There is no chance that collection of middling talent wins 30 games without him.

Oh heavens to Betsy. My ears! Maybe a NSFW next time?

I don’t even know which article you’re talking about. I just re-read this article, the Scientist article, and the Bicycling article and don’t see where you’re getting that description. And I understand the Google, but is it really so much to ask that when an article has some weird phrase like “Poop Doping” in the…

Yeah, there’s two different things going on here, and Mendoza conflates them both in the video. I get that Betts and Pedroia use a little bat, and I get that the bat has an axe handle, but surely they can make a bigger bat with an axe handle. It does appear that Springer is using the “MB-50,” although I can’t tell…

Yeah, my initial reaction was that of all that insanely frivolous things I am sure he’s blown his money on, this seems downright trivial. Given how much money he made off HST, seems like a fitting tribute. Not as crazy as, say, planning to buy memorabilia from a John Dillinger auction while you are literally going…

That bottom pic is overly generous to Rizzo. The vast majority of baserunners now would slide well outside the line—so like five feet from where he is—and extend their left arm out to swipe the edge of the plate as they slide by. Had he done so, he may have also had the added benefit of being safe.

“I’ve talked to a lot of umpires about this rule. My understanding is: If they have the ball, it’s game on.”

Yeah this one just isn’t close. He’s nowhere near the base path. He’s several feet inside the foul line, where nobody every naturally runs. He also pretty clearly doesn’t understand the rule.

It’s a rule for every base, you just don’t see the collisions because you can’t overrun second or third base. In other words, if you just barrel right through the second or third basemen and make him drop the ball, he can just pick it up and tag you again because you are almost certainly off the base as a result of…

Where it initially hits is irrelevant. All that matters is whether it is fair or foul at the moment it passes third base. It could roll all the way down to third in foul territory then take a last minute hop and cross over the bag, and it would be fair. Here, it looked very close, but the ump thought it was fair when…

drink a lot of water

Do you think the Angels were in the National League?

Three teams will qualify, so that’s 300% right there. The remainder is the likelihood of the team coming in fourth and winning the play-in with the Asian team. So you’d expect the total percentages of all CONCACAF members to be right around 350% or so.

The comment I was responding to was one where you said MacIntyre was under no obligation to report it because it was hearsay. But it wasn’t hearsay to MacIntyre. He’s the one who heard it from the eyewitness. Let the police worry if what MacIntyre tells them is hearsay (and as many people have explained, it doesn’t…

If not, it’s not because what you are saying is hearsay. It’s because they lack probable cause. But they can rely on hearsay as part of the probable cause inquiry. Also, her eyewitness account is not hearsay.

You keep saying hearsay, but just because you bold it doesn’t make it so. Hearsay is an out of court statement (made for the truth of the matter asserted, if we want to get technical with it). As in “I heard him say XXX.” When someone says “this guy beat the shit out of me,” that’s not hearsay. She’s not reporting…

Gotcha. Kinja’d.

Huh? He’s talking about the batter going to first base, waiting, and then charging the mound. Pretty sure Machado didn’t bring the bat with him to first base and then chuck it across the field.

Always wondered why nobody tried this. The element of surprise, plus the distance between the runner and first baseman (farther than the hitter and catcher), makes it a prime opportunity.

I’m not sure that’s really a function of his batting eye. Considering he’s an absolute terror on the bases and has no power to speak of, I think pitchers are likelier to challenge him in the zone than they would be for most players. For his career, for instance, he his percentage of swings at pitches out of the zone…