The wheel only has five options. 1,000 MT, 5,000, 10,000, 50,000, 100,000, and jackpot. That is six options, whatever. And this wheel is gonna build my entire 2K team. Let's start out with the point guard position. All right, boys, the very first wheel spin we can spend this much MT on our point guard. It's not jackpot, oh, keep going. Please, keep going, you're shitting me.  What can you even get with 1,000 MT? All right, well, that's how you start a video. Good thing we get two point guards. Maximum buyout, 1,000 MT position point guard. Can we get a diamond? Oh, there's one diamond, Steph and Marbury. Wait, do I take that right now? Uh, or do I want to aim at this? I don't know if I want Marbury.  I don't know why you are sitting on the auction house for 1,000 MT, but thank you. Steph and Marbury is our first buy. Bro, didn't he go and ball out in China? He was one of the first guys to actually go play for the Shanghai Sharks. Learn Chinese, bud. 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Will we see our first jackpot? No, but we're gonna get a hundred Ks. We're definitely getting a stud because they might be less than 50. Anthony Edwards, Devin Booker, Manu Ginobili, all really good invincibles. Ooh, yeah, Ray Allen. Ray Allen would be kinda dope. Dude, inflation is real. I don't even need a hundred K. I only needed 30 K. I'm building a pretty nasty 2010s team right now with D-Rose and Manu Ginobili. All right, Manu Ginobili at starting shooting guard. Our backup shooting guard? Oh my God, shooting guard position is straight. I almost spoke too soon, but I didn't. So we're gonna get two studs. There's no way you can get an end game for a hundred K, right? Can we get Danny Granger or Tracy McGrady?  Yeah, Danny Granger's not there either. We can put John Moran at shooting guard. All right, I made my decision. My backup shooting, shooting, shooting. My backup shooting guard. Guns, guns. I didn't even know John had an invincible, I'll be totally honest. So I'm excited to use this. Now onto the small forward. This is Victor Webinyama. So if I ever wanted a jackpot, it would be right now. That is 5,000 MT. I will say though, with 5,000 MT, I low key feel like I could get a galaxy opal. This game is an entire economics lesson in one.  Just tell her it's econ class. Dude, look at how many small forwards I can get for 5,000 MT. That's actually insane. I should have nerfed this wheel. There was actually a dark matter I can get as Anton Jamison. I could get Larry Johnson too. Dude, you can get all-time LeBron for fun. I'm sure there's better options, but I'm going Tony Tukox. He's got 17 Hall of Fame badges. All right, small forward position is a little shallow right now. Our second wheel spin might be 10K. All right, this is our first position. That's actually a little bit clapped, but with 10K, I should be able to get a dark matter who may start over Tony. Maximum buyout of 10,000 MT. Let's see if this adds anybody realistic. Damn, you can get out of position Bill Russell. That's not a bad idea. I know exactly who I'm going for. 10,000 MT was actually perfect for this position because with 5,000, we could not buy him. Vince Carter and Tony Tukox for like EBT stamps, bro. That's crazy. All right, power forward. Will this be our first jackpot? We have yet to see jackpot. One of our power forwards is rockin' a clean 10K. I think my favorite player of all time is in here. Dirk's not the most meta-powered forward, but he's still seven foot tall. He's seven foot one actually. Yo, I don't know if that's accurate. 10K MT couldn't be any easier. He's 9,100. Dirk, as much as I love ya, I actually would really like our first jackpot right here. Please, keep going! Keep going!  If I'm rocking any single power forward in the game, I'm gonna rock my absolute favorite card this year. Invincible Shaq. By the way, I'm very well aware that there is an end game Shaq.  I believe that Invincible Shaq is better.  Hey, Invincible Shaq up in power forward. That takes us onto the center position. Our final two wheel spins. Our first center will be 50,000 MT. Let's start with Invincible Centers, who's an option? We could rock Galaxy Opel Eclipse Yao Ming. He's about 40K.  I'm not going Yao Ming. Clearly, guys, I respect myself. I wouldn't cheese with 7.6 Yao Ming. I'm gonna go with Dark Matter Mark Eaton. It's a joke. It's a joke. It's a joke. It's a joke. Oh my God. Bro, I'm gonna rock Yokech. This is perfect. He's 38,000 MT. And he's the opposite of Meta Cheese. In fact, he's kind of not that good. Starting lineup is looking good. We have one final spin. Our final center. This is the last player to build our lineup. It's gonna be 100K. Oh shoot. Can that get me Hero Yokech? Well, I guess I could have gotten out of position Yokech anyway, but I never could have gotten this Yokech. He's still like 300,000 MT. Could I get Invincible now, though, with 100K MTs or an Invincible Center? I imagine Demarcus, yep. And I don't know if I really want him, though. This is ridiculous, man. Chris Bosch? Yo, do I just rock crazy undersized centers? All right. Our Evan Mobley or Chris Bosch to build? No, I'm going Chris Bosch. I'm sticking with the theme, bro. We got so many old school players. 61,000 MT for Invincible Chris Bosch. I'm gonna start him.  I really like this team. All right, let's see what kind of damage we can do with this team. Julius, I've literally never seen that Julius serving. He's got end game Kobe bulb. Remember what I said about Yao Ming? Clearly, guys, I respect myself. I wouldn't cheese with seven foot six Yao Ming. Well, we did just win the tip against Yao. That's saying something. He's also off-balling with Yao. I think he's gonna bail out for the... Nevermind. Hey, Manu Jenobley with a rip. And we got a runner for Shaq, please. Let's go, Shaq. Look at Jenobley with the active hands. Ooh, look at the grit and motor. And is he really just gonna off-ball me the whole game? Is he just gonna camp Yao?  I'll put it right over your head, Yao. Look at that layup. You know, it took me a long time to realize you could intentionally layup. I'm gonna get Yao's fan. There's no question about that. I'm fast as fuck, boy. Four to seven. Let's go with the midi Derek Rose here. We're gonna probably have to shoot a lot of those and make a lot of them. If he's gonna camp Yao, gonna have to beat the CPU. Oh my God. All right, Chris Boss got a freebie here. Nice work, six to 10. Oh, I wanna win bad now, bro. Let him jump. Let's go! Eight to 10. Good work, good work. Does it, isn't back down punisher a thing where you like get him fatigued by backing down? Ooh.  Good.  Hey! D-Rose will take it up top. Nice work. 10 to 12. He's gonna do a step back three. Hey, I'm on it this time. Sorry, buddy.     Oh, he broke the three. What? That was, you know, are you shitting me? Get at the same thing. Oh, Ginobili, quit jumping, buddy. Good defense. Oh my God.  Get him jumping. Ooh. Too good. Jesus. Wow. He's gonna go all the way in with Yao. I almost want the double. It would have been a deep three. Chris Bosh legitimately can't stop him. Somebody should be wide open right now. Got him jumping early. Another goal 10. He 14 to 21, bro. I don't know how I'm gonna stop Yao, though. Two inches. He bricked the hell out of that.  I like that. Shengunus, oh my God.  I will say though, he's defending up at the top of the key. He'll leave John Moran wide open. But I was way late on that release. Ooh. Great decision. Great decision side. That was a really good pass. Ooh. No way. Wait, how did Dirk just go up on Big Georgie?  He'll brick it. That's a good start. He didn't give it to one of the big boys. He's gonna do it again, isn't he? Honestly, God, I legitimately don't know what to do there. Do I double that? Go up with Dirk. Nice work. He's shooting 75% from the field. Ooh, he had that green. Somehow there was a, that's a shooting. I was, you just gotta laugh it off and play, boys. That was a shooting follow. Hey, continuation is no joke in the league, man.  Yo, kids, wide open. Hey, I guess this is karma. It's just karma for using Yao in season two. Apparently you can't double. Ooh, gotta stop there. Went up at the perfect time.  Went up again. He'll score that one. Soon as he gets the ball, I gotta double him and just let him score with anybody else. Good, dude. I legitimately jumped straight up and down with him as he jumped. I can't really do much more than that.  Got him jumping. Got him jumping again. Dirk, let's go. I tell you what though, Dirk's got 14. I've got two quarters to figure it out. This game is not over. It's not looking good. Well, he'll turn the ball over too. Makes my job easy. Let him jump. Hey, beautiful timing. Ring the double. Ring the double. Good, dude. Shaq is standing right under there with him. Hey, there we go. 41-51. Still within 10. It's still 10. Hey, hey. Dude, what? I slapped that ball. 41-53. He hasn't brought in Yao in so long. I said, geez, man.  Just wait, let him jump. Yep, yep, yep, yep. Well, double team Yao and let's double team Big Georgie. I've never done this. I've never set a legitimate defensive adjustment. If he starts draining three's on me, then fuck, I'm gonna lose this game no matter what.  Good, deep. It's weird that I just set that double. I just set that double team thing and it didn't do it. I'm just gonna ignore this screen once it comes. Kidding me, man. Dude, I'm fighting for my life out here. You gotta give me those. Dude, did he really green that? Got the screen. He rushes to it. That's such a brick. Early. Hey, Chris Posh are the big swat. But of course, Big Georgie is seven inches taller. Like in Madden, the best players are just the tall ones. He's not even, not even players that are good. Okay, that was nasty. So he's, he's honestly like he's cheesing with the big guys, but he's also still pretty damn good. So I can't really be that mad about it. Ooh, Chris Posh, you're there. She just let him shoot threes. I'm about to say that you go take that shot, sir. Somebody get that board. Bull dunk. Kept them all away from him. Quick four point run. Can we bring it back to double digits? He's just goofing around now. He make that. Of course he's still got yow. Didn't even matter. Oh, good. We injured somebody. That's the kind of attitude I like, gentlemen. I'm from around the way. I'm leaving with some. Got Dirk on Bronn, Bronn, out to, out to two cocks. I don't know the jump was still, don't need it. Oh, he wants to step back. Oh, okay. Great defense.  You are kidding me. There's absolutely no way that Dirk is boxing out and LeBron gets that board. Wait for it. Yep. There's Shaq. Oh, Midi Shaq, water off glass. The green off glass. Did I steal the inbound? No, I didn't. He's just waiting for yow, maybe. Goes for an aggressive alley-oop. Does not get it. We're just kind of dicking around back there. But I got Shaq on Bronn, Bronn. Yeah, you know what? I just know you're lying. Okay. I'm not lying. 60 months. Well, I suppose LeBron is closer in height to Shaq than Chris Bosch is to Big Georgie. Tony two cocks.  Four to 71. Oh, he hit a great step back. He definitely hit that. Darn it.  There's no shot he's defending that. Oh, D. Rose all the way. What a slam. D. Rose has got limitless range too, interestingly enough. No need to foul yet. We technically, we get a stop here. We still got a chance. He's gonna go out to Bulbul for a step back three to brick that. Wait a minute. Yup. It's Dirk. 68 to 74. Don't you let me.  He's walking that ball up slow now. Don't you let me do it.  Ain't everything you got here. Puts up a nice three with Kobe. Oh, he drills the three with end game Kobe. I don't know if that was our last chance, but it might've been close. This would be a dish to Shaq. And Yau was able to jump at D. Rose, land and then jump at Shaq. That's crazy. Oh, and I'll hit another one. Darn it. 69 to 80. Honestly, that's just a tough game. That was a tough game. Bro, it would have been such a difference maker if I had bought one tall player. Cause then I don't have to worry about timing my block shots or double teaming or leaving wide open threes.  But when Chris Bosch is six foot 11, listen, I only got myself to blame cause I bought the players. I easily could have bought that Yau me. But I did fight as best I could with the team I had. And honestly, I'm proud of myself. So my buckets was Shaq and Chris Bosch. Monning Jenobley had an amazing game. Dude, Dirk had 16 points, eight boards. He almost had the double double. Tony Two Cox was lighting it up. What did you have? He had six points on two for two threes, I assume. I guess he wasn't really lighting it up, but it was fun to use him. He hit his only two threes. Oh God, this guy messaged me. Average NBA 2K player right here. Buddy, you don't win anything for winning in 2K. You don't get anything out of it. Nothing makes somebody more mad than when they're trying to get a rise out of you. And you just say GG. Hey, all right boys. I appreciate you guys for watching. As always, I'll see you guys in the next video. Peace.


Welcome to a new week of the rundown. On this episode, another move to empower COs. Dates for the Anzosymposium have been announced, and the Navy is hosting a free motorcycle safety course. COs are being granted more authority to reinstate sailors to E4 who are previously reduced in rank to E3. The change part of Sailor 2025 is aimed at empowering COs and reducing administrative distractions. Additionally, the Navy has announced the elimination of the E4 advancement exam for 20 accelerated advancement ratings that advance sailors after A school. These changes will go into effect beginning December 1, 2017. We now admin 200 slash 17 for more information, including the list of E4 exams that are being eliminated. The Association of Naval Service Officers will host its annual symposium September 12 through the 13th in New London, Connecticut. The symposium brings together officers, enlisted personnel, civilians, and military leaders to focus on Hispanic workforce recruitment and retention efforts by fostering personal growth and professional development. This year's theme is morning tomorrow's sea service officers and their futures. Register for the symposium by email or call the number below. Also, check out the story on navy.mil for more information. Finally, the Navy is reminding sailors to take advantage of the free motorcycle safety course offered through the mid-Atlantic region. According to the Naval Safety Center, the Navy has seen an uptick in motorcycle-related fatalities since October 2016. The course aims to help riders develop and maintain the skills needed to keep them and others safe on the road. The basic rider course is mandatory for all active-duty sailors who plan to operate a motorcycle. For more information on motorcycle safety courses, visit navymotorcyclerider.com. That's all for this week. For any questions, send us a message at usnpeople.fct and navy.mil. For the Chief Naval Personnel, I'm MC2 L.J. Burleson. Thanks for watching.


So, Namisha, may I ask you to come on stage? So, I hand over to you the microphone. I will set up your slides here. So, Namisha is our UX hero at NexCloud. And she's, yes, we cannot, absolutely. So, she's going to talk how to make NexCloud more intuitive, useful, and fun by contributing to design. For disclosure, I also have way too many slides, so bear with me, you are my biggest inspiration in how to do like a lightning, lightning talk. There we go. So, I hope I don't get kicked out of the conference. So, yeah. Yeah, hi everyone. So, my name is Namisha and I am the, I work as a UX designer at NexCloud and I also, is this playing by itself? Okay, okay, oh my God, spoilers. Okay, okay, keep at it is. Nice, so, let's start over. Please restart the timer, because this is so stressful. Yeah, so, I'm Namisha. I work as a UX designer at NexCloud and I also started off as a contributor and it was a very enthusiastic contributor at that because when I started contributing, I was still in college and I hung out in every single design call because I didn't want to do my assignments, but clearly I enjoyed contributing to design because I work here now. So, when I first started contributing, I thought that open source was just about coding and programming and coding and programming, but turns out there's way more as we discussed in the panel yesterday. If you haven't watched it, please go watch it again. You can write documentation, you can also do a translation, you can organize events like great audit, you can write blogs, there's so much and since I worked on design, let me show you a little bit about how you can maybe contribute to design. So, let's start small if you see any little paper cuts or design glitches like the alignment is off, we get that a lot, we also point that out a lot so that'll be really helpful if you guys also point out that the alignment is off sometimes. You can just open a little issue about it with maybe a screenshot, it doesn't have to be super complicated, just opening an issue about it can really help get the problem fixed and these are small improvements that have a huge impact when fixed. Also, feel free to include a mockup of maybe what the solution could look like, feel free to go in different directions, these are all the different directions we went in with the new design before we decided on the last one and that can help get some more opinions on what's the nicest looking one. Speaking of mockups, actually, when you're developing a new feature, usability studies can be super useful because, and repeat after me, some things that's obvious to you may not be obvious to everyone else and it's something you really need to understand when you're making a new product as a developer because you're making it for other people who aren't developers. So, how do we do a usability study? Oh, okay. No. Oh yeah, there you go. The order is wrong, but okay.  It can be, you know, create a feedback form for your online classes and share it with your students. Then you find someone who has probably not used this software before and you ask them to, you know, do this task and you might see that they're pausing somewhere, they're searching for a button and you note all of these down and, you know, if they ask any questions, note that down as well. And yeah, that's basically it actually.  Speaking of talking to people, surveys are also something that you can do to get the opinions of what people are gonna find useful. We also had a couple of surveys recently. I don't know if any of you recognize this. But depending on the goal of the survey, designing a survey is like super wide and it's its own thing. So let me just give you some general survey design tips that we try to follow. For example, keep it simple. So people are not gonna answer a question that they don't understand. So don't use technical jargon, keep the language uncomplicated so that people know what your question means. And keep it short. So open-ended answers are tempting to use because it seems like a easy, easy way to get your answers, but most people just don't answer it, open-ended answers. And it's really difficult for you to analyze as well. So maybe you can use a little radio button combination of the most popular answers that you might expect. And third, keep it useful. Don't ask for information that you don't need. For example, we didn't ask for age or gender in any of our surveys because it's just not useful even though it's demographic questions that you can just ask because it's asked in every survey. But we don't really need it. So yeah, you can do surveys. And I think the last one is gap analysis. So gap analysis is basically just a survey of what's happening in the gender area of your product and seeing what your competitors are doing so that you know that you're not developing a feature that no one else has. And people are actually gonna find useful. So in this example, let's go through an example that we literally did for collectives. So the competitors for collectives are like Confluence, Notion, Kota, Etherpad, Krippad, a bunch of stuff. We just selected a few of them. And then you take one of these competitors and see if they have any cool features. For example, Notion has page emojis, header images, table of contents, all nice stuff. And then you note down if anyone else has these things. So clearly, table of contents is the most popular option over here.  Look at that. You know exactly what you need to do to get on par with every other product in the market. So those are some things you can do to contribute to design. You can join us on GitHub using the, you are on GitHub, obviously, we're an open source organization. We also have a design talk, I mean, a public channel where you can pop any small questions you have. And we also have a regular design call at 2 p.m. every Tuesday where you can ask to get your app reviewed. Join us, thank you. Excellent, Namisha. Thank you so much for your talk.


In the recent episode we did of NFL Questions from subscribers, somebody asked, why do Raven's fans feel like they have to defend Lamar Jackson so much? Well, this is why. The YouTube team keep it clean. What's going on is engraving here with another video and Jeremy Fowler, who Raven's fans are extremely familiar with now. He was on Glen Clark radio and he had some very interesting things to say and this comes after a few days ago. He had some very interesting things to say on TV about one Raven's Lamar Jackson and what he had been hearing around the league that this could be the year that teams figure him out. Before we get into it, I got to say a special shout out to all the team keep it clean patrons. Appreciate y'all. Thank you all. If you want to become a patron, you can go to patreon.com slash engraving vids. If you don't want to become a patron, you can stay right where you at because that's fine. I love your team keep it clean and let's just dive into this. So Jeremy Fowler, of course, a few days back, he was on TV and Ryan Clark gave him that and it was deserving because he said this is the year that a lot of people feel like they might finally figure out Raven's quarterback Lamar Jackson. And again, they've been saying that ever since he came into the league and something that I said a few days ago and I got to repeat it now. Why is it that the focus is always on figuring out Lamar Jackson? Why does everybody just want to figure out Lamar Jackson? Why does everybody have to figure out Lamar Jackson? Why is he pretty much the only quarterback where it's like, all right, we got to figure him out. We're going to figure him out. This league is going to figure him out. It's like there's this spotlight on him. But is the league figuring out Josh Allen? No, it's a league figuring out Patrick Mahomes. No, it's a league figuring out Baker. No, are you figuring out Brady? No, are they figuring out Aaron Rodgers? No, and you could create narratives for each of them, all of them being figured out. You can go to the Super Bowl last year. All right, we figured out how to stop Patrick Mahomes. We figured out how to take him out of the game. You saw how the Super Bowl went. You can go to Rodgers. You can say, oh, the league figured him out because every time now that he reaches the NFC championship, he gets there. But then everything falls apart. Oh, the league figured him out, but you don't hear none of that. You don't hear you only hear about figuring out when it comes to one Lamar Jackson. But anyway, let's get into some of the quotes that Glenn Clark radio dropped yesterday via Twitter. The first one was from Jeremy Fowler. Is Baltimore in a point of stagnation as a result of their passing struggles? We'll see. So, being stagnant is when you're not moving anywhere. So that's a good question. That's a really good question. And that one is a legitimate one. Hey, the Ravens passing game. We know that it needs improvement. It's not that the Ravens can't pass the ball. It's, hey, when the Ravens have to pass the ball and can they win passing the ball? Can they come back passing the ball? Well, they've proven all of that. But their passing game, it definitely needs improvement and more so with the involvement of different players, especially in the playoffs. But throughout the regular season will definitely help. So come playoffs, those other guys can be ready. So again, stay ready so you ain't got to get ready. So that first quote, cool. No problem. But then he also said Lamar Jackson was tied for eighth in the QB ranking after polling 50 players. So after polling 50 players, coaches and executives around the league. So they asked 50 people around the league. Where would you rank Lamar Jackson? And after those votes, he came in eighth. Okay, cool. Eighth best player in the league, according to those 50 people and those 50 players, coaches, executives. Cool. No problem. But then he followed that up and said a veteran offensive player said, see, and this is where this is where it gets a little funny because we're not name dropping. If people really feel this way, why don't they name drop?   Well, anyway, he said a veteran offensive player said people are figuring him out a little bit. That doesn't make it wrong or right. It's just these are things people say. So again, people are figuring out Lamar Jackson. That's what this veteran offensive player who remains nameless said. But again, why is it just him that the league has to try to figure out? Why is it just him that the league has to try to go after? I wonder why. Anyway, he also said some of those factors are not on Lamar Jackson. It's an offense that sort of has some wingtea principles, high school offense. He has not had the proper guys on the outside. Now he might with Rashad Bateman. It's not like he can't make all the throws. So with that, yes, we certainly could use some improvement in the area. Of wide receiver. But again, I think one of the biggest improvements is just how you use what you have. That's one of the biggest parts right there. Now last year, give Greg Roman a pass on Duvenay and crochet because there was no offseason. But this year, it got to be all systems go. Everybody who you have Watkins Hollywood, working crochet Duvenay Bateman. When he comes back, Tyler Wallace, Mark Andrews, a Josh Oliver, Nick Boyd. Obviously the running backs, JK Dobbins and Gus Edwards and whoever else makes it. You got to use your weapons. You got to use your guides. It's so important that Ravens use what they've got. Use what you have. But anyway, so that's cool. No problem with that statement moving on. Here we go. So there are still some major questions as to whether or not Lamar Jackson can make accurate enough passes to win in the playoffs. We're still we come full circle. We're back to this again. We're back to this yet again. Lamar Jackson has continuously put up great numbers as far as passing touchdowns. I think he's like over the past couple of years, he's in like the top, the top five, definitely the top 10. But I think he might be even in the top five and passing touchdowns. And it's like they still continue to question his passing. Is he the best passer in the world? No, he's not. Does he need to be? No, he doesn't. Has he shown that he can throw the football? Yes, he can. But it seems as if a lot of people in the media, they still want to try to run with this narrative. They still want to try to create this narrative. And the worst part about this whole thing is that people are going to listen. People are going to listen because he has a check mark next to his name because he's on ESPN. ESPN because he's on TV because he's on radio.  So this is true. But it seems like the media, they just do not want to accept Lamar Jackson as one of the top quarterbacks in the league. And actually, and I even take that back. It seems like the media does not want to accept Lamar Jackson as a quarterback in this league. Why are we still having the same conversations three years later and two years after MVP and even last year? You still had a good season. Why are we still having these same conversations? It blows my mind that it seems like a lot of people just really don't want to move forward. They don't want to move forward. And they want to continue to move the goalposts back and forth, back and forth. There's still some major questions as to whether or not Lamar Jackson can make accurate enough passes to win. So if you cut it off right there, it would already be shut down. Because we know that he is a proven winner, proven winner in this league at every single level. He's proven that he is a winner. But then they added that old to win in the playoffs. Well, did he not do that last year? For the first time, he did it. He did it. He got that monkey off his back. And now the Ravens and Lamar Jackson as a unit, they got their first win in the playoffs. Now, we of course hope that continues. But this narrative is not going to go away like we know already, but it shouldn't even be here. But let's continue. He also said it's not fair to expect him to have that same year as 2019 every year. He is, without question, a top seven to 10 quarterback. If you win an MVP at age 22, the expectation is he is going to be one of the best. And I don't think a lot of teams in the league view him that way. So, yes, Lamar Jackson is a victim of his own success. He again, regular season, the guy has done nothing but win, win, win, win. Ravens and Lamar Jackson regular season, nothing but win. And the way that they've won has been a beautiful thing. They have probably one of the most efficient games in the NFL. Are they going to lead the league in passing yards? Are they ever going to lead that? No. That's not them. They're not going to lead that. They never led the league in passing yards with Flacco. They definitely ain't do it with Bola. They ain't do it with nobody else. They're not going to do it with Lamar Jackson. That's not their style. But as far as efficiency, oh, that's them all day. That's them all day. And efficiency is actually a lot more valuable than the total yards. But that's a whole another conversation. But anyway, it's not fair to expect him to have that same year as 2019 every year. Of course not, because that was the MVP season. We don't expect him to play. I mean, he's like the MVP of the Ravens. But as far as 2019, we don't expect that every single year. And again, when you are at the top, the only place that you can go is down from there. And but Lamar Jackson's down. That would be a lot up for a lot of quarterback minus the passing yards. But as far as the touchdown interception ratio and the wins, which is the most important thing. Yeah, that would be up for most quarterbacks. But anyway, he is without question a top seven to 10 quarterback. And if you win an MVP at age 22, the expectation is he is going to be one of the best. And I don't think a lot of teams in the league view him that way. Interesting. Interesting. A lot of teams in the league don't view him that way. Now it all depends on what exactly what he's saying here. Because if he's saying that a lot of teams don't view him as a top seven to 10 quarterback in the league. I would beg to differ. But hey, I'm not in the league. But whenever you hear a player, whenever you hear a player speak about Lamar Jackson, a player. Somebody who's out there on the field, putting on a helmet, putting on cleats. Whenever you hear them speak about Lamar Jackson, they are always amazed at what this guy can do. And Lamar Jackson has received praise from people who are considered the best quarterbacks in the league. Aaron Rogers and Tom Brady. They acknowledge that this guy can make every play, especially Aaron Rogers. And we know he can throw. He acknowledged that Lamar Jackson can make every single throw. And he said he's been doing it since college days. And Rogers says he know he can throw. But it seems to be the media. It's the media that really doesn't want people to view Lamar Jackson as a quarterback and as a top quarterback. But let's continue. He also said about the Ravens wide receivers. I do think they were improved because of the weapons they have around him. Walkins, Bacon. I said Bacon, I must be hungry. Walkins, Bateman. Hollywood Brown is still a mystery to a lot of people around the league as to what he actually is. This one is, I don't feel like he's a mystery. I could feel how people who may not watch every single Hollywood Brown game could view him sort of as a mystery. As they don't know what he's fully capable of. And again, with Hollywood, I said it before and I'll say it again and I will continue to say it because I believe it. If the Ravens use Hollywood in the regular season, like they use Hollywood in the playoffs. This guy would be one of the top receivers in the league. I guarantee if they use him the same way, they use him in the playoffs. Because you see in the playoffs, they have him doing so many different things. But regular season, alright Hollywood, go. And that's pretty much it. But if they use him like they in the regular season, like they do in the playoffs, have him in motion and all that. Have him catching pass in the backfield that they have him doing so much stuff in the playoffs.  Guaranteed. So we'll see how he does this season and how they do this season. Now, this part. The question that other teams have is if they get behind, can Lamar Jackson throw 40 to 50 times to win the game? That's not realistic to expect they won't have to play from behind ever. So this is probably the cringiest part of the entire interview. The cringiest quote from this entire interview because it's just the regurgitating of the same thing over and over. And it's like people, they want to find something and they want to try to create something that they think sounds logical. The question that other teams have is if the Ravens get behind, can Lamar Jackson throw 40 to 50 times to win the game? Now, first off, usually when a quarterback, if a quarterback throwing 40 to 50 times in a game, that's usually never good. It's usually never a good sign because that shows one, and again, numbers don't tell the whole story, but 40 to 50 times, that's a lot of throws. But that shows that one, your defense is not playing good. That can also show that your quarterback is not playing good. That can show that you are behind. That can show that you are extremely one dimensional in whatever game you're throwing 40 to 50 times in. You are extremely one dimensional. You have absolutely no run game whatsoever, 40 to 50 times. So that is just garbage. It's garbage because that can be applied to any single quarterback in the league. If you're throwing 40 to 50 times in a game, it's usually not a good thing. It's usually not. That means somebody, some area of the team is slacking heavy, heavy. So anyway, the question that other teams have is if they get behind, if the Ravens get behind, can Lamar throw 40 to 50 times to win the game? That's not realistic to expect that the Ravens won't have to play from behind ever. So again, more regurgitating of the same thing. There was that narrative that people said a couple years ago and they came up last year as well. The narrative was can the Ravens play from behind? Can they win a game where they end up being down by one score of multiple scores? Can they do it? They've done that already. They've done it in regular season and they've done it in the playoffs. But since it's Lamar Jackson, we have to still say the same thing even though those narratives have been shut down already. And again, to this notion where these executives and these mysterious players, these mysterious offensive veteran players who remain nameless, this notion to where they always have to bring up, oh, what if the Ravens have to play from behind? Then what's going to happen? What if any team has to play from behind? What's going to happen? Well, you've got to come back and win. No team wants to be behind. No team goes into the game thinking, oh man, you know what? Let's get ready to get behind on this other team so we can make a comeback. No, you want to jump out to a lead. You want to jump out to a big score. You want to jump out ahead of any team that you play because it makes it easier for everybody. It creates less pressure for everybody. But oh no, since it's Lamar Jackson, what if the Ravens and Lamar Jackson get behind in the game? Can he throw them to a win? Can he lead them to a victory? Remember, they said that a couple years ago. They said that. What happens if that happens? And he did it in the regular season. But then they changed it. They were like, OK, all right. OK, so the Ravens and Lamar Jackson, they've come back from being down in the regular season. All right, let's let's flip this. Let's change this because we want to use and we want to push the same narrative. But at the same time, we this is tough. This is tough. All right. Oh, OK, OK, got it, got it, got it. So because he's he's going to in the playoffs right now. All right, we got it. We got a new narrative, same narrative, but new scenario. Lamar Jackson and those Baltimore Ravens, they can't come back from being down in the playoffs. Hey, we're going to get them chuck with this one. Guarantee. Watch this. They can't do it. So then what happened in the playoffs against the Titans and not only them being down in the playoffs, but the narrative was the Ravens can't come back from being down multiple scores in the playoffs. So it was a triple whammy. Because again, one, the Ravens can't come back from being down. Then oh, the Ravens can't come back from being down multiple scores. Then it was the Ravens can't come back from being down by multiple scores in the playoffs. Triple whammy. What did Lamar Jackson and those Baltimore Ravens do against the Titans in the playoff game last year? The score was 10-0. Last time I checked. Last time I checked. Let me know if my math is wrong, but 10 would be multiple scores. The second game against the Titans was a playoff game. What did the Ravens do? They came out the Victus. So the Ravens, they shut that narrative down. They shut it down. So now the narrative has changed. It's been adjusted. Oh, speaking of adjustments, that's like saying something that's Lamar Jackson can't do. But the league can adjust to Lamar. But Lamar can't adjust to the league according to the media. According to the media. But I close with this. This is always going to be a thing. And again, when people ask that question, why do you guys feel like you have to defend Lamar Jackson for what, man? This is why. Because so many lies and so many narratives and so much false information gets put out there about Lamar Jackson. When somebody, whether you know somebody personally or not, but definitely when you know them personally. If you know them and you know a lot about them, you know about their character, you know about things that they've done in their lives and whatnot. And you hear somebody else speaking about this person that you know, and they're just giving out all this false information. All these lies. Then that can upset you. That can infuriate you. That can just make you feel like why are you lying about this person? Everything that you're saying is not true. You're lying. You're telling fibs, stories, fiction. These are tales. Now, do we all know Lamar Jackson personally? No, we don't. And are we infuriated? I'm not.  But so many people, again, since it's being put out there in the media, so many people take everything the media says as truth. They take everything that every analyst says as the real deal.  Team Keep It Clean, I love y'all. I appreciate y'all.


So if you've been following my videos on Ida's type system in the last one, I lied about what the next video would be. We're actually going to be doing arrays because I realized that that's something I ever actually covered and arrays in Ida are worthy of some pointing out. So we'll begin with one of the most basic things, how to actually define an array. One thing that's a little bit weird is because of Ida's type system being so incredibly strong, so incredibly nominative, oriented, or name oriented. We actually have to actually define the type of array rather than just saying, hey, it's just an array of integer like you can in most C-based languages especially, but if you're coming from something like Python, it's largely, even though they're a bit dynamic, it largely works the same, the same way. So we'll begin by that and we'll just do a simple integer array. Now you can name these whatever. The convention I normally see is the underscore array ending. I have sometimes just seen it as the plural of the type, so in this case, it would be integers. I generally don't like that for type names. For variable names, I find it fine, but for type names, I find it a little bit awkward at times, just given how the pluralities of things differ. But then much like other type naming or type definitions go, it's is and then the type and in this case it's an array. Now we'll need to define the index, but first I'll go and say that it's an array of and then in this case, should obviously be integer. Don't confuse people by putting something else in there. Now as for the index, there's a few ways to go about these, but before that, I want to cover one of the ways that is rather different from other languages. See in the C C plus plus style of languages, an array is typically zero index and goes up to whatever the length is minus one. So an array of eight elements would start at zero and go all the way up to seven. Still holds eight because you're starting at zero, not starting at one. In Ida, it's a little tricky because of two things. First, you don't actually have to index by an integer. You can rather index by any discrete type. So that would be integers, modulars, and as far as indexing purposes go, those would work the same way. But also enumerations. You can index through enumerations, which can be really handy if the different places in array have some type of specific meaning rather than just some numerical position. This can be really useful for things like hardware addressing. Where you have, say, a bunch of pins with specific names have an array that represents the entire set of pins, and you can actually use an enumeration to reference the specific pins rather than have to look up one number each thing is and then pass the thing, the full set of the array into the pins. Not all interfacing specifications work that way though. Sometimes you just have a specific pin, but I'm not getting into hardware standards. We'll begin with the simplest one of just indexing by a number. So we'll do integer, and we have to specify a range for this, because again, Ida is really strict about these things. At first, this might seem a little alarming, because what if you want a very generic thing? Integer array should be basically whatever length. Okay, I'll cover that in just a moment. I want to get the fixed size arrays first. So let's do integer range, and then 1 through 8. It does look like I need to fix that with the syntax highlighting. From there, we can define the array. So I terrible with example stuff. So I'll just do ia for integer array, and let's say that integer array, and we can go ahead and start defining this. Now, much like with the record aggregates, array aggregates work very similar in that if you don't specify exactly what value is where, it's assumed to be positional. So for arrays especially, this actually makes a lot of sense, and you typically don't need to define the exact position of values going in. You can just go with the standard, just write it out like normal. So we'll match these up exactly, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, and 8.  Let's try to build this. So from here, let's actually do something with this. This will be returning in an integer. So let's get the image of it. Oh Jesus, I did this again. I swear I do this every single one of the videos. I want to background. Oh cool, it's not responding when it loads. Be good? Be good? There we go. Okay. So we get the one which you'd expect, because we said that the array is indexed from 0 to, or from 1 to 8 rather. So the first one would obviously, if you were to change this just to show what I'm talking about, change this to from 0 to 7 and more like C style indexing. We can go ahead and build this again. And oh my God. And this should make sense, because even though we're saying it's the first index, we are also saying that the indexing begins at 0. So the, I guess I shouldn't say for 1th index, I guess. That seems weird though. I like that we can define arrays that start from 1, because at least in English, the entire convention is around beginning from 1. So it's bizarre to start from 0. But yeah, result is what would be expected. Typically speaking, I've really only seen starting from 0 or 0 indexing. When interfacing directly with C code, or when interfacing directly with hardware, where the convention with computers is always to start from 0, just so that you don't waste one of the possible values or pins or whatever. So for that purposes, I do see 0 indexing a lot when interfacing with hardware. Like I had said though, quite often you can have enumeration set up for that instead, which makes it, I find considerably more pleasant to work with than 0 indexing. Let's show off the enumeration thing though. And we'll just do four of these, but let's do, I think this will work. I don't remember if I need the range clause for enumeration. I don't think so. Oh right, because of this. So let's change that over to first. Build that and okay, run that and this should again make sense. The first part of the positions index and the first part of the array, everything lines up. Going back though, because you'll notice I didn't actually have to specify a range or anything for this, if we wanted to do a similar idea for integers, where it just sort of covers all of the integer, and it is going to complain about this. What it's complaining about is that when we say that the array is indexed by integer, we're saying, well really for any type, but we're saying that the array contains an element for every single index of the range of integer, which is huge. We're talking everywhere from, what is it, negative 2 to the 31st power all the way up to 2 to the 31st power minus 1, at least on the x86 line of processors. It's a ridiculously huge range and nobody in their right mind would write out values for all of that. And typically speaking, you don't want that whole range anyways. You can pass subtypes to this and one really easy way to show that, although it'll still complain, is if we use the positive subtype, where as you can see that's still valid. It's still complaining though, because positive would be everything from 1 all the way up to 2 to the 31st power minus 1. We can do this however. It's still complaining this time, but it rather because it only wants up to 10. Now it doesn't complain at all. This still isn't very useful for what most of arrays, at least that I've seen, get used for. I just wanted to show that off, that you can have the range defined elsewhere, that you can define a subrange either inside the type definition or as another subtype, which you do depends on whether or not you need to reuse that range for some reason. If you do want to reuse a range, use the subtype. Where we get into the much more practical array definition is with integer range, but an unspecified range. Now you should recognize this if you watch the last type system video on records, where this sort of, this, I think they call it a box. Honestly, I don't even remember all that well what they call it, because it's just sort of a generic placeholder. Like, I don't really know or care what this is right now. And nope. Why did you complain? Okay, I think I remember what's going on. I had to go into one of my old repositories. Something, some, just reference some code that I've written up before. I believe if we change this to positive, it should, right, let's get rid of this. Save that. Okay, we're good. And just to confirm, if we change this back to integer, save that. Okay, so what's going on with that? And I completely forgotten about this just because I'm so used to sort of always doing this. Ida's convention sort of, it's a very loose convention, but Ida's convention is to start indexing from one. So when we say that it's an integer range of whatever, it gets confused, basically. Because if it starts at one, well the range of integer is it starts before one. So get in the habit of using positive and then the sub range, or at least in this case, isn't the sub range or saying whatever is fine. What it'll do is for something like this, where we're passing an aggregate, it will set up the range from one up to whatever is required to hold this. So in this case, it will be 10 automatically. If we don't have an aggregate to pass to it, what we can do to set this up is just say that that is 10. It's going to complain a little bit or not. Let's do all right, one through 10. And there we go. And it complains that we're trying to read from something that hasn't been assigned yet. So we can go about it this way, and there you go. We run this, we get the expected results. Another thing to keep in mind, because this applies to a lot of value stuff aside from arrays, but I do want to make a point of this here because it's very relevant. And again, with the C style languages, a value is more of a reference, or the name of the variable, rather, is a reference to a value. And when you assign in those languages, you're changing what the variable refers to. Whereas in IDA, the variable does not refer to something, but rather it is that value. That's why when I talk about IDA specifically, I tend to use the two interchangeably, because they are. What we're saying here is that IA is this thing, not that it refers to that, and that value is somewhere tucked away in the computer, but that it is that thing. So if we reassign this, we should expect to get to any do. But this thing doesn't disappear. IA just, this literally overwrites what IA was before. This matters a lot, not so much in what I'm doing here, where the two different styles will behave the same, but that if I try to do something like this, it will fail. Because as I had said, it doesn't just start referring to something else, it tries to be that something else. And the length of this array is only five, but the IA is said to be an integer array of one through 10. So there's five values missing here that the compiler is rightfully going to complain about. This behavior is unexpected, very unexpected, coming from a lot of other popular languages. Similarly to the record aggregates, we can do an others clause where we specify something. Now it's not going to complain anymore, because it knows what to fill in the other values with, it knows the length of the array, and so therefore it knows how many values it needs to fill in. And just to show this off, since this is a good situation where I can do it, we can do this. So you'll notice that unlike with this array, in this one, the very first value is actually going to be zero, because we never specified the first, so it's going to use the others clause. And starting from the second, we have one, two, three, four, five. Starting from the seventh through the tenth, we have zeros again. So if we build this and run it, we get zero, like you would expect. I think there's one more thing I can show off. I am not sure if this applies only to strings, or if this is something that's actually defined for arrays in general. I will find out. I've never actually tried to do this with just like standard arrays. I've always only ever done this with strings, but strings are, strings are not special in Ida, much like characters are not special in Ida. Strings are quite literally just an array of characters. So this, unless it's something that's specially defined for them only, this should work. We'll find out. Let's do, I don't know, just do Ida. We will need to define these though, and I can remove the index. That's fine. So we do one, two, three, four, and five. Now we do IC is an integer array. And we're going to try concatenating these. I'm going to try typing right though. That kind of needs to be done first. Oh, I see. It does work. So this is possible only because the range is not predefined. So for IA, the range is calculated to be one through three. For IB, it's calculated to be one through two. And for IC, because it knows the range of IA and knows the range of IB, it can add them up together, know that the range needs to be one through five, and then just pack all the values in appropriately. And we get the correct result. If we switch these around, you would expect the array to be four, five, one, two, three. And if we run this, you do get the expected result again. So like I had said, arrays are mostly pretty standard in AIDA, but there are a few quirks due to how assignment works in AIDA, as well as AIDA's very flexible approach to array indexing, but also very aggressive approach to strong typing that warrant some pointing out of these differences. I hope you found this video helpful. If you have, consider giving a thumbs up and also consider subscribing and the notification bell because, yeah, YouTube. Have a, oh, if I take myself in the eye, have a better one than I'm having.


What is the… Can you tell us one thing that has made you laugh even amid the tears of the past two years, one thing where you have laughed? That is the last完了 moment, available. Sometimes I have really possibility sometimes sometimes really a possibility to see my children and my dogs. It's really great. My wife with children and with the dogs and it's always fine, always fine. Sometimes I'm thinking really looking at all these words, looking at all the crisis. It's not only Ukraine, everywhere, in Africa and in the Middle East. Sometimes I'm looking at this and think that the best way if this planet will be the planet of real dogs. I don't understand. Sometimes I don't understand people really. I can't understand. I think they're just crazy people. On the note of dogs leading the world, thank you very much. Thank you President Cohen. Thank you so much. Thank you so much for joining us.


Hello again, everyone, and welcome to another edition of Yes Rear Here. I'm Jack Curry. And today, I'm joined by Jack McDowell, a former Cy Young Award winner who had a very memorable 1995 season with the Yankees. And Jack, as I welcome you into our show, the first thing I'd like to ask you is how are you and your family doing during these challenging times? We're doing like the 99.9% of the country, hanging out, waiting for all this stuff to disappear. That's encouraging to hear. Let's dig into some baseball. Since you've got the time to talk some baseball, I laughed at your text when I texted you. You said, I got nothing else to do. And what the hell? 12-year Major League career. You had a Cy Young, which I already mentioned. You had three years where you pitched 250-plus innings. You pitched in the postseason. When you reflect on your own career, what are you most proud of? I mean, looking back on it, probably the innings and complete games and stuff like that, because that's the kind of stuff that's disappeared. And for the wrong reasons, really.  The complete games that are important to your team are the ones that are, hey, we've got a 9-0 lead after the second inning. Guess what? Well, Penn, you can go order pizza. Because I ain't giving up 10 runs. And I'm going to stick out here until it's done, and everyone goes gets to do it. Nowadays, man, you're out in five innings if you have a huge lead like that. So they don't, they preserve the starters and instead of preserving the team.  Since then, only one pitcher has matched that. Curt Schilling had 15 in 1998. No one has exceeded it. Where was that mentality born from? And I know you pitched at a different time, but it wasn't 1970 when you were pitching. But you were a guy here, your teammate said, he wanted the ball for nine innings. He wanted to be out there. Yeah, you just, that's what you did. You know, you were the pitcher. I always said it would be, it would be fun if baseball was, OK, you got the ball here, and other teams got one guy out of the ball, let's go. Last man standing wins. You know, it's 21 to 19, hang with him. You got to outlast the other guy. The funny thing was, when Charlie Huff came over to the White Sox from the Texas Rangers, we talked a lot and we talked about, you know, how you can become better, how you can, you know, get better. He's one of the best pitching coaches I ever had before he ever became a pitching coach. It's the stuff he said. And he said, you know what I do? My goal was, I knew in Texas, it was going to be 105, all summer, and guys were going to get tired. And that if I outlasted them, I was going to win some games. Last man standing was going to win. And that really hit home with me. I was like, yeah, it makes a lot of sense. Stay out there.  These days, as you already mentioned, a pitcher approaches 100 pitches and most of the time the bullpen is already ready to go. David Cohen, one of your former teammates and your buddies said to me, if a guy's never thrown 115 pitches, he's never going to know what kind of pitcher he can be at 115 pitches. He might be as successful on pitch 115 as he was on pitch 75. You don't give him the chance to do it. He's never going to know. That's always been one of my theories as to why there's an increase in injuries is because no one's ever allowed to go over a certain number. Yet if they're struggling, they can still get up to that number.  But then there's those days where everything's cruising and you're throwing like it's nothing. And then the next day you can probably pitch again, even though people freak out about that and not pay attention to that anymore, but because of that, you're not allowed when you're doing good to pitch up to 140 pitches to gain the strength to be able to handle that really hard 90. 90 pitches that you struggle your butt off to get to, you're not built up. They never allow anyone to build up to get the strength to do that. I believe that's one of the reasons why there's a lot more injuries. Jack, when you were traded to the Yankees, I went back and dug up some old articles and was looking and that spring training, you said, all eyes are on us. We're the team to be. What was the attitude of that 1995 Yankee team? Well, I mean, everybody's, yeah, he's just a good group of guys that wanted to win. And, you know, it was fun, even though the trade was illegal. Trade happened during the lockout. And I kind of work all that out, right? Yeah. And, you know, it was one of those things where you think the players, so you're just going to fight for one player when all this stuff just went down. I'm like, I didn't even know until it went down. I said, well, am I really going to be a Yankee?   And, you know, it was a really strange situation.  But, you know, it was a fun team. Probably the most, that might have been one of my more fun years. A lot of people look back at the one gesture incident and say, oh, he hated it there. He couldn't handle it there. It was one of my funnest years I had. And it was a lot of fun playing for that group of guys and for show Walter and, you know, being able to, being able to take Donnie to the playoffs for the first time. You mentioned that incident. I was going to ask you three or four other questions first, but since you mentioned it, late July, you're struggling a game against the White Sox. You're getting booted as you go off the mound.  But Jack, after that happened, you were nine and four with an ERA of under three. Something locked in after that. What happened in that incident and how did you handle it going forward? The whole situation began because you go back and look at that season. And Jimmy Key was our opening day starter. I was our number two. And then after that, it was pieced together. You know, it was pieced together the rest of the year. Jimmy Key only lasted two starts. And then he was hurt. He was out for the year.  You care about winning games. He said, we're going to need you to just eat up innings.  That's, you know, we got too many young guys here that are just trying to figure it out. We can't put it on the bullpen. You got to do what you do.  I was like, yeah, let's go, let's go do it. So there were a handful of starts for the Yankees where normally you're starting pitcher to be the heck out of there because they're getting knocked around and they're not on top of their game. But I would stay in there for seven or eight innings regardless. And the White Sox one was about, I think it was two or three below average starts in a row where I was getting food every time we're sticking out there for seven or eight innings. I'm like, are we not figuring this out folks?  But then when it was the White Sox feeding me up, the team that traded me and I was frustrated with that. And then they're booing me again. That's just, I lost it. I lost control then, you know, after that was just lost for a little frustration. Well, some New Yorkers would love that type of emotion. And I think they probably did because here's a guy out here saying, hey, I'm trying my best. I have to ask you, I know the baseball project, some of those guys in that band are friends of yours. They did a song called Yankee Flipper. How soon after that happened were you able to kind of chuckle at that name? It was a New York post headline. Well, it was only a couple of days to tell you the truth. I was really worried that I was gonna get buried and that, you know, everyone was gonna come after me. And believe it or not, the fans themselves kind of jumped back on my side almost the day after that.  And they were just like, hey, man, we love you. Come on, let's go. Keep plugging away, keep going. They were all into it.  I remember we asked you, we said, Jack, you didn't sign any autographs. And you said, I never signed autographs on my way into the ballpark. One incident isn't going to cause me to change what my approach has been all year long. So you remained firm and true to who you were. Yeah, pretty much, that's kind of the way I am. You go back to September of that year, you're dealing with a back injury. David Cohn has told me that the two of you used to almost joke, some gallows humor. He was also hurting, his arm was dragging. That used to say to each other, I'll give you a cortisone shot, you give me a cortisone shot, maybe we can get through this. How hurting were you guys at that point?  If you go back and look, he did great. My problem was the last start that I made of the regular season, the start before warming up, I felt something kind of, I just felt a sharp pain in my lat muscle, like lower lat muscles in my ribs. And I was like, ah, that's weird. And I threw, you know, and I think I threw like seven or eight innings, I was fine. The next game I went out there, I felt it again, and it ended up being a three nothing shut out against the Yankees, but man, it was the next start, I couldn't even move my arm. And it ended up being like a golf ball, sized lump on my lat muscle that my bone had to rub over it every time I got to my arm. And that was very painful. So I didn't start the last two starts, I think two, maybe two or three, I forget what it was, three starts of September, try to get ready. See, we didn't know if we were gonna be in the playoffs or not, but I, you know, they didn't know how to fix me. They couldn't give me a quarter zone shot because it was too close to my lungs. And so they just like hang with him and see what happens. And when the plus season came, was the first time I picked up a ball from then and the day before that my first start, but like how do you feel, I'm ready, let's go. Yeah. Ready to go. That's probably one of the things. In this day and age, I've never even been able to smell the field. That's probably why when I asked David Cohn and he had a long career, I said, this is some of your toughest teammates ever. And you were the first name that he mentioned. And you guys are tied together, Jack, in 1995 from that game five and this quarantining situation that we're in, we're seeing a lot of old baseball games. I've revisited it and watched game five of 1995. How prepared were you to be called out out of the bullpen from that game? Had Showalter kind of given you a heads up that that was looming?  John Whetland had had a tough time against Seattle that entire year. And even in the playoffs. And so that was one of those things. Mariano Rivera's first year wasn't who he was. He, you know, he has stuff yet, but he wasn't established yet. And I always laugh about that because the, you know, when you see the little meme about Mariano that more people have stuffed on the moon than he's allowed postseason runs. And I say, well, thank you for the two. I got, you know, striking Edgar out of his runners when I first got taken in there. But no one ever knows about that. Because apparently I only threw one pitch in that game to Edgar. That's the only one you ever see. That's the only one you ever see.  And you said earlier in this interview, you were a guy who told it like it is. After that game, Jack, you said, there's really not any solace to be taken from this. There's only one team left standing. And that's all that matters. When you put the uniform on in spring training, that's what you play for. The rest is a waste. Talked to Don Mattingly the other day and he said, I was content that we got to the postseason, but there's pain that still exists from 1995. Do you feel the same way that even 25 years later, there's a regret? I mean, I didn't have the greatest of postseason records at all. And that was the most frustrating thing because that was the only thing I wanted to do was win a championship. Everyone asked me, what's your biggest accomplishment in sports? And I said, win a national championship in Stanford. Because it's the only time winning a championship is the only thing that you can do in sports where you've accomplished everything you can accomplish. I don't care how I won the scion. Super. OK, I got an award. Oh, that's great. Guess what? Lost 10 games, gave up 20 home runs this night. You can always do better as an individual. You can always have a better year. The first time that as a pitcher, the first hit you give up, you can add a better year. You're going to throw in 35 no hitters. So it makes no sense to be pushing for yourself. The only thing that you go, wow, we've accomplished everything we could possibly accomplish is a championship. And that's kind of been my motto in coaching too. I try to fire that down every once everyone's throat. It's all about championship, not about you. It's about winning as a team. Jack, they didn't offer you salary arbitration after the 95 season you end up going to the Indians. Were you surprised that they didn't offer you salary arbitration? It was a tough scenario because, well, I was free. That was free agency. So I was a free agent that time. I was my first free agency. And there was only two offers out there. It was me and Kevin Brown both had the same two offers, one from the Marlins and one from Cleveland. And it was like, who's going to go where? What's going to happen? Who's going to take those two offers? No, there's no collusion or anything going on, no. Just two offers. And who went to the World Series two years later? Those two teams. And I didn't know what to do. But I kind of panicked and said, I better take this while it's out there. The Yankees hadn't offered a specific offer yet. They also didn't know who the manager was going to be. Correct. So they had not hired the manager yet. So I was like, wow, they hired the wrong guy. And this scenario, this is going to be crazy. And so I bailed before all that happened. You go to the Indians. They win 99 games. But you just mentioned how the Yankees went to the World Series, end up winning it.  Oh, absolutely. All the time, all the time. And it was just one of those things. I had to make a decision.  It's going to be one of the other. And if I wait, someone else is going to get something. And I'm going to be sitting here going, OK, who wants me? You know, and after watching what happened the year before with all those guys, I'm going to go down to Florida to train because there were no offers. I just jumped on a solid offer at the time and took it. Jack, you were listed as 65180 and you pitched during the steroid era. When you reflect on those seasons, do you ever have any irritation that the playing field wasn't even? Well, I kind of all knew it was going on. And I tell people this all the time, I'm pretty truthful about the whole thing. Had it been put in my face, had someone said, hey, this is going to make you recover so much quicker. And this is going to make you, I may not make your stuff better, but you're going to be able to work harder. You're going to be able to do this. You'll recover quicker. I would have been like, OK, great, let's go. I wouldn't even have thought twice about it. You know, there wasn't anything about it. It wasn't like it didn't feel like you were cheating back then. It was just it was stuff guys were doing. So Jack, I have to tell you that in preparation for this interview, I was listening to Ape and the King from Stick Figure. That was your second band. Vue was your first band. How much of a role did music play in your life then? And does it still play in your life? No, I mean, I love music at the time I was a kid. I would sit there and I was a lyric guy.  Because you didn't have your lyric sheets there. Nowadays, you can go with it all and find them. But back then, you had to listen to it and decipher what the words were. And I liked cool songs, songs that were written about guys who realized and things like that. That's what I really loved about it and became a huge music fan. Took guitar lessons when I was 11 and 12 and didn't do much with it until college. And I started again, I started up, basically I started up when the year that I signed, I signed in 1987 after my junior year and then went back to Stanford that fall to finish up. I had two years to go and I got back there and I'm like, okay, I'm done with my classes. What am I doing the rest of the day? There's no practice, there's no lifting, there's no, I'm like, I'll bring my guitar up here and we'll start messing around writing songs and that's what I did. I saw your performance in Milwaukee once. I think it was attached to an all-star game. I think that's why you were there with... Yeah, it was, it was the old all-star game where it was a tie, right? Yes, and I came away from that. R-E-M, that's who you sounded to me like at that point.  Yeah, definitely was a big fan of theirs and most people know that. The, yeah, and my guitar playing development over that time was a lot with the Peter Buck's guitar playing style, which is the arpeggio picking and that's what I learned a lot and that's what I kind of put a lot into the guitar playing that did all my records. So last question, I'm a huge Clash fan and when I was talking to David Cohn about you, he recollected that you and he went to a concert once and he was describing it for me and I said, wait a second, did you guys go see Big Audio Dynamite? Which of course, Yeah. Clash formed Big Audio Dynamite and Cohnie was saying, yeah, I'm not really sure. I'm like, Cohnie, this is big info. So did you guys go see Big Audio Dynamite together? Yeah, we went there early right around soundcheck to go meet him and then we knew, hey, we're in New York, we're kind of New York stars because we're baseball players. We'll be able to get in there and meet those dudes. Let's go. They let us in there to go meet him and talk to him and all that was a lot of fun. That's fantastic. They probably don't remember that, but we sure do. I would remember that. Jack, it's been a real pleasure to reconnect with you and take this trip down memory lane. I appreciate your honesty. I appreciate you giving some time and best of luck to you and your family as we work our way through everything. All right, back at you, man. Then tell Cohnie I said, hey.


Pattern craze is a multiple hand card game that plays like phase 10 where students create and analyze patterns. You need pattern craze cards and pattern craze strips to play the game. There are five crazes to complete in the game. In a given hand, you use the numbers on the cards to create the craze you are on. Then try to get rid of the remaining cards in your hand by creating a pattern of your choice of numbers or shapes. Crazes must be completed in order and only one per round. The dealer shuffles the deck and gives each player 10 cards. The remaining cards are placed face down in the center of the table. The top card is slipped over to create a discard pile. The player to the left of the dealer goes first. On your turn, pick up the top card on the draw pile or the discard pile and add it to your hand. Try to make the pattern of the craze that you are on. Everyone begins with craze 1. For the crazes, disregard the shapes for number patterns.   If you cannot complete your craze, simply end your turn by placing a card in the discard pile. Once a player lays down a craze, each player gets one more turn. Play continues to the left. On the last round, make one or two number or shape patterns of your choice. Each pattern must use at least four cards. Lay down the patterns even if you cannot make your craze. This way, you can try to eliminate the number of cards left in your hand at the end of the round.  If you are not the first player to do so, but complete your craze, you earn five points. Move on to the next craze in the next round. If you did not complete your craze, you earn ten points. You must repeat the craze in the next round. All players earn points for any cards remaining in their hands. If you have cards one through nine left in your hand, you earn five points for each card. If you have cards ten through fifteen left in your hand, you earn ten points for each card. To continue the game, collect all of the cards and shuffle. The next dealer is the player to the left of the previous dealer. To win the game, be the first player to complete all five crazes. If more than one player completes the fifth craze during the same round, the player with the least amount of points wins. Here are some questions to think about after playing the game. What are some strategies you used to make patterns? How can you extend a pattern? What pattern was the most difficult to create? There are many variations to this game. One variation of this game is to use fewer cards. In this variation, you do not need to use all of the cards in your hand. Another variation is to play with the cards face up on the table to collaborate rather than compete. Allow other players to play cards on your patterns. Finally, you can also play this game with double patterns. Pay attention to the shapes in number patterns and double the points for other players if you complete a craze with a combined number and shape pattern. I hope you enjoy playing pattern craze. Find more thorough instructions by copying the instructions linked to the Regional Math Science Center website to read the game rules or just re-watch this video. Pausing is needed. Thanks for playing!