Roberto Clemente was very much a bad-ball hitter, probably more so than Yogi, and Manny Sanguillen was a bad-ball hitter.    Rafael Devers is a bad-ball hitter, although (like you) I'm not sure the term is used anymore, but that is how I think of him.  

 Right.  I have the same problem with them.  I know that my kids loved one of them and hated the other one, but I could never remember which was which.  

 Oh, I didn't know about the Ashton Kutcher one.  I saw the Fassbender version.  

 

 

Knock knock.

 

Who's there?

 

Amaggedon.

 

Armaggedon Who?

 

Armaggedon a little tired of all these movies about an asteroid hitting the earth.

 

 

(You have to pronounced "tired" as "tarred", like a southerner, for the joke to work.  

 Second ET reference of the day. 

 OK, thanks.  

 No, that IS the same.  I did see both of those movies, and that's exactly the phenomenon I was talking about.    

 OK.  

 Thanks.  If you ever find them, I wonder if Project Scoresheet could incorporate that information into there accounts for general study?  

 There is no difference; it's just people like you who like to PRETEND There is a difference so you can claim you are smarter than the 99% of us who know that there isn't actually any difference.  

 I have never thought of them that way.  I have read the entire Harry Potter series three times, with great admiration for Rowling's many skills as a writer.   The movies. . ..the best you can say is that some of them aren't as bad as the rest of them.  

 

The Harry Potter books are all about THE PAST; there were a long series of things that happened years ago, before Harry was born,and all of the books are really about figuring out what it was that happened and how this story is carrying on in the present time, all around Harry.  I always thought of it as a sort of re-telling of World War II; you can read "Voldemort" as "Hitler" and "Muggle" as "Jew" and it mostly makes sense.   Not exactly correctly stated; the people representing the Jews are the half-Muggle, half-Magical people like Hermione.   Not saying this is a better interpretation than yours; I'm just saying it is one way of reading the stories. 

 

The dificulty with the movies is introducing fantastical magical things without losing the thread of the story.  In the books, something magical happens and you don't know what it is, but the action continues and eventually it is explained what that creature was and where it came from, etc.  But in the movies, a magical creature is introduced, and everything stops and the characters ooh and aah about this magical creature for a minute or two and the wise person steps forward to explain it before the action resumes.  But I don't especially blame the movie producers for that; it's just hard to replicate the introduction of magical creatures, on screen, the way it is done in the books.  

 I don't think I ever really thought about them as spy movies.   There is something slightly different about them that I don't like.  First, I don't think I would like ANY movie that you would describe as a "fun romp."   It's like. . .James Bond and Frank Sinatra and Joe DiMaggio would all be great friends, you know?   I could never stand Sinatra.  There's something about that too-cool-for-school-chick-magnet persona that just doesn't have any appeal to me.  

 There are two towns connected, Leavenworth Kansas and Lansing.   They run together.  The two main industries of the area are (1) the "staff general college" for the United States Army. . .may not be the right name.   Anyway, if you are made General in the Army, you are sent to the staff general college in Leavenworth, essentially, to learn how to be a general.  There are lots of high-ranking military personnel there, and also high-ranking military from our Allies are sometimes stationed there are part of their educational process.   It's an unusually nice military post, which looks more like a 19th century Victorian neighborhood than a military post, and the post sets on a scenic location perched above a river.   

 

Other than that, the main industry of the area is prisons.  The Federal prison at Leavenworth is the most famous, but the United States Military Disciplinary Barracks are also there, on the post; it's just like a half-mile walk from the one big prison to the other.  If you get into really, really serious trouble in the United States Army, Navy, Air Force or Marine Corps, anywhere in the world, you will wind up in Leavenworth, at the Military Disciplinary Barracks. 

 

The KANSAS prison, where Richard Hickock and Perry Smith were held and eventually executed, is in Lansing, which is just a few miles from the other two big prisons, maybe four miles, maybe less.  And I think there are two or three other prisons in the town(s); I'm not sure, but I think the state women's prison is there or used to be there, and there are juvenile prisons, which they don't call prisons, and places to hold Mentally unstable people who commit crimes. . .I don't know what all, but I think there are several smaller prisons in Lansing/Leavenworth as well.  

 

It's actually a pretty nice town. . .well, parts of it are and parts of it aren't, you know, but the presence of the high-ranking military sustains some good quality restaurants.  There is a horrible dumpy-looking motel where people stay when they come to visit their relatives who are incarcerated, and then five blocks away there is a very nice shopping/dining district.  

 

With all of those prisons you do get prison escapes sometimes.  These will be on the news, but we're 25 miles away and Kansas City is 20 miles away (from Leavenworth) and it is easier to get to KC than it is to get to Lawrence, so we don't really worry about it.  It doesn't effect us.   There was a highly publicized escape a few years ago (from Lansing) when a lady who was teaching dog handling classes at the prison, intended to have a salutory effect on the inmates, fell in love with one of her students and helped him escape from the prison and ran off with him.  You hear stories like that once in a while.  

 

I had an in-law/relative/cousin type person maybe 30 years ago worked as a guard there.  Somehow the subject of escapes came up, and he said "We don't do anything when there is an escape.  We just call the police and let them handle it."  

 I am trying to learn to deal with it in a mature and healthy way.   I think the basketball issue does need a rules revision. 

 Thanks. 

Are you asking about the New Orleans Axeman or the killings in a series of small towns north of Louisiana?