I was actually wondering so thank you for this. Is it actually encoded in the rules or could someone playing defense cheat a little to get more reach?

The sticks look that painful when the women (who I assume are shorter on average) play too. Do they mandate that they’re shorter if you’re a shorter person? Would a hypothetical 4'9" guy have to play with a tinier stick?

Anything that gets less Billy on the site I’m good with.

I remember Kevin Seitzer used to do something like this, although maybe it was just drawing his jersey up once every swing? It was pretty exaggerated though.

Oh hey you fixed it. Thanks Patrick!

One day Chase will get his shot and at least be good enough that people remember his last name is Daniel.

My uncles go on racist or sexist rants but at least make a passing attempt at grammar. “Irreparable damages to a children’s that don’t understand why they have to see what God did not mean for them to witness” is just lazy hate.

I posted this before finishing the article and I guess that’s kind of her/whoever this is’s point, whatever it is. Just to be as awful as possible.

“Her Twitter account’s juxtaposition of over-the-top racism and misogyny”

Ah crap they weren’t even Oakland yet. It would be nice to edit that.

Super Bowl XVIII—Oakland/Washington, the Marcus Allen run.

“name the last Steeler you’d call elegant.”

It’s not quite that dire, although it’s dire enough. From whenever Baseball Reference last updated the Phillies are 1124 games under .500 as a franchise. Which is about 6.9 full seasons of going undefeated to get back to .500.

This is neither here nor there as regards Ichiro, but Joe Montana went to the AFC Championship game in KC.

Thank you for saying this, reading the ‘no one on base’ comments was getting to me.

Check out Jack Slack at Fightland. He writes a lot about MMA but his boxing stuff is good too. There’s a good George Foreman post recently here: