod has come thru big a couple times in the second half so here’s hoping becaus I really don’t want to go to Arlington down two.
  18. Transcendentally stupid move by Henderson. Yeah, yeah, rookie. Even the moss growing on the tree in my back yard would know enough not to try and steal in that situation. Certainly was his own choice. Camera showed Hyde screaming. Crappy jump. Not that Hyde covered himself with glory managing. Poor at bats in general. This team is not there yet.
  19. Where'd he get "go to war, Ms. Agnes" from? That is such a unique signature line. One thing the O's have had through the decades: great announcers. From Thompson to Mel Proctor and John Lowenstein (I loved them) and then Jon Miller and Joe Angel and Gary Thorne and Palmer and now Kevin Brown and Ben McDonald. The announcing was always great, even though the teams often sucked. The team doesn't suck anymore. Watching the celebration and most of these guys aren't much older than my daughter. And there's plenty more percolating in the minors. Beware AL East. Yankees and Red Sox -- there's a new beast in town. Deal with it.
  20. As Chuck Thompson -- a bit before my time but I've seen videos of his PBP and he was awesome at it -- used to say, "ain't the beer cold!" From 110 losses to 100 (and counting) wins and the best record in the AL. Pretty good progression.
  21. Listening to Palmer and McDonald together is like getting a graduate-level course in the nuances of baseball. They are both so knowledgeable and articulate, but each has their own style.
  22. He was a kind, compassionate man who was very successful at something he loved to do, and brought a lot of people a lot of joy. And there was no obvious downside to him (although we all have our foibles) since not only have I never read anything bad about him, I've heard numerous people say that they'd never heard anything bad about him. I'd say that's the definition of a successful life worthy of celebration. And I'm a cynic who usually doesn't go in for saying this kind of thing.
  23. Brooks Robinson just died. Shit. Win it all for Brooks.
  24. Heh. My wife said the same thing -- "he looks like that guy in The Big Lebowski." At first I thought she was talking about Donny. Great game. Great movie.
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