That doesn’t compute. A player on a pitcher’s own team might accept an error to preserve a no-hitter, but not the other team. And it isn’t up to the players whether they accept an error anyway; the official scorer decides.
You’re right. It was on his own team.
There is a quote from a football coach - I wish I remember who - that referenced the perceived lack of
sportsmanship of running up the score when your team has a large lead.
“We will stop trying to score when they stop trying to catch us.”
Some of the NBA top single-game scorers would seem to lend to the idea the other team was not trying as hard as normal once the potential record was in sight. I mean, 100 points by Wilt Chamberlain? In the modern era, 81 points by Kobe?
I thought it might be a reference to foo dogs.
I’ve never had another B&J flavor better than Half Baked. They are all pretty good, but brownie batter and cookie dough? Sign me up.
I haven’t had enough Ben and Jerry’s to have a list of favorites, or of dis-favorites for that matter, although a lot of their combinations make me think ‘can’t I get a plain coffee or raspberry ice cream without weird chunks in it?’
What little I have had was very good ice cream; worth the money, if I had the money, but I often don’t.
Yep, I knew that.
Don’t like the texture of Ben & Jerry’s ice cream.
Can’t hold my breath because I start giggling.
Famously, Ted Williams was given the choice to sit out the final day of the 1941 season, a doubleheader in Philadelphia, to protect his .400 batting average. (Not a record, but an incredible achievement that has not been matched since.)
He insisted on playing, however, and went 6-for-8 in the two games, finishing the season at .406.
Now, I’ve never heard any speculation that the A’s pitchers went easy on him that day. But if you think about it, a pair of rookie pitchers (accounting for most of Williams’s at-bats) facing a legend in the midst of making history, in a completely meaningless couple of games, could easily feel intimidated enough to take a little something off, consciously or not. Maybe.
What’s the minimum number of games you have to bat to hold an official batting average? I assume you can’t bat .400 over a lucky 5-game streak, get cut from the roster, and lay claim to such an achievement.
Your batting average is your batting average. Doesn’t matter if you were at bat once or played every game.
To qualify for the batting title you have to have a minimum of 502 plate appearances. Not at bats, plate appearances.
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25%Notary sojac
What the hell was that previous poll about?
- I don’t have the foggiest idea.
- Nah, I understood perfectly.
I didn’t have the foggiest idea, but looking up “notary sojac” on wikipedia led me to this,
which apparently was where the World War II airmen got the term “foo fighter”. Very interesting.
To answer the sports poll, it was a disgrace when Brett Favre lay down so that Michael Strahan could “sack” him and get the most-sacks-in-a-season record.
Yes, I know about Smokey Stover. Someone was posting examples of the strip on a Facebook page devoted to old funny papers. It played the Wacky card until you wanted it to cease.
One of the most irritating comic strips from that irritating decade, the Forties.
I don’t know about foo and its ultimate point of origin. Bob Clampett cartoons in the Thirties (Daffy Duck, etc.) used to throw the word in at random intervals. “Foo” is also a mild interjection of disapproval.
So, De_La_Rue what the heck did that mean?
I rarely eat ice cream, and when I do it’s just the store brand French vanilla.
I once saw a player come up from the minor leagues to play with the Cleveland Indians. He got a single in his very first at-bat. When he came to bat the second time, his batting average showed on the Jumbotron: .1000. I said to a friend who was with me, “It’s all downhill from here!”
I like several B&J flavors, but how did I miss Creme Brulee??? Now I has a sad. I just told my sister the other day that I wanted creme brulee for my birthday dessert, but I don’t know where to get one.
I got hooked on their Strawberry Cheesecake flavor years ago, when we had our dogs, Luc & Shanni. They were typical little begging dachshunds, so they always got a tiny taste at the end of the carton. And every time Luc had Strawberry Cheesecake he threw up. Like Immediately. It was so weird we tried it two more times, and he threw up each time. We stopped after that. There was nothing in it that wasn’t in other flavors he’d get down with no trouble. It was just so random.
It was so freakin’ good it inspired two threads here:
Ah. A pretty long time ago when I was much more careful with my diet. Sigh.