how old am i?

Still tallying up the votes for iPhonedorkdat, and you can still send in any new captions you come up with.

I was just thinking: in every idiotic baseball announcer's mind, it is clear as day that a pitcher wants to avoid walks. They quote the old "leadoff walk scores xx.y% of the time" stat to illustrate this. Never mind that leadoff singles probably score the exact same % of the time and leadoff doubles even more, triples more than that and home runs close to 100% of the time. The basic argument "walks=bad" is a sound one. Walks = baserunners. Walks = not outs. Avoid walks, pitchers!

So if even the most narrow-minded, conventional baseball bullshit announcers/managers/GM's can grasp this, why are they often unable to apply the opposite rule for hitters? Hitters who walk a lot are more valuable than those who walk less. I mean, I guess everybody gets this by now, but announcers still talk about guys who never walk and end up with .326 OBP's as valuable commodities just because they hit .280 (see Juan Pierre). This is wrong. The walk is where it's at. I knew it when I was 13.

I had a million dollar idea today, although it probably already exists:

howoldami.com

It's similar to amihotornot.com. You would post a picture of yourself (or soomebody else) and site visitors would vote on how old they thought you were. Once they voted, they could see your actual age and the average guess.

For instance, howoldami (only guess if you don't have any idea)?

This would be fun shit, yes? I could start this thing, sell some smut ads in the sidebar, and retire in like 8 months.

Although I'm sure it already exists. Dammit.

Edit: Curiosity got the better of me and I checked the url. It exists, and it's almost exactly what I thought it would be. Just like the Bears.