Chebucto Regional Softball Club

@lilithsaintcrow

My cats, Marshmellow and Archie, are curled up sleeping back in our warm house. I’m running errands in the rain.

My cats are definitely smarter than me.

@lilithsaintcrow

Just to be clear, I starred this post in honor of Boxnoggin choosing to sit this one out.

@seaks That’s a good looking grid! Jimmy Anderson, wow. Thanks for using Dave Collins since I didn’t.

️ Immaculate Grid 978 9/9:
Rarity: 114
🟩️🟩
🟩🟩🟩
🟩🟩🟩
Play at:
https://www.sports-reference.com/immaculate-grid/play
#immaculategrid x #baseball

7 Reds, Paul Waner, and Frank Tanana.

Paul Waner is so I could get the brothers—Big Poison and Little Poison—on the grid.

User inattention, so I guess I’ll take an 8 of 9 today. Meh.

Gary Redus!!!

Cheers!

@mattmaison @beisbolcards

He was so fast, but the old saying “you can’t steal first base” definitely applied. Lifetime OBP of .292.

Never led the league in steals, but finished 2nd in 4 straight years (2014-17)—3 times to Dee Strange-Gordon and once to Jonathan Villar (2016).

But again, just unbelievably fast. So fun to watch on the bases.

@seaks Having said all that, sometimes when they’re being furry little idiots, I think we should have renamed them Gilligan and Skipper. That vibe fits them too, the little beasts.

@seaks The cat shelter called him Khan, but it didn’t really suit him.

We already had Marshmellow, our 18-pound chonkster. Marsh is very deliberate. Put food down and he thinks a bit and then starts eating. Marsh always thinks a bit first about everything. Archie jumps right in—a cat of action.

So Archie is named after Archie Goodwin, the P.I. who did the legwork for Nero Wolfe, the overweight, contemplative detective in the books by Rex Stout. But Marshmellow never got renamed Nero.

I know it’s not #caturday , but Archie is just too darned adorable not to post.

️ Immaculate Grid 977 9/9:
Rarity: 45
IMMACULATE!
🟩🟩🟩
🟩🟩🟩
🟩🟩🟩
Play at:
https://www.sports-reference.com/immaculate-grid/play
#immaculategrid x #baseball

Pot Luck Grid!

Only 3 Reds: New Sliding Billy Hamilton, Reggie Sanders, and Bug Holliday.

Good name day:
Biff! Bobo! Bug! LaCock!

Wathan is the only C with a 30 SB season! Gary Scott was a big 3B prospect who didn’t work out. Wasn’t expecting Rod Carew to be such a popular pick, but I probably should have.

Cheers!

️ Immaculate Grid 976 9/9:
Rarity: 8
IMMACULATE!
🟩🟩🟩
🟩🟩🟩
🟩🟩🟩
Play at:
https://www.sports-reference.com/immaculate-grid/play
#immaculategrid x #baseball

All Reds Grid!

Pretty easy too, lots of Mets and Mariners connections. And actually did a morning grid!

Shoutouts: Frank Robinson, Ken Griffey Jr., Tom Seaver, David Wells, John Franco, Pat Zachry, Mike Cameron, and Bret Boone.

Cheers!

️ Immaculate Grid 975 9/9:
Rarity: 6
IMMACULATE!
🟩🟩🟩
🟩🟩🟩
🟩🟩🟩
Play at:
https://www.sports-reference.com/immaculate-grid/play
#immaculategrid x #baseball

Moose Haas, Rick Wise, & 7 Reds.

Rick Wise hit 2 HR while pitching a No-Hitter. Still waiting, Shohei.

The 7 Reds were all easy and thank the baseball gods for Felipe Lopez! He and Wade Boggs were all I could remember.

Couldn’t think of an obvious Red in the Haas spot. Him and Sal Bando were obvious.

Used Rick Wise instead of the obvious Red Rheal Cormier.

️ Immaculate Grid 974 9/9:
Rarity: 42
IMMACULATE!
🟩🟩🟩
🟩🟩🟩
🟩🟩🟩
Play at:
https://www.sports-reference.com/immaculate-grid/play
#immaculategrid x #baseball

End of Day Grid.

And it shows. Not much enthusiasm, not many Reds. Didi and Eppa, so that’s kind of fun.

Eddie Lopat was a junk baller. Supposedly, when asked his least-favorite pitcher to face, Ted Williams said, “That F’ing Lopat.”

Goodnight!

@shig

We have a genuine disagreement.

As currently formulated, AI is marketing garbage. It’s a great big wasteful most-common-denominator machine.

I am greatly distrustful of all the corporations desperately trying to wedge it into every gizmo. Other horrible people will use it to fake photos and videos so that there no trustworthy record of what is real.

“Until actual, serious harm is done”?! Really? Shall we all just lie back and try to enjoy it?

@shig

Having a kneejerk disdain for AI seems perfectly reasonable to me. It’s being absolutely shoved down everyone’s throats. Tech companies are desperate to make it ubiquitous. It’s trained on plagiarized work. It’s on its way to making all photos and videos suspect, and everything “not real” including things that are real. Oh, and stock bubble.

Distrust of AI and the people pushing it is absolutely rational at this point. Hope my tone is acceptable to you.

@shig

Reading your original comment again: To be clear, I also would feel NO need to tell them they aren’t an artist if they are not actually claiming to be an artist.

One baseball guy I follow posts tons of AI images, usually making fun of a terrible baseball teams or players. I’ve never heard him claim to be an artist and never felt the need to tell him he isn’t.

It’s just a goof and that’s fine, if occasionally tiresome. The Colorado Rockies are terrible, we get it.

@shig

If I met one and they claimed to be a writer, I would certainly inform them that they are, in the case of the work in question, not in fact a writer.

And “hate” doesn’t enter into it; the meaning of words does.

Also, you didn’t answer my question. Do you consider them writers?

@shig

Is an author who uses a ghostwriter a writer?

️ Immaculate Grid 973 9/9:
Rarity: 14
IMMACULATE!
🟩🟩🟩
🟩🟩🟩
🟩🟩🟩
Play at:
https://www.sports-reference.com/immaculate-grid/play
#immaculategrid x #baseball

Quick Grid!

That top row is excellent! Three of my all-time favorites! Gary Redus!

Only 3 Reds: Redus, India, Sabo

Weird Rudy Seanez occurred to me, so I checked. Only 23 games as a Marlin in late 2004. BUT! I’m 100% sure I was at one—last game of season in Philly! Always went to last game when I lived there. He pitched a scoreless 7th.

Cheers!

️ Immaculate Grid 971 9/9:
Rarity: 13
IMMACULATE!
🟩🟩🟩
🟩🟩🟩
🟩🟩🟩
Play at:
https://www.sports-reference.com/immaculate-grid/play
#immaculategrid x #baseball

Another Hurried Grid.

7 Reds. Plus King Kong Kingman and the Flyin’ Hawaiian. Solid enough.

Memorized weird 200+ K guys a long time ago.

Shoutouts: Rick Reuschel, Jerry Martin, Fergie Jenkins, Bobby Abreu, Eddie Milner, Johnny Cueto, Scooter Gennett, Raisel Iglesias, Gary Nolan, Alex Johnson, and Mario Soto.

Will McEnany, Dave Tomlin, Woodie Fryman, Jay Tibbs, Scott Ruskin, Dann Bilardello.

All Reds that also played for the Expos and Pirates.

Couldn’t think of a one of them.