No one is necessarily banned or even suspended from baseball for shooting someone. If a catcher shoots a runner, it would be, by the rulebook, obstruction, and the runner deemed safe. Also, umps can stop games for player safety reasons, which obviously would be the case here.

Strongly worded memos are not rules. The former might as well be written on toilet paper, the latter have to be collectively bargained.

Yeah, definitely fuck ‘em.

Internet badass of the day.

Maybe I was too snarky to get my point across well, but I’m in complete agreement with you - this kind of speculation is nonsense, including the speculation that any team needs to be so dominant that they can overcome bad calls.The other team clearly wouldn’t have been dominant either, so what, we’re left with two…

Ok tough guy.

You’ve thoroughly missed my original point, and proceeded to do nothing but regurgitate a lot more words than are necessary to say “fuck the Warriors”. Go ahead and open Word, spill out all your feelings and point on the doll where they touched you, and continue to miss my point about how asinine it is that only one…

I’m in agreement with the first statement. I’m not saying bad calls only went against the Warriors. Just against this nonsensical theory that one should have to be good enough to overcome bad calls to deserve a win, because, following through on that logic, the Cavs werent good enough either.

So if a team is stacked, its cool to have them play five on eight, even if the other is also stacked? Huh? Why not just write down an established set of rules to call evenly and fairly both ways. Your response is just a lot of spilled words when you only mean to say “fuck the warriors”, which I get, I’m no GS fan. But…

The Warriors would have had a 90% FT shooter taking one, and an 88% shooter taking two with the hopes of making two of three, needing at least one. No, its not a guarantee, but there’s about a one in a thousand chance that they miss all three, and a 97% chance they make at least two. You can bet against those odds if…

Do the Cavs, who needed a bad call to go in their favor to win need to play better in the preceeding 47 minutes or nah, just fuck the Warriors?

The average WAR for a HoF pitcher is about 70, so I’d want something close to that. Maybe for a closer who had a lot of intangibles and postseason stuff going for him (e.g. Rivera), you could talk me down to 50ish. ERA is tough to compare across era and from starter to reliever. Hoffman’s ERA+ of 141 pales in…

Have been good enough to pitch more than 1,000 or so career innings.

I’m not sure anyone has actually said yet that he’s not in the conversation. But I will now say that yes, as good as Hoffman was, there are easily 10 better guys on this ballot, and arguably even 20 or more. His whole argument relies upon one stat that we know is not a good measure of overall ability.

Career WAR 28, which is good for 24th on just this year’s ballot, and pretty much the equivalent of Melvin Mora. To the point that he was a good closer, the counterpoint is that a lot of crappy starters end up being pretty good closers, it’s not anywhere near as valuable a spot as you think.

Umm, he’s using an army of sentient robots to murder people that are, so far, completely innocent.

What if we guessed it as soon as we saw that it was Jonathan Nolan - the creater of Momento?

He gets credit for the jump in broadcast technology that occurred just about everywhere? MLBAM is great. I can also watch Indian Cricket League games at all hours of the day. Selig just happened to be standing there when the internet exploded. Bully for him I guess, but he didn’t do diddly poo.

Just about every NFL team spends up to the cap, few MLB teams do. NFL players are guaranteed between 47 and 48.5% of revenue. MLB players got around 40% this year. MLB owners benefit greatly from not having to spend a minimum of about 90% of that cap like NFL and NBA teams do.

Almost immediately after Puerto Rico was included in the amateur draft, their talent base dried up. With smaller paydays came less incentive for locals to teach young players, and with a decreased chance to sign the exact kids you wants in a draft instead of a free market, teams were less likely to pour resources into…