A balk allows the runners already on base to advance one base, it does not allow the hitter to take first base.

I think multiple times in this series the Cubs would have been less likely to walk or pitch around Harper if Murphy were behind him. This extreme treatment cam precisely because they knew they had nothing to worry about from Zimmerman.

St. Louis was not a respectable city as recently as 2015.

“St. Louis was close to being relegated from the league of respectable cities in 2015.”

No shit it could have happened elsewhere. Don’t backtrack now, snake. You said the OP would have participated in the hypocrisy, as if you just know everyone would excuse looking the other way at decades of child rape. Maybe that’s what YOU would do, because you’re a soulless, gutless, feckless piece of trash, but…

No. Just because you’re a sheep who places love of some stupid school above everything else doesn’t mean everyone else lacks morals and basic human decency.

Who the fuck pitched this shit? Did you pitch this? What’s your fucking problem, dude?

Just because you say those things are unbelievable doesn’t mean they are.

Uhhh....based on your own assertions, the headline actually makes sense. Since a summary judgment doesn’t find facts, the opinion reveals that Paterno “reportedly” knew of abuse as early as 1976. The opinion doesn’t state that fact definitively - and because of the “reportedly,” the headline doesn’t either.

Eat your Jello grandpa.

It’s a blog post. It’s informal. What’s important is that everyone understands the statement, which everyone does, not that it withstand some exacting scrutiny. The way Tom has written it reads better to me than the way you wrote it, even though your’s may be the most technically correct.

Calm down, sparky.

Wow! With some light editing, this could double as his obituary in a few years. Because I don’t think anyone can stomach saying anything much nicer than this.

I see someone was paying attention during Propaganda Civics.

Long series? Haha. I’ve seen this movie before, and I know how it ends. In 5 years, the only people who will have any idea who the fuck Matt Murray is will be Caps fans who look back on this President’s Trophy season and shake their heads and ask themselves what could have been if only that fuckstick Matt Murray…

Haha. I like how he thinks he has to tell people he’s not a victim because his most significant part was edited out of one throwaway Sunday evening airing of a documentary. Don’t worry, Curt, we all got that message, much quicker than you did.

The “you’d get fired for that in any other workplace” is always a shitty argument when it comes to discussing what happens in sports. It’s not any other workplace. Shut up.

The article explicitly allows for the possibility that the Schilling segment was deliberately edited out because it was the Schilling segment, and that makes sense (why not get rid of the segment featuring the embarrassing bigot?). So I don’t think naive applies.

Because 30 for 30 was Simmons’ brainchild, and there is a zero percent chance he was going to let one of the most incredible comebacks in sport history, accomplished by a Boston sports team, not be the subject of a documentary he could be involved in. It’s definitely masturbatory, and I agree it adds little to what…

Yeah, and obviously Dmitrov didn’t care. He was down 5-0, he wasn’t coming back.