Correct — you are the stupid one, using an entire argument based on an appeal to authority. I’m glad you admit it.

By the “Act alone” of advancing, it’s not interference. But once you intentionally make contact with a defender while advancing, that adds another “act” which makes the comment to Rule 7.09 (d) irrelevant.

To intrepret an intentional slide into a fielder as “a lone act of continuing to advance” is illogical. You have yet to refute that, even you have used about 100x words than I have to this point. Good effort!

I said the interpretation needed to be changed, not the rule. Maybe you should try reading next time.

It’s pretty stupid to interpret a slide towards a fielder rather than a base as a “continuation of advancing.”

It’s possible to continue to advance while also intentionally interfering with defense, even if you are within reach of the base, which violates the comment on Rule 7.09 (d), which you are obtusely interpreting.

Now all you have to do is find the rule that says takeout slides are legal if they occur “within reach of the base.” Good luck finding it — it doesn’t exist

Right — intentionally sliding into a player is a separate act from the “continuation of advancing”. Nice try!

Rule 7.09 (d) explicitly disallows takeout slides. But you’ve never read the rulebook; congrats on the intellectual dishonesty.

Then the shortstop himself is wrong

“7.09

All take-out slides are technically illegal. Nowhere in the rulebook allows it.

Still no commentary from Deadspin on the Pirates starting shortstop getting injured on a possibly-illegal slide. Maybe if his name were “Buster” instead of “Jung-ho” people would give a shit.

Good night? Where do you live?

1) Not every analogy is an equivalence. That just means you made a false false-equivalence equivalence.

If Donald Trump made the same argument as Sherman, the Gawker staff would explode with condescending memes. But because he is a talented black person, now the Gawker staff actually considers it a “refreshing debate.” For fuck’s sake, call Sherman out like he deserves.

“Vox has an excruciatingly detailed explainer of the entire controversy if you really want to get into it.”

Why not?

Hackenberg! Temple beats the fuck out of PSU, but Penn Staters just can’t stop being delusional.

Yes. Which is only slightly better than recycling a tired meme.