As for why the chance for scoring a run is higher with runners on 1B and 3B than with runners on 2B and 3B, it’s probably due to the defensive positioning. With a runner on first, the first baseman may have to hold the runner and the SS and 2B have to stay close enough to 2B to cover it (for stolen base or force out).…

What about the force-out opportunities? With bases loaded, a defender can get a force-out by throw to any base, so he can throw to whichever base is easiest after fielding the ball. With runners on 1B and 3B, force-outs are available at 1B and 2B. With runners on 2B and 3B, defenders can only get a force-out at 1B. So…

Who among us hasn’t been caught in a situation where we didn’t know what is the best thing to do and hesitated? The ideal play is to pick up the ball immediately and tag the runner (and maybe even have time to go to first for a double-play). The moment the runner ran past him, the only play he could have is to hope…

I have read that the amount of space in the gas tank does affect evaporation rate; as in, more space (less full tank) means more evaporation and thus lost gas. The amount is negligible for small tanks like those in automobiles, but it does supposedly have an effect.

My local Costco recently swapped the BBQ brisket sandwich option with a double cheeseburger. 6oz of beef but a troubling 1070 calories. I’m still not sure how Costco packed that many calories in that thing.

Like most mass-produced food, I don’t think it’s great (too much sauce and not enough crust structure); but it’s not bad either (imo, no worse than most other pizza chains’ standard option). The price is what makes it an appealing option.

The dumbest thing I’ve ever heard from a baseball broadcast was from a Kansas City game several years ago when Alex Gordon made an unsuccessful diving catch attempt (the ball clearly short-hopped into his glove) and the commentator suggested that the umpire should “give him the out” anyway just because Gordon is a…

Exactly. No player should try to hit the ball when there’s a no-hitter going. It’s an unwritten rule.

I’m part confused and part in awe. Not only did I not have that many schools under consideration when I was applying, but because I had to pay for the application fees myself I couldn’t afford to apply to that many schools.

AG? That must be new because I only had AP classes in my days, and an A in those were only worth 5 then. I also had the unusual situation where I had advanced past all the available math courses offered at my high school so the school arranged for me to take a course at the local community college. (There were…

The embedded video wouldn’t play for me, so I went to MLB.com to watch it. (It works fine there, go figure.) The article that accompanies the video, however, says that it was second time Rendon has been ejected. Maybe MLB.com is including the minors, but it’d be weird if it is.

The lesson I learned from that episode is that bosses love middle management who promise the impossible but hate the lowly grunts tasked with the impossible who couldn’t do it.

The low point of my IT career came when a superior couldn’t understand why a report generated today cannot have tomorrow’s data. The team had to sit him down and painstakingly explain why we can’t report on things that hasn’t happened when we don’t know what will happen. After all that, he still refused to believe us…

Looks like Upton wasn’t the only one who let up on the play. Shouldn’t Trout be in position to back-up Upton in case the ball bounce away like it did? With Encarnacio batting he should’ve been shading toward the left field to begin with, and Upton still managed to get to the ball before Trout.

This is so dumb. What exactly are the Twins implying here? That Sisco shouldn’t bunt to get on base when trailing by a large margin or to “ruin” a one-hitter? It’s not like teams haven’t come back from large deficits before, so any “unwritten rule” that suggests a team should stop trying when there is still a chance…

And I can accept that. Avoiding a disruptive or distracting presence in the locker room is a legitimate reason.

Other than the running, people said the same thing about Nick Foles after 2015.

The employer-employer relationship is at-will, so there are plenty of valid and legal reasons teams can use for not hiring Kaepernick. It just annoys me when people repeat the bald-faced lie that he isn’t good enough and it isn’t about the activism.

Let’s review Kaepernic’s last season, 2016. His completion pct of 59.2% was low, but no different than his career rate; it’s also within 1% of Bortles and Dalton and higher than Newton in 2017. He averaged 186 passing yd/game, but he only attempted 27 passes per game. For comparison, Brady averaged 37 passes a game…

My instructor way back in driver’s ed said that it takes two to cause an accident. It wasn’t meant to place blame, but rather suggest that the majority of auto accidents can be avoid if just one of the parties paid attention. In this case, it’s sad because there were three parties (driver, machine, and the victim),…