In 2004 he struck out in only 6.6% of his plate appearances, and he hit a home run in 7.3% of his plate appearances.  And that wasn’t his record breaking year!  He swung at 12% of pitches outside the strike zone and made contact 90% of the time.  

The campaign is...fine? I just don’t care about any of the characters around me other than maybe Owen. This game is as story driven as Destiny is, in that they give you “reasons” for going to shoot up baddies. But it feels like there are only like, 4 mission types.

I think it’s gonna be Jizyah Shorts in the end.  General Booty was criminally underseeded here.

Your numbers are for Federal aid, but what they are talking about on lack of government funding is state funding. Public colleges get money from their states, and states have been cutting that for years. Colleges had to increase fees to make up for this. But schools also do deserve to be blamed for trying to compete…

I think that when people complain about the “right kind of black” it has less to do with color of skin and more about shared culture, history, and experience, in general. And the definition of this changes depending on where in the world you are (USA, Caribbean, South America, South Africa, etc.). People could argue…

Here’s the thing, the MLB Draft is more of a dart throwing exercise than pretty much all other leagues. It takes so long to get to the majors, and so much can derail a good player, it’s rare that guys take straight-line, aggressive paths through the minors. Unlike in the NFL, NBA or NHL, where you can put a kid on a…

There’s always next game!

My pizza nirvana is Santarpio’s in East Boston. Is it actually the best pizza in the area? Nope! But the fact that it’s not super easy to get to (near the airport), you have to park under the Route 1 bridge, in one of the last sketchy parts of Boston (not for long though), and eat in this maybe/maybe not filthy…

Plates are round because back in the day, before machines made everything for us, you made plates on a pottery wheel, just like a bowl.  You’re not getting anything square off that.  

General Booty was criminally under ranked.  He may have never been Jizyah Shorts, but he’s better than most of the names on this list.

I worked at an old pizza hut that made all the dough fresh every day.  Then they closed it and opened up a new one in a town over, since I was two months from going away to college, I stayed on for that summer, and the new one didn’t even come with a dough mixer.  Frozen dough was shit, and especially for the hand…

I’d much rather have interesting dudes giving interesting thoughts a la the NBA than players unjustly silenced and blackballed from the league because they didn’t pledge fealty to damaging, dangerous, jingoistic nationalism.

+ 1 more shooter

I guess the definition of Yankee depends on where you are.  In the northern US? Probably means a New Englander of sorts.  Southern US?  Northerners in general.  Anywhere else in the US?  Probably just a member of a baseball team based in New York.  The rest of the world?  A slang term for someone from the US!

I wish baseball players would be as outspoken as the NBA counterparts and that players were allowed to have more freedom of expression, but baseball also has a lot of hicks and rubes and surly jerks who play the game. For every even moderately interesting or little bit politically outspoken guy like CC Sabathia or…

Man, I wish BioWare would have gone and made significant improvements upon ME:A and brought us more stories (RIP Quarian Ark) instead of dumping it.  

I’ve heard this double the tax method, but I came from a place where room and meals taxes were 9% of the bill. It was more supposed to give you an idea of what is the right amount to tip by making the math a little easier to digest. You still rounded up a little to get to 20%.

I think tip creep is real, as I feel like I’m constantly learning that I’m supposed to be tipping more people more money than I traditionally thought. But part of it is that wages fucking suck and wage growth had not kept up for the lower end of the income ladder. In countries where working class people make living…

As a Yankee fan as well, I don’t know why but I also have a soft spot for this team. It’s maddening when NY loses 2 of 3 at home to a team so obviously not trying, but I still kind of root for them?  I love that stadium, and when the O’s were good and worth cheering on recently, it was a fun place to watch a game. …

I thought you said you bought at the bottom of the market.  Either way, unless you're underwater, which maybe you are, or you bought more than you can afford, you'll likely come out ok.