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Greetings 405 listener!
The 405 airs over KMMR Radio Station. At 5 Minutes past 4 PM. Normally each M-F week day of the year. Here on the website we'll get it posted for you within a few hours, normally.
Your neighbor and website maintainer,
D.J. Rasmussen
I wanna again welcome you to the 4:05 coffee break. Blah blah blah blah blah. It's the same stuff every day. Get your cup of coffee, glass iced tea, bottle of water, let's see what's happening. Spring weight, $6.28 a bushel, 550 pound steer cap, $3.94, a butcher hog in Omaha at 64ยข a pound, and a 100 pound fat lamb in Billings will fetch you $2.56 a pound.
OK Solberg:But guys, there's more, much more. Okay. June 18, it's someone's birthday today. You know what, Orvin? It's someone's birthday every day.
OK Solberg:Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I know.
OK Solberg:But it's someone's birthday that I know today. If Rasmussen rings a bell, then I'm glad to hear it. Happy birthday. Rasmussen is only six days younger than myself. Well, here's to you and me, may we never disagree, but if we should, let love remind us tenderly we're better when in harmony.
OK Solberg:Did you realize that two of my close friends as well as myself were all born in Malta, Montana in the hospital in Malta within a week's period of time, way back in 1957. I was born on June 12, Jimmy on June 13, and Rasmussen on June 18. We are still all alive and we all live in Malta some sixty eight years later. Now that's not much, but it is something. It speaks of a different time.
OK Solberg:It speaks of what some call the baby boomers. It speaks of community, commonality, and connection. And big big city folks have a lot to offer, but they can't come close to that one. Just saying. Okay.
OK Solberg:Today, a little clip on baseball. Do you realize that the Major League Baseball season requires each team to play a total of 162 games? You may not have realized that, but now you do. It's a fact. As of the start of this week, each team had played somewhere near 70 to 73 games.
OK Solberg:So let's figure that out. So half of 162 is 81, therefore the Major League Baseball season is almost nearly halfway complete. Now, a baseball question for you. Who was in the last World Series? Who was in the last World Series?
OK Solberg:Here's the answer. It was the classic rivalry of old, the Yankees and the Dodgers. In 2024, New York Yankees met up against the Los Angeles Dodgers, and the Dodgers won in five games. Okay? Did you hear that?
OK Solberg:Five games. So please never say that all World Series go to seven games so they can make more money. That is a myth that is propagated by uninformed baseball novices. The Dodgers over the Yankees in five games, and I won $50. I won $50 off a lifetime Yankee fan and a friend of mine who was also born in The Malta Hospital in 1957 on July 2, and I call him Todd and you can as well.
OK Solberg:Now, when it comes to sports, I'm an underdog fan. I like the unlikely to win. See, I think many of us like the little guy to win. Now the Dodgers aren't the little guy, but they once were. Back when they were in Brooklyn, they had met up against the big Yankees in the World Series five times and they lost all five.
OK Solberg:The year was 1941, again in 1947, 1949, 1952, and again in 1953. That has to be frustrating. But then in 1955 on October 4 in Yankee Stadium, the house that Ruth built with Johnny Padres on the mound for the Dodgers, They finally won in game seven. Hallelujah. Then guess how it felt for the Brooklyn fans.
OK Solberg:Oh, guys, they were elated. Finally, but finally, take a breath. Enjoy. But then their dreams were shattered because the Dodgers moved to Los Angeles and the announcement was officially made on 10/08/1957, the same year that I was born as well as Rasmussen, Jimmy and Todd. The first year they were officially the Los Angeles Dodgers was the 1958 season.
OK Solberg:But imagine with me, some of the people in Brooklyn, New York that are 74 years old or older today still remember them bums playing at Ebbets Field. Oh yes, the memory lives on. So remember, each Major League Baseball team plays 162 games in the regular season. Now post season is something else, okay? Also remember that a strikeout is referred to as a k.
OK Solberg:K as in Kenny or Kenneth. How about an RBI? That is a run batted in. So if you step to the plate with runners on second and third and you get a base hit that drives in two runners to score, they cross home plate, you just earn two RBIs. How about ERAs?
OK Solberg:Have you heard that term? Do you know what it means? ERA means earned run average, and it's designated pinned on to a pitcher. What's the pitcher's ERA? Now the ERA tells you how many runs a pitcher gives up on average every nine innings they pitch.
OK Solberg:So for example, let's say a pitcher gives up three runs in a game and they pitch the full nine innings. Their ERA is simply three point zero zero, not hard to figure. If you don't pitch a full nine innings, then you do a little calculating. Their ERA is figured by assuming they kept pitching the same way, how many runs would they give up in nine innings? So if you see a pitcher with a 2.86 ERA, 2.86, that is very, very good.
OK Solberg:4.00 to 4.75, well, that's okay. And over five is not so good. Good pictures like Pedro Martinez had a lifetime two ninety three ERA. I hope to shout, Nolan Ryan, the strikeout king had a lifetime 3.19 ERA. And the great Randy Johnson had a lifetime 3.29 ERA.
OK Solberg:So there you have it for today. I wanted to share that bit of baseball knowledge, not for the ones that know it, but for the ones that didn't. There's so much involved in baseball that it's hard to understand everything unless someone helps you out. I'll close with a bible verse, second Timothy two five, An athlete is not crowned unless he competes according to the rules. It is in the bible.
OK Solberg:Let's follow the rules and understand the statistics. So until next time as you go out there, remember now, don't be bitter.