TaserTiger

re: Matt Canada -- Master of Disguise -- Pro Style Spread Offense

Posted by TaserTiger on 8/6/17 at 1:35 am

Great thread -

I'm still watching (over and over) one of ESPNs Top 25 games of 2016 - Pitt beating eventual NC Clemson at Clemson. Pitt was 5-4, while Clemson was 9-0. Pitt drove the ball right down the field 75 yards on 1st drive and 3rd drive. Score tied 14-14 end 1st Q.

Pitt won. Clemson NC at 14-1 record (same as Alabama at 14-1 after defeat). Clemson - Pitt game worth watching again, if you can get it!!! Matt Canada don't care - his "inferior" Pitt personnel whipped the obviously superior home standing Clemson team because his Pitt team "outmaneuvered" them.

"Organized Chaos". "Organized Mayhem".

Heard it here. Bring it Canada. Geaux Tigers... :geauxtigers: :geauxtigers:

re: Gene Chizik praises Matt Canada

Posted by TaserTiger on 8/5/17 at 3:03 am

Still watching National Champ Clemson's only loss on the Pitt-Clemson game as one of ESPN's top 25 games of 2016. Clemson finished at 14-1. Beat undefeated Alabama in NC game (Alabama ended 14-1). Guess what? Pitt with Matt Canada beat Clemson in game played at Clemson. Clemson's only loss, who also finished 14-1.

I continue to watch that game. Thing of beauty. What I call "organized chaos". Must be seen to be appreciated. I am still near end of 1st Q with my re-watch with score tied 14-14. Organized chaos. That's what I call it. Clemson had no clue...

re: Gravely ZT HD

Posted by TaserTiger on 7/6/17 at 1:20 am

Absolutely fabulous machine.

I got a new 60" Gravely ZT HD about 2 years ago. Use it to cut 1 acre lawn. Around many trees, house & over bumpy lawn - about 1.5 hours per cut. Uses only about 1.5 to 2 gal. out of the 6 gal. gas tank each time.

Sorry, I have the 2 cylinder Kawasaki (24 HP, IIRC) motor. I do not know about Kohler. Should be very similar. I do know construction of mower is superb. While I usually step from the seat "deck" directly to the ground to try to avoid ruining something, my 200 lb. weight has stepped directly onto the mower deck before stepping to the ground many, many times. Mower deck is solid as a rock. I'm always amazed how sturdy the all welded deck is at any height adjustment.

Well put together top of the line residential machine. Yes, it was about $5,000. Paid several hundred extra to add trailer hitch, dual headlights, adjustable comfort seat (for bumps & ruts in my yard) - all dealer installed. Of course there's also that tax thingy to add to that.

Still, market is very competitive - great to see they are still around $5,000. Again, great machine. Starts immediately, even after no running for 3 - 4 months on first try in Spring. Has not used a drop of oil or individual wheel transmission fluid (from easy to check single tank) in 2 years.

Hope I helped.

re: Neatest thing you have built?

Posted by TaserTiger on 6/30/17 at 12:22 am

fishfighter - hang in there -

I built (kit built) a Heathkit electronic depth finder in about 1969. A circular scale displaying 0 - 60' with a spinning neon flashing light depth finder (using regular transom mounted transducer). Circuit board, soldering iron, transistors, resistors, capacitors, et. al. Yeah, I did it as someone in my young 20's. One of original type publically available circular type depth finders.

Worked like a charm in about 1969 - showed 18 foot depth (as an example) within 1-2' constant light around 18' with constant neon flash on spinning (probably 60 cps) bulb. Showed some (not much) reflections from whatever else was between the surface and the bottom.

Installed it on my Kingfisher bass boat about 1969 - worked like a charm. These days, no big deal. Then, that was the neatest thing I had ever built.

re: So popular opinion is that Dark Side of the Moon is the best PF Album...

Posted by TaserTiger on 6/29/17 at 1:39 am

I love all of Pink Floyd's music. I mean I love it all... I'm over 70. Been there. They, in all their incarnations, are so superbly great!!!

I have all, I mean all, of their music.

Argue on particulars all you want, guys. I love all of Pink Floyd's music. Great thread. Carry on.

re: Let's talk about medium to deep cranking for bass

Posted by TaserTiger on 6/29/17 at 1:01 am

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I've been curious about this but had no idea how drilling into a crank and/or adding weight would work, I may do some tinkering leading up to this weekend.

Drilling into bottom of hollow body floater/diver lure, regardless of size/action of lip (shallow, medium, deep diver) to add weight to any of these "lipped cranks" has never been a problem. I probably did that 44 years ago in about 1973 when I drilled through bottom of a Rebel black back/silver side shallow floater/diver to add one or two BBs or 5 or 6 small shot before sealing the hole with 2 part epoxy.

Added weight to the shallow floater/diver, sure, for fishing off banks of Toledo Bend and off banks of canals in the "Spillway". It also added rattle. Sound, obviously. Added positives? Who can say? I can say that I thought it added no negatives.

Subsequently added sound (rattle) and weights to deeper diving floater divers when fishing Toledo Bend. Caught numerous bass with these baits. I never messed with "Suspending" models of floater/divers (cranks) re. adding weight to lures. Whole 'nother ball game. Adding weight to these makes these baits suspend at deeper and deeper levels. IMO...

re: Congressional baseball players to wear LSU gear during game in scalise's honor

Posted by TaserTiger on 6/15/17 at 12:43 am

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Will the game be on C-Span?

Yes. From what I heard on TV, game will be televised on C-Span at 7pm EDT.

I get C-Span1 and C-Span2. Neither indicated programming included that game. So I recorded them both for several hours beginning 6pm CDT. We will see.

Hope I helped. :geauxtigers:

re: It's magic if the music is groovy, it makes you feel happy like an oldtime movie

Posted by TaserTiger on 6/11/17 at 3:07 am

Much better than I could do.

Keep 'em coming, Kafka...

re: 2018 Lsu vs Sec softball senior losses, per team vs LSU

Posted by TaserTiger on 6/9/17 at 2:49 am

Hi New Iberia. I grew up there, then 5 years Lafayette, then 7 years Baton Rouge area and then Houston area since. Welcome to board. You are totally contributing to LSU softball. Shout out to New Iberia and area. Thanks for your posts. Have read them all. LSU is totally my team also.

:geauxtigers:

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I don't know who Ashlyn is though...

I don't either. However, seems that I heard one ESPN announcer talk about a conversation she had with her good friend Ashley something or other (maybe Ducote, maybe not - I replayed several times), the coach at Parkview Baptist HS, about a week or so ago. Forgot the details of the ESPN on air ramble during an LSU softball or other game. Then I remembered that Nicky Dawson was a freshman from Parkview.

Then a light switch flipped in my mind. Ashlyn on Tiger Rant? Naaah. Probably not. Probably no connection. What do I know? Wiggle room with plausible deniability.

I agree with prior posters, many (if not all) of our excellent softball team's players read these threads. Jennlsu, keep posting excellent posts...
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re: Need tomato help! What's wrong with them?

Posted by TaserTiger on 6/8/17 at 4:13 am

Looks/sounds like a water problem to me. Over or under watering? Does 5 gal. pot have one or more holes at bottom not entirely on concrete so it can truly drain? I have had pots in the past being entirely on concrete and pretty much "sealed" at bottom so they could not really drain water reasonably as necessary.

2" gravel at bottom is great, but the composition of your soil above that determines % water/moisture retention vs. time. Absorb that for a minute.

Thus, no hard and fast rule about how often to water. Especially since daily temps increase as we get into the late spring, early summer - not to mention cooler, rainy days.

Old timers like my brother and I (around 70 years old) both rely on "new fangled" gadgets like Moisture Meters (Dr. Meter or equivalent - I'm not a salesperson). Less than $10 each, no batteries required (rely on a 10" probe to determine dry to wet moisture on a scale of 0 - 10 galvanically).

I would think you youngsters would be more in tune with electronic devices than us oldsters - j/k, trying to help. This little device absolutely helps to determine when your soil is dry - or not. Thus when to water. Available online, elsewhere.

Calcium and fertilizers like Miracle Gro for one of your "waterings" maybe every 3 - 4 weeks can absolutely help. Do not over fertilize 1st year of soil in your 5 gal. pot. 2nd year mix in Bone Meal and fertilize more often with your next tomato plant. JMO.

If successful with growing some tomatoes, watch out next for plant destroying pests like tomato hornworm. Use Bacillus Thuringiensis soon as you notice eaten leaves.

Good luck to you. Hope I helped.

re: Softball WCWS: Winners Bracket #13LSU 0 VS #1Florida 7 final

Posted by TaserTiger on 6/3/17 at 4:44 am

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LSU's issue is the offense not its pitching.

Totally agree. To win at this CWS level, LSU needs runs. To get runs, LSU needs real hits (doubles or greater).

Against great pitching, LSU needs great hitters with BA of .300 or greater to do doubles or more (slugging % enters). Yields RBIs. Yields runs. Runs win games. Not hits. Not OBP.

LSU has great pitchers just as much as Florida. Notice the 0-0 score into the 4th inning. Ump was tight with his calls, but he was tight for both pitchers. I did not have a problem with that.

It was a struggle for both teams offensively to that point. Then Florida broke through with a well placed hit with 2 runners aboard in the 4th to take a 2-0 lead.

You know this. You saw this. Still, my point really is LSU could have done this same thing earlier in the game. However, it takes hitters to take advantage of 2 people on base (however they got there) to produce the 2 runs (2 RBI).

LSU didn't. They did not get the lead in the 1st 3 innings (even though they were given the advantage of being the home team).

People that have followed baseball (of course includes softball) all their lives realize scoring first (getting the lead) in a ball game is a tremendous advantage (mind relaxer) for the pitcher that now has the lead. Changes totally the pitching mindset, pitching approach, etc.

LSU could not do that. So, once again, it's not pitching. We did super good - very, very well. It's the hitting. We will get better in the future. I always follow our LSU team...

:bow: :geauxtigers:

re: WCWS Softball: LSU 2-UCLA 1 TIGERS WIN!!

Posted by TaserTiger on 6/2/17 at 6:30 am

Don't claim you "debunked" any major point I made in any post by "debunking" a small, minor point I may have made about slap hitters (slappers) being able to make it to 1st base in world record time or not. That does not constitute winning in baseball or softball (baseball). Runs do that. Not getting to first via slapping or otherwise...

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and there is a slapper for TAMU....hit it to the SS and easily outran the throw. I'll be damned. I thought I read here home to first speed did not matter necessarily?

That ball was not driven hard into dirt either. not over her head and not much airtime. She just outran it. well, well, well.

AND, the middle infielders WERE playing in front of the baseline as I have elaborated about in earlier posts as far as defensive positioning to help againt slappers. Guess what? she still outran the throw!

great job slapper! You just proved my arguments and points and debunked tasertiger's post about home to first speed.

You sound sanctimonious. Wow. Nothing to concede here. This is not high school women's softball!!!

Slappers still have BA of .300 or less Div. 1 College major softball. Same as non "happy feet" hitters on average.

OBP. Mox nix. Runs (hitters producing runs, RBI, etc.) win games. Not OBP (remember LOB if no RBI). Still my opinion.

Did that TAMU extremely fast runner score? Nope. A&M got run-ruled by Florida in 5 innings 8-0. Seems the extremely fast slapper running to 1st did not matter in the overall scheme of things. Mox nix.

My major point (which you ignored) was "hitters", not "slappers", win games at major college softball level. Argument with that?

Florida does not have a single slap hitter in their lineup. I saw their game. Memory fuzzy - they hit 2 HR (maybe 3, I lost track). One was a 3 run HR. Those are called RBIs. Remember, runs win games.

Turning to LSU's game, both runs were totally scored with "hitters", not slap hitters. 1st inning Emily Griggs and then Savannah Jaquish with doubles. Then Quinn and Serrett with consecutive hits for the 2nd run.

Again, my major point is "hitters" win elite level college softball games. Not slappers. I can say this without getting into any elite college softball statistics - which I can, of course...

I honestly respect your many posts and contributions to this great board and softball team - I just don't like to see you state you debunked a minor point of any of my posts when you do not address any of the major points of my posts. I will concede to you that slappers (especially very fast major college level slappers) have a great advantage when slapping high bouncers or otherwise infield hits (even solidly hit opposite field outfield hits) when running to first base.

They (slappers or slap hitters) do not significantly contribute in a major (meaningful) way to winning any major (elite) level college softball (or higher) game. IMO. Argue with that? Happy to. Give me your statistics.

re: WCWS preview and predictions LSU softball

Back at you with :lol: and :bow:

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re: WCWS preview and predictions LSU softball

Posted by TaserTiger on 6/1/17 at 5:36 am

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OBP means everything? I disagree, respectfully.

In response to Mulerider, so do I. I held off responding - I think he was really responding to you. However, he was indirectly responding to me.

Bhs83, I so totally agree with you.

OBP, as a stat, implies that hitters (slapper or regular) and walkers/HBP players control the game of offensive baseball or fast pitch softball. They absolutely do not. Anyone ever hear of runners LOB? I did not see this LOB stat anywhere in this thread...

Any of those games are won by scoring the most runs at the end of a multiple inning game (regular, run-ruled, extra inning, etc.), whether it is baseball or fast pitch softball. Maybe I'm "uninformed".

Questions?

So, what contributes most to runs? Mulerider seems to think OBP (via slap hitters or slappers, even singles or more hitters, walkers, letting a pitch hit you, etc.) is key. OK. That's his opinion.

Sounds like high school to me. High school teams do not have the elite infield players that major college softball teams have. Argue with that? Probably not. Nobody has brought up this point or at least amplified it. Typical major college level slap hitters have a BA and an OBP entirely in line with regular hitters. But they produce very few of the runs offensively to win the game.

Enter RBI. A stat so much more important in this major college softball game/NPF, major college BB/MLB than OBP I cannot tell you where to start talking winning games at these levels.

Big advantage in high school to be an extremely fast slapper. No advantage in major college competition.

Speed of "slappers" comes to forefront in major college softball when they are on base. Big plus. Their speed comes to forefront defensively in outfield or infield. Big plus. But, not necessarily while batting.

Name of the game is runs scored on offense. OBP as a primary indicator ignores the LOB statistic. Several of the "slapper" advocates have already conceded this truism (they have seen slapper teams load the bases only to produce no runs that inning because the 3rd out was produced with a well positioned infield "throwing out" runner at home.

Slappers are fine (even great) in high school. Particularly when you overwhelm the other team athlete wise. Slappers are not so good at major college level. Watch the games...

Big time hitters (not "happy feet" slappers) matter more at the major college softball level, IMO. The RBI stat is so much better than the OBP stat at this level. It's unbelievable how many people fail to recognize this change in methodology necessary to deal with the talent level change in the major college softball game...

In no way am I denigrating our LSU teams slappers. We have what we have. We are great. Congratulations to Bailey Landry for her triple to drive home a run in LSU's 3rd game win. She is super. Exceptional slapper that is more of a hitter than slapper. Keep it up. So she can slap or hit/power slap big time. Hope LSU gets many more of her type in the future.

NPF (pro softball), major college baseball (LSU Tigers), and MLB pretty much ignore OBP. Remember, LOB. What counts is slugging %, RBI, HR, etc. Runs is the name of the game. Not bases touched only to be LOB...

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re: WCWS preview and predictions LSU softball

Posted by TaserTiger on 5/31/17 at 6:27 am

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On base percentage may mean a good bit, but it takes two slapper hits to get a runner from second base to home plate, probably 60 percent of the time.

Look at the better teams, they are not so much small-ball. They may mix some small-ball into the stew, but they are mostly wide open swing away teams. Watching Baylor play Utah the other night, all those bombs, doubles, triples... I hate to say it but we dont see as much of that at LSU. A slapper at the front and back is fine, but you have to have hitters who move runners two bases on a hit.

I couldn't have said it better myself...

:bow: :geauxtigers:

re: WCWS preview and predictions LSU softball

Posted by TaserTiger on 5/31/17 at 12:34 am

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Leave me out of this debate. ETA.. I have nothing to discuss yay or nay... just want to ride this train to the finish line... having a lot of fun so far!!

You and me both. I love our Lady Tigers. So far, so good. Wow. Aren't they something? Answer - yes, of course. They scared the heck out of me the last 2 innings of their 6-4 final game win. What a game!!!

Sorry I slighted you in previous thread - seems you are a super qualified women's softball aficionado. We just disagree on the % of inclusion of slappers (vs. % of "hitters") in a winning lineup on a college level to Pro Softball level (which includes our LSU softball team). See my following post.

Still, coach (I think you are a coach), thanks for apparently dealing with all these young women softball players and preparing them for the next level.

:geauxtigers:

re: Cowboy/Western Songs

Posted by TaserTiger on 5/27/17 at 5:04 am

Kafka - great songs. No kidding. Keep up the good work...

Songs mentioned in the first poster's response to OP are Marty Robbins' "Big Iron" and "El Paso". Just mentioned, not linked.

For the 37 people (j/k, maybe 250 million people more/less) in our 350 million USA population that may not have heard these totally great wild west songs as played by Marty Robbins, here they are:

Marty Robbins - Big Iron (with lyrics) - 1959
Marty Robbins - Big Iron - 1959

Marty Robbins - El Paso (with lyrics) -1960

Texas !!!

re: Cowboy/Western Songs

Posted by TaserTiger on 5/24/17 at 1:36 am

Song's self-proclaimed "Perfect Country & Western Song" - :lol: - With lyrics:

David Allan Coe - You Never Even Called Me By My Name - 1975

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re: NCAA Softball Selection Show thread: LSU #13 national seed (Updated w/ regional schedule)

Posted by TaserTiger on 5/15/17 at 3:49 am

Tigerbait357 -

Thanks so much for the excellent posting and info for the past several years re. our thrilling LSU softball program. I always read all your posts in totality. You seem to be so much "in the know" and "on top of things" in everything LSU softball - respect your opinions very much.

Posting to help you and any other people/posters maybe not realizing yet attempting to equate ULL with being UL or University of Louisiana. Check their ULL uniforms that are clearly marked "Louisiana". How arrogant! Irks the living shite out of me (USL graduate) every time I see that (and I have seen it for year after year).

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Like I said with UL-L, if we make sure they don't beat us with the homeruns we will be is really good shape.

OK, not bad with UL-L. Still, it's officially UL Lafayette or ULL just as much as our northeastern Louisiana college (formerly Northeast Louisiana University or NLU) is now UL Monroe or ULM. Louisiana legislature has still not granted privilege to either college to distinguish themselves as being UL or "University of Louisiana". There are currently 9 total "Louisiana" colleges, not just only these 2 mentioned.

University of Louisiana at Monroe
University of Louisiana at Lafayette

Ignore the singular reference in the Wiki ULL link referring to UL as a name for ULL. Note 1984 failed attempt to establish USL as UL in text.

The real reason I am responding to you is that you at first mentioned in a post on p. 4 something about UL. UL is not correct name of this University. Can quote your post if asked. I am obviously missing some exchanges (probably some deletions) in the subsequent posts re. this subject where you now refer to them as UL-L, but I mean no harm in trying to get this ULL name accepted and stop this UL or "Louisiana" nonsense stopped.

I won't succeed. That's OK. Just a voice in the wilderness.

Grew up south of Lafayette. Lived in Lafayette 5 years while I got my degree in Chem. E at USL in 1967. Feel I'm qualified to promote name of ULL, not UL or "Louisiana". Latter irritates me to no end. I have gotten USL/ULL alumni news all these years and all of it is slanted to proclaim university as UL or University of Louisiana ("Louisiana").

Please stop this totally false proclaiming of "Louisiana" as ULL's name nonsense. Please. ULL or UL Lafayette is a great name. What! You guys are not proud of the city of Lafayette and it's name? Rhetorical question, since it's a mindset with certain individuals and no one person can authoritatively answer this. Still, I have always wondered this. What is really wrong with ULL or the city/name of Lafayette? Absolutely nothing, IMO...

Tigerbait357, keep up the excellent work. It's obvious you have a unique insight into our current LSU softball team. I have followed LSU all year (not ULL, FYI). I have no dual loyalties. LSU all the way. When LSU is not involved, I always root for ULL, McNeese, La. Tech, ULM, et. al. Louisiana teams.

Still, not sure if LSU pitching can handle the hitters of ULL. They are pretty good. Like past years. Will be interesting. I'm a little disappointed that more LSU games won't be shown on regular ESPN/SECTV. My ESPN3 is so slow.

:cheers: :geauxtigers:

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re: Country is officially dead.

Posted by TaserTiger on 5/11/17 at 3:50 am

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Real country is the same as it's always been. It's true American music about living and loving and regular people

Amen, brother. Texas checking in here. Real country is about livin' and lovin', drinking with your buddies until closing time, dancing the night away with pretty ladies on the dance floor to your choices of songs & when to ask lovely ladies to dance with you to these songs, enjoying the hell out of all the rest of your non-dance choices, and so much more.

I love real country. It is not officially dead, just not quite connecting at this time with (IMO) old time "real" country.

After all, it's all just a matter of opinion as to what feels good in this category. Thanks for allowing me to play along and express my opinion.