that a sac fly doesn’t count as an at bat! what!!!?
it does count as a plate appearance, though. So it doesn't lower your BA, but it does lower your OBP. This is how you can have a lower OBP than BA, if you have more sac flies than walks (and HBPs)
― Piven After Midnight (The Yellow Kid), Monday, 20 March 2023 22:22 (one year ago) link
enjoying all this sac talk
― hootenanny-soundtracking clusterfucks about milking cows (Neanderthal), Monday, 20 March 2023 22:24 (one year ago) link
My favorite sac is Sacagawea
― carne asana (Ye Mad Puffin), Monday, 20 March 2023 22:31 (one year ago) link
i mean it's not like you were deliberately trying to fly out, you were trying to rip a double. for some reason sac bunts not counting as at bats seems more normal... but it's true that it's the same principle. i dunno man. good point about OBP. it needs to show up somewhere. and it does!
― Tracer Hand, Monday, 20 March 2023 22:35 (one year ago) link
It also shows up as an RBI
― Josefa, Monday, 20 March 2023 22:39 (one year ago) link
^^^
― can i play with march madness? (PBKR), Monday, 20 March 2023 22:39 (one year ago) link
indeed
― Tracer Hand, Monday, 20 March 2023 22:40 (one year ago) link
let us not sneeze at the good old ribbie
I only figured this out looking at a box score and trying to figure out someone that went 0 for 4 had an RBI.
― can i play with march madness? (PBKR), Monday, 20 March 2023 22:58 (one year ago) link
how someone
― can i play with march madness? (PBKR), Monday, 20 March 2023 22:59 (one year ago) link
I always thought for baseball fans most of the fun was in the stats and remembering the arcane rules, whereas watching an actual game from beginning to end was only an incidental pleasure.
― Bringing Up Initials B.B. (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 20 March 2023 23:03 (one year ago) link
“pleasure”
― Goose Bigelow, Fowl Gigolo (the table is the table), Tuesday, 21 March 2023 01:48 (one year ago) link
Should I have a put something like “a very rare occurrence”? Thought about it.
― Bringing Up Initials B.B. (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 21 March 2023 02:10 (one year ago) link
Computing pioneer Ada Lovelace was the daughter of Lord Byron, and her mother steered her towards mathematics partly in reaction to Byron's calling and life choices.
― got it in the blood, the kid's a pelican (Doctor Casino), Tuesday, 21 March 2023 11:36 (one year ago) link
didn't quite work though...
― koogs, Tuesday, 21 March 2023 12:41 (one year ago) link
Just listened to Kate Lister 5alking about Byron on Betwixt The Sheets current episode. So that's a coincidence
― Stevo, Tuesday, 21 March 2023 15:12 (one year ago) link
Huh, I'm currently reading "Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell" and Lord Byron appears in the chapter I was just reading last night.
― silverfish, Tuesday, 21 March 2023 17:54 (one year ago) link
Betwixt the Sheets comes out on a Tuesday so I was loistening to it while i walked around town. Had probably stopped a little before I saw that.POdcast comes out Tuesday and Friday.
― Stevo, Tuesday, 21 March 2023 18:31 (one year ago) link
pickles (cukes) have no calories
― Andy the Grasshopper, Tuesday, 21 March 2023 19:32 (one year ago) link
that's my fav thing about them.
well that and the fact they're awesome
― hootenanny-soundtracking clusterfucks about milking cows (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 21 March 2023 19:53 (one year ago) link
well.. i think pickles do
― Tracer Hand, Tuesday, 21 March 2023 23:27 (one year ago) link
― brimstead, Wednesday, 22 March 2023 00:52 (one year ago) link
absolutely do not be scared to post on ilb, the more the merrier
― limb tins & cum (gyac), Wednesday, 22 March 2023 00:53 (one year ago) link
Damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead!
― Bringing Up Initials B.B. (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 22 March 2023 00:55 (one year ago) link
Mace and nutmeg are part of the same seed.
― Dan Worsley, Thursday, 23 March 2023 21:53 (one year ago) link
WHAT
― obsidian crocogolem (sleeve), Thursday, 23 March 2023 22:43 (one year ago) link
Wait till you hear about cilantro
― carne asana (Ye Mad Puffin), Thursday, 23 March 2023 22:54 (one year ago) link
lol that one I knew!
― obsidian crocogolem (sleeve), Thursday, 23 March 2023 22:56 (one year ago) link
Makes sense, they're practically interchangeable flavour-wise
― touche pas ma planète (flamboyant goon tie included), Thursday, 23 March 2023 22:56 (one year ago) link
lice is the plural of louse. like mice and mouse.
pretty sure I must have known this at some earlier point and then forgotten it.
― formerly abanana (dat), Friday, 24 March 2023 14:25 (one year ago) link
dice = die
rice = rice
Relieved sometimes that this is my first language.
― pplains, Friday, 24 March 2023 14:44 (one year ago) link
Spice is the plural of spouse
Uh, wait, no
― carne asana (Ye Mad Puffin), Friday, 24 March 2023 14:45 (one year ago) link
formerly abanana (dat) at 2:25 24 Mar 23lice is the plural of louse. like mice and mouse.pretty sure I must have known this at some earlier point and then forgotten it.
― Camaraderie at Arms Length, Friday, 24 March 2023 14:51 (one year ago) link
Turn back, you lousy fule!
― Bringing Up Initials B.B. (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 24 March 2023 14:58 (one year ago) link
There are few adjectives I enjoy more than using "lousy" to mean "has a lot of" (rather than "is bad"). "This restaurant is lousy with cute waiters," for example
― touche pas ma planète (flamboyant goon tie included), Friday, 24 March 2023 15:00 (one year ago) link
... same sense as the Scots word "hoachin'", which means infested or swarming with, Mr Redd will be interested to here.
― Maggot Bairn (Tom D.), Friday, 24 March 2023 15:48 (one year ago) link
Ye rang?
― Old Man Reacts to Cloud (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 24 March 2023 18:41 (one year ago) link
As far as I can tell, that word is not considered Scots, but an English word that is now only still used in Scotland.
― Old Man Reacts to Cloud (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 24 March 2023 18:43 (one year ago) link
Like most, sorry maist, Scots' words!
― Maggot Bairn (Tom D.), Friday, 24 March 2023 18:51 (one year ago) link
Kate Lister just did a Betwixt the Sheets on Sordid Soho where she says the name Soho derives from a hunting cry.Had no idea.Is it just a coincidence that NYC also has an important arty space called SoHo but derived from abbreviation then portmanteau of the words South of Houston. Is the pronunciation different?
― Stevo, Saturday, 25 March 2023 10:38 (one year ago) link
in times gone (very) by soho (the london one) was a royal hunting ground and some of the pubs frequented in ilx FAPs gone by -- viz at least two of the fours pubs called the BLUE POSTS -- are said to mark the boundaries of this ground, with their name as a reminder of the relevant marker or signpost
― mark s, Saturday, 25 March 2023 11:04 (one year ago) link
Just found out that what we call filet mignon in America (a cut of beef) is not called that in French.
Apparently in French, filet mignon only refers to pork tenderloin.
― carne asana (Ye Mad Puffin), Saturday, 25 March 2023 22:32 (one year ago) link
What we call filet mignon I've usually heard of referred to as just "filet" in France
Never heard that about the pork
― Tracer Hand, Saturday, 25 March 2023 23:40 (one year ago) link
I've just learned that Americans call coriander cilantro. I knew about arugula being rocket, but somehow cilantro escaped me all these years.
― Zelda Zonk, Sunday, 26 March 2023 00:25 (one year ago) link
Don’t forget TS cilantro vs. Italian parsley. In Latin America they also have cilantro macho and cilantro hembra.
― Old Man Reacts to Cloud (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 26 March 2023 00:36 (one year ago) link
enchiladas suizas = Swiss enchiladas
― budo jeru, Sunday, 2 April 2023 18:00 (one year ago) link
Nigel Lawson's ex-wife (and Nigella Lawson's mother) married A.J. Ayer after divorcing Lawson.
― Maggot Bairn (Tom D.), Tuesday, 4 April 2023 08:15 (one year ago) link
Wow Tom, your parents really fucked up not having that talk with you.
― Daniel_Rf, Tuesday, 4 April 2023 09:37 (one year ago) link
for years i thought the UK speed camera sign depicted a Victorian bellows camera pointing to the right, but it’s just a boring CCTV camera pointing towards the viewer :/ pic.twitter.com/sCOVzyRPhW— rory ・‿・ (@FeyeraBender) April 4, 2023
― Tim, Wednesday, 5 April 2023 12:28 (one year ago) link
um wait whatO°
― kinder, Wednesday, 5 April 2023 12:33 (one year ago) link