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Life insurance in reverse
You know, my grandaddy had a simple saying. If something sounds too good to be true, turn around and walk the other way. If the idea was that good, someone else would have already done it.— June 9, 2015 12:07 p.m.
San Diego ranks 30th as baseball city
Don't like the wild card. Never have and never will. I don't think you need 10 teams in the post season. Dump the wild card and go back to 2 divisions per league. I think the DH rule is fine as is. The AL owners will never vote to remove it and the NL owners will never vote to add it, so leave it alone. The baseball season has been 162 games for over 50 yrs and was 154 for the 40 yrs prior to that. An increase of 8 games over nearly 100 yrs isn't much, especially when you consider that in 1920, there were only 16 teams and only 20 in 1962. If you want to go back tio154 games, fine. But what's worked for the last 100 yrs or so doesn't need to be messed with IMHO . The change wasn't about the money, at least not the kind you're thinking of. Back in the 1950's, and 1960's is mostly just one game a week until Monday night baseball started in the mid 60's. The money you're talking about didn't start until about 12-15 yrs ago. I do agree that the post season is way too long. But you can't have it both ways. If you want the wild cards, which you seem to, then you're stuck with it. And going back to a single wild card team would eliminate only 1 game. Instead of a 1-5-7-7 schedule, it would be a 5-7-7 schedule, like it was from 1999-2011. The only way to effectively shorten the post season is to eliminate the wild card and divisional rounds, other wise, as I said, losing the 1 game wildcard really doesn't do much. BTW. the NBA went to an 80 game schedule around 1960, added a game a couple of years later and finally 1 more game the next year. So it's been 80-82 game for over 50 yrs. No need to change it. If you want to change something, change the post season. Sixteen teams are way too many. When the Lakers beat the Sixers in Magic's rookie season, the Finals were over on May 16th. If this years finals go 6 like the 79-80 finals, it will end on June 16th. That's why the season is too long. Too many playoff teams/games. The 79-80 season had 12 teams make the playoffs. That's enough.— June 9, 2015 9:45 a.m.
San Diego ranks 30th as baseball city
don bauder, a couple of thoughts. First, Super Bowl 50 will be played on February 7, 2016 and the NCAA Championship game will be played on April 4, 2016, so it's just short of 2 months. The baseball season has been the same length since 1961, 26 weeks through the last Sunday of September or first Sunday of October. The reason the post season is now longer is due to additional teams , which necessitated the splitting of leagues into divisions. That had little to do with money because there were no huge tv contracts back them. However, the wild card games are ALL about money.— June 8, 2015 5:39 p.m.
San Diego ranks 30th as baseball city
don bauder, yes, I am well aware of that. Hence the additional wildcard team added in 2012. It also is an increase of playoff money for the players. However, that is all irrelevant to me in this context. I simply prefer, at the very least, the alignment as it was prior to the expansion to 3 divisions per league.— June 5, 2015 10:37 a.m.
San Diego long-timers will bear water conservation burden
Kind of a more sophisticated version of my theory that some sh!t you just couldn't make up.— June 4, 2015 6:11 p.m.
No water problem — it's a no-water problem
dwbat That would be billions with a capital B.— June 4, 2015 4:57 p.m.
No water problem — it's a no-water problem
captd/founder Exactly who is this "Big Water" that you keep referring to?— June 4, 2015 4:54 p.m.
No water problem — it's a no-water problem
captd/founder do this calculation. 40k 300 watt panels @ $.75 per watt. That's the cost of JUST the panels to cover 1 mile of canal. Now multiply that by the 444 miles for just the California Aqueduct. Now at least triple, and more likely quadruple that amount and you get an estimate of covering ONLY the California Aqueduct. You can do the math. How long do you think it would take to generate enough electricity to cover that much expense?— June 4, 2015 4:52 p.m.
No water problem — it's a no-water problem
shirleyberan your chances of getting killed by lightning are 30 times greater than being attacked by a shark and on average more people are killed each year when they knock over a vending machine to get a stuck soda or bag of snacks than by shark attacks. I will enjoy the beach this summer.— June 4, 2015 4:33 p.m.
No water problem — it's a no-water problem
captd/founder Your item number 3 has been talked about since at least 2011, from what I remember. The problem is cost. It would take about 35K to 40 K panels per mile. That's over 1.5 million panels just to cover the open portions of the California Aqueduct. Then you still need the support structure for the panels and everything else needed to complete the installation, including labor costs. And that doesn't even address the infrastructure issue such as substations and power lines and towers, construction of service roads, purchasing of rights of way when necessary and probably a whole bunch of other stuff I haven't thought of. Then of course, you still have to be able to have access to the canals for maintenance. Any kind of water conveyance will have sediment accumulating in it that has to be removed periodically, as well as large obstructions every once in a while that also have to be taken out. The concrete has a long design life, but it has to be repaired sometimes, especially in seismically active areas. Then of course the panels have to be maintained. Can you imagine the amount of dirt that would collect on them. And of course, there is the replacement of the panels in probable less than the usual 20-25 yrs due to the harsh environment. I'm sure that you get the idea. It ain't as easy as just having a few panels put on your roof, something you haven't done.— June 4, 2015 4:22 p.m.