That mix (from MLB) cuts between a number of stadiums. Here's a link to a YouTube video (grab it quick!) that shows just Yankee Stadium.

Do you mean Chip Caray in that last reference? Skip had enough of his father's voice to make it enjoyable. Chip just sounds like he forgot to take his meds.

+1 To borrow the best racing shirt I've ever seen: "If found unconscious, please pause my Garmin."

On top of all that, TD Garden shares connection space with North Station, the terminus of a number of commuter rail lines. Given the heavy security there last night, it would have likely turned that concourse into a big ugly mess.

NBC, having watched CBS’s coverage of the Tiger Woods incident, determines it can go way lower.

The "We had already made a decision" argument is a red herring. The Rules of Golf do not require that a rules committee only take one crack at a call. In fact, you can completely omit the entire TV argument. Ridley noted during his interview with Jim Nantz that Woods admitted to the Rules Committee that he violated…

Here's how CBS and Augusta National covered each other's ass.

Ridley admitted that the first time they told Woods that they got a call from the viewer was in this morning's meeting: "We showed him the tape. We told him that we looked at this initially while he was out on the golf course and had decided in our judgement that it was not a rules violation and that we had elected…

Let me first set the ground rule that we're talking about golf, which has its own absurd standard, and that yes, there should be an adjustment to the rules because this is stupid, yada, yada, yada.

Here's the problem: the Rule 33 interpretation change from 2011 was designed to cover a situation where no one could have known that a violation had occurred had the video evidence not been there. So the committee would be on safe ground if this had ended with simply the call from the view.

But when Woods admitted…

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"Beginning with the 2009-10 season, if a red light behind the backboard or an LED light on the backboard is present, it is permitted to signal the expiration of time in the quarter/extra period. If no red light/LED light is present, the audible timer's signal will continue to signal the expiration of time."

The other huge factor: if a cable company went to a conglomerate and said "We're moving your sports network to a separate sports package that's purchasable independently of their cable level", the conglomerate would not only say no; they'd pull every other channel they had off. So they wouldn't just lose all the…

The blackout rule is irrelevant: no game is shown against a local home game, even if the game is sold out.

I don't think you've interpreted the rule you linked to regarding blocking a field goal near the goalposts correctly. Quoting the rule: "Goal tending by a defensive player leaping up to deflect a kick **as it passes above the crossbar of a goal post** is prohibited." I read that as "you can block it at any point prior…

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Serves me right for going off hearsay. My apologies.

Dammit! I have "John Davis reference on Deadspin" on my card. So close.

Per a friend: WCIU (who had the game here in Chicago) did not cut away at all. In fact, Harrelson was describing what was happening throughout the five minutes this was going on. I'm reaching out to him to see if he happened to record the game, because that'd be a new low for Harrelson.

I've been keeping score at ballgames for at least 25 of my 38 years. I have my own scorebook with a modified scorecard (based on one Bill James put together) that I've added pages to since 1995. I scored Verlander's first no-no in 2007 (the 9 on the last out looks like it was written by a four-year old). And yes: this…