Answer Wiki. It's perfectly acceptable to ask managers for recommendations. LinkedIn actually designates who the recommender - manager, client, co-worker, and so on. You will have the opportunity to read what is written about you before it's published, so you can choose whether or not to display it.
In baseball, an intentional base on balls, usually referred to as an intentional walk and denoted in baseball scorekeeping by IBB, is a walk issued to a batter by a pitcher with the intent of removing the batter's opportunity to swing at the pitched ball.
But the number of GAAB (glove adjustments per at-bat) is on the rise, and there is nothing baseball can do to make that more interesting. The twitching, the digging in, the stepping off the mound, the last-minute timeout call . . . I love a long at-bat in which a hitter fouls off a dozen pitches.