Doing that just to be difficult *does* sound like something I'd do.

I'd totally be down for some independent teams to go batshit with their parks/ground rules. Centerfield sand trap! Ground-rule double pond! Mysterious third base tunnel that if a ball goes into it, it shoots it launches it in the air towards right field.

I don't usually do anything until we have data, except when it's a situation where something drastic has happened (completely new park)

No. It doesn't include the pitching number, and ZiPS is unaware that Ohtani doesn't have an aging curve, but an aging line, and he's going peak in his last year, sometime around 2080, at 16.9 WAR and Gold Gloves at all four infield positions and 43 TDs that he throws to himself like Mr. Perfect

I'm sorry, between holidays and the busy ZiPS season, I fell behind on my usual peer pressure I place on you to give your money to Falcom!

"Quick, follow that car, and step on it!"
"Are you fucking kidding me? My body shop had to order a used door from California even though Mazda still fucking makes my exact car. We'll go maybe 7 mph over the speed limit and obey all lights and signs."

Yeah, having my car in the body shop for a *month* because of the smashed bottom of a door and the fact it would have cost me like $4500 if not for insurance has made me very determined to never get into an actual car chase.

It must be really annoying to run a ski resort that Bond traveled through and coming in in the morning and finding bodies all over the slopes at the peak of tourist season

X is for throwaway jokes. Here: I once drafted a concept for a webcomic (to produce with an Artist To Be Named Later) that started with a dramatic Bond- or Bourne-esque car chase smashing through a busy urban street. But instead of following the spies, the comic stays put.

The IT guy whose parked car got smashed by a goon when Bond pulled a sudden turn, who now has to file an insurance claim. The writer who had a sudden brush with death while typing away at a sidewalk café. Etc. etc.

"In the criminal justice system, the people are represented by two separate and unequal branches: A cadre of loose cannons who get the job done, no matter the cost; and small army of perpetually frazzled bureaucrats who job is to get the city council to pay for 5 exploding helicopters a month."

All those boat chases and factory explosions leave a HUGE mess behind that someone's gotta cleanup, after all. The number of agencies involved if the detective drops the murderer off the side of a blimp after a precarious dangling fistfight has to be massive.

Wait, I buy a lot of cheese, but NINE POUNDS of cheese a week is damn impressive

Hey, I just go by the depth chart at this point!