Superdude, I am not blaming you. That is exactly how they have it in print on the car talk website. Both their printed and spoken versions were poorly done.
Actually, Cecil didn’t. That’s one of the few times he actually got one wrong. He corrected himself in the update to that column:
This actually happened at a game I was at a couple weeks ago, Devil Rays. I didn’t pay much attention to what the outcome was though. I’m sure things like this have happened at other stadiums too. I know at Wrigley if a ball gets lost in the vines on the outfield wall it’s a ground-rule double.
Yes, but isn’t it great to be among others who do this. It gives us a fourm to be strictly literal about things without driving our SOs nuts for a change.
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I know the answer has already been revealed, but I’d just like to point out that I never said “a swinging bunt.”
My proposed solution was an intentional bunt, the only kind of bunt for which a batter (grade A moron or not) is out if it’s foul with two strikes.
BTW, I think that the “mirror” solution is deceitful and it makes me feel cheated. And I know I’m not the only one who feels that way.
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Sorry Spiff but I read that to mean a swining bunt. Obviously that is not what you meant. I still can’t see a “pushed bunt” being called sharply hit or have enough momentum to need to be stopped before it makes it to the outfield.
FTR Car Talk has still not posted their answer. I don’t know what Garfield226 was listening to but it wasn’t Car Talk.
2pm EST today if anyone can listen in and post answer/explanation it would be appriciated. Although we seem to be conceding that the “mirror” is the answer.
Sure he was. I was listening on Saturday as well. It’s broadcast at different times in different places, the show isn’t live. It’s recorded on the previous Wed, IIRC.
And the answer is mirror.
Thanks Telemark. Why oh why there website states the answer is not given until Today is beyond me.
Sorry Garfield didnt mean to imply you were lying.
Oh boy do I hate the mirror answer. Surely a first baseman seen in a mirror is still a first baseman! Grrr now I have to go on a crime spree to vent. :mad:
As a side issue, in the OP, how can it be the bottom of the 5th inning and no score? Isn’t it 0 to 0? I thought there was only no score until the end of the 1st half-inning or until the first run is scored, whichever occurs first.
At least, that’s the way the broadcasters around Boston seem to say it. During a scoreless 1st half-inning I’ve heard “top of the 1st with no score” and at the end of that half-inning “the score is (insert visiting team) 0, Boston coming up to bat”
I reailize it can be said “he pitched (insert number) scoreless innings” but that is a different usage than “what is the official score of the game”.
Sportscasters commonly say there’s no score when the score is 0-0, regardless of the inning.
They still didn’t explain the “three team mates”. ::sheesh::
Well, I figured out this week’s Puzzler:
[spoiler]1. Put three coins on each side of the scale.
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If each side weighs the same, the heavier coin must be one of the remaining two coins.
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Take the two remaining coins and weigh them, selecting the heavier coin.
2a) If after the first weighing (three coins per side), one side is heavier than the other, then take the 3 coins that weighed more. (The heavier coin must be one of these three.)
3a) Take two of these three coins and put them on the balace, one on each side. If they weigh the same, the coin left over is the heavier one.
4a) If the balance shows one coin heavier than the other, then that coin is the heaviest one.
Final steps: Pat yourself on the back, take coins to local tavern and buy rourself a beer.[/spoiler]
ccwaterback, do you not like reading my posts? I answered the “three team mates” already before as well. It was a misprint in the question. IMO the quesiton was neither asked or translated to text well.