Big Blue Huddle

Ric

As much as I would love to watch that last clip now, 1/2 hour is just a bit too long right now. I will do it at a letter time.

Without any real knowledge of what the clip says, and as to what you wrote about the missing Tate stuff--I tend to find Tarantino's movies just not what one would call 'Heavy'. Even though all his movies aren't comedies, they also aren't heavy drama, if you know what I mean. A movie like Pulp Fiction has many parts that you find humorous along with all the other stuff.
When the Kill Bill duo came out, I really didn't want to watch them as I heard there was massive amounts of blood. I am truly not what one might call a 'gore' enthusiast, but both my sons' said it may be bloody but it is all "Hollywood' blood and not gory at all. The blood is more like red paint and is used for effect rather than to scare people. And I can certainly agree with that. After my son's pleas, I watched both of the Kill Bill movies and I LOVED them with a capital LOVE. I have seen them maybe 5-6 times since and still if I see one on TV I will stop and rewatch certain scenes again and again. It sure won't win any wards but it was just great entertainment.
Reservoir Dogs is another. On paper, if you read the script you might think it would be a very "heavy' type movie and with all the blood, disgusting also, but it wasn't, and even though the true subject matter was high drama it wasn't played that way. It was sort of amusing in a sort of sick way.

 Let's expand on your knowledge now and give you another example.

Simple one now

The batter gets a single and makes a wide turn around 1st base. The defense sees this and tries to throw behind the runner in an attempt to get him going back to the base.  With the runner diving back to 1st base, the ball gets away from the 1st baseman and into dead territory.

Where do we put the runner?

OK, all good tries. So here is the ruling.

Makes no difference that the runner was off on the pitch, as I said, it is his position At the Time Of the Pitch, which means he was on 1st base. Since with 1 out and first base occupied, the batter is out no matter what the catcher does with the ball. As long as the batter swung at the 3rd strike, he is automatically out.

As for the runner, the rule of thumb is 1 base from the mound and 2 bases from the field if a ball goes into dead area. I added that the runner was beyond 2nd base when the ball went dead, but again it is his position At the Time of the Pitch, which was 1st base. Since the catcher didn't deliberately kick the ball into the dugout, the runner is entitled to ONE base and he will be on 2nd base and now it is 2 out.

Quote from: MightyGiants on May 10, 2024, 09:04:00 AMhttps://x.com/BigBlueVCR/status/1788916908861063247

 It's funny, I remember certain things about this game. Like 3 minutes before this great kick, Sunmeral missed an easy 31-yarder.
And to get to Sumeral's kick the Giants and QB Charley Conerly missed on 3 consecutive passes trying to get the Giants closer. Even Sumeral was surprised he was sent out to attempt the FG.

Hint


  The key to this, and in many situations, is the position of the runners/or batter at the time of the pitch.

Quote from: Sem on May 10, 2024, 10:28:57 AMI have a question first. Where was the base runner at the point the third strike was mishandled by the catcher?

Runner had yet to get to 2nd base

 I was going to put this on the Baseball forum, but no one will see it, so I thought all you junior umpires out there might like something to tickle your knowledge bone.

I have had several very interesting situations this season. I only do High School baseball these days and my time working behind the plate has come to an end so I mostly work the bases.

If people are interested I'll post a few interesting situations that came up and see if anyone can make the correct call.

Yesterday game

Inning makes no difference.
Runner on 1st base, ONE out, batter has a 3-2 count on him.
Runner on 1st is off with the pitch. Batter swings at a ball in the dirt and misses. He starts running to 1st base.
The ball hits off the catcher's shin guard and goes into the dugout. The runner who was on 1st base was already around 2nd base when the ball went into the dugout.

Question
is the batter out or safe at 1st?
Where does the runner, who was on 1st, end up (scores, 3rd base, 2nd base, or back on 1st base)?
And if you have any explanation as to why you answered the way you did.

In this movie you see, while the Beatles are performing on the roof, some London policemen come a calling. In the other movie, Get Back, they explain the reason for them being there. Since this performance on the roof really wasn't planned that way. They got up there and started singing and playing. One lady who lived right there called the police complaining all the noise was ruining her afternoon nap. The Bobby came up and was sort of ushered away. He called his sergeant and then several Bobbies came up there to investigate this unannounced concert. It was very funny, the legendary Beatles were performing and the police wanted to intervene because some woman's nap time was being disturbed.

Quote from: Sem on May 09, 2024, 12:56:32 PMI haven't seen this yet, (don't have Disney), but I'm sure I will someday. Not sure if this was pointed out in the film or not, but in the second picture above, "Get Back Take 1," the young man you see on the left with dark hair and wearing a tie, is a young Alan Parsons of The Alan Parsons Project. At the time he was a 20 year old kid employed at Abbey Road Studios. He set up the cabling for the rooftop concert. He's also listed as Assistant Engineer on the Beatles' albums Let it Be and Abbey Road. His duties included being the tape operator and "teaboy" (fetched tea for the fab four during recording sessions). Not a bad gig for an 18 year old, or at least he was when recording began for Let it Be in 1968.

Great pick-up Steve.

You put a lot of effort into this post. Much appreciated. I also liked the movie very much but I wouldn't call it a masterpiece and far from his best work. Pulp Fiction is far and away a better movie and is always listed among the best movies ever made.
I really didn't notice most of the things you mentioned and when I do rewatch it, I will definitely look for them.

It's funny, when I did watch this movie, I thought to myself, WOW a Tarantino movie with any blood. I hadn't gotten to the ending when I was thinking that. Foolish me.

 No offense here, but I saw this yesterday and was going to post it, but as soon as I saw the rankings, I decided (and for me, not a Daniel Jones fan) against it. It was really too much over the top.

How in the world can you rank 5 guys who never took a damn snap in the NFL ahead of even the worst QB in the league?

Yesterday, on Disney, they released a film that hasn't been shown in over 50 years. 'Let It Be' is a movie that hasn't been shown anywhere for 50 years and now, restored is being shown on Disney starting yesterday.
Since we are true die-hard Beatles fans and will gobble up anything new about them, we grabbed our after-dinner snacks and sat down to watch and we weren't disappointed.

https://www.salon.com/2024/05/07/beatles-let-it-be-review-disney-plus/

We had previously watched the 3-part (6 hour I believe) film by Peter Jackson, "Get Back" which we also loved but there were parts in Get Back that really could have been eliminated and probably 3 hours would have been sufficient, but now, with Let It Be, basically 90 minutes telling how and showing most of the Beatles last concert on the rooftop, was superb.

If you are a Beatles fan, this is Can't Miss TV.

mid week funnies

 One of my all-time favorite pictures. I used to have it hanging in my basement for years

 Just came across this clip and thought people might enjoy it and 'learn' something about one of the all-time great NY Giants