Official 2005 Clue Thread

[Mr. Ivey]

I'm just going to throw out what went through my mind reading everything...

Amethyst colored glasses, are a rose/purpleish color. Now while yes John Lennen wore the rose colored glasses, what about Jimi Hendrix. Purple Haze... Hendrix was born in 1942 and died in 1970, and that is 28 years, but he died at 27, let's not look at that. 2 more years he would have been 30, following in our "3" pattern. For the past 2 years there has been autonomous operation in FIRST, and it was for 15 seconds. 2+28=30, so maybe 30 seconds of auton. That was just off the wall and completely random...

Next, both Burns and Nuen played at one point for the Red Stockings. On a technicallity... In the 1870s and 1880s the Boston Braves were called the Boston Red Stockings, but not as the Sox we know today. Burns played in 1928 and 29, and Nuen played in 30 and 31. Now the Boston Braves team was formed in 1871 as a National Association club, and in 1876 they joined the National League. The Boston Braves had many nicknames, prior to 1912 when they were offocially titeled the Boston Braves, they were called the Boston Red Stockings. They were in Boston as the Boston Braves from 1912 to 1952, then off to Milwaukee from 53 to 65, then on to Atlanta, where our Championship game is held. Right now the Atlanta Braves are the oldest continuosly operating sports franchise in North America, at 133 years. There is the number 3 again, and they moved to Atl in 53. In 1935 Babe Ruth wanted to become the Manager but it was given to Bob Quinn. The Braves have won 15 division championships, 21 pennant titles, and only 3 World Serries Championships, but have been in the world serries for the past 13 years. And if memory serves correct there are 3 "Braves" farm teams, yes I know there are more farm teams than 3 that the Atl. Braves use but I know of only 3 that carry the title of Braves. A lot of 3 in there... This is my over-justification of the possible importance of the number 3. And I'm an over the top braves fan...

Now between Pi and me and you. We usually think of Pi as just 3.14, let's just look at the digits 314. Now let's look at Burns and Nuen, let's look really closely. They both played on a Boston based team. The Boston Braves are National League, the Boston Red Sox are American League. 2 teams different divisions, same town... Now a really close look at 314. I might be going for a strech, but this is the big thing in common between Pi, me and you. When Neun was on the Braves 31' that was his last year for playing for the Braves. One of his team mates was Earl Sheely. Sheely had been in the Majors for 9 years, and this was his final year. Now to Burns and Pi. Burns played for the Boston Red Sox in for his second and final year in Boston in 1930, one of his team mates was Mike Menosky. This was Menosky's 9th and final year of playing in the majors. So we come to Earl Sheely and Mike Menosky, and what the devil do they have in common with Pi??? Both in their final year of playing in the majors, both had a slugging average of .314, the same numerals as in what we shorten Pi to. Now just to throw in the formula for slugging average... In baseball statistics, slugging percentage (SLG) is a measure of the power of a hitter. It is calculated as total bases divided by at bats. Total bases can be calculated from commonly used baseball statistics by using the formula TB = 1B + (2*2B) + (3*3B) + (4*HR).

The thing about purple haze is just to prove a point, I don't think the Beatles are really all important this year, or I could be totally wrong. 3 is an important number, and we shouldn't shorten Pi to just 3. Pi and 3 are seperate but both important to the play of this year, and somehow we will have a "Slugging Average" this year, and something about 2 teams in the same city in different divisions of some sort... Take what you want, I just looked a little closer.

Ivey