Posted on 06/27/2014 8:16:11 AM PDT by Kaslin
I especially enjoyed watching the Tigers sweep the Rangers in their own park and tonight they head on to last place Houston.
I just love the artistry of baseball. Like ballet with clubs and rocks.
While I don’t disagree with your point, in the case of the tie between Portugal and the US this year, the head-to-head tiebreaker would have been indecisive - the head to head match was a draw. Presumably, goal differential would be your preferrred second tiebreaker?
The White Sox have one great TV announcer, Steve Stone. The other "Hawk" Harrelson, is a meatball.
FO.
I'll decide what and when I'll cheer.
And it sure as hell won't be soccer!
That is definitely my experience.
Mario Impemba and Rod Allen.
Nobody can hold a candle to Ernie Harwell but Mario and Rod have been at it long enough with the Tigers to do a pretty good job. I like the name they gave Al Alburquerque (Everyday Al)
Right, where you can have tie games, like NHL hockey standings use points.
So when the USA sends its best players to play against another nation's best, things are a little different.
I miss Ernie. (And Sparky, for that matter). And Al[name shortened to save bandwith] has the longest surname that I’ve ever seen on the back of a jersey. Seriously, it’s a half-moon’s worth of letters.
They do use points for WC standings. Three points for a win, one point for a tie. In this case, though, the US and Portugal both lost to Germany, beat Ghana and tied each other. Therefore, they both had 4 points in the standings. (Germany had 7 to lead the group, and Ghana had 1 to finish 4th) The head to head result (a tie) obviously cannot be used to break the tie. The only reasonable way in this case to break the tie is goal differential.
I would personally prefer that FIFA use head to head result before goal differential, but in this case, there really is no other reasonable tiebreaker.
Yeah, it's such a hassle converting between American volts and metric volts.
***I just love the artistry of baseball. Like ballet with clubs and rocks.***
I get what you’re saying. I feel the same about soccer. When I watch it, every single touch of the ball, every position of every player means something to me. There is finesse and strategy that is constantly changing, like life itself. No timeouts barring the occasional severe injury. The stops and starts are quick. It is a very fluid game, as you say, like ballet.
I don’t care if soccer is not for everyone, but I sure do enjoy watching it myself. I’m happy I have the opportunity to watch it when I can.
For what its worth I’m no fan of Football of Basketball either. Baseball and NASCAR for me.
I guess you aren’t totally familiar with the units, but volts ARE a metric unit. A volt is one joule per coulomb. A coulomb is a unit of electrical charge equal to the amount of charge that flows through a conductor each second if that conductor is carrying a 1 ampere current. A Joule is a unit of energy. It is equal to 1 newton-meter. A meter is obviously metric. The newton is a force unit, which is equal to the force needed to provide a 1 kg mass with an acceleration of 1 meter per second per second. Thus, newtons are also a metric unit. Therefore, volts are metric.
For a similar unit in the imperial system, you would have to use energy in imperial units per unit of electrical charge. The force unit in imperial is pounds (we usually mistakenly consider pound to be a mass unit; it is not). Distance is in feet, so energy is in foot-pounds. Assuming coulombs are still used for charge, we would have foot-pounds per coulomb as the imperial unit for electical potential. Obviously, I have never seen such a unit used.
Exactly. Ease of conversion (technically ease of switching between standard metric prefixes) says nothing about accuracy or precision or resolution.
Converting between different "metric" units is not always a factor of ten. If you measure pressure in kg/cm^2, one of those is equal to roughly 98.1 kilopascals. A standard atmosphere is 1.03 kg/cm^2 or 101.325 kilopascal.
If working on complex things, you still have to mind your units and conversion factors. The fact that there are exactly 1000 pascals in a kilopascal is trivial.
There is nothing wrong with the british system. You might also be interested in knowing that major companies still use the british system such as Boeing and Sikorsky.
Yes. Sometimes it is just more convenient. Sometimes a company's historical intellectual property is invested in systems and formulas based on standard units.
That was humor. I'm an electrical engineer.
Nobody ever seems to complain about low scoring in Hockey.
Hockey has hitting.
Soccer has biting. ;)
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