Look. I know it’s Bryce Harper and all, but this isn’t news. Everyone knows when you haven’t even had the chance to stroke a dong in a while, when you finally get one it’s gonna shoot the fuck outta there.

So that’s it?

Haha. Except, a guy who has 130 is a good player, or at least had a good hitting season. How good? Can’t tell you. Maybe it was just good. Maybe it was excellent. Maybe it was a historically great hitting season. Anyone upwards of 80 or 85 RBIs probably had a decent RBI season. But the 99 RBI may have had a…

“RBIs tell me how many runs a guy is directly responsible for.”

First of all, Harper did better, OPS wise, with runners on base. You do know the difference between “runners on” and “runners in scoring position,” right?

EXACTLY! You used OPS, not RBI, because RBI does not tell you who is a better hitter. Whatever it can be used for, it is meaningless for telling you who is a better hitter. In all situations combined, Bryce Harper was a better hitter than Arenado last year - but Arenado had a full 31 more RBI. With RISP, Arenado was a…

Happy to type it all out, but hoping you’ll get it before I have to.

Was Harper a better hitter last year than Arenado?

If you are attempting to compare players, it is a meaningless stat. In order to make it “meaningful,” you had to invent a very specific context. Otherwise, as between the 50 and 25 RBI guy, we don’t know who the better hitter is.

What are you trying to show? That in that one specific situation a hit is a preferable outcome to a walk? Sure. First, both are preferable to an out, so it would not be preferable for a hitter to expand the zone to avoid a walk!

Well, fuck, wouldn’t that have been a great column for “Black ESPN” to run instead of “Us blacks don’t need no book learnin’s...we got them STREET SMARTS” bullshit.

Has RBI told you anything in your scenario that another stat wouldn’t tell you just as well? Also, look at how much context you had to give us just to make RBI a meaningful stat for comparing two players - both players had to go up to bat the same number of times, and both players had to have the exact same number of…

If my employer provided me with a translator, if communicating in the native language was not a key part of my job, if a large number of my coworkers spoke my native language, if I had a lot of family and friends around (say, a large entourage) that spoke my native language, and if most of my life was spent at the…

Solid numbers? Those are very good numbers.

If you honestly didn’t know who Matt Harveu was until late last season, you obviously don’t follow baseball much and are hardly in a position to decide who is and is not a proven ace.

Cars do not have an inherent safety defect. You can use a car safely. I have drive a car every day of my life and never been hurt. So has my wife. So have many people I’ve known.

Wow! This guy’s threatening to surpass Snyder. There was a big story in the Washington Post a few years back about how the Redskins were suing season ticket holders who couldn’t pay, including some poor old grandma. But at least the people they were suing breached the contract. It takes a while nother level of…

So, what is your point in including information about how GM has been held liable for safety defects or giving misleading information? I mean, yeah, if a product has a safety defect, the company can be held liable.

If GMs cars were killing people because of safety defects, or they were misleading the public about how safe their cars are, they would absolutely be held liable. But there are ways to operate a car that reduce significantly your chances of hurting yourself or anyone else. Probably the overwhelming majority of auto…

It depends. What poor choices are you referring to? Why should tobacco companies be shielded from liability for the choices they make knowing full well the nature of their products?