Oakland As. A team perpetually on the rise the last two decades.

I'm honestly interested in your contention that the Brewers and Astros should have their positions flipped. 

To make it worse for Lucroy, he dropped a ball from Semien at a play at the plate the previous at bat.  It wasn’t a great throw, but he’s a major league catcher, he should be making that play.  Then, to have this shit happen, man.  Rough half inning.

If we allow ourselves to arbitrarily limit the manner in which a pitcher must retire a batter

If there was a complex offensive strategy to the last few minutes of a match, don’t you think high-level managers and players would have unlocked it after 100 years? But a clock fans could see would now unlock this problem?

A perfect game exists when no one reaches first base, like for me in high school

I’m saying they do this in other levels of the game and it makes no appreciable difference.

I just don’t know what would change, in terms of strategy.

“Tell me how the team knowing the exact amount of time would hurt things and I’ll never complain about this again.”

yeah...no. as someone who played NCAA soccer, ODP, Select etc etc everyone on the field knows how much time is left. Players ask all the time. You saw it in the Germanys last game as Muller kept asking the ref and you could see him motion to everyone else. Seeing it on a clock or having it communicated to you by the…

Okay, how about David Palmer of the Expos, who was credited with a five-inning perfect game? He retired 15 batters in a row, then the game was called due to rain, but since it had run five innings it was official. David Palmer got credit for the win, shutout and asterisked perfect game, until some fussbudgets,…

Obviously it doesn’t harm the game, otherwise they would have changed it. The only people complaining about it are people that wouldn’t be watching it otherwise.

So Mark Buehrle has not one, but three perfect games by your completely wrong definition.

Counterpoint: What is supposed to be extraordinary about a perfect game isn’t the pitcher’s (with the assist of the defense) ability to face the minimum number of batters, but the pitcher’s (with an assist from the defense) ability to keep a single batter from so much as reaching base. There is a flip side - the…

Because it’s simple to ask the ref how much time he’s got, and the ref generally doesn’t blow the whistle in the middle of an active play (something it shares with rugby, and y’know, american football). It doesn’t matter that you don’t know exactly how many seconds you have because you know that the whistle isn’t…

81 pitches for 81 strikes, including no foul balls, and each time you return to the dugout, one of the position players is there to give you a really tender massage while you talk about your feelings. A perfect game.

Look who just dropped an upper decker on the way out the door...

“Some men just want to watch the world burn”

That’s who you are, dropping this bomb on your last day.

A perfect game means no one even makes it to first base, and my entire high school career threw one against me.

A Hot Ta3k to burn the building down on the way out the door. That’s the good stuff, Tim. Vaya con Dios.