Feel free to get pedantic about other penalties I failed to mention in the comments.

I have one request: Make the hat photo the Tom Brady photo forever, but just make it a little bit bigger every time.

I knew I’d read that dunk story before! https://theconcourse.deadspin.com/and-now-your-finest-quitting-stories-1829228780

It’s not like the A’s have to actually forfeit money if he doesn’t sign. It’s more a right to spend money (and teams that intend to sign a player over the bonus pool amount will frequently draft college seniors in later rounds who will usually sign for well under the pool money allotted to make up the difference).

Something about needing Puk to break in a new UCL.

Is the “away” jersey blue-and-black or white-and-gold?

One of the things you learn in first year torts is The Baseball Rule, which is frequently taught as a special type of Assumption of the Risk.

That’s fine. I don’t have enough information to agree or disagree with the inputs, I just want to make sure that you understand your disagreement is with the inputs that result in a 3-1 advantage for the eventual 5th place AFC team over the eventual 4th place CONCACAF team.

It might be easier to also think of the percentage chances that the AFC teams have for qualification. The AFC teams have four guaranteed spots and the CONCACAF-AFC playoff. The two confederations have, between them, 8 qualifying spots (4 AFC + 3 CONCACAF + 1 playoff).

I hate it when I accidentally hit the down button.

You joke about a desperate substitute as an MLB All-Star, but this is literally the reason why Alfredo Griffin was a 1984 All-Star.

Nick Swisher on violin

Yeah, actually http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,734…

It’s not like state agencies haven’t tried, but they run into tribal sovereign immunity issues, issues that absolutely don’t exist when it’s the federal government bringing down the hammer, because federal sovereignty trumps tribal sovereignty.

Is it just me or did anyone else think it was always “Meserau” and not “Merserau”?

The worst is college overtime. It’s not even the same sport! It’s football’s equivalent of soccer penalty kicks! I’m not giving in to BIG PENALTY KICK.

Stephen Harper in Undercover Boss.

I’m pretty sure this was an SVU plotline.

This would be so much better if it was the real crowd reaction.

There’s almost a rule like that (2015 OBR 5.09(a)(13)), but the penalty is that the batter is out, not the runner. This is usually not an issue, as usually the runner has been successfully forced out the second baseman by the time it’s an issue, but the rule is not intended to rectify the fielder’s failure to actually…