My left middle finger is slightly longer than my right. This may be useless random information right now, but if I ever become famous it will turn into Trivia - which could take long enough to make it Vintage Trivia. So just to be safe, write it down.
Everyone who read this comment just put their hands together, right? Just me?
I dunno sportsball.
Trivia: Shari Lewis wrote a TOS Episode: The Lights of Zetar.
This Shari Lewis:
e: link
So we have her to thank for this nightmare:
which one? the shari lewis playing shari lewis or the shari lewis being played by shari lewis?
That blew my mind. I need to watch that episode again.
To be fair to her, that’s a character shari Lewis played on a children’s program who happened to also be called shari lewis
She also liked going to restaurants and making sure people knew it was her.
Then she’d order lamb chops.
Cool, I like her even more now.
I watched her with Lamb Chop in reruns in the 70s. I suppose on Saturday mornings, or after school.
The infield fly rule while seemingly incongruous exists to prevent players from deliberately failing to secure an easy out in order to force their opponent into an almost certain double play (2 outs)
When a ball is hit into the air in play in the infield with 0 or 1 out already recorded and a player on first base, the umpires will call the infield fly rule immediately, the play becomes dead and the player who hit the ball is considered to be out
HUH, YEAH
WHAT IS IT GOOD FOR
It is interesting how the spirit of the rules of the game really only award optimal play (like with a fielder’s choice). I never really understood the infield fly rule til your explanation, so thanks for that!
You are most welcome
OK, let’s see if I got it.
I pop a fly ball high so it lands in the infield, where someone will probably catch it. Meanwhile the runners get onto two bases. On the next batter I can go for the kill and get 3 outs.
I know damned well I messed that up.
You did but that’s ok. It’s actually more like this, you pop it up and there is already another player on first base (a super critical point I completely omitted)
If there were not an infield fly rule, I as the defending team would let the easy pop fly catch drop, failing to secure the out.
This forces the player on first to run for second, and the batter to run to first.
I pick up the ball in front of me and throw to 2nd for a force out, then to first for a second force out aka a double play.
The opportunity for the double play shouldn’t exist because I should have caught the batter out
I never thought I would get it! I knew it had something to do with getting more runners on base and screwing them, but I don’t know enough about baseball to work it out.
Woooooo, I did something useful today
Ah thanks. I’ve always wondered why they had that rule.
Close. You pop the ball high into a nimbus so that it lands in an airfield, where a pilot will grab it off the runway. Meanwhile one of two snipers in the ATC tower captures the flag for the other base, and sneaks in a kill on the pilot, unless he drops 3 bags of luggage first
The large book in the ready room in TNG is The Globe Illustrated Shakespeare, open to pages 354-355. Visible on the page in three episodes is a photograph of Patrick Stewart performing in As You Like It in 1968. This means the real-life Patrick Stewart and his Shakespearean acting career are part of the fictional Star Trek universe.
All hew-mons look alike, Nog.
I, too, saw the thread from yesterday!
That’s so cool.
Deep Space Nine co-creator and co-executive producer Michael Piller was an avid baseball aficionado who amassed tens of thousands of baseball trading cards in his lifetime. His mother, songwriter Ruth Roberts, created the “It’s a Beautiful Day for a Ball Game” theme song for the Los Angeles Dodgers and “Meet the Mets” for the New York Mets.
James Doohan who plays Scott in the original series was shot 6 times on D-Day by friendly fire AFTER surviving the initial attack.
4 shots hit his leg, one blew off his finger and one bullet struck him in the chest, which was stopped from being fatal by a silver cigarette case in his pocket
Sportsball? Like in that episode of Star Trek?
The Patriots and Steelers are the football teams that have the most superbowl wins with 6 wins each.
Tom Brady has 7 superbowl wins.
You have two sides, one out in the field and one in. Each player who’s in the side that’s in goes out, and when he’s out he comes in, and the next player goes in until he’s out. Once all the players who are in are out, the side that’s out comes in, the side that’s in goes out and tries to get those coming in out. Two umpires stay out all the time, they decide when the players who are in are out. When both sides have been in and out twice, and all the players who are in are out, including those who are not out, that’s the end of the game.
My favorite rule is that if you take too long to go in, you’re out.
I’m pretty sure cricket was only designed to go on for so long so the village women could chat over sandwiches and tea for a few days.
I may not follow sports but I listen to no such thing as a fish
I don’t know why, but it only makes sense that this is Randy Johnson. It couldn’t have happened otherwise
And trivia would be that this moment in the LD/SNW crossover was improvised:
Tawny Newsome is a treasure.
Tawney Newsome and Jonathan Frakes should be given Trek in whole.
The baddie with the broccoli
Sign stealing is the act of players and coaches on the field, watching the codes the catcher gives the pitcher, and relaying it between players via hand-signals and gestures to tell the batter what kind of pitch to expect.
In modern days, this even includes watching video-replay to capture the signs, and then counter-investigations identifying the sign-stealers and their methods.
Turns out there’s a whole host of in-the-open sign language happening during stickball games.
I’m very glad that Baseball isn’t a thing in Europe, but then again we’ve got Football and annoying Football fans…
What was Wenger thinking sending Walcott on that early?
Baseball is awesome
The Immaculate Reception is fun to watch. Game’s over and done, last possible play with the Steelers behind one point in the playoffs. The famous quarterback Terry Bradshaw is dodging around, trying to not get flattened, fires a missile, well… see for yourself.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ywa3k9N___s
Used to like the NFL, only sport I ever watched. For two decades it’s been formulaic (you know what sort of play is coming, the safest play) and commercial loaded, boring as shit now.
Okay, that was impressive!
They’re doing their damnedest to ruin hockey now
