I may not follow sports but I listen to no such thing as a fish
I don’t know why, but it only makes sense that this is Randy Johnson. It couldn’t have happened otherwise
Are you asking for Sports or Star Trek trivia? I can’t tell. I’ll do both.
Sports trivia: The Charlotte Hornets (NBA team based out of North Carolina) wear teal and purple uniforms because they were the first NBA team to hire a fashion designer to design their uniforms, and the designer in question, Alexander Julian, considered teal and purple his signature colors.
Star Trek Trivia: The NCC hull numbers are based on pre-1948 American airplane tail numbers. Nowadays American tail numbers start with an N, a maximum of 5 digits, at least one number followed by zero, one or two letters, excluding I or O. N123, N456A, N789AB, etc. N1701 is a valid American tail number, an in fact it is registered to a 1964 Cessna 172 in Minnesota. Bonus trivia: the aircraft registry is a matter of public record.
Before 1948, the category of the aircraft was noted by an additional letter after the N. NR123B would have been a Restricted category, like a cropduster. NG456T would have been a Glider. Most aircraft in the Standard category were given an NC number, so NC1701 was a valid registration at one point. Gene roddenberry made it look more ship-like by adding a C, to make it look more like USS.
And yes, Experimental aircraft got NX callsigns. The Spirit of St. Louis was registered NX211. That’s exactly where USS Excelsior’s NX-2000 and USS Bacula’s NX-01 came from.
You learn something every day. Thank you.
Can you be on my trivia team? Also for a completeness do you know any Star Trek sports trivia? Trivia about Star Trek related to sports or sports related in star trek?
Captain Archer is a water polo fan, in one episode he says that water polo is played in a pool too deep to stand in. A regulation pool is 6 feet deep, so it’s common for men’s water polo teams to recruit men tall enough to touch the bottom in that depth.
Sportsball? Like in that episode of Star Trek?
Sign stealing is the act of players and coaches on the field, watching the codes the catcher gives the pitcher, and relaying it between players via hand-signals and gestures to tell the batter what kind of pitch to expect.
In modern days, this even includes watching video-replay to capture the signs, and then counter-investigations identifying the sign-stealers and their methods.
Turns out there’s a whole host of in-the-open sign language happening during stickball games.
I’m very glad that Baseball isn’t a thing in Europe, but then again we’ve got Football and annoying Football fans…
Baseball is awesome
What was Wenger thinking sending Walcott on that early?
The infield fly rule while seemingly incongruous exists to prevent players from deliberately failing to secure an easy out in order to force their opponent into an almost certain double play (2 outs)
When a ball is hit into the air in play in the infield with 0 or 1 out already recorded, the umpires will call the infield fly rule immediately, the play becomes dead and the player who hit the ball is considered to be out
HUH, YEAH
WHAT IS IT GOOD FOR
OK, let’s see if I got it.
I pop a fly ball high so it lands in the infield, where someone will probably catch it. Meanwhile the runners get onto two bases. On the next batter I can go for the kill and get 3 outs.
I know damned well I messed that up.
Close. You pop the ball high into a nimbus so that it lands in an airfield, where a pilot will grab it off the runway. Meanwhile one of two snipers in the ATC tower captures the flag for the other base, and sneaks in a kill on the pilot, unless he drops 3 bags of luggage first
You did but that’s ok. It’s actually more like this, you pop it up and there is already another player on first base (a super critical point I completely omitted)
If there were not an infield fly rule, I as the defending team would let the easy pop fly catch drop, failing to secure the out.
This forces the player on first to run for second, and the batter to run to first.
I pick up the ball in front of me and throw to 2nd for a force out, then to first for a second force out aka a double play.
The opportunity for the double play shouldn’t exist because I should have caught the batter out
Ah thanks. I’ve always wondered why they had that rule.
I never thought I would get it! I knew it had something to do with getting more runners on base and screwing them, but I don’t know enough about baseball to work it out.
Woooooo, I did something useful today
It is interesting how the spirit of the rules of the game really only award optimal play (like with a fielder’s choice). I never really understood the infield fly rule til your explanation, so thanks for that!
You are most welcome
My left middle finger is slightly longer than my right. This may be useless random information right now, but if I ever become famous it will turn into Trivia - which could take long enough to make it Vintage Trivia. So just to be safe, write it down.
Everyone who read this comment just put their hands together, right? Just me?
Same, but reversed.
Sports are so much fun. Storylines and exceptional feats.
Did you know that when Bob Beamon jumped 8,90m in the mens long jump at the Olympics 1968, the record had barely moved 0,5m in the previous 50 years? He launched into such a violent jump that he almost fell forward. The old record was 8,35m.
Another fun fact is that since Bob wa American, he didn’t understand how far he had jumped. When they told him the feets and inches, he had a seizure from the shock.
I just watched the video, what an insane jump!
go sports!
Wild!
“cataplexy—a sudden, temporary loss of muscle tone and voluntary muscle control typically triggered by intense emotions like extreme joy, surprise, or shock. His knees instantly buckled, and he collapsed to the track in absolute disbelief.”
Deep Space Nine co-creator and co-executive producer Michael Piller was an avid baseball aficionado who amassed tens of thousands of baseball trading cards in his lifetime. His mother, songwriter Ruth Roberts, created the “It’s a Beautiful Day for a Ball Game” theme song for the Los Angeles Dodgers and “Meet the Mets” for the New York Mets.
My knowledge of Star Trek vs my knowledge of local politics.
The offside rule while touted as being stupidly complex and silly is actually as simple as “you can’t receive a pass of the ball in the opponents’ side if there are no defenders between you and the goal, excluding the keeper”
It stops players camping the goal area waiting for a pass.
Ah yes. The famous baseball rule. Yes I know this one.
No you’re thinking of the Infield offside rule.
No no that’s for tennis
The food industry currently pushing to get people addicted to chips, decided the food pyramid, and people believed them straight up.
Benzodiaphine abusers have been known to see something known as the Hat man. If he gets you, you forget your dream.
If you do enough sportsball some part of your body will catastrophically fail. The likelihood of any given part failing depends on the intensity and duration of sportsballing.
Star Trek Trivia: Captain Sisko and Captain Archer are both sports fans, Sisko loves baseball because Avery Brooks does in real life and Archer loves Water polo because Scott Bakula does.
Sportsball Trivia: NBA Hall of famer James Worthy played a very tall Klingon in an episode of TNG.
Star Trek Sportsball trivia: The expensive futuristic racquetball set designed for O’Brien and Bashir to compete in was reportedly so difficult to actually play on that they gave up and had them compete at darts instead.
On Pointless when Xander asks a couple what sort of category they’d like to come up and they immediately confidently say “sports!”, only for them to just pretend they don’t see “Paralympic Horse Events” and “Kabaddi” among the choices.
