As for the baseball metaphor... I got it was baseball but... I'm German and the only sport metaphors I'm likely to get are soccer ones. So I stopped reading halfway through.


I have no idea - no reasonable idea - how the swirly can be that good (maybe Yuki didn't go out with that many girls/the swirly is just THAT GOOD) but as for Gary's reasoning...
a) He's just trying to be a nice guy and help her feel good
b) he wants her to calm down (okay, not calm down but...)
c) he thinks it's expected of him
d) what Succubus said
e) what Eldan said.

(Let the voting begin)