ESPN Sued Over Minor League Baseball Scores [reuters.com].

Discuss.

another tact

Tack. Or possibly fact. Tact is where I don't call you a moron cos you don't know the difference/can't type.

Cheers,
Graham

When did Microsoft buy Disney?
But seriously, when did the outcry for real time minor league scoring start? I'm a big baseball fan but that's a bit much for me.

In Response to Rich (#17219):

Minor league scores are important. In fact, even more important...

Bring on the real-time little league scoring!

In Response to albionsoft (#17215):

Common sense is where you don't call me a moron because you know based on your own personal experiences that when I make mistakes of this nature, it is due to simple typographic failures, rather than any mental difficiencies.

And stealing information from someone else's website and then reselling it is definately a different standard of tact.

In Response to themysticalone (#17220):

Bring on the real-time little league scoring!

Aren't those heard on local police scanners?

In Response to zamphir (#17223):

Nah, common sense is where you assume I'm not being entirely serious...

Cheers,
Graham

In Response to albionsoft (#17238):

There's nothing common about me, including my sense.

In Response to zamphir (#17240):

The common senses are as follows:

Sight.
Hearing.
Smell/Taste.
Touch.

This list is exhaustive.

In Response to mcgrue (#17242):

I object to you grouping smell with taste. They are distinct.

I have no sense of smell. I have an excellent sense of taste.

In Response to tynic (#17260):

I have an excellent sense of taste.

I think your PMR contest entry disproves that.

In Response to zamphir (#17262):

... touche ...

In Response to tynic (#17265):

... touche ...

No, thanks. I just ate..

In Response to tynic (#17260):

I think that grouping "touch" as a single sense is sort of silly, too. But i suppose this is all a bit of nit-picking, which somehow feels extra-provoked by mcgrue's use of the the word "exhaustive" :-) We all could probably agree empirically that our "common" senses are comprised of myriad overlapping and complementary aspects of our sensoria, which are not easily reduced to a short list.

Two comments:

1. This is one of the most elegantly hijacked threads I've seen.

2. People watch minor league baseball?

In Response to Teledildonix (#17268):

I'm still searching very hard for a joke that will confuse 'grouping' with 'groping'.

But it hasn't worked out quite yet. I'm still feeling around for it.

In Response to zamphir (#17279):

Well, as long as you're trying hard-- that's the important bit.

In Response to tynic (#17260):

I object to you grouping smell with taste. They are distinct.

I have no sense of smell. I have an excellent sense of taste.

Unless I'm off my rocker, they are both handled with the same part of the brain. Blame your nose's hardware for being faulty... or more likely your environment for having too many strong odors so that your sense of smell never developed to a fine-tuned state.

My sense of smell sucks too, tho.

On that note, I'm not sure if balance is done with the same part as hearing. Balance seems like a distinct sense, tied right into your little ear-borne water level. But in the intrest of Self-Righteous Arrogance, I'll claim it doesn't exist. :D

In Response to mcgrue (#17311):

Blame your nose's hardware for being faulty... or more likely your environment for having too many strong odors so that your sense of smell never developed to a fine-tuned state.

Actually, it's my brain's hardware that's faulty. I fell down some stairs as a very young child, and have never had any sense of smell since then. (I mean zip, I can stick my head in a bucket of bleach and not even notice). I've never been too fussed about it, so I'm not sure of the neurophysiology, but typing 'anosmia' into google just then has yielded this site [maxuk.net], ... which tells me that it's my 'smell nerve' which is probably damaged, not my brain.

Interesting. OK, point conceded - same sense, conveyed by parallel pathways which operate independently. (I just realised my original post sounded a bit snarky - it wasn't meant to be).

In Response to Teledildonix (#17268):

We all could probably agree... Having read most of the discussions in this forum I would disagree.

In Response to tynic (#17314):

'anosmia' into google just then has yielded this site, ... which tells me that it's my 'smell nerve' which is probably damaged, not my brain.

I think you mean this site [maxuk.net] (left out the l at the end of the address). I'm guessing only part of your olfactory nerve is damaged if you are able to pick out flavors other than sweet, salty, sour, bitter, and apparently something called umami [glutamate.org]. Other flavors are caused by gases released in the mouth and detected by sensors in the back of the nasal cavity.

To answer mcgrue, hearing and balance share a cranial nerve but are detected in different parts of the ear. The hearing sensors are in part of the cochlear (looks like a snail shell) in outer part of the inner ear. Balance is mostly detected by the semicircular canals (three looping structures) further in the inner ear, behind the cochlear.

In Response to stilllwaiting (#17271):

2. People watch minor league baseball?

Why would they need to watch it, when they can buy the scores online...