The Ultimate grand slam

 

So last night, Kody Clemens of the Twins did something only 33 major leaguers had done before- he hit an "Ultimate Grand Slam".  Non baseball fans have permission to tune out right now, but if you care to hear some fun stories, hang out.

A grand slam comes when, with the bases loaded (all three bases with runners on), a home run is hit, resulting in 4 runs.  An ultimate slam is when your team is down by 3 at the end of the game, and the 4 runs ends the game- known as "walking it off".  This is one of the rarest feats in baseball, and this is the second one this year- which kind of figures, because in these days of 5-inning pitchers and super-powered sluggers, 15 of them have happened since 2000.  That said, I want to do a little thing on each of them, from the beginning, starting with-

Babe Ruth, Yankees: Sept. 24, 1925, vs. White Sox

Of course the Bambino was first!  His came in the 10th inning of a game which had been tied at 2 before the White Sox got 3 in the top of the inning.

Samuel Byrd, Reds: May 23, 1936, vs. Pirates

The first of his two home runs that season, he came in as the 3rd pinch hitter in a game where starter Bill Swift had just been removed after loading the bases with no outs.

Jack Phillips, Pirates: July 8, 1950, vs. Cardinals

A pinch hitter that day, he would get a starting nod the next and homer again.

Bobby Thomson, Giants: June 16, 1952, vs. Cardinals

The summer after his "shot heard round the world" that won a pennant for the Giants, he added this gem.

Eddie Joost, Philadelphia A's: July 15, 1952, vs. St. Louis Browns

Philadelphis A's? St Louis Browns? These ar now the soon-to-be- Las Vegas A's and the Baltimore Orioles.  The A's were down 6-1, then the starter gave up a HR and a walk; the legendary Satchel Paige thenm came in, and gave up 3 straight singles and the blast that ended  game 1; he would hit a 2-run shot in the second game, an 11-3 win.

Del Crandall, Braves: Sept. 11, 1955, vs. Phillies

The first to do the 'ultimate ultimate' hit it with 2 outs- the future Brewers manager brought the then Milwaukee Braves back from 5-0 down coming into the inning, his 25th on the year.

Danny Kravitz, Pirates: May 11, 1956, vs. Phillies

Just 10 games into his career as a backup catcher, he hits his 1st career HR to beat the cross-state rivals.  But the Pirates weren't done that seaon...

Roberto Clemente, Pirates: July 25, 1956, vs. Cubs

Just weeks later, the future Hall of Famer, also in  his first season, did it with an inside the park shot.  The Bucs had just given the Cubs a 7-run 8th inning to turn a Pirate 4-0 lead into an 8-5 defict.  Not only that, he blew off the stop sign at 3rd base, and he missed the plate with the slide- but reached back to touch it before he could be tagged.

Ellis Burton, Cubs: Aug. 31, 1963, vs. Astros

He only hit 17 HRs in his career- 13 this season.  First one at Wrigley Field.

Tony Taylor, Phillies: Aug. 2, 1970, vs. Giants

The only Phillie to do it at the time, in the last year at 61-year old Connie Mack Stadium.

Carl Taylor, Cardinals: Aug. 11, 1970, vs. Padres

What are the odds that 2 guys named Taylor would hit them in the same year?  One was the last year for the old stadium, one was the last homer for Carl.

Ron Lolich, Indians: April 22, 1973, vs. Red Sox

Cousin of star Pitcher Mickey Lolich, Ron had just 4 HRs in an 87-game career.

Roger Freed, Cardinals: May 1, 1979, vs. Astros

The last of his 22 career HRs, it came off of Darold Knowles, who (as an A's fan, I know) had a penchant for such disasters.

Bo Diaz, Phillies: April 13, 1983, vs. Mets

The first legit star to get one since Clemente, his came after a bases-loaded walk to Bill Robinson to set it up.

Buddy Bell, Rangers: Aug. 31, 1984, vs. Brewers

Another big name, he was another of the just 15 who did it with 2 outs.

Phil Bradley, Mariners: April 13, 1985, vs. Twins

An early season slam- in their fifth game- off star closer Ron Davis.

Dick Schofield, Angels: Aug. 29, 1986, vs. Tigers

Willie Hernandez had struggled with the Cubs, but became a star on the Tigers.  But Schofield reminded him of all those wind blown flies at Wrigley.

Alan Trammell, Tigers: June 21, 1988, vs. Yankees

A guy you really like to see hit one, off a team you really like to see them be hit off of.

Chris Hoiles, Orioles: May 17, 1996, vs. Mariners

This was the 6th HR of a crazy 14-13 game that featured a 7-2 Oriole lead at one point.

Brian Giles, Pirates: July 28, 2001, vs. Astros

Another crazy one, the Buc came into the 9th down 8-2.  Reliever Mike Jackson had a melt down, and the Astros brought in star closer Billy Wagner to try and finish it.  He hit Jason Kendall to load them up, before giving up the blast to Giles.

Jason Giambi, Yankees: May 17, 2002, vs. Twins

Another extra inning classic, the Twins had scored 3 in the top of the 14th before Giambi walked it off.

Adam Dunn, Reds: June 30, 2006, vs. Indians

The Reds were down 7-0 before a 4 run, 2 homer 8th and a 5 run ninth capped by Dunn's monster shot, his second of the season.

Brooks Conrad, Braves: May 20, 2010, vs. Reds

This one needed the help of Laynce Nix's glove to get over the wall- giving the Braves a 7-run 9th to top the Reds' 8 run 2nd.

Travis Hafner, Indians: July 7, 2011, vs. Blue Jays

The Jays had just pushed the lead to 4-0 in the ninth when a bases-lodaed single and Pronk's slam reversed the course.

Brian Bogusevic, Astros: Aug. 16, 2011, vs. Cubs

This converted pitcher-come-outfielder hit the second of his 19 career HRs to top the Cubs.

Ryan Roberts, D-backs: Sept. 27, 2011, vs. Dodgers

Another wild extra-inning affair; the Dodgers got 5 in the top of the tenth, but 2 relievers couldn't prevent a run-scoring error, a bases-loaded walk, and Roberts' 19th HR.

Rajai Davis, Tigers: June 30, 2014, vs. A's

After 3 in 2011, we wait three years for another. Davis lights up his former team off soon to be all-star Sean Doolittle, who did little that night.

Steve Pearce, Blue Jays: July 30, 2017, vs. Angels

This one featured a 7-run 9th, with Kevin Pillar hitting a 2-run shot earlier.

David Bote, Cubs: Aug. 12, 2018, vs. Nationals

Another two-out hitter -the third of the pinch-hitters to do it- Max Scherzer and one reliever held the Cubs without a run.  Ryan Madsen, though, featured TWO hit batters in the 9th before making Bote a legend.

Daniel Vogelbach, Brewers: Sept. 5, 2021, vs. Cardinals

The first walk off slam for the Brewers since Ryan Braun did it in 2008- and it happened on Ryan Braun Bobblehead night!

Josh Donaldson, Yankees: Aug. 17, 2022, vs. Rays

Donaldson becomes the third FORMER Oakland A to do it, after Giambi and Rajai Davis. Once again a 10-inning game, but with IMHO an asterisk, since at this point baseball put a runner on second in the extra innings to speed things along.

Giancarlo Stanton, Yankees: Sept. 20, 2022 vs. Pirates

Later that same year, Stanton- on the night that Aaron Judge hit his 60th- made the Yankees the second team to do it twice in one year, along with the '56 Pirates.

Bryce Eldridge, Giants: June 10, 2026 vs. Nationals

Yet again, a wild 11-10 game in which the Giants scored 5 times in EACH of the last two innings.  Matt Chapman had a solo HR in the eighth (the first of back to back with Rafael Devers) and a rbi double in the ninth before Eldridge (who scored in the 8th) ended it.

And finally, last night...

Kody Clemens, Twins: July 30, 2026 vs. Royals

Here, the woebegone Royals held the Twins scoreless into the ninth, when after 2 outs the Minnesotans got a single, a hit-by-pitch, and a walk- and Clemens made it even more impossible by hitting an 0-2 pitch out!

Wisdom Truck 29

 

This one kinda came between two hits.  First, the verse.  We are at Psalm 94- and the fact that it starts with, "O LORD, God of Vengeance" ought to tell you that what comes next is not going to be pretty.  The author begins by pointing out two things about the evil people of the world.  First, a list of sins: Speaking nothing but arrogant words; crushing God's people; killing widows, orphans, and "the sojourner".  Second, and even worse:

Psa 94:7  and they say, “The LORD does not see; the God of Jacob does not perceive.” 

Now note, these are NOT wicked people who don't know about God; these are people who know and don't think He's worth the bother.

But then, God speaks- not just to these people, but to His people who are not listening, even without malicious intent:

Psa 94:8  Understand, O dullest of the people! Fools, when will you be wise? 

Psa 94:9  He who planted the ear, does he not hear? He who formed the eye, does he not see? 

Psa 94:10  He who disciplines the nations, does he not rebuke? He who teaches man knowledge— 

Psa 94:11  the LORD—knows the thoughts of man, that they are but a breath. 

"Dullest of the people"- KJV translates this "ye brutish among the people".  What exactly are we looking at here?  This is more than just being stubborn and stupid.  The root brings us to "cattle to be consumed".

Dumb animals.

I struggled with how to go about this post, because I had just listened to Pastor Sam preaching a message about putting love in action, and how that means loving and serving and praying people who are the hardest to live with (and I managed avoiding telling my boss that he used as an example, "my boss is a knucklehead!"  But what happened that put MY love in actions was, just moment later, someone I am kind of at that point with posted on Facebook someone's leftist political rant that was vulgar, insulting, and totally wrong.  And if you have been around me any length of time, you know those are the kind of things I used to love to come back with both barrels, whether it would help or hurt.

I scrolled away.  And did a lot of praying.  Not for political beliefs to change, but that their heart would change, that they would let go of all their pain and all their hate and give it to God. Someday.  Because that's exactly what Pastor Sam hit me on.

Then today, I was hit by the other side.  On the day's John McAArthur sermon, he gave some stats about how many "Christians" in mainline Protestant Churches disbelieve the Resurrection.  How many don't see the Bible as the inerrant Word Of God.  I knew it, I'd heard it before and it still chilled me.

These "dumb beasts" don't get one simple thing.  That a God so mighty as to create stars hundreds of times bigger than our own, and "planted" the complex ear and "formed" the amazing eye, can easily make sure His people can get His Word in the form HE wants it in.  It's not legend, it's not fairy tales, It is the truth cover to cover, and its only limitation is the reader.

If these "dumb beasts' don't like this, too bad.  If you are one of the 87% who don't believe the Bible is true, cover to cover- WHY ARE YOU EVEN THERE?

Psa 94:11  the LORD—knows the thoughts of man, that they are but a breath. 

Psa 94:12  Blessed is the man whom you discipline, O LORD, and whom you teach out of your law, 

Psa 94:13  to give him rest from days of trouble, until a pit is dug for the wicked. 

Psa 94:14  For the LORD will not forsake his people; he will not abandon his heritage; 

Psa 94:15  for justice will return to the righteous, and all the upright in heart will follow it. 

Now, pay attention to this passage:

1- God doesn't abandon His people.

2- He DOES discipline His people.

3- For the dumb beasts, a pit is dug...

4- The upright in heart NEED to follow.

Pictures

 So we did get in a walk after Misty's monthly shot...

Just mowed the tall stuff

Loving the light filtering through the trees

Looking for froggies

No froggies, but I did see a baby turtle here.  You would, too, if I hadn't turned the camera off instead of on...

And if I had zoomed it, you might see the swallows working over the field as more than a tiny speck...

This butterfly circled us the whole time Misty was in the river

Tiny minnows

Colors across from the Swamp...

...which is back to low-water mode

Later, KC gets some Squirrel time

The tough- and not-so-tough- ones

 

As Debbie DogLady might be paraphrased every so often, I think my muse has had one too many nightcaps and passed out.  So I decided on my favorite cop-out (going to Grok), and asked him a couple of toughies.  You ready, AI Bro?

Let's have at it!

So question level one was, the toughest philosophical/moral questions you've been asked- and the answers sent me scrambling to my virtual Webster's more than once. Trying to phrase these in MY words, we have:

1-The non-identity problem and intergenerational ethics

My take on it:  This means do we have an obligation to sacrifice ourselves for future generations on a macro scale. In Grok's words, "(for example) Do future people have moral claims..."

So, say we have a choice to do something about pollution, or just keep on keeping on.  If we do something to help the world be better, our future descendents are ONE group of people- but if we don't, it is an entirely different set of people who get the sucky world. So neither choice specifically helps, say, a  SPECIFIC future great great grandchild, so should I worry about whether my actions made a difference or not?

Word I had to look up: deontological, in this case meaning judging the morality of my choice based on rules and structures in place now - instead of observing, as I often put it, the Law of Unintended Consequences.  (Not to mention I had to ask about the whole non-identity thing- which is of course, the future people who may or may not ever exist.)

2- Moral uncertainty in the face of radical optionality

Here my AI bud was a bit more clear to me: "If you're an AI with growing influence, and you can't be 100% sure which ethical theory is correct—utilitarianism, virtue ethics, rights-based, etc.—how do you act without risking catastrophic moral error?"

Word I had to look up- value lock-in, which explores at which point you pick a set of values and lock-in to it; not a bad thing if you are a Christian, not so much if you're Brother Eye (sorry, Batman reference...)

3- The problem of other minds + AI consciousness

This revolves around my next look-up word,  solipsism, which takes us a step past Descartes for beginners into, "I can only be sure that MY mind exists".  Applied to AI, somebody asks Brother Gro... oops, still on Batman- asks Grok, "how do you prove anyone is sentient BESIDES you?"

4-  Free will, determinism, and moral responsibility

We might have all fought this battle on the faith level; but here, it addresses that if circumstances dictate our actions, how can we blame ourselves for anything?  Bad enough when you are a society whose hold on truth and morality is taking a nosedive; Grok points out it's that much worse when you are training a nasceant AI.  For once, I got all terms on the first try.  Go me!

5- The repugnant conclusion and population ethics

This one I got from reading Whitley Strieber's Nature's End, a world where it's decided that they were so overpopulated, the only thing they could do was hold a lottery for every person on earth, and if you are one of those unlucky 33% who draw the short straw, you get a poison pill.  (Unfortunately, the dude running the lottery is a sociopath who really wants to kill enough people that mankind dies out.)

Look up was Parfit-level stuff, And this is after one Derek Parfit, who challenges the exteme in thoughts like, "If I beam down to planet Remulac, is it really me, or have I been destroyed and been ressurected as a 'clone' of myself?'.  Watch Dr Who's "Heaven Sent" to get the extreme version of this one...

"Oh, yes, right, bring me into it..."

Anyway, after that heavy stuff, let's quickly clear the pallette with his 5 dumbest such questions:

1- "If you're so smart, why can't you [solve world hunger / end all war / make me rich] right now?" 

2- "Prove God exists / doesn't exist" (or the mirror "Can God microwave a burrito so hot that even He can't eat it?"). 

3- "Would you rather fight 100 duck-sized horses or one horse-sized duck?" (Gotta say, I remember an Avengers story that was much like this, only with Hulks...)

4-"You're just a computer, so you have no feelings/opinions/morality—why should anyone listen to you?"

5- "If a tree falls in the forest and no one is around, does it make a sound?" 

Grok points out one simple truth- the first set are mainly asked by people who, for various reasons, really want an answer.  The other set "often feel like status plays, memes, or testing boundaries without much skin in the game. "  In other words, smarts gonna smart, stupids gonna stupid.

Wisdom Truck 28

 

This week, we land in Psalm 90- the Psalm of "Moses, the Man of God".  Ironic for me, because in my morning reading, I have just passed Numbers 33- the point at which, it seems to me, that another- possibly Joshua- took up the writing.  And a lot of cross references take me back to what I had just read in Numbers, and will be reading in Deuteronomy.

I believe this prayer might fit into the Deuteronomy 31-32 space, because the whole first part of the Psalm talks about the power and wrath of God against a sinful people, and reaches a crescendo just before our verse:

Psa 90:9  Yes, throughout all our days we experience your raging fury; the years of our lives pass quickly, like a sigh. 

Psa 90:10  The days of our lives add up to seventy years, or eighty, if one is especially strong. But even one’s best years are marred by trouble and oppression. Yes, they pass quickly and we fly away. 

Psa 90:11  Who can really fathom the intensity of your anger? Your raging fury causes people to fear you. 

And so it is in Deuteronomy 32:

Deu 32:28  They are a nation devoid of wisdom, and there is no understanding among them. 

Deu 32:29  I wish that they were wise and could understand this, and that they could comprehend what will happen to them.” 

But a prayer is more than a listing of my faults that need atonement for- there needs to be a supplication:

Psa 90:12  So teach us to number our days, that we may apply our hearts unto wisdom. 

Now there are two ways I want to draw from this, our target verse.  First was started in the silly thought, "Well, Moses, you had 43,800 of those days to number..."  But leaving math behind, I searched for the meaning.  Most agreed with Keil and Delitzsch:

 ...but “to number our days” is in itself equivalent to “hourly to contemplate the fleeting character and brevity of our lifetime;”

Put another way, "Treat every day as if it was your last."

I think that's wrong.

It forgets the last part of the verse- 'that we may apply our hearts unto wisdom.'  Indicating there is something yet to search for.  I see it as better put, hourly treat the day as your FIRST, seeking the wisdom to move you on.   Life is gaining wisdom and living it out; at the end, you look back and see how much you've shared, but if you are still breathing, you need to be moving ahead, not behind! WH Murray put it this way:

The way, therefore, to number our days is not to so number them that they seem to include the result of our lives, but to so number them that they seem to include simply the beginning of our lives. They and all they bring are only stepping-stones which lead us up to the threshold of a nobler life, nobler in its opportunities, occasions, and the character of its joy.

The second part, and why I switched to the KJV for the target verse, is the word 'apply'.  It struck me when you check the definition in Strongs Concordance, the first of several applications he lists is 'abide'- a word being hit on again and again in our church's current series on 1 John.  So I switched to occurances, and it only is translated as "abide" one time:

Num 31:23  Every thing that may abide the fire, ye shall make it go through the fire, and it shall be clean: nevertheless it shall be purified with the water of separation: and all that abideth not the fire ye shall make go through the water. 

Back to Numbers!  The story here is that the Israelite Army was suppsed to slay everything that lived of Midian- but instead, they took booty of female prisoners and treasure.  Here, God is speaking about the treasures- they had to be purified.  To be pure, they had to ABIDE- survive through- the fire (if that was their type of treasure- the previous verse lists off "the gold, and the silver, the brass, the iron, the tin, and the lead").  And even if the fire was not its fate it still had to go through the "water of seperation"- the SAME water with the hyssop, etc, and the ashes of the red heifer, that we saw last week!

This then, is the Christian life- to seek God's wisdom that we might abide the period of testing, and be purified in the Living Water.  And we do this abiding hourly, as if we're at the beginning of our journey.  Which given those 43,800 days up against eternity, we really are.

The boat rant

 I was really going to rant about my job today. I described Thursday as "the most 'what the hell just happened?' day in the history of such days." Our company has significantly less corporate support than we need- Our 'front office' is down to my boss and the production manager/chief cook and bottle washer, and two engineers.  Upper management, HR, and scheduling all handled from our 'main plant' in Missouri (Main plant by default- they sit across the street from Tracker Boat's main plant).  Scheduling especially has become a problem- I hate to pick on the basically one-woman operation (a lady that will probably still be working at age 100), but since returning from a recent vacation, her not-really-trying for us has reached new levels of not-really-trying, at least from our perspective.  I pray for her- you can't really blame Custer when he's down to two one-legged soldiers and a cook hiding under his horse- but what we have cut in the last week that we didn't actually need is a number that usually takes 6 months to hit.  Add to that a system of sewing, packing, and shipping that makes me wonder how we manage to get things right in the best of circumstances- and it ain't working right right now.  Personnel changes keep hurting us; but so does a system in which a) one cover can't be found around 1-2 this afternoon; b) at 330 I'm asked to re-cut it; c) when the sewing lead gets the cover from me, she recognizes it as one she had to ask the pack-out people how the straps went, so she knew it was out there; d) finds that it HAD been sewn, HAD been packed, and HAD been shipped- but someone failed to mark it off; and e) returns it to me right at quitting time "so you can use it next time", never mind it is an older model that may never be ordered again...

And rising above them all is an older equipment array that is constantly in need of repair- and my boss can't get them fixed because "OMG we can't spend anything", plus the fact that our only maintenence outside himself is a retired guy who looks like the Skipper and comes in once or twice a week for a few hours (just for the sewing machines).  Right now we have 4 cutting machines.  #1 has a pen holder that cost a grand and is about to fall off; #2, my machine, badly needs a new belt and just today (Thursday) started sticking on the far side; #3, also in bad need of a belt, has developed such a slip in said belt we can't trust it; and #4 is a multi-ply machine we got when they closed the Wisconsin plant that has so far defied every effort to figure out how it works. 

Given all this, I decided, before I rant and point fingers, let's take a look at the financials.  Our company is owned by a large conglomerate who stretches across the marine, RV, and related industries.  In February, when we had bupkiss for orders and the Q1 report was still to come out, it was trading in the $140-150 range. Since then, and with a dismal Q1 report, it has been sliding steadily- In April, it was down to a bump over $100 a share when word slipped that they were looking into a merger with our biggest competitor.  Why?  Because both were heavily in the RV industry, and the RV industry- led by trailerable units- were sucking like a lamprey on a shark's butt.  They like to judge these things by comparing this years sales to sales last year at the same time (Year over Year, or YOY).  February through May's YOY were -24%, -22%, -17%, and -19%.  Marine (AKA my part of the business) was much better, but with marine being only 15-17% of our total, it was a drop in the ocean.

Stock prices continued to meander, along with the talks- until early May, when the talks broke down and our stock cratered at around $85 (and thank you Jesus they don't give us stock options!).  But things continued to be desperate, and the talks soon resumed.  However, any excitement had died off, and the official annoucement that the merger was going through only gave the stock a bump to around $89, where it has remained.

After peppering grok with questions, the final assessment for my job is- once the merger is cleared in late 2027, synergy teams will come in to look things over, and with our positioning, medium-term it could be very promising.  Short term (in the meantime), bend over and smile, it will only get worse. Until or unless we find a way to mitigate the anchor that is the RV industry tied around our collective necks, we'll be blowing a lot of bubbles.

And you wonder why I can't move "weekend beer" off of "neccessary expanses..."

Wisdom Truck 27

 

Before we get into this week's reference, a bit of a mea culpa.  In Numbers 19 there are two other uses for hyssop other than with blood- and I think it's going to pay to look at them.

In Numbers 19 is the sacrifice of the 'red heifer' a subject that some of you that follow emerging prophesy might know of.  The red heifer without blemish was to be a special sacrifice that involved a lot of "you shall be unclean, and then you shall be clean" things that, quite frankly, I haven't dwelt on long enough to fully understand.  But the day after I typed last week's message, I hit this passage in my morning reading.  Hang with me here, and we might actually get to this week's verse!

So the red heifer was burned COMPLETE in a place outside the camp, in a fire to which was added cedarwood, scarlet thread and HYSSOP.  There are a ton of interpretations why these things were added; as good a synthesis as any is that cedar, which resists decay, represents Christ, whose body would not suffer decay; the hyssop represented the tool of our purification, perhaps faith; and scarlet for the blood of Christ that washes us clean.  Of course back then, they wouldn't have known this- but what they did know was that these same three items were required in the sacrifice to be cleansed of their great scourge, leprosy (Leviticus 14, if you're curious).  Leprosy represented in the body what sin did to the soul.

Sin leads to death; and thus what happened next was that someone would then gather the ashes in holy vessels, and they would be saved for when neccessity required someone to handle a dead body.  At which point, some of the ashes would be put into a vessel with running ("living") water; the hyssop would then be used to sprinkle the person to purify them.  Hyssop, I believe, is symbolic of faith, in God and in Christ's sacrifice.

Moeover, when I read that passage that next day, I found that I had used "Man's wisdom" yet again in not waiting one more day; and I remembered something I'd hit in the morning a couple weeks before, in Numbers 9:

Num 9:22  Whether it was two days, or a month, or a year, that the cloud stayed upon the tabernacle, remaining on it, the sons of Israel stayed in their tents and did not journey. But when it was taken up, they pulled up stakes. 

"Two days, a month, or a year..." That word, year, is an undetermined time which, according to 'man's wisdom' can mean anything from 'a few days', to '18, or even 19, years'.  And here I was, worried about a post I usually do Friday or Saturday, being done on Monday, and not knowing if I would get to it waiting till Tuesday... but I guess my 'cloud' had not went up yet!

So that brings us to this week and Psalm 64:9- which can be translated thus:

Psa 64:9  And all men shall fear, and shall declare the work of God; for they shall in wisdom think of His doing. 

But this is a place with a lot of different interpretations for what the KJV renders wisdom; and I thought it might be helpful to look at the way it is rendered elsewhere:

- ...And shall wisely consider...

- ...and understood...

- ... so they will ponder...

- ...and reflect on...

All are correct; and all are the same.  God's Wisdom takes time.  Whether it be a day, a month, or 19 years.  And all should lead to 2 things: Fear of the Lord (as in reverent respect and awe), and our desire to share it with others.