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And when Embiid breaks in March and this whole thing goes to shit and Giannis plops his giant, "Greek" nuts on everyone's faces, today is going to look like a monumental mistake.

I was nine inches below, as well. HIYOOOOOO

I honestly can't remember the temperature, I just know it rained. I spent New Year's Day doing Christmas in Port Matilda, which as the microclimate breakdown from our resident New Yorker, Port Matilda is climatologically the dark side of the Moon compared to me just NW of Philipsburg.

It's 50°F here. I dont remember the last 50°F day. The snow is saying "Sayanora," and the water on top of the ice is returning. That was one cold month.

Cold rain

Are you the owner?

Why don't you have a seat over here?

My parents aided with the post storm collection and reconstruction of Homestead, Florida. I fell in love with the weatherman (Tom Casey, WTAJ in Altoona) around the same time. I used to pretend to do the weather on the wall of my apartment outside as a kid. Weather is something I love. I love reading about it, learning about how the weather works, how storms occur, why they act the way they do, and why they don't sometimes. I enjoy the post-storm analysis or autopsy when things go wrong. I love the extremes of all seasons. I get off on disaster. Not so much the human toll, but the toll the planet takes from an EF5 tornado or from a 7.1 magnitude earthquake, or how Texas shuts down when it's below 60. The problem is, the extremes seen to be heavily slanted towards one thing: flooding. I don't find any interest in flooding. I know how water works. I know how the lack of dikes work. It does nothing for me. So the current global trend is kind of boring and sad to me. So, yeah. Some of us may lose the passion for weather as we all become Roanoke.

This is literally what is written in French on the welcome signs to Montreal.

Humor aside, I agree with almost all of this. The extra innings and doubleheader rules from the Covid season honestly make me wish there hadn't been a season at all that year. The Astros trash can scandal also left me with a bad taste for baseball and how only Hinch and Cora felt any real punishment. Multiple players should have been banned for life for that shit and at the end of the day, opposing pitchers didn't even have the sack to throw at the bums and they managed to get to the World Series. Thankfully the baseball gods (and Jorge Soler) had other ideas for how it would end. The placement of the permanent DH in the National League also pisses me off.

Interesting. My friends and I have been on a ballpark tour over the last few years. Citi Field was up next before the pandemic. I still have $300 worth in tickets to use from 2020 this year before I lose them. Now that I know the price to park, I'll stay in NJ and take the train in.

I stopped reading at this because you summed everything up right there. There isn't a player alive right now, Trout, Acuña, Ohtani, Soto, Seager, Freeman, none of them, who are worth these $250 - 350M over the course of ten years deals just based on the risk for injury alone. It only takes one injury to potentially detonate a player and they'll never be close to what they're being paid and now you're in the back pages of a 300 page document looking for an out because a failed leap to catch a fly ball sent you crashing into the wall (Acuña) and now you're no longer a 40/40 candidate, or a second TJ surgery (Ohtani) has you relegated to DH for half of two seasons and you're finished pitching and have to hope you're able to learn centre field like Rick Ankiel, or your production goes down because they ****ed with the ball again. There's just so much uncertainty that I wouldn't bet on any player I just referenced aside from Trout and to a lesser extent Freeman, to just keep at a pace that dictates such a large deal.

I'm thinking another 60 game season is in store.

The day pitchers and catchers report is the day I begin losing interest in snow, outside of anything that may be MECS or HECS. If you show me in April a nor'easter that guidance shows me receiving 20" of snow? Sure, I'm all-in. But once I see footage of baseballs hitting catchers mitts, this T-2" bullshit is just an inconvenience to me.

I ran into this problem just NW of State College about 20 minutes ago

Made a trip down to Mifflin county, just outside of Lewistown to play basketball with some friends. The difference in tree appearance becomes night and day once you climb down 322 near Port Matilda. Virtually no ice on the trees and signage, meanwhile it remains an icy hell elsewhere. Grass is visible as well.

"Jumped the shark" is used to describe something that is no longer even remotely believable. Even for programming that is fictional. I don't think I've ever heard somebody say they enjoyed something that jumped the shark. Not even the episode of Happy Days for which that term earned it's namesake.

You see this folks? This is how you spend your time. I have some Winter Jack calling my name.

Took a trip into Clearfield. Roads are garbage and it's still snowing. Winter here is just so radically different from what years in the LSV conditioned me to experience.

Deicing the girlfriends SUV was like digging a shovel out of an iceberg. Holy ice.

Are you filming this run?

Nobody knows your last name on here, right? Spill.

Sleet has changed over to snow ensuring another period with a pack in place.

The pack in my yard was wasted this week and yesterday down to the layer of ice from the first event back in January. With the amount of rain we got yesterday and with the temperature near 40°F at one point, I had assumed we would have lost the entire pack, but that ice layer held serve. The pond by my doorstep is frozen and there appears to be a little more than a dusting of sleet on it. I can't wait to forget about the water just sitting there in a day or two and fall through the surface layer of ice, fall five inches through water and then roll my foot on the permafrost. I don't always roll a joint, but when I do, it's my ankle.

It continues to sleet here and the five inch pond has frozen over. In the spirit of the Olympiad, I will host short short track speed skating tomorrow morning with the areas babies.