Anonymous ID: 775a21 April 23, 2023, 7:43 p.m. No.18743107   ๐Ÿ—„๏ธ.is ๐Ÿ”—kun

How does the trick work? Itโ€™s pretty easy. First, make a potato look like a baseball. It doesnโ€™t have to be perfect, or even particularly close. Spherical-ish. Pale-ish. Baseball-ish. Then, while holding the actual baseball, lob your fraudulent vegetable into the outfield. Try to do this in a way that looks natural, like youโ€™ve made a garden-variety throwing error. Then, when the runners take off, fooled by your decoy, you tag them with the real baseball, and theyโ€™re out. Simple.

 

Bresnahan spent weeks planning the trick. His teammates egged him on the whole way. He carved the tuber, painted on stitching, played catch with his roommate to make sure it was at least reasonably convincing. Then he practiced the throw in question during real games, attempting to pick a Reading player off at third when he made it into a game against them a few days before Potato Day itself.

 

All that was left for Bresnahan to do was to sneak the potato into the game, which was more difficult than it sounds, since a) the catcher is right next to an umpire pretty much all the time and b) getting a runner to third base requires a fair amount of baseball to be played. Clearly grabbing the potato in the dugout and trying to hide it for the better part of an inning wasnโ€™t going to fly.

 

https://getpocket.com/explore/item/how-pulling-off-a-potato-trick-ended-a-baseball-player-s-career

Anonymous ID: 775a21 April 23, 2023, 7:59 p.m. No.18743181   ๐Ÿ—„๏ธ.is ๐Ÿ”—kun

TSUNAMI THREAT FORECAST

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  • HAZARDOUS TSUNAMI WAVES FROM THIS EARTHQUAKE ARE POSSIBLE

WITHIN 300 KM OF THE EPICENTER ALONG THE COASTS OF

 

KERMADEC ISLANDS.

https://www.tsunami.gov/events/PHEB/2023/04/24/23114050/1/WEPA40/WEPA40.txt