Where Are My Keys?

What a stupid move by the President..

1. President Obama decides to have a joint session meeting on the same day as the Republican debate at the Reagan library  Of course it was just a coincidence, you racist!). 
2. Speaker John Boehner gives his permission for the meeting.  Keep in mind of course, that the joint session meeting will take place on the East Coast, in D.C.  
3. NBC then pushes the debate start time until after the President gives his campaign speech joint session speech. 
4. The debate is taking place in California, allowing the Republican candidates to address the topics the President has just laid out, almost in "real time".
5. Big win for the Republicans, NBC, and the other Networks (who suddenly have a lot to talk about that evening).
6. Big loser in all this?  Barack Obama.  He tries to pull a stunt to upstage the Republican debate, and will instead have allowed his political opponents the perect opportunity to repudiate his speech (and overall record). 

Dumb move.  Can this guy do anything right?

 

 

Sabremetrics meets the iPad..

Using high-tech tools to help your baseball team succeed.

Want to get a feel for what pitch selection involves now, here in the year 2011? Listen to how Rockies video coordinator Brian Jones -- who says he and the Rockies were the first to use iPods to customize personalized video content for players five years ago -- describes it. You won't believe we're even talking about the same sport.

Say you're a pitching coach or a catcher, and you have a right-handed pitcher starting tonight against the Astros. You get out your iPad, tap your favorite app and type out, say, "Carlos Lee." Here's how it would go from there:

"You have all these boxes you can change," Jones says. "Say you want to look at all right-handed pitchers versus Carlos Lee. It will pull up a strike zone and a guy standing there, and it will show you, like, every pitch. Then you can break it down by date. You can change the date range, and it will give you his stats, the pitches thrown, swing-and-miss percentage, everything you can think of, for those dates.

"Then you could change it to where you say, 'I want to see all pitches low and away.' And it will change every piece of data [to] every pitch low and away. You can draw a custom area you want to pick on that strike zone, or out of the strike zone, and see all the pitches in those locations. Then, once you draw that, it shows you the data, all his stats and numbers, for that area you've selected, on that type of pitch.

"Then you can change it to runners in scoring position, ahead in the count, behind in the count, two strikes, seventh to ninth inning, anything you can think of. Any situation that you want to break down is readily available to see."

But you think it stops there? Oh, no -- all those stats are synced to a video database of every one of those pitches. So if you want to see how Lee reacted to every slider, low and away, that a right-hander has thrown him in a 1-and-2 count since 2006, that's now possible. You don't just have to read about it. Tap the screen on your iPad and watch it.

And if you don't think seeing all those pitches gives a pitcher a whole different sense of trust in a pitch than reading a scouting report or a computer printout, we can only respond: Are you kidding?

 "Now, you can watch for as long as you want, watching a guy swing and miss at a certain pitch," says Derek Lowe, one of just five active starting pitchers left whose career began in 1997 or earlier. "So now, when you get ready to throw that pitch in a game, you have that mental image of watching a certain guy swing and miss at a slider 20 times. It gives you an added boost of confidence, like, 'Hey, if I throw this guy this pitch, I know he can't hit it, because I just watched it for like 15 straight minutes on the video.'"

 

I could easily win this case..

The Feds gave a group $300k to open a "jobs training center for those with HIV/Aids".

The Group instead then opened a "gentleman's club" instead.  The Club them provides jobs, probably at least one with HIV/Aids.

The lawsuit claims the money given to Cornell Jones and Miracle Hands was supposed to be used to build a job-training facility for people with HIV-Aids. Jones told the city he was going to renovate an old warehouse on Queens Chapel Road. But the training facility never opened.

Instead, the city claims Jones opened the Stadium Club gentlemen's club instead. Now the city says it wants its money back and more.

So didn't the group do what they said they would do?

I never get tired of these..

 

Dude.

An inflatable raft?  Really?

A repeat public indecency offender has been arrested for allegedly engaging in "sexual activity" with a pink inflatable swimming pool raft, according to Hamilton police.

Edwin Charles Tobergta, 32, was arrested at his Harmon Avenue home early Sunday after he was spotted in the act in an alley in the 1800 block of Howell Avenue behind a residence, a police report shows.

A male witness, who owns the raft and lives in the home near the alley, told Hamilton Police Officer William Thacker he shouted at the suspect to stop.

Tobergta took the raft and fled, the report states.

 

Would love to see this at a rodeo..

 

For all of you upset that Michael Vick just signed a $100 million contract..

Many folks (including the fetching Mrs. P) are upset that Michael Vick is not only playing football again, but pulling down some big bucks to do it.

Personally, I don't care one way or the other.  Dude paid his debt to society, and if a team wanted to take a chance on him, and sign him to a big contract?  That is up for that particular team to decide.

While Vick signed the fat deal, he does still have some creditors he owes a few bucks to:

How does Vick make out? Well, he’s allowed to keep the money left over after his creditors are paid off on the schedule made by the court. So next year, he starts with $17 million, takes $300,000 for himself, gives $5.85 million to his creditors, pays taxes and makes after taxes and makes required monthly payments to his ex-girlfriend and his mother, among others. That leaves him with about $3.7 million.

Of that, he has to pay the lawyers and accountants 50 percent ($1,850,000). Vick can then bank the other $1,850,000 but can’t touch it. That means that on a $17 million salary, Vick will net about $1.88 million next year. That means he makes 11 percent of what the Eagles pay him.

Not quite the $17 million he started with, but still good work.  If you can get it.

 

The incredible shrinking man..

 

Check out the moves..

The son of my boss:

 

Is this in any way defensible from the Left?

It's not the Federal Government, it's your "federal family":

Hence the introduction of what may be the most condescending euphemism for the national government in its long history of condescending euphemizing: “federal family.”

This new phrase was supposed to, Power Play supposes, make anxious East Coasters feel the love of a caring federal government — tender squeeze from the Department of Homeland Security, a gentle embrace from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. The phrase was a centrally distributed talking point, appearing in op-eds, press releases and statements from across the administration.