Per Dr. Alan Nathan, roughly 85% of the exit velocity is generated by the hitter and only 15% from the pitch speed. 

How dependent is exit velocity on input velocity (pitch MPH)? Example, what if if he hit an 80 mph vs 88 mph, all other variables equal?

Tragic. One wonders if this situation could’ve been avoided if Uber cars were more readily identifiable, perhaps all painted and designed in a specific uniform pattern, their drivers also unionized and licensed specifically to insure a certain degree of safety to both the passenger and driver alike. These driver’s…

the most wins and strikeouts in franchise history, the most wins by a Venezuelan-born pitcher, six All-Star Games, a Cy Young award, a perfect game in 2012. 

Tell me, does the price of toilet paper go up if you make more money? How about the price of milk? Do you pay more at the pump for a gallon of gas if you’re in a different income bracket versus a lower one? Are there differences in the price of a T-shirt at Elder Beerman different depending on your income? Is the…

“Too much of my wealth is tied up into assets and personal investments” is not a legitimate excuse. It’s literally like saying I can’t give more because if I did I wouldn’t have as much as I have.

That’s how you’re going to choose to rationalize this? They’re giving so much less than what they could otherwise afford because so much of their net worth is tied up in assets and investments? You’re literally saying that they can’t be more generous with their wealth because they’re too busy using it to generate more…

Yeah and it takes a very specific type of asshole to see this and immediately cry “this is unfair because I have so many more assets! Why can’t you put yourselves in my (much nicer) shoes!?”

“The rich already pay more!”

And me without my tiny violin.

Think about it like this. Donating that second property to a homeless shelter organization now would both greatly increase your 2018 onetime contribution AND mean that any cash you donated in later years would be a much higher percentage of your household wealth! It’s a win-win!

- It’s an unfair comparison because I make more money and much of my wealth isn’t liquid so I would have to give a lot more than someone who has 1/5th of my income and would have more trouble giving it as it’s tied up in investments.

Your interpretation of what this article does is hardly universal. I’m guessing you think it’s ugly and unproductive because you are offended by the implication.

Yes, if we were truly being generous, we would empathize with poor, downtrodden white people with equity in their homes and 401(k)‘s.

Regardless of how they calculated these particular figures, white people’s percentages should be higher, not lower. If you have $10,000 to your name and give away 10%, now you have to figure out how to survive on 9k. If I have $100,000 (in line with the cited dime-to-dollar ratio) and I donate 15%, I’m still sitting…

You gave “more” because you’re able to; I think most people would agree that the person with only 10 bucks who gives away half their wealth is far more generous. The only reason why you’d base generosity on raw numbers instead of percentages is to make white people appear less shitty.

I would think it would drive the point home even further.  Those that have much less are still giving a higher proportion of what they have, even if the gross numbers are less overall compared to the more generally wealthy.

The family wealth is already measured. That’s what the first paragraph was about. The rest was about how much of their wealth people are willing to give by race.

Only if you don’t think it’s meaningful that non-whites have almost no expendable capital, and yet they manage to give away a greater percentage of what they do have.

Yes.  Not mentioned in this article is that, even if the percentage was equal, white people should still be considered greedy.