“...but in no situation will you make contact with the bag sooner by laying out for it than you would just running through it.”

Eh, didn’t stop Edmonton and Winnipeg from taking Oilers and Jets despite Houston and New York.

Also, why is he racist??

I mean, I know they’re not winning the WS this year, you know they’re not winning the WS this year, but holy shit, man, Joe Girardi gets paid millions to try his best to win the WS.

Not that I disagree, but never underestimate the power of going prematurely gray in making a guy look good at an older age.

“Wow, you look old for 40 with that gray hair” becomes “You look great at 70 with that same gray hair!” No one remembers you going gray if it’s been a while.

They can repurpose it at the Good Times fan festival.

O5 and 07, fine. 04 and 06, completely disagree. 04 is obvious (if Dave Roberts is a half-step slower, they've swept the Sox) and 06 was a damn good team that was favored going in.

I remember it because no one could tell right away if it was a HR or not.

I was at that game. Great moment, but the bigger hit was A-Rod’s game-tying two-run shot in the 9th.

Had no idea a coach could dictate where a player transfers.

Of course this is all their own damn fault anyway for caving in to him when he opted out in 2007.

MJ had no playoff blemishes.

So now slapping a woman is “shenanigans”?

Yeah, I looked that up already. I asked because he was “only” 48 that year, so I thought maybe you knew something Baseball Reference didn’t. (Or that he played in a foreign league.)

But yeah, 180 ABs. We’re talking 1/3 of a season, not even 2/3s. He was a platoon player for the last decade of his career.

In his day, people thought batting average and stolen bases were the most important statistics, and still regarded the home run as some novelty (not “real” baseball). Cobb was a great player, but thankfully we understand statistics better now, and know that Ruth was better. OBP, SLG, WAR: Not even close.

Wait, where did Franco play a full season at 49?

Fans are, of course, celebrating their team’s title vigorously.

Wait, do you have a mouse without the little trackball/dial thingy for your finger?

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Well, I disagree. And since it’s impossible to prove, we can agree to disagree.