A couple of points. It only happens on 3rd strikes, meaning the ball was nearly always pretty close to the plate, and when dropped is usually near the catcher. Rare a batter swings at a really wild pitch that the catcher has to bail out of his position to go fetch. If it’s that wild it’s a ball and not a 3rd strike.…

Check the replies. I know the wording was sloppy, and already found the stat. But thanks.

It has to be a replica because it’s not standard issue military?  Either you don’t know what replica means or your pretty fuzzy on how logic works.

Ok, found stats to back up my contention (as poorly worded as it was).

Yes, I just meant a ball that gets past the catcher.

Yeah, I realized that was ambiguous too late to edit. As you indicate I meant a ball that gets past the catcher, not a “passed ball”.

I have no data but I’d wager most passed balls are on the pitcher.  Seems to me this rule will really amp up catcher/umpire collisions as the catcher bolts back to find the ball.  Some of those fat umps  are major road blocks.

I’ll 2nd that, although I even had warning. One day a co-worker came in to the office in the afternoon after coming from the theater, he had a look on his face I’ll never forget, and could only mumble, “You’ve got to see that movie.” I did, and he was right.

“I kept my underwear on during the massage. “

This got mis-filed, Clickhole is over there ---->

No doubt someone told him her DNA results showed she’s “a thousand 24th” Native American and the “stable genius” from Wharton translated that to 1000/24th. So that’s what he wrote down and has no clue it’s beyond nonsensical.  And this is who we have negotiating nuclear arms agreements.

Came to point that out.  Apparently AI headline grammar correction has a ways to go.

The floggings will continue until morale improves.

An accurate headline would have been “Get 2 dozen donuts for 1/2 price”.

Just take a peek inside the WH.

Tell Tbaby the tanks and planes have stealth technology and you can’t see them, but trust us “Sir” we’ve got hundreds of them saluting you!

I have a utility room attached to my house with an external door that sometimes I don’t go into for a month or so. One day I noticed yellow jackets going in and out through a crack under the door. Opened it and was promptly stung. Turned out a few hundred had taken up residence. I tried wasp spray at base of the door,…

How much meth/opioids do you have to do to not notice a yellow jacket nest hanging off the eave of your front porch before it gets 1/100th that size and remove it? I’ve suffered a few yellow jacket encounters and cohabitation isn’t an option.

Adults have been hit as well and seriously injured.  Hockey waited until a child was killed before putting up fan protection.  Apparently MLB isn’t smart enough to learn, or to actually perceive the obvious and act to prevent an avoidable tragedy.

I have no doubt a Pi 4 could be used by a small percentage of users for their desktop use. My objection to the headline is it makes it sound like a viable solution for some significant fraction of users and I don’t see it.