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Old 02-10-2014, 09:56 AM   #24
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Originally Posted by Dngrsone View Post
It means that all his recommendations were shot down. It is a baseball reference.
Literally it would mean that all his suggestions were accepted, but he was being ironic.
It's a percentage. A batting average of 1.000 would mean a player got a hit every time he was at bat. A .500 batting average would mean he got a hit for half of his at bats.

As for military fantasy, there is Grunts by Mary Gentle, which is a satirical story of the typical war of good vs. evil told from the orcs' point of view.

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