Having crazy ass password requirements and when I inevitably forget my password, not telling me what your crazy ass password requirements are until after I try to enter a new one and my new one fails because of your crazy ass password requirements, and only then can I remember my original password.

You can’t spell “Brain Fart” without Bay FC. Well you can but it feels true watching this game

A rightward wind push in left field can prevent a home run by moving the ball to a deeper fence distance. A rightward wind push in right field can aid a home run by moving the ball to a shorter fence distance. Bader saw both sides of that coin in two days.

Here we were thinking we might get record wind deviations in Sacramento today, and we ended up getting one in Chicago instead.

AM in Sacramento before Giants-A's: the big wind speeds are as expected, but it's not yet the right wind direction for optimal comedy. The usual wind direction is green, the maximum chaos wind direction is red, and the current wind direction, where the seating bowl blocks some of the wind, is blue.

The fossilized “and Mike Crudale” meme, which started as an @eegammings.bsky.social output that I created and posted to Baseball Think Factory, still appears on Crudale’s Wikipedia page. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Cr...

and Mike Crudale and Grogu </old school sabersphere reference>

The world has too much drama, Sunday's Giants-A's game could be the comedy we need: fly balls to LF landing near 2B, confused fielders running around, frustrated batters seeing their barrels going nowhere. I need a good laugh; pray that these 37 mph gusts actually happen. Anyway, I'm quoted herein:

How many Swedes have a good argument they’re the GOAT in their sport? Niklas Edin, Ingemar Stenmark, Mondo Duplantis, Sarah Sjöström…anyone else?

Less a spelling nemesis, more a typing nemesis: “government”. When I worked as a translator at the Nigerian Embassy in Stockholm, I had to type that word dozens of times per day, and I’d transpose the “n” and the “m” All The Time. On a typewriter, not a computer. So much correction tape was used.

Because ballparks are usually tall behind home plate and short behind the outfield, it basically ends up whichever way the wind is blowing above the stadium, you get a tailwind for the pitcher. There are exceptions. Sacramento, for example, is so short that it’s mostly headwinds for the pitcher.

Fielding is one element of why domes are often pitchers parks, the other is that 80% of MLB outdoor pitches are tailwinds, so having no wind is like having a headwind in comparison, so you get more movement on pitches compared to outdoors.

I’m almost surprised Rickey didn’t draw a walk in 162 consecutive games, because that’s how my brain remembers it.

Definitely, the higher you go, the higher the wind speed. There's usually a big jump once you get above the rim of the ballpark, which at Wrigley is ~97 ft behind home plate. For that fly ball, the wind at field level was about 5 mph, at the rim about 15 mph, and at its 150+ ft apex about 25 mph.

This +65 ft is the most distance added by wind on a wind-aided homer in @WeatherApplied database (last 4 seasons)

It's been 18 years since I wrote my "How to defeat a sabermetrician in an argument" article, and boy are some of the takes in that piece nowhere near hot anymore. catfishstew.baseballtoaster.com/archives/900...

This was a big theme in my blogging, but it's not limited to sports. Computers have made us so good at measuring, that every industry now chases numerical optimizations. Which is fine, but unless we ask "are we serving what humans want and need", we're acting with high intelligence, but zero wisdom.

Ian Happ gets one back from the wind! This ball was blown out 35 (!!) ft by wind and pushed 8 ft right, creating a home run, per Statcast + @WeatherApplied They all count !!!

Those two guys standing above the scoreboard best not be messing with the equipment I installed up there.

Weimer's HR was hit more at the Wrigley Rooftops building, so there was a bit more wind blockage on that one than Happ's ball. Plus the wind speed was a bit lower than on Happ's, and it had a lower apex. So Weimer's was pushed back less than half the distance of Happ's, which kept it a homer.

113 ft of distance but only 6 ft sideways: that's nearly a pure headwind. Between the LF Wrigley Rooftops building (~70 ft tall) and the LF scoreboard (~86 ft), the only wind blockage is the bleachers (~27 ft) and some trees on N Kenmore Ave. The ball and the 30 mph wind met head on in that gap.

The similarity between dot-com vs AI eras is that both have a gazillion solutions looking for a problem to solve, and a gazillion old solutions that will attach the buzzword to themselves, and 99.5% of it is bullshit. Then the 0.5% who stumble upon an actual problem will declare themselves geniuses.

I spent a week at NeXT headquarters in December 1996 for training. I might have been the last person trained on NeXT computers. About a week later, NeXT was sold to Apple. I wrote about it in 2011 when Steve Jobs passed away: ken.arneson.name/2011/10/my-s...

I'm old enough to remember black and white TVs, and these Bay FC kits feel like when TV shows actually used to advertise, hey watch our show, we're in now in color

Well, sure, Bay FC just lost last year's team assists leader to an ACL tear, might as well balance that out by getting rid of last year's leading goal scorer, too, or something

Looking back at you, Wendy

Sure the US may have won the hockey gold medal, but William Shatner sang Rocket Man at me last night, so isn't Canada the ultimate winner?

This month, people: I passed two kidney stones. Then I turned 60. Then my work got shown on the Super Bowl. Then my work got shown on the Pebble Beach Pro-Am broadcast. This morning, I told Walter Koenig where the nuclear wessels are. And THEN I witnessed LIVE William Shatner sing Rocket Man

World Cup soccer, Olympic curling, Olympic hockey, it’s all good

If I got rich, I'd dedicate my life to solving the 2,000 year old problem of passing camels through the eyes of needles. It's a geometric folding problem too complex for humans, but with wealth we could build the AI Quantum Supercomputers needed to solve the camel-needle problem once and for all.

I, for one, welcome our new Australian overlords to Alameda

<Fred McGriff voice> As a dual US-Sweden citizen, today’s cross-country skiing results have my full endorsement.

As a dual US-Sweden citizen, whenever both your teams are playing each other, all you ask is that, whoever wins, it comes down to the last shot.

As a dual US-Sweden citizen, today’s curling results have my full endorsement.

Update: we got an in-game graphic, too.

Super Bowl pregame just showed some graphics using @weatherapplied.com data, so at least all that work wasn't for nothing!

After watching the Sweden-Germany hockey match earlier, this USA-Czechia hockey match looks like it's being shown at 1.5x playback speed.

Ten years ago, for my 50th birthday, the city of San Francisco honored me by placing giant "50" signs all over the city. I hear that SF has done a similar thing this year for my 60th birthday, albeit with roman numerals, but sadly, I am unable to attend due to my kidney stone issue. But thanks, SF!

One of my kids ran cross country and track, and tore an ACL at the end of junior year of high school. Surgery then would have meant the bummer of missing most of senior year sports, so they delayed it until after senior year was over. Couldn't run as fast without an ACL, but gotta admire the effort.

The thing I just reposted that said "how atmospheric conditions can move a baseball up to 30 feet" -- that's a bit low. It's more like "up to 110 feet", mostly on very high popups on very windy days at short ballparks like Wrigley or Fenway. 30 feet gets bested by 100-200 fly balls/popups a year.

Weather Applied Metrics has been working with Major League Baseball for six or seven years, modeling every stadium to show how atmospheric conditions can move a baseball up to 30 feet, and now NBC is preparing to showcase the technology during the Super Bowl

The good news is that my bronchitis finally went away. The bad news is I got rid of it by spending yesterday in the ER being pumped full of drugs for kidney stones, and I guess those drugs cleared my bronchitis. But if you have a choice between bronchitis and kidney stones, choose bronchitis.

Watching Brighton/Everton and one of the advertisements flashing up on the sideline video board at the Amex Stadium is suggesting folks "Experience Kissimmee, Florida," which seems less like an invitation and more like a warning.

Here's an article from Front Office Sports about NBC preparing to use @weatherapplied.com data at the Super Bowl, should there be any sort of impactful weather at all. frontofficesports.com/nbc-has-a-fa...

cardboardgods.net/category/tea... If you want to get a sense of what Wilbur Wood meant to a kid in the 70s, don’t miss this blog post.

It's so cold in Chicago that I'm using which direction the players' breath blows as it comes out of their mouth to verify that the @weatherapplied.com model for Soldier Field is accurate at the 6 foot level.

The forecast for the 49ers-Seahawks game on Saturday is for so little wind that they if they played it across the street at T-Mobile Park with the roof closed, it wouldn’t change the wind impact at all.

Not sure how I'm supposed to feel about that Korean car commercial they just showed in the Chargers-Patriots game advertising that it can protect you against evil Swedish furniture ("Svenska Möbler") trucks.

Philly weather: Sustained winds of 15 to 20 mph with gusts up to 35 mph will put wind chill temperatures in the 20s for the #49ers game against the #Eagles this afternoon.