But a good official will usually allow a team that’s on a push as the added time ends to finish it. So while you don’t have the straight countdown to zeros, there’s at least a sense that if a team has a chance to change the outcome, the refs will allow them that opportunity without being a slave to an artificial…

There’s no rule that’s requires AL managers to use a DH: Bochy can decide to let Baumgartner hit. But the catch is one a pitcher bats, the team can’t use the DH for the rest of the game, so all the relievers would have to bat as well.

The West manager’s mistake was that there was zero way to interpret the play in a manner other than to lose the game. npthree cites the tournament pool play rule (PDF, I.P.1., page T-28) that covers this situation. But in there is this: “NOTE: This policy is not intended to prevent a manager from using lesser-skilled…

Here are the relevant points:

Here, as an example, is the germane copy from a Cubs ticket:

My wife takes our son to his first Shareholders Meeting, and he’s already gonna miss the Bears and Seahawks games.

I snorted. Honest to God snorted.

I actually have a Facebook associate who wrote something similar to the original poster. I replied that I always back into a spot whenever reasonably possible. He proceeded to double down and called me a jackass.

Jerry and Don seemed to be so stunned as to what happened, all they could focus on was the kid.

Yes: anything that is not in the field of play.

I had just started a new job on contract, which meant I couldn’t leave this windowless interior office. I had the game up with a text feed on my computer. When the goal was scored, I let out this huge, Ric Flair-level “WHOOOOOO!” that echoed throughout my office. The next day, when I saw all the videos of people at…

I used to adore everything about the tournament, in spite of everything else I knew about it. I would clear out Sunday afternoon for years. It was the mouthwash after March Madness. I can tell you the exact moment the facade collapsed: the 2013 Tiger Woods drop incident. If you’re going to argue that you’re that…

“Mr Commissioner, in light of today’s events, perhaps this isn’t the day to make this announcement.”
“I don’t see how getting that package from Bob Kraft plays into it.”

Would you have reacted differently if he was wearing sunglasses, paused and took them off after saying “today"?

The writer of the Discovery response was summarily fired for being too edgy.

That collective scream of “NO!” after he hit the shot was incredibly worthwhile.

Once the ninth batter completes his at bat. If the at bat is abandoned because of a caught stealing or pick off, it is not. So if the ninth batter makes the third out, the team batted around, but I would not use the term until the end of that bat.(“So the Cubs have batted around and up returns Anthony Rizzo” or “The…

I’ll go you one further: no usher should allow fans to enter the seating bowl during an at bat. It stuns me when I see fans walking about mid at bat at ballparks like Wrigley that have concourses in the bowl itself.

For hockey and baseball: Do not enter the seating bowl while play is in progress (and do your darndest to wait to leave your seat as well). Wait in the vestibule until the break happens, then head for your seat.