Longhorn -- isn't that a steakhouse? ThoughtZ™

[Chasm64]

Always went to the Outback for the big salad ( no my name isn’t Elaine) before it closed in town. Their clam chowder was fantastic, granted not a ton of clams but had a nice kick to it.

 

[bfs3]

This is a serious question for anybody to answer. It's not any kind of gotcha.

In this game and another one over the weekend,vI heard announcers say that a team had gotten "within 10 points" at a point when the margin was exactly 10 points.

Is that accurate? I thought in both cases that ”within 10” would be 9 or fewer.

When I consider that whittling a lead down to a single point might be termed "getting within 1," which would make my prior supposition wrong, and the announcers right.

So, is a 10-point deficit "within 10," meaning that a team can tie the game if it makes up 10 more points?

I'm looking to be educated, not to claim that I'm right, and the announcers don't know what they're talking about. But I now suspect I've been wrong. It doesn't matter, really, because I'll just start saying, "They've gotten the deficit down to single digits," but I'd like some confirmation. Thanks in advance.

Thank you for distracting me for 30 minutes today. I enjoyed that thought exercise.

 

[willie99]

Texas Roadhouse the best steak for a moderate chain

Longhorn





Outback

 

[Edward Sargent]

Texas Longhorn Steakhouse does exist. Don't know how widespread it is. Up here in
the Adirondacks there is one in Plattsburgh...popular...people I know who go to
the city to shop often go to that restaurant.

My daughter worked for one in NJ in HS. That one closed up within a few years.

 

[Edward Sargent]

I never heard that debate before but interesting. I was with you, but it seems the first batter must bat again. Now I wonder, what if the number 9 batter gets a base-hit but is thrown out trying to stretch a single into a double. Base hit, but I guess it would not be batting around since #10 never got to bat.

I'll catch a lot of flak for this, but I think if you are rating something on a scale of 1 to 10, the middle ranking would be 5.5.

Maybe its a median!