Chicagoland is 75% of the state.

It’s nice to see some honest feedback that this game isn’t actually all that good.

They’ve been especially careful about fan safety after 9 people were trampled to death at one of their shows in 2000. It clearly still affects them.

I think ranking based on how the device looks (not how the screen looks, not how the device works in your hands, just the appearance of the plastic) is not what most people care about.

You...don’t understand why small cars exist?

I’m commenting just to disagree with the prevaling opinion in the comments: I think the headline is totally fine.

I accounted for these factors already. 1" clearance I mentioned is from the bottom of the ball to the rim.

Did some back-of-the-envelope calculations...my estimate was that she’d need a 63" vertical leap.

I just can’t with these embedded Twitter videos. They constantly have little skips, and they seem to skip every time it’s at a key moment. Please do whatever you can to embed video from literally any other source.

My uninformed opinions:

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What’s the old line from an NBA exec about the uselessness of heights? Something like: “You don’t shoot with your neck.”  Standing vertical reach measurement would be more useful (which is basically merging height & wingspan).

Am I crazy, or are most of these not even screens? Or just they are executed that poorly? I thought the whole point of a screen was that the O-lineman release their rushers and get out in front of the receiver? These just look like dump-off passes...except planned dump-offs...

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Twitter’s embedded video quality is so shitty, I can barely see most of the highlights you guys post from there.  Both of these twitter videos are like 240 resolution on the wide shot, and only sharpen into a visible image for the second half of the video.  It doesn’t seem to be a buffering thing, as they sharpen at…

Wow, 200 strikeouts!  That’s about...the 700th best strikeout total in history.  Amazing.

You do realize that car emissions are what are infringing on other people’s rights, don’t you? The government regulations are protecting people’s right to clean air from being infringed on by other people & companies shooting out carbon & pollutants.

But when you tag, you are running as soon as they catch the ball, not when they’re releasing it. If you freeze the video when the ball enters Rosario’s glove, you’ll see the runner still 4 steps short of reaching 3rd base.

This is true of every incremental amount of lead. Each additional run is less valuable than the last, because after a certain point you’re just changing your odds of winning from 99% to 99.1%. Nothing whatsoever to do with odds and evens.

Drew makes a good point about perceived size of the ball. If you gave a human a toothpick and asked them to hit similarly millimeter-sized ball, they’d almost never make contact, although they’d hit it a home run every time they did.