The Astros beat the Red Sox 10-2 this afternoon.
That means the Red Sox got swept and they are now 3 games out of the wildcard.
Their record at home is 27-31 and their record away is 34-24
They need to figure out why they can't win when they are playing at home. They should win more than half their games at home and they aren't doing that.
Tomorrow they start a three-game series against the Rangers and first pitch is at 7:10.
If they want to continue to have a chance of getting into the playoffs, they need to sweep the Rangers.
The Olympics ended today and I didn't watch any of the closing ceremonies. I could care less about the opening and closing ceremonies. As a matter of fact, I'm not all that excited about most of the summer Olympics sporting events.
In two years, my favorite Olympics will kick off and I will watch most of that.
Most of my favorite sports are played during the winter Olympics. Sports like downhill skiing, snowboard-cross, ski jumping, biathlon, bobsled, luge, speed skating and the greatest of all winter sports, curling.
Yesterday, a ATR-72-500 turboprop aircraft with 61 people on board, being operated by a Brazilian company known as VoePass, plummeted from the sky with almost no warning.
A look at the flight graph shows the plane was traveling at 300mph at 17,000 feet and within a few seconds, it decelerated to 30mph and fell to the ground.
There is no official cause so everything I'm about to say is an educated guess. I say educated because I looked up the weather for that particular region and there were numerous reports of icing between 15,000 and 20,000 feet.
Ice forms on an aircraft just like it does on your car in the winter. All it takes is some water in the atmosphere and a drop in temperature. The big difference between ice on a car and ice on a plane is that the car is already on the ground. When ice forms on the outside of the plane, it changes the weight, the lift and the drag. If it coats the propellers, it can also change the thrust.
I believe that this aircraft entered a region where ice formed rapidly. That ice added thousand of pounds to the plane. The coating on the wings decreased the lift and the coating on the fuselage increased the drag. If it coated the blades of the propellers, it would decrease the thrust those propellers created.
Basically, that plane froze, went into a flat spin and dropped like a stone. And the people on board knew what was happening to them because it didn't spin fast enough to induce unconsciousness.
It might turn out to be some catastrophic mechanical or structural failure but there is video of the plane falling and it sounds like the engines are running and it looks like the flying parts (wings, elevators and rudder) of the aircraft are intact.
And for the record, I'm pretty sure no U.S. carrier flies the ATR. I believe the turboprop of choice is the Bombardier Dash 8 or the Bombardier Q200. Those two aircraft have much better flight characteristics and a far better safety record than the ATR.
Here are some links:
- I'd bet that is probably the mildest thing he says about her.
- Here comes Ernesto!
- Those do not look like monkeys to me.
- If you are stupid enough to think this is a good idea, you need to be locked up in a place where they can make sure you don't reproduce.
- I'm betting that was a sticky, shitty mess.
- Key line in this story: "...the suspect and an unidentified accomplice recorded themselves blowing up the toilet, and posting it on Snapchat.
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