Saturday, May 18, 2013
Brian Cashman is keeping Ben Francisco around to “piss everybody off”
(hardballtalk.nbcsports.com)
Read More...The Yankees designated infielder Alberto Gonzalez for assignment this afternoon in order to make room for the newly-acquired Reid Brignac. Some thought that Ben Francisco‘s roster spot could be in jeopardy, as he’s hitting just .114 (5-for-44) in 21 games, but Yankees general manager Brian Cashman joked to reporters today that he’s keeping him around for a very important reason.
Andy McCullough @McCulloughSL
Cashman on Ben Francisco’s roster spot: “Just in terms of your fan comments ...
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< 1 2 3ZIP Codes are never assigned to huge swaths of land with boundaries, outside which they do not apply, and inside which they apply universally. Nobody has yet given an example of such a situation. There are defacto situations like this, where the set of points and lines can be interpreted as a polygon, but that's just a happy side effect.
The problem is that Jeter didn't say after the game "But then he claimed he didn't say it." That justification magically appeared the next day.
So now Jeter is being deceptive instead of simply mistaken?
Damn, you must have a lot of people on ignore if you haven't noticed the ZIP code discussion in this very thread. It would otherwise seem impossible to separate the Jeter said/Foster said discussion from the non-Sym ZIPs talk.
Not to me, people misunderstand one other fairly easily.
Is anyone really debating the algorithm by which ZIP codes are created and cataloged? I think the only point anyone might contend is the one you have just ceded. I think that would make it okay to synecdochically refer to the areas containing those points by their ZIP code, in the cases where these defacto areas exist.
I've got nobody on ignore. I didn't say I didn't notice the discussion; I asked if my eyes were deceiving me.
It's not necessary to define the ZIP code, but that is how the ZIP code is formally defined. I agree with you, however, that it could just as easily be broken down into points. In practice, the USPS does not do this.
I have no dog in that fight. What kind of obsessive-compulsive freak do you think I am?
Not if you live in a city and have a cell phone.
I'm honestly not sure.
They used to be, but soon I'll be living in two area codes at the same time and I'm not Schrodinger's Cat. I know the algorithm for how they used to assign Area Codes, but am not sure how Zip Codes were assigned. I do know that in the Hartford area, they were 06xxx then assigned alphabetically by Post Office, but I have no inkling if that system is USPS-wide.
He was a chef at the local Charlie Brown's. As I recall, his end-cut prime rib was quite aerodynamic.
Now there are "overlay" area codes, which share an area with (an)other code(s).
Three digit zips define an area, or at least used to when I worked in a mail room. (Well, except for APO addresses). Zips do not respect political boundaries. My wife lived in the tiny borough of Rockledge, PA but had a 191xx zip, which is the "Philadelphia" zip.
I grew up outside of Norristown, PA which had zips of 19401 and 19403. Most of 19403 was in Whitpain township. Norristown is a very beaten up town, so at some point in the 80s, the folks who lived in the Whitpain part of Norristown, PA 19403 petitioned to be changed to Blue Bell, PA 19422. Blue Bell (in the middle of Whitpain) had grown from a sleepy crossroads to an enviable suburb. The petition was granted and the zip code changed. Insurance rates dropped and presumably real estate prices were enhanced.
Right. I once lived in a section of a town that was serviced by another town's post office. My mom still lives there, but they changed the Zip code. Unfortunately, this meant that some checks from my father's pension plan weren't being delivered to her and she had no idea that they were being mailed out.
I could be wrong, but I believe that anecdote was said regarding Ted Williams.
I thought it was attributed to an umpire talking about Al Kaline, in either "Ball Four", or Bill Lee's book.
"Son, Mister Kaline will let you know when you throw a strike by doubling off the right center field wall."
holy ####### ####, is that really ####### true? Jesus H. ########!
I'll put letters onto Dial's keyboard for him.
"Oh really? Have you met Derek Jeter and Milton Bradley, personally? Do you really know how they both act, or just how the media portrays them?"
If you want to take the literal approach to its extreme, you could go so far as to say that the digits (as digitally represented or in print) are themselves constructed of points and lines, but it wouldn't invalidate the fact that ZIP codes consist of numeric digits.
That last paragraph there, that's exactly what I meant. You misunderstand me in the first. ZIP codes are digits, digits are written with lines and areas. A 7 is two lines, three if you're some commie European. I was exactly taking the literal approach to its extreme hoping that the two of you would shut up about it before some big ZIP code thread started. I see I failed. As did the parents of every person in here.
It's troubling.
-- MWE
But, anyway, I'm not sure the zip code thing is in the Top 5 of Fly's quirkiest quirks. Well, Top 5 maybe. Not sure about Top 3.
That must suck for them when they try to meet him at the station.
We kind of do. Why wouldn't the IP of the mail server be exactly analogous to the ZIP code for a regular mailbox?
Because there are limits to even our pedantry.
That's shouldn't be allowed. If he's yours when the sun's shining, he's yours when it's raining.
Or not.
Once I had someone trying to mail me something and he said that the lady at the post office refused to let him mail it with the address he wrote down on it. The issue was that my address was in Seminole, the city I lived in, but when she entered the zip code into the computer it came up as Largo (the city most of the zip code covered) and she decided that was a huge problem.
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