His hand is literally under the ball. Laws of physics would not allow for that movement without him stopping the ball and causing it to change directions in his hand, however briefly.

“Palming” is not a requirement for a carry. This is a double dribble in any normally officiated game.

...we ended up telling two-dimensional Pat all our deepest secrets.

Duke will never make the tourney now without this strong out of conference matchup.

I don’t see how that follows. The same is true here. The team is still punished by using up a team foul, players who incur the fouls have it count towards them potentially fouling out and the team still gets to take the free throws. So the consequences are still there. It was never intended as an automatic two points.

At least none of them were Michael Taylor, who last night went 0-for-5 with 5 strikeouts and gave up the Little League walkoff come-from-behind round-trip error in the bottom of the 9th when Puig’s single rolled under his glove. Womp womp.

That is not socialism, that’s just taxation. Funding of a baseball stadium, roads, and the military are forms of governments services in which the government establishes taxation in order to pay for that infrastructure. Socialism is where the means of production is controlled by the government, and then the profits of…

I think we should collectively ignore this article and the embedded video and continue to love Vin Scully.

Fuck off

I’m all for celebrating and making baseball fun again, this kid just kinda brought it on himself doubling and tripling down on the showboating. At what point is it OK to say this kid’s a jackass who deserves a smack in the mouth?

Yeah, that’s not even as good as Art Briles’ defense in his statement to Hays. Briles is basically leaning on 3 points:

You are misinformed.