She loved your response.

Apropo of nothing, but this seems as relevant a place as any to mention this nugget: my ladyfriend likes keeping score on occasion (I taught her when we were first dating, but I was a bit rusty on it, so she then read up on it some more and is now better at it than I am, but she strongly dislikes the positional…

Thanks for the insight. So basically, Boston discovered and exploited a hole in the Nationals' strategy. When this happened in the '09 Series (Johnny Damon as the baserunner), who was the batter?

All good points. Now that there are dozens and dozens of statistical measures for baseball, adding one or two additional ones like you propose is probably the way to go, rather than adjusting a long-established one (even if it is flawed, in my - sometimes - humble opinion).

Oh my god, the horror!

NO! NEVER!

This may be the most elementary of baseball official scoring questions, but are errors only recorded for "physical execution errors", but never on "mental errors" or "strategic errors"? On this play, every Nationals player involved may have physically completed his assignment and every throw (pass) was successfully…

Seriously, everyone* who drives a white SUV is an asshole.

Good stuff. Thanks!

what are the seven ways, pray tell?

“Real fans” that probably didn’t follow any of qualifying, right?

And so few of those guys even really understand how to watch football. Like line play or why a guy got open. That a guy didn’t make a tackle or block because that’s not his role in the scheme.

Please tell me this was a Cubs fan who is convinced that the only great pitching performance in the last 20 years was Kerry Wood’s 20K game (because it was the last time their hopes for a better future were awakened).

I once dated a girl named Nathan. She did have manish hands, so...

Or how about the ref tossing Laettner for stomping on Timberlake?

I was also a very average 800m "specialist" for four years in high school. I know I never broke 2:00, but may have gotten as close as 2:02 (it was nearly 20 years ago, so may be mis-remembering). I spent nearly all of that time in the 2:05 to 2:15 range.

Generally, if you're going to ALL CAPS something, it's a good idea to spell it correctly.

In other news, Cal Ripken just went about his business like a true pro and didn't haze anyone.

...Something about James Earl Ray having a better shooting percentage than anyone on that team last month?

I saw them the next day near Chicago. Not a fan. #teampigeons