I didn’t take it as an insult.  More like a question mark over my head like...what?  But it is what it is.  No harm, no foul.  

Because both used to be in the other league? It’s not complicated. The Astros flipped not long ago. It still seems weird to see them as an American League team. The Brewers thing is starting to fade for me.

Agreed. The inter-league play makes both the NL and AL obsolete. It would be nice if the DH rule was refined to apply to both leagues (where “refined” could potentially also mean “scrapped”), and both leagues were disbanded.

Gotcha.

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. 

Yeah, it’s meaningless.  Wake me in October.

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.

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,…

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…

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.