Aloha. Welcome to the Figments Facebook Network. No, actually, this is still Think Tech Hawaii, and this is Figments. It's the power of imagination. But my figment is that I'm a baseball commentator. I'm one of the sports networks.  But this feels natural. It will be fun because joining me as my good friend Ross Rowley to take a look at the status of MLB at the all-star break. Ross, Aloha. How are you? Aloha, Fig. Thanks for having me back. Second time. Do I get a jacket or anything? Yeah, no, but you are the first repeat offender on Figments, the power of imagination. So, yay. Well, for those of you who missed season one episode nine, I know many of you have a list of them on your refrigerator. But in case you missed it, Ross and I are both baseball fans, longtime friends and golf buddies. Here we are on the Mammala Bay course in our Cardinals Brewers standoff, if you will. Hey, that's hole two, isn't it, Ross? Yes, I know someone who got a hole in one there. It's you. Thank you. Thank you for mentioning that. I was hoping you would. Well, Ross is a great friend, as I said, and a math whiz, math major taught math at the Air Force Academy, looks at everything statistically. In our first episode, season one, episode nine, he presented some statistical evidence for why instant replay is a good thing. And I think he's right. But today, we're not going to talk too well. Statistics always fit into his conversation. We're going to take a look at the MLB season thus far. All-star game is tomorrow. The home run derby is happening as we record this. I won't tell you who won, Ross. Don't worry. Give pretense about that when people spill the beans. But I think you'll hear new things. And Math Man here will help you sort through the myriad of offensive statistics and know what really matters. And we're going to put a little bit of pressure on ourselves because we're going to predict the World Series champion or opponents and champion. And I haven't made up my mind yet. This will happen after I get the math insight from Ross and then go against it, probably. But let's start, Ross, with the season thus far and things that make you say, I think the first one is it's sure great to have fans back in the stadium, isn't it? It is. Although I was watching a Detroit Tigers broadcast and they said, hey, it's first day that we have 100% capacity and still there's only 10,000 fans in the crowd. So depending on the venue, it makes a difference. Yeah. If we look at the standings, I think we'll understand why that is. But it's just so much fun to hear the drama, the agony and the ecstasy that goes with it. My Milwaukee Brewers, and I'm absolutely biased, have lost three tough games. The crowds were really into it. But then there's that letdown. But I love having fans back in the ballpark. What makes you say, Ross, this season? Well, the crackdown on cheating with pitchers using sticky stuff. On some cheating. On some cheating, right? And it reminds me the three most recent cheating events in Major League Baseball were steroids, and the Mitchell Report had 89 cases. And they finally, I think, cleaned that up, although there's still a lot of ways to make yourself stronger and bigger and faster and so forth. Like go to the gym. Right, exactly. And then the next one was a trash can banging at the Astros did. And I saw an interesting statistical study that showed that the effect of that knowledge was really not as great as everyone thought because there are so many false positives where they said, oh, it's going to be a fastball. And it turned out to be a curveball and the guys swinging wildly. And so if you can get a positivity rate up around 99%, that will work. But it was only like 92%. So my prediction for this particular cheating scandal is that the pitchers, yeah, they're going to outlaw spider tack and outlaw sunscreen. But the pitchers are eventually going to find another way to better grip the baseball. We'll be back to what we had early in the season. I suppose that's possible. But if it's a foreign substance that's that other way, then they're likely to get caught. My thinking is that they'll pitch better. I mean, through the use of sticky stuff, they've learned the value and learned to apply spin rate and be more difficult, even more difficult to hit. And I suspect they'll adjust and find other non-pharmist, non-chemical ways, I guess, to get the spin rate. I hope they don't get back to nearly unhittable because I want to see the ball get struck. I do too. But there's a revolution that most people aren't aware of. We had the Moneyball Revolution. Now it's a developmental, a player development revolution where players are going off-season to places like driveline in Seattle and perfecting their mechanics and optimizing their spin. The same thing with the batters and launch angle. They're doing all these things to end up with the three true outcomes, right? Walk, strike, bounce, and home runs. So that's not necessarily good for baseball, but these players are doing everything they can to optimize their performance. Yeah, and that I think is a good thing. You mentioned the sign-stealing crash-can banging incident with the Astros. I view it having been either a pitcher or a hitter as two different issues. If I'm a pitcher, I want more in my head. I want to be able to put more thought into the pitch and refine it and do that. If I'm a hitter, I would like to have less in my head because it's so hard already. And I've watched Christian Yellow choose a great player. It has some numbers in the past that are awesome, but it looks to the interested but not educated observer like there is just too much in his head. And if you're guessing at a 75% positive rate, man, that would just wear you down, wouldn't it? Yeah, and there's a common phrase, see the ball, hit the ball.  Every walk-off home run, they interview the perpetrator, and he always says, I was just trying to make contact. That might be a good swing thought. We should do that in golf, too. I do. It doesn't always work because I have too much in my head. So here's what has made me say this year. It's the disparities in lateral, inside, outside strike calling. I don't know if you've noticed that, but they're all over the map and there's no consistency to it that I've noted. And it's not just against my brewers, it's their opponents. It's the other games I watched, but with that little rectangle on the screen. Ross, it seems to me that that would be the easiest part of calling balls and strikes to get right. I agree. And we talked about this in the last episode, but there's a specific case on Saturday. Ohtani was in Seattle facing the Mariners. Here we go.   But I have seen, and people go to the ballpark to see Ohtani hit a home run, not to see him strike out. And to deny that experience, I think is a grave injustice. I have seen in the past sort of the heat map of balls and strikes. And it's not a rectangular, it's more an egg and oval. And so the wide part is middle in, middle away. There's some, you know, there's a lot more ball strikes. This is where strikes are actually called, where the batter swings, right? Correct. And then down on all four quarters, it's very unlikely that the umpire is going to call that pitch a strike because it's both down and away or down and in. So yeah, and we talked last time, I sure hope we get roboumps very soon. And, you know, we have instant replay. The umpire core and their management have statistics. They certainly analyze and they grade them afterwards. But going back to the fact that baseball is a business and they are employees with the union. I wonder how much leverage Major League Baseball has to punish, if you will, bad, bad calling, bad umpire. I have yet to hear an umpire get suspended for blowing a call. Yeah, as we talk about on the golf course, there is at least one umpire who'd be asking you if you want fries with your meal if it wasn't for a pretty strong collective bargaining agreement. And I won't mention his name as much as it hurts me not to mention his name. So hey, let's look at the standings and see where we stand. So to speak, because they are the standings. And I hope you folks can see it at home. If not, look on your computer or your phone because they're readily available. And what strikes me, Ross, is the, and I've color coded a few of them, one in yellow, one team of yellow San Francisco Giants. Look at that. Is that real statistically? Yeah, they have the best record in baseball. And from an analytic perspective, you go into a season and you see all these predictions. And this is the outlier, right? And this is what makes baseball late is that you can never nail down the predictions. But sure, they have sure exceeded expectations. And a lot of it is smoke and mirrors because I've got in front of me the run differential for the Giants and the teams that are chasing them. Giants are 116 positive Dodgers are 142. And there are two games back and then the Padres are 75. So the Dodgers should theoretically, if run differential really matters, which it should, Dodgers should be in first place. Yeah, there is always a disparity.  And we're in the hunt, but then they went on their 11 game winning slash hitting streak. And now they're plus 40 something. And so I look at run differential because I want to feel good about my team. But that's really the only reason you really think it's an important and folks for in case you're not as in the baseballs we are. So that's the difference over all your games between the runs that you score and the runs that the other team scores. So 15 to one victory helps you run differential. But Ross, do you think that's a big deal in the long run? I think it's a good indicator going forward. That's my opinion. It shows the true talent level that takes away the noise that happens with randomness.  The other thing I wanted to point out in the standings was a couple of bad teams that were unexpectedly bad. And one of which is your twin sisters favorite team, the Minnesota Twins. Yeah, they were expected to be very good this year. And they've got a great lineup, but they just haven't put it together. And then the other one is the Arizona Diamondbacks. They are on pace, the challenge, the 1962 New York match for the worst season in baseball history. And that came out of nowhere also. So imagine that the baseball season is a grind for the fans. I mean, it's a long haul for our families. It's an eternity, says Alejandra, who's more into American football than baseball. But can you imagine being on a team going to work every day when you're that far out of it? But these guys are professionals and they realize every bad counts and it goes to their future salary value. And some of them are just begging to be traded away at the trade deadline to a contender so that they can actually have meaningful games again. So that brings me to another question, because we'll get to the trade deadline, buyers, some teams will buy to look to build whatever cracks they have in their wall to get to the finish line and be in the World Series. Others will do really math, business math and and be sellers. So if we look at these standings, is it a good basis for predicting the future? Do we have to leave sort of a wild card out there for the outcome of the trades that will approach the deadline? The trade deadline is impactful to some teams, depending on how well the guy does. But there's been a lot of cases where guys get traded to a contender and they're expected to lead them to playoffs and they flop. And so it's really a mixed bag and there's just a lot of randomness there. I want to go back to one thing because you asked me things that make me go home. Opening day, and we talked about this a little bit on the golf course. There were three pitchers starting pitchers from the same high school that all started as their opening day started. Dak Flaherty, Lucas T. Alito and Max Freed. And I looked up the statistics on this. There's 24,000 high schools in the U.S. That's not counting. There's a lot of high schools in Japan and Dominican and all the other places where ball players come from. But if you just look at the American high schools, the probability of three guys from the same high school, all three starting opening day are one in 500 million. So that's about the odds that the Mariners are going to ever win a World Series in my opinion. But certainly the odds are greater than that against Arizona making to the both seasons this year. Right. Yeah. So I found that to be that's amazing. Huge. You could probably grind those odds down when you, if you called it out to high schools with a good baseball system program in an area that was competitive, etc. It's all the things that make a high school program a feeder to the big leagues. And of course high school folks are getting there, getting to the big leagues more quickly now. I was going to talk, you mentioned the times where mid season trades have not helped pretty much, not as much as expected. If we have time at the end, let's talk about Willie Adomas who came to the Brewers and the Brewers have had one of the best record records in the league since then. And it's, he seems to be a catalyst. So if you get that in your trade deadline trade, good for you. But first, before we get into yet more numbers, your offensive metrics and folks to stay tuned for that because you'll understand baseball better figments on reality next on July 17th. I don't know what I'm going to talk about yet. I will by the time I get on, but I know it will be apolitical, non-political, and it won't be vitriolic. So please tune in for that and hear my opinions and make your own or consider your own opinions. And thanks to ThinkTech for giving me a chance to do both figments, the power of imagination and the figments on reality. Okay, Ross, now we're on to offensive metrics. As much as I love baseball, numbers make my head hurt. And there are a lot of numbers in baseball. You love it. It's maybe what you love most about the game. But I want you to talk through this graphic in how we should value, how we should look at different offensive measures of performance. Yeah, it's sort of in a top 10 list, the David Letterman list, but it's only eight. And starting with vanity and average, that is the old-time statistic that's number of hits divided by number of plate appearance at bats, but it ignores walks. So they don't count as in a bat, right? Right. And then the next one is on base percentage, which does include walks, but it doesn't include like if you hit a bunch of home runs, it doesn't really matter. So that's not a good statistic. Slugging percentage includes the home runs and the doubles and triples, but they don't include walks. So that's not good. On base plus slugging, now we're getting into some really meaningful statistics. This is a good statistic to understand a batter's overall value offensively. So what goes into on base plus slugging for the image? I'm glad you asked. It's just the sum of the batting average, or excuse me, the on base percentage plus the slugging percentage, OPS. And I'm happy to see over the last decade or so the Major League broadcasts have started to incorporate this more and more to the point where basically they're on all the time. You can see a batter's OPS 20 steps to the play. 800 is good. Really good. 900 is a lead to the league average is around 715 right now. The next one on the list is when probability added. This is a favorite of mine because it takes all the 27 outcomes and the score in the game. And you know, and at bat, will either improve a team's chance of winning that game or not improve it, make it worse. And so this is a way to measure how each batter has helped his team in each game. And you add that over a period of time and you get a good aggregate of who's the real MVP, who helped his team the most. But does it give you a good way to measure somebody who's not the real MVP? I mean, is there enough discrimination so that your number seven hitter occasionally does good things but mostly doesn't do horrible things. You don't get an average player. Yeah, the problem is if you're on a bad team, you're not going to get as many opportunities in high-level situations. So if you perform in high-level situations, you're going, that's going to be reflected in the win probability added. Zero is league average. One is good for mid-season now and two is a lead. And I think Otani is at 4.5 in win probability added already for the half of the season. That's good, right? That is good. He leads everyone. Weighted runs created plus. This is another one that's coming more and more into the mainstream, WRC plus. This takes all the outcomes and assigns a weighted score to them and it levels it on 100. So 100 is the average. If a guy is 120, he's good. It also means that he's 20% better than average. 140 is a lead. So that's a really good purely offensive stat. But the one that's probably got the most cache right now, especially teams looking at the trade line is win probability, wins above replacement, sorry, war. And that is not just offensive, but it adds in base running and adds in defense. It adds in the ability to throw out runners at the plate, so forth, if you're an outfielder. And 0.5 is average. This point of the season, 1.5 is good and 2.5 is a lead. So that sounds great. I understand them better. I still need to know what the number, you know, batting average was good because for people like me, it was simple. If you're batting over 300, you're good. If you're below the Mendoza line, I can't remember what that means. You're not good. But there must be the perfect statistic. Would it be the overall value? Yes, it would, overall value. It's just my favorite because it's in my humble opinion. When I was a young kid, I started taking, you know, at putting a value of 1 to a walk and a single value of 2 to a double value of 3 to a triple and a value of 4 to a home run, add that up and you get a number over a season and normalize it around 4 as the home run. And then I realized when I went to get my master's degree, hey, there's, you can do some cool little statistical tricks here and actually do a linear regression to figure out what those values are because walks and singles clearly should not have the same value. So I did that and I refined it and I've kept refining it over the years and now I've got a number where I use in my fantasy and just ranking players throughout the season that I'm very comfortable with. So why haven't you sold this to MLB or, you know, come on, there's some money in this, right? There is. Funny you should ask many years ago. Before Moneyball, shoot, I was, I think it was before I even got married. I met on a cruise. I met Seattle Times reporter and I said, hey dude, I'm an analyst. Can I, you know, write to the Mariners? He gave me Woody Woodward's address and I actually wrote a letter saying, hey, I've got some insight into how to make your team better and I never got a callback or anything. And now I'm making too much money to go back into entry level to do one of those statistical jobs. But now the ball teams have groups of 15, 20, 30 analysts who are working on various aspects of all the things we talked about, spin rate and war and launch angles and all those kind of things. Well, I've got at least 38 coaches now for every team. The dugout has got to be packed. So, hey, we're, this is going quickly. We knew it would, but your considered statistical analysis made me think about the all-star game and, you know, it's done by vote now and everybody's not a math major. But guess what? It looks to be like the voters were pretty close to right on this, weren't they? Yeah. When I built this slide, you said your all-star team was going to be all brewers and I told you I was going to take a more analytical approach. Well, it is all brewers. So just assume that everybody in every position is a brewer. I did war and I compared the war leaders at each position with the ones who were actually voted in. And like you said, and nationally, especially it was pretty good, but who would have predicted Ryan Reynolds would be the war leader in the center field for the National League? And if you go to the next slide now onto the American League, who would have predicted Cedric Mullins or Sean Murphy? Cedric Mullins in center field, Sean Murphy as a catcher. Well, who would have predicted Shohei Otani? Yeah, right. Let's talk. I've got some interesting statistics on Shohei Otani I want to share with people. So he leads the league in homerun. Most people don't realize that he's also fourth in the league in the major leagues in triple and 14th in the major league in stolen bases. His OPS, we decided, you know, 900 is elite. His OPS is 1058 as a batter. As a pitcher, he's allowing an OPS of 627. He's got 3.8 more as a batter, 1.5 as a pitcher. So here's a quiz for you that I don't think you'll get right, but there are three people. You'll get two of them, right? Three people in the history of Major League Baseball who have 75 homeruns as a batter and 150 strikeouts as a pitcher. Who are they? Well, Babe Ruth has to be one of them. Shohei Otani has to be one of them. And the third one is Rick Ankeel. He came up as a Vietnam pitcher and then he flamed out because he couldn't find the strikes out and he came back as a batter. So he got in two iterations, not in the same season. Yeah, he works well back through the minor leagues. Otani, so incredible. I just have to say his swing is one of the prettiest things I've ever seen. That swing is the thing of beauty. So we only have a couple minutes left here, Ross. So go ahead. One more thing about Otani is that he hit home around the other night against some errors. That was the highest exit velocity in the history of that ballpark, which he now has four such ballparks where he owns the highest exit velocity. And this is his first full season in the Major League. Isn't that incredible? Unbelievable. So who's going to play in the World Series? All right, my prediction, and I base this once again analytically on run differential, I'm going to go with the Astros in the American League, Dodgers in the National League, and it's going to be Trashcan 2.0, because the Dodgers were denied their opportunity a couple years ago. What's your prediction? Well, I think from the National League, it's got to be the Brewers. I can't say anything else. It's been only 39 years since we're in the World Series, I think 1982, if my math is correct. And from the American League, I don't feel good about Houston. So I'm going to say Boston, even though you said they're smoking mirrors. So I'm saying that Boston, where the Brewers or the Milwaukee Braves came from Boston. So there's a connection. Boston, Milwaukee wins. Who wins in yours? I think LA, because they're out for revenge after that Trashcan. Yeah, but it's a game that needs emotion, but at times doesn't. So who knows, right? So it'll be interesting. Anything else you want to talk about, you'd like to ask me? You know there is. We talked about it before. Yes, there is. We touched upon this last time, but you are friends with the great Bob Euker, and I love him as well. Tell the fans how you met him and how you became friends with him. I say we're friends and Bob Euker probably say I think I met him, not because of memory, just because he has lots of friends. But we did build a friendship after we gave speeches at the same venue in Wisconsin, and I got to go see him up in the booth and get an autographed baseball. He also autographed some things for other people. I'll just say this, those who are aware of Bob Euker and all you have to think of is just a bit outside. First of all, he's funnier in person if that's possible. And second, he is really a gracious guy. He stayed at the dinner we spoke at for an hour after everything was done, just chatting with people, signing autographs. And if you ever get a chance to meet Mr. Baseball, do it. And next time when we do our postseason wrap-up show, I'll bring a couple pictures of me and Mr. Baseball. Hey Ross, we're out of time. Can you believe that? I cannot, but Bob Euker is the only person with three statues in his home ballpark. You got that going for him. Yeah, exactly. I like the one of the Euker seat best. Yeah, me too. Okay, folks, thanks for joining us on Figments to the Power of Imagination. Thank you, Ross, for being my partner in crime here. Please tune in to Figments on Reality next week. And when you get a chance to go to Think Tech Hawaii's website, and please support this very worthy non-profit. Aloha.


Adventures by Morse, Carlton E. Morse presents the City of the Dead, featuring Captain Friday. If you like high adventure, come with me. If you like the stealth of intrigue, come with me. If you like blood and thunder, come with me. Two o'clock on the morning of the third day in the City of the Dead. Three nights and two days have been spent in this old abandoned cemetery. This is the morning of the third day. But let Captain Friday tell you. At midnight we were asleep in the cottage of my father, Mayor Friday, whose caretaker of the old cemetery. Then there came the disturbing wails of the old clawfoot phantom. I got up and with Jimmy Parker went out into the night. Almost immediately we stumbled onto a trail of bones that led us among the tombstones down into the City of the Dead. It led to a grave upon whose headstone had been placed a skull. It was a freshly opened grave and there was a man down in it, digging. So much for that. In the meantime, Dr. Tuna had been left at the cottage with Phyllis Carroll, kept to bed by her knife wound. Also the old mayor was supposedly asleep in one of the bedrooms, locked in by Captain Friday, so that he would not be disturbed. Dr. Tuna became frightened when old clawfoot began to prowl outside the door and broke into Mayor Friday's room, only to find that he was not in the locked room at all. And then the clawfoot creature took measure in his own hands. He broke into the front door, overwhelmed Dr. Tuna and came to the bed beside the girl. When it reached order she cried out and lost consciousness. It is now two in the morning and we are down in the City of the Dead where Captain Friday and Jimmy Parker are watching the ghoul at work in the grave. The grave of old Ernie Morton. Get down, Parker. Down on your face and keep still. Did you see who it was digging in the grave, Captain? Keep still, I tell you. I'm going to move out of here. Don't even raise your head to look. Why so mysterious? Who is it? Never mind. You do as I say. Keep down here behind this tombstone. Here, where are you going? Keep still. Now listen, I'm going to sneak out alone. Can you help? Be quiet. I'm going out alone because it'll make less noise. He's down in the grave now. I want to catch him red-handed. I think that's a full idea. Let me go along.  Yeah, but he'll be desperate. He's not going to be the killer. I can take care of myself. Now mind you, do what I say. Don't move a muscle until you hear me yell. I'll yell when I jump him. I don't like it. That doesn't make any difference. Remember now, wait until I yell. Why, Phyllis, what's happened? What's been going on here? Where have you been? Why have you been gone so long? What matters now? Tell me what's been going on here. Where's Doc Tuner? He's over there behind those overturned chairs. Jimmy, he's dead. Dead? Jimmy, the clawfoot phantom's been here. Phyllis. Dr. Tuner tried to drive him out, and the thing killed him. Phyllis, are you sure Dr. Tuner's dead? Please don't leave me. I'm not going to leave you. I want to see if there's anything I can do for the doctor. I know he's dead, Jimmy. I saw him fall. No. No, he's not, Phil. No, he's not dead. Oh, I'm glad. I'm glad. Oh, wait. I'll get him on the lounge. I don't think he's very badly hurt. There. Looks to me like he's just been knocked down. Oh, that's wonderful.  This place is a wreck. Everything upside down. Yes, it was pretty bad. What happened after old clawfoot knocked the doctor out? It turned on me. It made a little mewing wail. I never felt so awful in my life. Mwing wail? Phyllis, what are you saying? It was just like that, Jimmy. Just as though it was an animal that was glad to see me. Oh, for goodness sake. It crept toward me, wailing a little soft wail. Oh, Jimmy, I can't tell you how terrible it was. It just kept coming closer and closer. And you couldn't move. I screamed at it to go away. I begged it not to come near me, but it kept coming on and on. And then suddenly it was over me. It stretched out a lean claw hand. Oh, Phil, dear. And then I fainted.  I thought you'd be safe here. I'd never let you. I just came, too. Just a moment before you came in. The thing was gone. I wish I knew what to do about Doc Tuna there. You're certain he isn't dying? No, he's not dying. Just a bump on the head. He'll be around presently. Hey, hey, where's Mayor Friday? Who broke open his door? I forgot all about him. We don't know. What do you mean you don't know? We don't know what's become of him. When old clawfoot began to wail outside, Dr. Tuna broke in the door to awaken him. But the mayor wasn't any place in the room. But that's silly, Phil. We saw Captain Friday lock his father in. He wasn't there. He vanished. Vanished from a bar and locked room? And I got to lie here in this miserable bed with my shoulder hurt. Oh, what if something should come after me? I couldn't run. I couldn't do anything. Hey, don't you worry about that, Phil. I'm not moving from your side from now on. But what about you? You were so white when you came in. Something's happened. Why don't you tell me? What do you mean, Phil? You're holding something back. What happened out there in the city of the dead? Why were you so white when you ran into the house? Where is Captain Friday? Well, Phyllis... Has something happened to the Captain? Now, Phyllis, you've got enough to worry about.  It's Dr. Tuna. Yeah, still unconscious. He's still unconscious, but he'll be around pretty soon now. Oh, Jimmy Parker, you tell me what happened. You've got to tell me. Is he dead? Is Captain Friday dead? No. That is, I don't know. You don't know? Well, weren't you with him all the time? Oh, Jimmy, don't put me off. I'm not putting you off, Phyllis. Honestly, I don't know. Phil, Captain Friday's vanished. Vanished? Captain Friday's vanished. Oh, Jimmy. Phyllis, don't give away. Please don't. But first the mayor disappeared, and now his son. Jimmy, do you think we're to be next? Of course not. But think of what's happened. First it was my cousin, Bert Arnold. They strangled him and threw him in an old grave. Oh, don't talk about it, Phil. It'll only make you feel worse. And then that stranger was stabbed to death outside your window. That old clawfoot did that. We saw him. And then, then let me think. Frightened to death. What is there in the world that could frighten a person to death? Well, that old caretaker was always scared of a cemetery at night. You know that.  I've heard that a person's heart sometimes bursts wide open with fear. Did you ever hear of that, Jimmy? No, of course not. Stop it now, Phil.  And then Mayor Friday vanished from a barred room. Well, Phil, I tell you... And now Captain Friday. Tell me, Jimmy, how did Captain Friday disappear? How did it happen? Oh, listen here, Phil. Wait until morning, won't you? Wait until daylight and I'll tell you all about it. It'll only be a few hours now. No. No, I want to hear now. But, but, Phyllis, it's not a nice story. Tell me now. Well, we left the house and went to the shed where we laid out the skeleton. The skeleton with the message tied to it, was it my grandfather? No, Phil, I wish you wouldn't... Go on, Jimmy. Well, the skeleton was gone. Gone? The skeleton, too. The mayor, the captain, and now the skeleton. Yes, the skeleton was gone. We were looking about outside the shed when I ran across the bones of its foot. Its foot? Yes. Just a little further down into the city of the dead and Captain Friday found its ankle bone. What? Oh, that's strange. What did that mean? We didn't know at first. But presently we found leg bones and most of the rest of the skeleton scattered out ahead of us. It was a trail of bones, Phyllis. A trail of bones? Yes, a trail of bones leading us down into the city of the dead, leading us down to a grave. Any... any particular grave? The grave of Ernie Morton. Ernie Morton? The grave we opened in search of the black pearls. Oh, Jimmy! The grave in which the strangled body of your cousin, Bert Arnold, was found. What does it mean? What is it? And Phil, when we got down into the city of the dead there perched on the headstone of Ernie Morton's grave was a grinning skull of our skeleton. That is null. Yes? Phyllis, there was someone digging in that grave again. Jimmy! Yes, someone digging, digging. He didn't see us. We threw ourselves down in the shadow of a tombstone. It was brilliant moonlight. Who? Who was it? I couldn't tell. I don't know. Captain Friday made me lie flat. I couldn't see a thing. All I could hear was the shoveling, shoveling of the ghoul in Ernie Morton's grave. Then what happened? Captain Friday was peering around the edge of the tombstone. Suddenly he called my name and dropped back to the ground. He saw who it was? That's what I thought, but if he did he wouldn't tell me. He said he was going out after the fellow and that I was to lie still until he yelled. He said he would yell when he leaped into the grave on the man. And that was my signal to come to his aid. Why didn't you go with him? Well, I wanted to, but he wouldn't let me. He wouldn't even let me raise my head to watch him while he sneaked up on the grave. Why? I don't know. Then he slipped out and I waited. I waited, waited. Pretty soon I heard the shoveling stop. I got ready to jump to my feet. I expected the captain to yell any second, but there wasn't any yell. I waited a few seconds longer and then I raised myself and looked over the top of the gravestone. Yes, Jimmy? Phyllis, there wasn't a sign of anyone in any place around. Jimmy! It was as true as anything I ever said in my life. Captain Friday had vanished. The grave digger had vanished. Even the shovel had gone. I rushed to the edge of the half-uncovered grave and looked everywhere. There was nothing. Oh, Jimmy, I couldn't have done that. I stood there on the moonlight at the edge of the grave, petrified for a moment. Then I yelled until my lungs hurt. And all I got from my trouble was a lot of echoes. Echoes coming up from the ruins of the old church. Echoes in the faint sounding of that phantom church bell. I couldn't have stood it. Then I got sick. I got away from the edge of the grave and started to run. It's more than a mile, but I ran the whole way back into the cottage without stopping. No wonder you were whiten out of breath. When I came in the door and found everything so upset, you so frightened, it brought me to my senses. I think the doctor's coming too fast. Get a pan of cold water, Jimmy. Bathe his head. Yeah, okay. Watch him, Phyllis. He starts to move around. Yeah, I don't want him to fall off the lounge. He's all right. Only hurry. Coming. Now we'll fix him up. Poor old guy. This cold water will help that head. You know, Phyllis, it's pretty rough treatment for a man as old as Doc Tuner. It's pretty rough treatment on any of us. And Jimmy just as sure as anything in this world, this is building up to something. Yeah. I suppose everything has a payoff. I just hope that payoff won't... won't end up in a funeral parlor. That's all I hope. The old mayor missing, Captain Friday missing. The prowling of old cloth foot is building up to something more surely than Phyllis Carroll can know. And on the next appearance of one of these three, who is even now making his way between the moonlit headstones toward the cottage. But more of that in just a moment. Oh, my head. Now he's coming too all right, Phyll. I'm awfully sorry about him. He's been so kind to me. My head. The mayor keeps him stimmin' on around here somewhere. I think a little something would do him good. I saw it on the lower left-hand shelf in the kitchen cupboard, Jimmy. Oh, good. I'll get it. Did you find it, Jimmy? Yeah, I got it. Yeah, this'll snap him out of it. Here now, Doc. Try and drink this. Let's put color in his face. He's opening his eyes, Phil. Hello, Doc. Feeling pretty bad? What is it? What's the matter? Just a little bump on the head, Doctor. You'll be all right in a minute. A bump on the head? I'll get a bump on the head. Oh, don't remember, huh? Oh, Cloughwood slugged you. Cloughwood. Cloughwood, I remember. He was after Miss Carol. Did he get her? I'm all right, Doctor Tuner. Honest I am. Don't you worry about me a bit. I shouldn't have let that thing get the best of me. I guess I ain't as young as I used to be. Well, don't you worry about that. You put up a good fight. Phyllis told me all about it. I'm still a good fighting man, Parker. I'm gonna bring that thing with the poker of my foot. I hadn't slept yet. So what was the matter? My foot slipped. Yeah, of course, Doctor Tuner. That's the way it happened. Now, you just lay back and rest a while. Yeah, Parker. Well? You know, I'm feeling kind of dejected, like I think I could do with another spoonful out of that bottle. Oh, that's right, sir. I'll bet you could. Just a minute. I'll fix it for you. Here you are. Thanks, Parker. That's all right. Well, I still forbid until you feel stronger. Jimmy, could I have a drink of water? Oh, sure thing. I'll have it for you in a jiffy. Here you are, Phil. Where's Captain Friday, Parker? He hasn't come in yet. What's he doing out meandering around the city of the dead this time of night? Oh, he'll be in when he gets ready. What gets me is what that old clawfoot critter wanted in here. I reckon he didn't come for Miss Carol after all, seeing as he went away without hurting her none. Did you see what he did after I was knocked out, Miss Carol? No, Dr. Tuner. He came toward me and I fainted. Oh, fainted, huh? Yes, and he was gone when I came, too. And you ain't noticed anything different since you waked up anything about the room or anything in the room? I know. Funny. What do you suppose he wanted, Parker? I don't suppose he wanted anything. Probably the midnight ramblings of a mad creature. I think you and Phil were lucky to get off with your lives. Listen. The Phantom church bell again. I wonder if it's going to begin all over. Begin over again? What do you mean? I mean, I wonder if we're going to have more trouble with old clawfoot tonight. Oh, Jimmy, would you please look out of the window and see if anything's outside? Of course, fellas. Hey, Dr. Tuner, what are you doing? You lie down there. No, sir. I'm thinking I'm feeling a much spryer than I did. I guess I'll be moving about a bit.   No, of course not. Not if you feel like getting up. There goes the bell again. Well, please look out of the window and see if that thing is around again. I don't suppose I'll be able to see much. Is it bolted? Yes, I locked it. I don't want it to come in here. I couldn't stand seeing it again. Phil, Doc and I can take care of you. I wouldn't mind having a gun. Yeah, that's what I wished for on his last visit. Here. You take the leg of this broken chair. I'll handle the poker. Fred. Hi, you out there. You better answer if you know what's good for you. That's right. We're two against you. You ain't got a chance. Doc Tuner. Doc Tuner, is that you? Mr. Mayor, Friday. Well, that be... Sure it's me, Mayor. Here, unlock that door and let the mayor in. Dr. Tuner, are you certain it's the mayor? Certain? Of course I'm certain. Go on, open the door, Parker. Now, what did I tell you? Of course it's the mayor. And why shouldn't it be me? What in tarnation did you go and lock me out for? Well, why didn't you answer instead of tromping up on the porch and banging on the door without a word? That's because I ain't used to asking for permission to enter my own house. What in the Sam Hills happened here anyway? Who broke that chair? Who spaced in that door? I reckon it couldn't be helped, Mayor. We had a little visit from old Clawfoot while you were out. Clawfoot? I reckon so. By the way, Mayor Friday, where have you been all night? Curious young squirt, ain't you, Parker? Perhaps so, but a lot of things have been happening around the city of the dead tonight. And I think you can throw light on a great deal of it. What's been happening? Well, to begin with, we all saw Captain Friday lock you in that room there before he and I went out into the city of the dead. You saw the captain lock me in? That's right, Mayor. I reckon we all saw him do it. Doc, you saw him lock me in? I reckon that's right, Mayor. When was that, Doc? Just before he and young Parker here went out. I reckon it was something about like midnight, Mayor. Oh, how'd you get out, Mayor Friday? Where's the captain, Parker? Why? Why, he vanished. Vanished? Yes. We went down into the city of the dead together, and, well, he disappeared. You mean something's happened to my son, Parker? Sorry, Mayor Friday. I don't know what happened to him. You see, we found someone digging in Ernie Morton's grave. Ernie Morton's grave? Yes. Captain Friday made me lie down behind a tombstone while he crept up to the grave. He told me to wait until he shouted. Where? He never shouted. Didn't shout? No. I waited as long as I thought it was, and then I followed. What did you see? Nothing. Captain Friday had vanished, and so were the fellow that had been digging. Did you see who it was in that grave? No. When I got to the edge of the grave, there was nothing but a partly filled hole. Yeah, it's a likely story, young man. Well, it's true. I reckon I know better than that. Well, what do you mean? Just what I say. It just happens that I came up through the city of the dead right by Ernie Morton's grave not half an hour ago, and that grave ain't been touched. Maybe though you filled up the grave before you came in. No. No, I left it just as it was. You say it's filled up now? Reckon it ain't been opened this night. Well, I'd tell you it was open.  That's the most asinine statement I ever heard. Oh, another country heard from. Phyllis is right. It is asinine. Now look here, Mayor.  I'll take you down there if you can't take my word for it. No, no, if you say so, Mayor, it's so. But look here, Parker ain't been acting like my idea of a killer.  How do you know how a killer acts? Now then, Mayor, you can't make me believe that you think the captain's dead. I ain't lived around you 40 years for nothing. If you really thought anything had happened to that, you'll keep your thoughts to yourself, Doc Tuner. But Mayor Friday, why would Jimmy do a thing like that? He hadn't any reason. Honestly, he didn't. The captain was getting too much on him. Of course he had reason. Plenty of reason. Oh, no, no. Honestly, Jimmy wouldn't hurt anyone. Honestly. There, there, now, Miss Carol. Oh, Phil, don't cry. It's all right. Oh, but you didn't. Now, now, Miss Carol, you've gone and made yourself unhappy again. You've had too much trouble tonight. Oh, but, Doc Tuner, you know Jimmy wouldn't hurt anybody, don't you? Well, yes, yes, of course.  But the Mayor said... Yeah, yeah, now, let me lift you up a little. Yeah, now I can fix that pillow. I'll give you a powder, a little bit. You know, what's this under your pillow? What? Why, I don't know. Look. Look here, Mayor Parker, look. Look what I found under Miss Carol's pillow. What is it? Let me see. What have you got there, Doc Tuner? A black pearl. A black pearl. Jumping to Jerusalem. Did you ever see anything like it? A black pearl as big as a pigeon's egg. But where did it come from? Dr. Tuner, where did you get it? I found it under Miss Carol's pillow, just where I said I found it. Phil, where did you get it? I don't know. It isn't mine. I never saw it before. But it was under your pillow, young woman. I don't care. I never saw it before. Ain't it a beauty? One of old Theodore Beverly's collection is sure as you're born. But it's uncanny. How did it get under my pillow? Well, one thing's certain now anyway. What's that, son? That somebody has found the pearls. Their whereabouts is no longer a secret to somebody. And to someone in this group. How do you figure that out, Mayor? Because we're the only ones who've had an opportunity to place in the pearl under the girl's pillow. Old Clawfoot. It was Old Clawfoot. All right, jiggers, I wonder. Of course it was Old Clawfoot. We were wondering why he broke into the place. He didn't take anything. Didn't hurt anyone more than was necessary to carry out his mission. Sounds reasonable. Well, of course. If Phyllis hadn't fainted, I'll bet he'd have put the pearl right in her hand. Jimmy, do you really think so? I'll bet money on it. But why? I don't know. Just the same I'll bet it was he. I know it was. You seem awfully anxious to convince us, Parker. What? What do you mean, Mayor? I mean I don't think Clawfoot had anything to do with that pearl. Oh? Well, what's your theory? I think you put that pearl there. What? Me? Yes. I think that pearl explains why the captain didn't come back to the cottage with you, James Parker. But I don't understand. Oh, yes, you do. In some manner you and my son hit on the hide-and-place of them black pearls tonight. And it didn't suit your purpose to have anybody but yourself know about them. You're crazy. Well, maybe I am, and maybe I ain't. But just the same, young fella. I ain't taken any chances. You're going in that there bedroom of yours, and you're going to stay there until we can turn you over to the police. But you can't do that. You mustn't. Look here, Mayor, that's absurd. Why on earth would I give myself away by bringing one of the pearls here to the cottage? You couldn't resist the temptation of bringing one along to show to the girl. Likely you and her was looking at it when Doc Tuner came to. You didn't have time to hide it, so you stuck it under her pillow. No. No. I never saw it before. Honestly, I didn't. I swear it. No, no.  What's the matter with you, Mayor Friday? Why don't you give me a break? You're always making me the goat for everything. What have you got against me? I've never done anything to you. Dad won't do you no good, Parker. Well, you know what I think of you. With as much circumstantial evidence against you? Circumstantial evidence. I'd like to know if there's anyone in the world that's got more against them than you.  That's enough for me. Look! Look! What? Are you pointing at me? Yes, I'm pointing at you. Look there in his vest pocket. Jimmy, what is it? I don't see anything. Must be Luke's in his mind. What's the matter with you? Look at that gold pencil in his vest pocket. That's Captain Friday's pencil. You... You mean... Captain Friday had that pencil in his pocket when we left the house tonight. What? Watch that? And look at the fresh dirt on the knee of the mayor's trousers. Oh, Jimmy! Mayor Friday, supposing you tell us what's become of your son, Captain Friday. There have been many clues pointing to Oh, Mayor Friday of the city of the dead all along.  Not only these questions, but the whereabouts of Captain Friday will be brought to you next week when Carlton E. Morse presents chapter 8 of the City of the Dead entitled, The Kidnapping of Clawfoot.


In today's video, we find out if my $1,000 spent on TCG player was worth it. What's up, guys? We're back with another TCG player $1,000 video where we're going to be checking in on year one and the halfway point of year two. But before we do that, I am going to be giving away a $50 TCG player giveaway if you're international and just be a $50. All you have to do is like the video, be subscribed, turn on notifications, let me know down below which card you think was our best decision and what card should we invest in for year three. All right. First of all, I think I want to check in on the first year and see how it's doing because we didn't actually do this in the last video. We didn't check in on our original $1,000 we did in 2022. So let's see how those are doing. We're going to start off with the Blue Eyes, White Dragon, Ultimate Rare. Okay. Here we have the Blue Eyes, White Dragon. I think we had a lightly played first dead and then an unlimited near man or something like that. So we have $5.95 for the lightly played. Let's go back here. So lightly played ulti. We originally spent $25. So yeah, obviously that one's not looking so good. We lost $20 on that one. Not great. It was also supposed to be near mint and it had been lightly played. That really was the main cause. Let's see. We can double check on the near mint as well. Let's see if we take the light play off. If it was near mint, we would be at $16.98. Not terrible, but it's not. All right. So what's the unlimited at $335? Man, these are so cheap. $335. So we're losing money on that one. The first year, I think we picked some pretty bad stuff. It kind of all got killed. Let's go for silent swordsman. This was also supposed to be near mint. Okay. Silent swordsman level five lightly played. First dead is going for $39.99 at the moment. $39.99. It's kind of been where it's been at the entire time. As you can see, we lost $46 on that purchase of $87. 54% decrease. Not great. Let's see if it was near mint. If it was actually near mint, I think last time we would have actually made money. Yeah, $120. So it's a lot more valuable. That's what it really should be at, but I didn't return it. And you know, now we're just out of money. That's why you should return stuff if it's not the right condition. Next up, number 17 Leviathan Dragon. I know for a fact that this thing is not doing so well. It has been one of our worst investments. It's been terrible. Near mint, we are at $49.96, over a 50% decrease on a $110 purchase, $60 off, 55% decrease. Disgustingly bad. I still have all these cards, by the way. I haven't gotten rid of any of them. Lighting storm. I mean, obviously no reason to when we've lost 50% of our money. Let's look up lightning storm starlight. This one has been fairly consistent, but just wait till it gets to 25th anniversary. Then it's going to get destroyed. It's already down to 180 anyway. Oh my goodness. That is rough. Solid morning up next. I felt good about that starlight investment. That was before they told us about the old 25th anniversaries. Now that would have changed my mind on what we were picking up. Okay, near mint unlimited, $44.90. Just all these cards are going down, guys. Yu-Gi-Oh! It's in a downturn. Everything's going down. All right. Losing 36% on the solid morning. I think we're going to lose on everything. Evil hero, a dusty goal, because the ones that we normally help us out like the starlight is not doing so good. So at the moment, if you're looking to invest in single cards for Yu-Gi-Oh! Not looking great. $245. Yeah. This one's way down. It's had reprints. So that was a terrible decision. I don't know why I went for that one. I thought maybe it wouldn't get reprinted by the end of the year, then it would go up. Stratos Ulti. I think this one could be around the same price. Maybe a little bit more. I'll look at it. Every single price is tanking. This is so bad. $123.90. Okay. That's sort of in the ballpark, but that's another one I could see getting a $25. Okay. Red-Eyes, Flare, Metal, Dragon. Come on, Ghostrare. You can do this. This was actually a nice condition, Ghostrare. So I have hope. This thing was near meant. It could be good. Come on. Where's the first ed? No first ed showing. There's no first ed option for some reason. First ed, $115.99. What is that? Oh, we still lost money. Everything's down, man. All right. Finally, the Warriors Triumph Structure Deck. Come on.  Structure deck, first ed. Come on. Come on. $94.95. Limitless games. Come on. I've actually been there on the channel. I'm mad at you guys now. I'm mad at you guys for this. $94.95. Just kidding. I'm just kidding. Okay. So overall, our $1,000 purchase on 2022, we're going to go into 2023 of the current year, but we spent $1,063 plus tax. Keep that in mind. We now have $661. We've lost $3,340 and 34% of our money. So it's a great start. 2022 was a great investment, guys. All right. Year two. We've won FYI. I did tell you guys, I might sell some of the cards. The Trap Tricks Trap Hole Nightmares. I have a second tab here. I sold all of these for this amount. Ironically, you can look here. The Light Played Sulfur in the 55-56 range. Nierment I sold for 40. So ironically, the Nierment sold for less because it took longer to sell the Nierments versus the Light Plays, but I did still make 87% on these, 81% on these, 37% on those. Overall, we made $292, which means we increased about $118, 68% of our money. Not bad. So we've locked in that price. Everything else we still have. So let's check and see if anything else has made money and if we should sell anything else. All right. 60 cents. So it's about 60 cents each before it was $1.19. So not looking too good there. We lost $1.58, 47% of our money. Not good. Very small amounts. It's not a big deal. Dark Arm Dragon. We got a Ghost Trail. Let's see if that's gone up. I'm guessing that with the 25th anniversary rare, it is probably not. Yep. Here we go. 25th anniversary rarity. Notice how they, you know, oh look. Dark Arm Dragon got a 25. Wow. So we're looking at 37.99, which is not a terrible tank, but it is definitely down. All right. Colossal Fighter Ulti. I don't think this has gotten a reprint recently, so maybe? Come on. Give us something Colossal Fighter.  Ha! How do you do? $1.19.94. All right. Let's see. Okay. We're at a $31, almost $32 increase, 36%. All right. We're seeing something, guys. Our investment's looking better here. Maybe we should, we should probably sell that. It's an $85 card. No, we got it for $88, so it was down $3, and now it's up that much, probably because Edison has surged a lot recently, so that probably helps. It's used in a little bit of decks there. We have All I Have Justice Catastro. This is also an Ulti. All right. Come on, Catastro. Ooh, Edison, baby. Time to sell, sell, sell. We got 90, really 92 with that shipping. We'll call it 90 still, but it wasn't for that. It'd be 100. Okay. So there's two of these. So 90s are pretty solid price. There's two of them available. But we are still up from 70s. That's a $20 increase, 29%. Looking good. Up six Ash Blossom. Did Ash Blossom increase? There's so many prints of this, but it is one of the best-looking ones. Let's see. Okay. Not looking too good. Oh, we went off a cliff here. What happened? Okay. 681. We got six of them for like 10 bucks each. All right. So we had $40.86. So we lost about 20 bucks on that. Not the worst thing. Kind of evens out that Catastro, unfortunately. We're still up a little bit so far, I think. Well, plus this rep a lot, but let's see what Pod of Desires is doing. This is an unlimited Ulti. I'm sure the Pod collection didn't help this one. Yeah. Pod collection is definitely not going to help. Let's see. 66654. That is a lot better than I expected with the Pod collection reprint. We're still up 1150. Not bad. And then of course, the locked in here. So far, it's looking good. Then we got our Tomb Black Cluster Soldier. I don't have high hopes for this one because it's not a big... It was a little bit shorted. So maybe this one's held up decently as the Secret Rare. Yeah. It looks like it's about the same. We're looking at 550. Yeah. We're down a little bit. 550. We've lost about $2.34. Okay. Instant Fusion. I don't know if they banned it or not. We were worried it might get banned. So we put $122 and I'm not feeling good about that. All right. Oh gosh. Oh boy. Here we go. Oh, it's not good. $83.97. I was not happy about this one. Chat made me buy this. If you guys remember, this was a Twitch chat. They picked all these.  I remember not liking it, but now we have 10 Night Beam. Maybe that'll bring us back. Night Beam Ulti. Shout out to DZ. Come on. Give us something big. Near Mint. Wait. Oh, okay.  Wait a second. Wait a second. We're up $31 on the Night Beams. Wow. That's crazy. I would say sell them, but like when you sell 10 different packages, it's probably going to end up being, you know, with shipping and everything in fees. We probably wouldn't even make any money on that. All right. Backsia Ultimate Rare. Let's check in on that one. So far, pretty solid right now. Really not looking bad. We've had some bad losses, but we've had some really good ones as well. We're at $32.98. That feels high. Oh, it's slightly high. Not much. I mean, if we sold it, we would not make money because, you know, shipping and fees would be more than $248, but we're still up $248. That's not bad. We'll take that any of the week. Now let's go to Yazi. Come on, Yazi. Be up. Oh no, $26.99. Okay. Okay. The outside thing made it look cheaper. Oh, wait. We're actually up money. That's not bad. $26.99. All right. We'll take it. Rescue Rabbit. Coming up next, Secret Rare. Last time we were down a little bit. Let's see about the rescue. Increase from the rescue rabbit. Oh, $8. That's not promising. But if we go to near mid first at what is it? $19.75. Okay. A little better. A little better. A little better. Ah, we're still down. We're still down a little bit. Not terrible. We'll take it. Rising Energy Ulti. We got a couple of these. We're almost to that infamous fiber jar. You guys remember that? We'll flash back to that just for fun in just a second. Okay. Rising Energy near mid first. I'm not expecting this one to be up. $11. $11.19. Wait. Okay. Wait. So if it's two of, we might have actually almost broken even here. We lost $1.35. Really not terrible to be honest. Fiber jar. So I took this out, I think, because we were just kind of keeping it consistent because I got a refund. But this is the original. If you guys don't know what happened with this one, let's just flash back to the moment right now. This just came out of the package like this. So that's not awesome. Hopefully nothing was dinged. Anything on the service actually looks pretty good, surprisingly. Not real. All right. After reliving that awesome memory, one of the funniest things that's happened on the channel. Not a great memory though. Okay. Let's see if this rare went up. I mean, it was really cheap before. So I mean, how could it even go down? Right? It has to go up in theory. Wait. I think it did go up. Wait. Why is it? There's a 75 cent listing and then everything else is two. Wow. $250. Okay. All right. I think we spent what? $1.40 each. I didn't do the math here. I think these are originally $1.40 total, but I didn't do it. Yeah. Cause I'm pretty sure we bought them for like $0.40 or $0.50 because they had just come out. I'll just go with it like that. Okay. So now it's $2.50. If I mess that up, then let me know in the comments, but I'm pretty sure it was originally $1.40 total. So we're up $6. Those make sense because they were really cheap like staples that you want to have and they were actually kind of hard to pull from booster boxes. You wouldn't get a place at every time. Okay. Gate Guardian secrets, the memes that we bought from Simply Unlucky Store. Yeah. We bought a bunch of secret rare gate guardians for some reason. Yeah. Look at these. $1.20. We bought them for like $5 each. Come on. Oh, the pain. We bought 23 of them. Yeah. We lost $73 on those. Congrats, Twitch chat. Everybody clap for Twitch chat. You guys are really smart. You killed it. All right. Battlefader ulti. Let's check on that unlimited ulti by the way. $126. Whoa. Edison. Shout out to Edison. Time to sell this. Whoa. $125.99. We went up $96 a 320% increase. Wow. And look at sales. It looks like they've recently been bought out. It's going to be it. Because like near mint first said there were two for $58. Whoa. That is crazy. Definitely time. These will be one that I'm moving after the video. That is insane. Wow. Okay. That makes a big difference. That was really our big winner of today, I think.  More than one of those. I remember this was like an afterthought. We had like 30 bucks left. And I was like, Battlefaders are a cool card. Yeah. It is a cool card. Now we got petite moths. Remember none of these were actually near mint, but we're going to calculate them as near mint. Petite moth. These were unlimited. Okay. They had a reprint. They had a stock. I know. Crazy. 49 cents. That's probably about what we bought them on, right? Not bad. So overall, this is what we're looking at. We have spent a thousand. We now have $1,176.40. So we're up a little bit. This seems to be a messed up formula. I got to fix that. Okay. So we're up 18%. That looks a little more accurate than up 650,000% or whatever it was. That would be nice. I'd be happy with that. So it looks like what I'm going to be doing after this. The only thing I'm going to potentially try to move is the battle fader. Because it's at $125 right now, which is absurd. It's unlimited. Very cool. We'll take that. Overall, a much better year than 2022. That year, I mean, it was disappointing from the very get-go. This year is looking a lot better. I think that if we kind of sell through what's up and what's down as we go, we have a much better chance to have our portfolio go up. But if you enjoyed this video and you want to see more, make sure to subscribe to the channel for more content like this. We will do an update about three months and then probably one. We'll definitely want it at the end of the year. See how it went. And then maybe we'll do it again with a little bit more of a twist. Shout out to Tom Fosho, Daxer, JT Cho, Puffins of Doom, Ernesto Dina, Miss Eichel, America Doyster, Supreme Stage 21, another Thai show, Ian Musa, Junior Barting, and Mimic Echo. Thank you guys for supporting the channel, and I'll see you guys in the next one. Peace.


Yeah, so my question is we've had a couple of friendlies and some of the players that have Been with us quite a while i.e. Morales and co seem to be performing above what they have done for quite a few years with us and Quite a few people are getting quite excited thinking that oh, you know, it's like a new sign in we're gonna need to give them a chance What do you guys think? Are you in agreement with me these these guys that have had plenty of Years with us and never seem to deliver Should we just forget about the way it's been in the last couple of games and just get rid Thank you. So yeah, Simon's made a good point and he's not the first to say this And I think we get sucked up into this every summer Come back from preseason someone you don't like or someone you thought was out the door suddenly starts doing Okay in preseason and then people start thinking oh Could he could he do it this year? Rudge yeah, I think there are good that there are certain type of players who are good in preseason this specialized in it Kevin Morales is probably the captain of the all-time best preseason 11, isn't he? How many did he score against the Austrian five five five in like 20 minutes? It's not preseason about Morales though, is it well when he feels the need to create a good impression Yeah, he runs about a bit. He tracks back. He tackles he gets on the ball and so on as soon as he feels comfortable He reversed to type so for me, sorry, I've cut you up there, but for me move him on quickly It wouldn't be the first time you cut me off John, but it's absolutely fine Kevin Morales is is a no from me. Yeah, he'd been a no from me two years ago Yeah, and yeah, he scored a few goals and he ran around and he looked enthused For me he's kind of similar to Bezich. You know how it's gonna work out You put him in the first 11. He might get injured and then he'll be out for six months I mean especially since you know, he spent the second half of last season of MPR costs and he basically He basically said his goodbyes at me You know, we all thought well, that's it. That's the end of this guy Then they make a decision when we don't want to buy him because he didn't do anything for them So suppose at this time here that what it is is a shop window for him, isn't it regardless of what he plays forever? Absolutely, he's got to be seen to be to be making a little bit of a buzz So teams that make other teams might go We were looking for a left winger. He's doing all right in preseason. Let's get in there That's why some of those players will have got game time as well so they can be seen Yeah, and let's hope that is the outcome because I think you know, you said you've said before As a group of fans we like to moan Think there's a case that we don't moan enough because we tolerate people like Morales He should have been out the door Yeah, there should be no room for sentiment He's underperformed enough time and for me just personally for me Morgan Schneider should be out the door Yeah, because how we performed and what he did last season. I don't want him anywhere near my football Yeah Now maybe he has turned a corner and maybe he is actually a player That we need in the formation and okay Maybe he just about survives the last chance to loon, but we need to be more ruthless if we want to progress And we want to compete there ain't no room for Kevin Morales From a business point of view as well I mean it's like that's got to be the case hasn't it surely no you can't be clean You know that last season we spoke about Having too many players almost still are 38 or whatever it was. Yeah, you've got to make those decisions every surely from business Maybe you've got to cut the losses out and just get rid of of those plays Yeah from a top-down perspective, you know, you know the things we're hearing out in the sherry and certainly our brands and The like around promoting youth they're about getting down the average age of the squad and Reducing the wage bill he takes two boxes there more Alice doesn't get rid of him brings down the wage bill reduces the average age So and what we're not paying 15 million pounds for a winger to keep more Alice, aren't we? No Was it was it marino? I don't know who first came out with this notion that what you need in a squad You know and this football did exist before the Premier League But the Premier League came along and he needed squads and blah blah blah But I think it was marino who said what you need is two players for every position, right? So if you do the math 22 We've got 30 odd And and I think we've got more than enough people who could play wherever Kevin Morales thinks he plays So yeah, we need to be ruthless and we need two players for every position and There's there's more than enough to cover for him. There's always been that problem I think it ever just killing and on to people giving people second chances you would never think about giving before we always seem to be very forgiving of Of see it and play it. That's my point and you said you've said before that, you know We we like to moan a lot and the flip side of that is that we are, you know, James McCarthy There's another one. How many chances do we give Jimmy McCarthy? How many chances do we give passage? So you wouldn't keep passage. No No strangely enough. I mean, I've got the shirt, but I wouldn't you know John you keep passage Yeah, I think it'd be okay in a squad and he's versatile as well And probably because I very much doubt he's on huge wages And I suppose the the political response to your question is to say there's probably play as you get rid of before you got rid of him Yeah, I didn't pay much for him. Did we because he'll be fully depreciated or pretty much as so it'd be four years Yeah, there'd be no drag on that perspective and through his injuries and all that sort of stuff I doubt he's got a huge wage bill attached to him and he would bring particularly in that midfield and you know And you can't despite his size play centre back, can't he? He wouldn't be the first on my list to get rid of but certainly Mr. Morales would be they can't have long left on a contact Bessons though. Yeah, so I mean so what about from that point of view? I mean if you if we if we have got these players and they're coming into like this two years to go Yeah, should we you know if there's any if there's any you and an on about them? Shouldn't we just be looking to sell them or give them new contracts rather than wait? No, no, but what I mean is though you're every single player if you come into it to two years to go that Haven't we learned anything from the the Ross Barkley situation that we don't let players go into the last year?


Okay, let's try this one. It says sulfur dioxide reacts with oxygen in the present presence of platinum to give sulfur trioxide the reaction is shown. Suppose that at one stage of the reaction 24.1 moles of sulfur dioxide 79.0 moles of oxygen and 23 moles of sulfur trioxide are present in the reaction. Vessel at total pressure of 0.9238m. Calculate the mole fraction of sulfur trioxide and its partial pressure. Okay, so the first thing you want to do when you're doing something like this is you want to find the mole fraction of, well it says to find the mole fraction of the sulfur dioxide, but in order to do that you need to know the total number of moles. We know the number of moles of sulfur trioxide right here. Okay, so in order to find the total number of moles all you do is add up all three of the moles present in the reaction. Okay, so we got gas, gas and gas. So they're all three present at the reaction at a particular time. So at that particular time what is the total number of moles? That's what we're going to figure out. Okay, so in order to do that you just simply add them all up. So number of moles total is going to be 24.1 moles, 9.0 moles and 23, I think in the problem it says 24.0 moles. So let's change that. So we don't have any significant figure of issues here. Okay, and then just add those three numbers up. So 24.1 plus 79 plus 23 is, yeah, 123.1 moles. So that's the total number of moles of gas you have in the reaction mixture at this particular time. Okay, so then it asks you, well what's the mole fraction of sulfur trioxide? Okay, so mole fraction big X. Okay, sulfur trioxide. Well we know the number of moles of sulfur trioxide and we know the total number of moles. Okay, so remember the mole fraction is just the number of moles of the part divided by the total number of moles. So we have both of those. So if you look here we just figure that out. 23.0 moles divided by 123.1 moles and so the mole fraction and it should be a number that makes sense to you, right? So like 18 percent or point one eight, that makes sense, right? When you look at 23 compared to 126. So if you got some number that's like 72, right, 72, that doesn't make any sense. So it's going to be a fraction. So 0.1 and there's three significant figures of 182. And moles and moles cancel out the fraction. This mole fraction doesn't matter when you do that. And then it asks for, what was it? The last thing it asks for was the pressure of the sulfur trioxide. Right? At this point in time. So pressure. Right? So this one sounds a lot scarier than what it actually is. So the partial pressures of these gases are correlated with the number of moles. So the mole fraction helps you out in that. Right?  Okay? So what did we say? The mole fraction of the sulfur trioxide is 0.182 and we multiply that by the total pressure. So you're in front of the camera right now being recorded. What? Yeah. So the partial pressure of sulfur trioxide is 0.168. Any questions on that? No sir, thank you.


Thank you so much to Simply Safe for sponsoring today's video and you guys, they are having the best sale of the year, so make sure to stay tuned. Hey guys, what's up? Welcome back to my channel. Today I have a very, very exciting video and not only is this a gift guide video, it is also a humongous giveaway just to kick off the holiday season. I am planning to do so many incredible giveaways in the month of December, so you're definitely going to want to make sure that you are subscribed to my channel and turn on that bell notification because I actually am giving away something in every single video throughout the month of December. But for today's video I'm going to be sharing with you guys a holiday gift guide and these items are perfect for anybody in your family, perfect for friends, and they range in price from low to a little bit higher. That way I can give you guys a couple of ideas for holiday gifts this season. As many of you guys know, I did a DIY holiday gift video, which if you have not seen that, I'll put it in a card up there for you guys, but I basically DIYed some really cute holiday gift ideas. However, I do know not everybody has time to DIY gifts, so I thought I would make a gift guide video as well compiling some of my favorite items throughout the year that I think are perfect gift ideas and then I'm giving away all of the items shared in this video with you guys at the end. So make sure to stay tuned, but honestly I feel like we should just jump right in and let's start off with gift number one. So my first gift is one that I've shared on my channel in the past a couple of times and it's actually today's sponsor, which is SimplySafe. I absolutely love SimplySafe. They are a super simple, easy, user-friendly home security system that I have been using for probably about six months or so now. 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It is simplysafe.com slash Lone Fox. So definitely take advantage of this because it is the best deal that they've ever offered. And you get 30% off of everything. You only have to buy it one time too. Once you have it, you are good to go. So yeah, definitely check them out in the description box below. But let's go ahead and jump on into these other gift items as well. I think I'm going to go ahead and start off with some of the smaller items to start. The first thing that I think is such a great gift idea for anybody because this is something I would never purchase myself. But I would love to get as like a stocking stuffer is one of these reusable kind of door openers or clickers, especially during the times that we're currently living in. These are great to be able to open doors, click buttons, go to the gas station, click the little pin pad on there. And you don't have to touch anything, which is amazing. These are super affordable not to mention they're kind of cute because they're just like a little brass key chain. I've always wanted one of these. So I'm excited to see how I can actually use this and it benefit from it. So I think this is a great little item to add to anyone's stocking or just, you know, hang it off their gift as well as a little kind of additional option. Now I have a couple of other items which are just cute items to keep us safe. Of course, this is a really kind of bougie hand sanitizer. But when I saw this online, I was like, wow, this is so fricking cute. It is a power mist moisturizing hand sanitizer and it comes in so many different colors as well. Again, this is just something that I would never buy myself. But if someone bought it for me, I would love using it.  Oh my gosh. You guys aren't getting this. I'm keeping this honestly, I swear. This smells incredible, but it's a really nice hand sanitizer. It doesn't smell like alcohol. Oh, it's vanilla cinnamon scented. And my next item are cute face masks. This is a pack of five. So if you have kids or you have a lot of family members who want to gift things to, just honestly giving them one face mask in addition to like a larger present or something. I think it's a great idea. And these are all reusable, which is amazing. They have a filter slot in the back as well. And they're also really cute. Like the patterns on these are honestly adorable. There's like little ditzy florals. We have this kind of Buffalo Chuck plaid. There's an oversized floral. And then this one is a little bit more masculine. I would definitely love this one. It's like a nice blue color, but honestly so cute. And just something I would never think to get somebody, but probably something that they will use every single day again and think about you when they're putting it on. Okay, moving on to that genre of items. I also have this really cute silk face mask. I have read so much about how silk pillowcases are incredible for your hair. If you're one that kind of wakes up and have like crazy bed head, like I do silk pillowcases and even silk eye masks are a great option to make sure that your hair is not tangled in the morning or anything like that. Plus they just feel luxurious for sure. And I had to share with you guys my favorite portable charger. I absolutely love this one in particular, which I will link this below for you guys. Everything I'm featuring in this video will be linked for you in the description box of course. But the thing I love about this one is it plugs directly into the wall. And something that I hate about portable chargers is I always have to go find the charging cable. I have to find a block. I have to plug it in. I have to wait so long. It just for some reason I end up losing those cords so often because they're typically pretty short. So I love how this one has the charger just ready for you to go right here. You can plug it in. You can even charge your phone while this is charging as well. I thought this was cute. I saw it on Amazon and I was like, oh, this would be such a good little gift. It is a tips and toes kit by Burt's Bees. I absolutely love their chapstick. It's the only one that I typically end up using.  So for the value, I thought this was a great option. And it's just, again, something that's really cute. It comes gift packaged already. So it's simple and easy. And then I got these from my mom actually because she loves wearing gloves. That's her favorite thing. Like she literally wears gloves in the summertime, you guys. I swear her hands are always cold. But these are really cool because they actually have a fingertip knitted into them that allows you to use your phone. And then you're able to use these little touch pieces at the top of the fingertips so you can use your phone. You could still touch, type, and text on them so you don't have to take the glove off, which I think would probably always be a nuisance. You guys know I had to include a couple of coffee table books because coffee table books, when you don't know what to get somebody, I just think getting them a really cute book is a substantial gift for sure. And I have a couple that I've loved in my own home decor just to kind of have sitting on a shelf, but I also really love the content inside of the book. So I have a couple of them here. This first one I have actually not gotten a chance to read yet, but I bought myself a copy as well. This is Make Life Beautiful by Studio McGee. I absolutely love Sid and Che. They're the owners of Studio McGee, and they have a website called McGee & Co. If you guys have not followed them on YouTube, they are incredible. And they have such a great stunning vision for interior design. So I'm really excited to read this book. It literally just hit the market, I believe, like last week or so, so you can get this one as well. A couple books that are a little bit more inspirational slash design focused. I have Live Beautiful by Athena Calderon, and she is honestly a icon. I follow her on Instagram. She has cooking tutorials. She has a stunning New York apartment. One of the most beautiful apartments I've ever seen. And she just has such a great book full of inspiration in here. I absolutely love this book so much. And not only is the content inside great, it's also just a really pretty book. I love Live Beautiful. I think it's a nice little mantra. And I also have one that kind of corresponds to it. This is the Architectural Digest book. And I've honestly probably purchased about eight of this exact book because when I ever do a room makeover, I just love the way this book looks on any shelf or on any coffee table. It's such a nice accent. And I feel like this is a book that nobody cannot like. Like it just has stunning architecture inside of it. So all around, you know, there's something for everyone in here. And I think it's a really cute substantial gift idea. Let's go ahead and pop in some items from my online store. I have just two things here that I wanted to share with you guys. And of course, also, guys, if you did not know, I actually offer gift cards over on Lone Fox. So if you wanted to get someone a gift card as well, make sure to link that in the description box below for you. But one of the first things I think that is such a cute idea is one of the bases or a couple of the bases from my Celeste collection. It is such a natural kind of organic, raw, ceramic base set. And it comes in really unique shapes and sizes, which I think is so much more fun than your traditional vase. So if you want to get someone something and they're a home decor lover, this is such a great option. I just really, really like this vase set. And this next item here is brand new to the site, but it has been flying off the shelves. You guys love these. And I do too. They are so freaking cool. Look how nicely they come packaged as well. This one is a pink peace sign hand candle. And there are a couple different hand gestures that you can choose from. There's also multiple different color ways. And I just think this is such a fun gift. Again, anyone who's like a quirky or just like trendy home decor lover, this is a really fun gift for them. And I ran across this next item. I knew I had to include it in this video because this is such a great DIY toolkit for anyone who is starting out or a new homeowner, someone that got a new apartment, whatever it might be. This has everything that you need in it to fix any issues you might have throughout your home. And I actually am getting one of these for myself as well, because I have just been one to kind of purchase tools as I need them. And it's so frustrating having to go back to the hardware store to purchase a screwdriver because you don't have the correct one. And the great thing is that Amazon actually offers this as a smaller kit or a larger kit. I got you guys the larger kit just because I wanted whoever won to have a lot of different tools in there. But it comes with really everything you need to fix any kind of traditional home issue or to install pictures on the wall or to do simple little tasks here and there. Now my friends and I absolutely love having bonfires and roasting marshmallows. It is just something that we've always done as a group. And I came across this item here, which is a portable little burner.   This is a great item just to have at your home when they all come over. You can have a little bonfire outside and roast the marshmallow. I have two random little drinking vessels here. The first one is a to-go mug. But this is not just any to-go mug. It is a ceramic to-go mug. And it is so cute. It is a white speckled ceramic on top. And then at the bottom here, you have this kind of tan, a little bit more matte glaze ceramic. And all around, I just think this is such a chic alternative to your traditional to-go mug. And then of course at the top, you have your kind of rubber sealed lid. And then it's insulated on the inside. It is by Mora Ceramics, in case you're curious. And the next item is a really cute little water bottle from Bando. I think they have such quirky items. And this is just such a fun little present. It says, are you drinking enough water on the side here in gold? And then right over here, you can kind of see or engage yourself throughout the day. So it says you got to start somewhere. You can do it. This bottle is definitely half full. You're almost there. And then you should be so proud, which I think is just such a cute little motivator to drink more water. And also the bottle design itself is just really nice. Like I would love to drink water out of this, honestly. Another larger scale gift here is a smart garden by Click and Grow. And I have seen these everywhere. But again, an item I would never purchase myself, but I would love to receive as a gift. And this is basically a little garden that does everything for you. It actually waters the plants. It gives them light. It makes sure that they're taken care of. And everything's just basically done for you. So you don't have to worry about it too much, which is definitely something I need because I have zero green thumb at all.  And I just love that. You can fill up the tank, power it up and enjoy it. It says your smart garden does all the hard work and your first sprouts will appear in one to two weeks. Any music lover definitely needs a record player. And how cute is this one? It is a mint green record player. I absolutely love the Crosley ones. This one was from Urban Outfitters. And all around, it is just so cute. They have so many different colorways as well. Tons of pastels. There's even ones that kind of reminisce like wood or concrete. And I love the idea of a nostalgic record player. And honestly, listening to music on a record player, it's just such a different experience than listening to it on your phone or on your laptop. So if you know someone that always listens to music, I think getting them a record player, which these are actually very affordable. They look like they cost a couple hundred dollars, but you can get these for like 50 bucks or so. This little item here is so cute. It is a very heavy like cast iron brass looking miniature tray. And for any home decor lover, this would be so fun. Put it on your bedside table. You can put your AirPods on it, your earphones, little earrings if you take them off at night. Rings. You can just use that as a little catch-all. But I just thought it was so cute and it's also extremely affordable. So this is just something that anyone who loves home decor would truly love. I don't even know what I would do with this, but I want it.  And this is for anybody who works out, who puts a lot of hours into their day, who maybe just works a lot in general. This is a massage gun. And these are really great. They're known as Thera guns, I believe. I basically got introduced to these when I started working out a lot. My personal trainer at the time brought one in and was like, you should use this. And I absolutely loved it. It basically kind of loosens up any tense muscle. I actually have my very own right here, which I use all the time. And I kind of want to share it with you guys. So inside there's a little carrying case. And this one's actually a different brand than the one that I'm sharing with you. But they all are pretty much the same thing. It's a little massage gun like this. It's like a little massage gun. You could adjust the speed and how much it actually does it. They're great. I really love using these after I do different kind of workouts at the gym. Sometimes we do leg days or sometimes we do arm days.  This breaks up lactic acid and allows your muscles to kind of regenerate a lot quicker, which I like. And just like that, you guys, we are all done with this gift guide. I hope that you enjoyed the gifts that I shared in here. I really like mixing it up and not doing all home decor based gifts because I personally would love to receive a home decor item. And I'm sure you on the other side of the camera would also love to receive a home decor item, not always our friends and family wanting to receive home decor from us. You know, like we like it, but not always do they like it. So I wanted to include a mixture of things just for anybody. I feel like a lot of these gifts are super unisex as well. And all around, I just think they're great options ranging from a lower budget to a higher budget. So make sure to definitely check out all of the gifts I did share in this video using the links in the description box below. And also do not forget to take advantage of simply safe incredible offer of 30% off as a free HD camera with the purchase of any new system. Just make sure to head over to simply safe.com slash loan fox to do so. And guys, it is giveaway time. This is the time I've been waiting for this entire video. I'm so excited because one lucky winner is going to receive every single gift that I shared in this video, which of course you could use for yourself or you can gift out to your other friends and family members as well. The rules are super simple to enter. All you have to do is just be subscribed to my channel. If you are not already, make sure to click that red subscribe button. It is somewhere down here over here. Wherever YouTube decided to put it, it is somewhere around the screen. And also make sure to click the bell icon next to the subscribe button. Even if you're a subscriber of my channel and you have not clicked that bell icon, you must click the bell icon. That way you are notified when I upload a brand new videos. And the entry to this giveaway is so simple. All you have to do is leave one comment in the comment section down below. You could leave absolutely any comment. Let me know maybe what your favorite Christmas gift you've ever gotten was. Just leave a comment. It doesn't have to be relating to anything at all. And that will be your entry. But also maybe make sure to just put your Instagram after or your Twitter or some way that I can notify you in case you do win. Just make sure to include that in the comment as well. That way I can notify you in case you are the winner of this giveaway. This is also open 100% worldwide and it will last for a week from today. The winner will be chosen next week. And I'll be posting it on my community tab here on YouTube and probably also in the description box of this video. So come back in a week from now. You might be the winner.  But I will let you guys go. I hope you have an amazing rest of your day. And do not forget to subscribe to my channel because I am posting so many incredible videos in December. They all have giveaways as well. And these giveaways are amazing. You guys are going to love them. So I'll catch you guys next time. Bye.