I like watching the path of the ball in this point of view. It really gives a sense of what the batter is up against. Unfortunately, it is extremely rare for the broadcasts to show an actual pitch with this point of view. They always switch back to the center field camera for the pitch so they can show the strike…

Totally agree. This is a camera view that splits the difference between your two examples. I have seen it at some ballparks and I wish it was mixed in more often (and available at all the parks).

Rob Manfred’s attempts at trying to shorten baseball games to make it somehow more attractive to the “youth of today” seems to be completely missing the point of baseball. I watch and go to baseball games to disconnect from the hectic pace of day to day life and from more news of the Trumpies destroying our country a…

Maybe pictures would help?

It’s not just the “small market teams” pulling this scam. This is a scam perpetrated by all the current owners as a group. Every owner now expects a $50m+ cash injection every 2 or 3 years as their take from one team in the league running the stadium financing scam. The league and the union can make whatever show…

Baseball is first in terms of total attendance by a wide margin (69m in 2018, NBA in second with 22m, NFL in third with 17m), and second in terms of total revenue ($14b for the NFL, $9b for MLB, $7b for the NBA).

This is how Rob Manfred, the MLB owners, and the investors who bought the Marlins will make their money. This has been their plan from the very beginning. They need the team to be horrible and to be hated so they can blame the local fans for not liking baseball and so they can label the city as unsuitable for…

All the cool kids are doing it...

“But the best explanation for all this—certainly the moat surfers, but really the entire Vaportecture package—is as misdirection. If you’re talking about moats or lens flare, you’re not debating who’s going to pay for the damn thing or why your team even needs a new stadium at all...”

The Founding Fathers intended the Electoral College to be an institution of wise intellectuals that would be a protection against a populist demagogue that could hijack our democracy. They looked at the example of Athens and Alcibiades and wanted to insure that fate would not befall their new country. We would hold…

Adolf Hitler, the Donald Trump/Elon Musk of 1930's Germany.

I travel all around the world and there is nothing quite like the predictability and reliability of a Publix. They are quintessential Florida, along with Pollo Tropical.

The opening shot in this youtube vid?

Ha. The look on the goalie’s face. Doom is imminent, and there’s nothing he’s gonna be able to do about it. And Zaniolo standing there to calmly, slowly twist the knife. Wish he’d just stepped back and given ‘em a Zia Cooke...

Dodger fan here, and someone who always rooted for Yasiel to pull it together, especially after everything he went through just to get to the majors, but I give him 3 weeks at most before he has a complete meltdown just from the realization of where Cincinnati is on the map. Dude is a Spanish-only speaking man-child…

OttoMaddox, you are unnecessarily downplaying Adolf Hitler’s and the Nazi Party’s essential roles in making a reality of the Beetle and the Volkswagen company. You are parroting the Volkswagen company’s rewriting of history, but it’s just not true. AudiB5Hawaii is absolutely right. The Beetle and Volkswagen were…

Modified reversed grid: Begin with a reversed grid at the start of the weekend, then go through qualifying to determine starting grid bonus positions, with bottom 10 in the rankings fighting for the top 10 grid spots and top 10 in the rankings fighting for the bottom 10 grid spots. First in qualifying gets a 10 grid…

Dude. Carr’s rookie season isn’t even in my top 5.

Torch and I both agree it was Hitler’s sketch. An image from Torch’s article: