I’ve got an MS in mathematics, friend. Which is why I hate the abuse of statistics - lovely when used CORRECTLY. Seems a lot of baseball fans don’t have a good handle on the limitations of metrics; it’s quite annoying.

I hope you value your child’s well-being more than hiring some random teenager and underpaying them.

Because of their age? If they are providing a service worth $15, they sure as heck should be getting paid that.

Sorry, but you are massively abusing statistical significance here. It’s ALWAYS incredibly unlikely for any pitcher to throw a perfect game - 23 in well over a hundred years of baseball history - “likeliness” of a particular pitcher throw a perfect game is utterly meaningless for an event so rare. Buehrle being…

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Clean up after yourself. Always. Always.

Can’t be having none of that race-mixin’ now, can we, Strom?

The US follows by the understanding that correlation does not imply causation.

Excellent point. I think it’s probably a bit better to go on the side of caution when it comes to food ingredients, though, wouldn’t you say?

But you are boostrapping this argument with a different metric with its own set of assumptions, BABIP. BABIP is pretty meaningless over the course of just 27 outs (as James himself would point out, very small sample size).

a) I was speaking in general and b) this an armored econoline, not just a typical pile of shit econoline.

True that. But seriously, is there any need for individuals to be able to own military-grade hardware?

It is indisputable.

So you consider Mark Buehrle “lucky as hell”? One of the best pitchers over the past 15 years, horrible K/9. Only had 6 Ks in his perfect game.

But this guy is “not a terrorist” somehow, right?

The Killdozer incident was over 10 years ago and is the only such incident in recent memory. There’s not going to be an epidemic of homemade armored vehicle manufacturing should armored vehicle sales be prohibited to individuals.

Game score is a really dumb way to gauge things, though. A perfect game with no strikeouts is worth the same as a 3 hitter with 6 Ks. Please tell me how those two games would be equivalent, practically nobody would say they are.

I’m used to Japanese course prices so when you said “expensive” I thought “let’s see...”

It doesn’t really matter what you or I think about it, it’s grounds for damages in a lawsuit in Japan. And it’s the same for men who break up a marriage in Japan as for women.

It’s not a crime in Japan, but the person knowingly cheating with a married person can be sued for damages for breaking up a marriage. That’s both men and women, and such lawsuits are not uncommon.