“For any knowledgable baseball fan, that’s basically irrelevant and easy to ignore, but for newcomers to the game, it can raise concerns. Last year, during Game 7 of an instantly legendary World Series, the triple-K was displayed, and people somewhat understandably moaned.”

You have to give him credit for having the discipline to write the entire complaint in Braille.

It is only that short when you have 3 guys that miss and the other team has 3 guys that score. No matter what the order is of the first 5, if you miss three times and the other guys score three times, you lose..

“Bottom line: 20% of all shootouts don’t get to the 5th shooter, so you’re better off putting your best shooter in one of the first 3 slots.”

“It IS however possible he’ll NEVER take his kick if he goes last.

It really doesn’t matter.

“Saving your best penalty taker for last is kinda like saving your best reliever in an elimination game.”

So, the equivalent here would be an elimination game that’s 0-0 after four innings and in which each team is forced to use five different relievers, one each for the 5th through 9th innings. You really throwing…

Are the odds really maximized by your best player going early? I don’t know that that’s true. If the odds of a player making the kick are the same in any position, then you have the same odds of winning a shootout with any random order, and if they aren’t, then you’d think the best players would do slightly better…

No need to go on to the next potential pick, he’d have just heard the pick, then traveled back in time and said it before the pick is announced.

These exact complaints (“it ruins the flow of the game! it’s still subjective! it’s too confusing!”) always come up every time instant replay gets added to a sport, and they’re all bs. VAR has some kinks that need to be worked out, but the system is ultimately going to correct a LOT more wrong calls than it makes, and…

If the offside is given, as it should have been, then Portugal wouldn’t have still had possession, wouldn’t have hit the post and wouldn’t have scored. They gained the advantage of maintaining possession because the call was not made.

NHL reviews have been criticized for many of the same reasons, but they get the calls right, that’s the point.

As a libertarian, I have lots of friends on the left and on the right. I’m here to tell you that the conservatives don’t hate gays or think felons should be ass raped or that minorities are subhuman. They just don’t. That’s just what you have to think so you don’t feel horrible for hating humans who simply have a…

Not to mention the absolutely laughable gender bias against men when it comes to domestic violence charges and convictions.

You do nothing. Innocent until proven guilty is the rule of law in the United States. You should not be able to punish someone who has not been convicted in any way, shape, or form.

Not always as black and white as you may think. A friend who was a little drunk took his girlfriends phone and through it out the balcony because she kept filming him while he was playing poker with us and the only reason she was doing it was to piss him off. She called the cops and he was arrested. He pled guilty…

Because the police never lose, take, or destroy private property “on accident”. There were hundreds of people who had guns confiscated after Hurricane Katrina and never got them back. The number of people who imply they trust cops to do that but don’t trust them to do even the most basic functions of their jobs never…

So what would you do with regard to people who are charged but those charges end up being dismissed? People are charged all the time for a wide assortment of crimes, not just domestic violence, and then later evidence comes to light that those charges were not appropriate.

I’m guessing CONCACAF 4 is not favored over AFC 5.

[1] Something I’ve alway wondered about, so good on you.