More on the Masters

I suppose every week on the PGA Tour there are some players have who bounce back from poor first rounds, as well as others with good first rounds who fade from the leaderboard. Still plenty of golf to be played. Any observations from the first round? When I got home from work we had the Masters on the TV most of the evening. Will be nice to watch the Masters on our new high def TV. How my Masters picks fared in round one, compared to Reid's. A lot of golf to be played.

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Murphy                          720                  1372

Whitaker                        722                   1376

Jack Nicklaus Before and After his Honorary Starter Tee Shot.

Man you can sure tell when someone uses A.I. to write a description for an item they're selling. Goes into all this unnecessary detail that's usually not 100% accurate, and a little too generic for the item that's being sold. AI is causing people to think less, which isn't a good thing.

Pet peeve: people who call a meeting to learn what's going on, who then come to the meeting and talk the entire time, instead of asking questions and then shutting their trap and listening and learning. People get a promotion and forget everything they were supposed to have learned on the way up the ladder, so us peons are stuck explaining the same crap over and over again, and nothing ever changes. Thankfully my boss shields me from most of the crud.

STAN MUSIAL [SABR Bio] had 3000 hits but never struck out more than 50 times in any season, joining Cap Anson, Nap Lajoie, Eddie Collins, & Paul Waner in this "club". Tony Gwynn is the most recent member. Ty Cobb, Honus Wagner, & Tris Speaker each had only one season of more than 50 strikeouts. Musial hit the most home runs in all star game history: six. He was the first player to finish in the top 10 in both batting average and home runs in the same season six times:

Year      BA NL MLB HR NL MLB

1948 .376 1   4   39  3  3rd

1949 .338 2   4   36  2  4th

1951 .355 1   1   32  4  5th

1953 .337 3   3   30  7  9th

1954 .330 4   6   35  7  7th

1957 .351 1   3   29  7 10th

Thursday: BBQ chicken, baked potatoes, and steamed broccoli for supper.

Friday: up early to lift weights at the gym. They brought in Marco's Pizza for lunch. I like Marcos better than Mellow Mushroom. Friday night we ate at Superica in the Forum.

Braves lost Friday night, so I had to wear a different outfit on Saturday. Wore all Nike: hoodie, sweatpants, and sneakers. Braves won this afternoon so tomorrow I'll wear the same thing. 

The Most Beautiful Place in each state. I've been to several, including Georgia's Cumberland Island.

"When we have a choice, people usually choose privacy, control, and comfort—and then we're shocked when we wind up lonely. We put up 'privacy fences,' and then complain about how nobody knows their neighbors anymore. But communal bonds have always been tightened by necessity." —Eve Tushnet.