There are definitely ways to counteract it, and to be fair most of the time you don’t have completely obstructed views from all the other camera angles, any one of which could’ve been used to definitively decide this case. But, I mean, I dunno why don’t stash an RFID chip or something in the puck.

Blue and Black, like the colors of DC sports depression.

I don’t think that’s true. If you imagine moving the puck in the picture I posted parallel along the “crack” inbetween the panels of their fancy video floor (which itself is parallel to the “red line” being projected), you can see how the puck would eventually be both obscured by the pole and still experiencing the…

Yeah I stated that without looking up the exact thickness. My bad!

*cut to a shot of a bunch of guys in white collared shirts and thick black rimmed glasses with pocket protectors furiously moving around slide rules*

“A look at the NHL guys working out the true spatial relation of the puck with regards to the line. Of course we can’t trust our eyes thanks to the parallax effect, right…

Keep in mind that the line is painted under a few inches of ice. This can cause, when viewing from an angle as we are in this shot, the parallax effect that “positions” the puck in such a way that it even creates the illusion of white space between the puck and the line, when in actuality what we’re seeing is the…

At this rate he’ll be handing the bat back to the batboy in the most PASSIVE AGGRESSIVE MANNER POSSIBLE.

The ejection was some bullshit for sure, and as a Nats fan I hope Marty Foster enjoys having the spotlight on him (he probably needs the heat since he stupidly wore short sleeves in 37 degree weather), but this wasn’t Rendon’s first ejection. His first one was back in June of 2016, against the Cubs, in also pretty…

If Joe Jacoby doesn’t get in as a “senior” candidate, it’s a damn crime. 3 time SB champion, 4 time Pro Bowl, 3 time All-Pro, 1980s All-Decade Team, and all the while paired up against NFC East opponents in Randy White, Reggie White, and Lawrence Taylor (all HOFers themselves) on one of the greatest offensive lines…

Come to the Library of Congress.

FYI RE: the Smartrip cards, paper farecards have been dropped entirely, so Smartrips are the only game in town now. There’s flexibility w/r/t getting a “weekly pass” vs a straight farecard on your Smartrip, but for the most part the farecard will be the way to go (but you should still check to what will be ultimately…

1) Fair enough on the Arenas years, although I think DC’s population is less transient than it tends to be painted as. The larger point is that it’s not necessarily a matter of “past failures leading to declining attendance” (nobody’s going to give up on constant playoff contenders anyway), but more that the Caps and…

My theory as to why the Wizards are the overlooked middle child is threefold:

Or maybe Dusty’s telling the truth, Stras does in fact feel like shit, and you go with your best available guy rather than force a dude seeing spots to throw pitches.

How’s this for further coincidence: This is the second inside-the-park grand slam in Nationals franchise history. The last one was hit by Puerto Rican ballplayer Bombo Rivera for the Expos back on June 26th, 1976. It was Bombo Rivera’s first career home run, and despite his excellent name primed for jacks, he’d only…

Obviously in this metaphor he means to say that Obama is the provider of warmth and life, whereas Trump is the ancient remnants of a giant body that came smashing into Earth and caused a shitload of destruction.

Finally got this working. The “Claim Your Account” thing took a couple tries to actually get the modal window for the login method to pop up.

The real killer was that even though I was logged in (and could see myself as logged in on my appropriate kinja.com profile page), I was still showing up here (and in other…

This was something I always groaned and fast-forwarded through when it came up on Kroll Show. Whatever humor comes from what they're saying is outweighed by the vocalizations they've put and kept incessantly on imo. Just really wasn't my thing.

How could I forget the Newest Fake Newspaper West of the Mississippi. I was an editor for it after all.

Hey, we were at Grinnell at the same time (class of '08 here, we got Judith Butler lecturing us about how, get this, the Iraq War was a bad thing)! Let us exchange knowing glances and secret handshakes and speak of things only Grinnellians could speak of, like Bob's Underground and the JRC.