I came to Seattle this morning. I saw Ichiro. I conquered my mission. Seeing Ichiro was not my mission, but maybe it should have been. Now I’m heading back to the airport on the light rail. Thanks for the lovely day, Pacific Northwest.
I would be curious whether the ineffectiveness of curveballs also holds in domes and in the minor leagues. Curveballs are the pitch I would think would be rendered most negatively affected by 80% of MLB pitches being thrown with tailwinds.
Felt this little aftershock, but it was small enough that I had to go online and check if it was actually an earthquake.
Weird, though, to see these epicenters in Berkeley and know that they are centered on streets I know like College and Ashby and Claremont. earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/...
Bailey's wprhrbiitphr also was a bit unusual in that the wind actually blew it further away from home plate, but still prevented the ball from going over the fence. That can happen when the wind also blows it sideways toward spot where the fence is further from home plate.
We've had two wind-prevented-regular-home-run-but-instead-inside-the-park home runs in one season! The other was Patrick Bailey's walkoff on July 8 in San Francisco.
Can I sue Google for a refund if I book a flight to the wrong city because of their faulty AI search results? (The 2025 Winter Meetings are in Orlando, not Dallas.)
Tuesday gave us the #1 MOST wind-impacted play of the 2025 MLB Season thus far!
On a windy day at Nationals Park, a 24 mph wind knocked Braves Ha-Seong Kim’s hit back a whopping 98 FEET from where it would have landed in calm conditions.
I'm getting cold pitch sales emails written by AI which reference people and concepts that appear on our company website.
First time, I'm maybe impressed they did some homework, but try to fool me twice with AI BS? Book those lazy cheats onto a @jayjaffe.bsky.social rocket trip into the sun.
I just got a professional sales call from someone I've never met on behalf of a company I've never heard of pitching a product that's not relevant to my work...on my personal phone, which is not provided or provisioned by my employer. Makes me want to go live in the woods
Alas, like Bay FC a year ago, the Golden State Valkyries lose a heartbreaking playoff game to end their inaugural season. But it was an admirable effort by a likable team.
If you stacked a second batter's eye on top of that batter's eye, I *think* it probably would *not* have cleared the second batter's eye, but it's close enough for me to hedge about it.
The difference between Sacramento and Tampa/Steinbrenner, which is similarly short, is that Sacramento always has more or less the same wind direction, while Tampa has variable wind directions.
Sacramento is high scoring because, like Oracle Park, the wind blows straight out to CF above the park. But Oracle is 123 ft tall, and SHP < 60 ft, so it only takes a fly ball with an apex of higher than 60 feet to catch the windstream out of the ballpark. Oracle kills anything under 120 ft.
