So the car crash anniversary is ketchup and cardboard? Got it.

+1 random and obscure

I am sure somewhere Aaron Hernandez will return the favor...

This just in: Brian Billick is a terrible announcer. Also, sun comes up in the east. Film at 11.

Hey! A Cowboys loss you can't blame on Romo. That's, um, something right?

Authority using "rules" to justify questionable judgments is what it is - umpires or policemen. That's not exaggerating anything. You just don't like my analogy. You just don't like that I don't like the call. You are either a Cardinals fan or a Red Sox hater. If I used the analogy of a teacher throwing a student…

Anyone having to listen to Dan Dierdorf is the winner/loser this week. No one has ever been worse at their job as he is at announcing a football game. He makes me wish CancerAIDS was a real disease and that he was patient zero.

You keep using that word...

The Jaguars are baby ducks going over a waterfall sad.

I am so glad you learned a new word this week, but it doesn't really apply here. Thanks though.

The grander point was a questionable call at the end of the game. Jim Joyce has a solid record of blowing those calls. It may have been correct by the letter of the rule, but it was terrible when look at even in immediate retrospect.

The replays show exactly what I saw, two guys who got tangled up with each other. Adams was going out of the baseline. Middlebrooks was trying to get up, not impede him. It may have been a correct call by the letter of the rules, but it was a terrible call by an ump with a record of questionable calls.

"Well, I shot into the crowd because they didn't listen to me, rules are rules..."

No, you're right, but he sure as hell made a questionable judgment call that looks terrible when analyzed past the explanation "well, rules are rules..."

Ah, but did you watch the play. Adams tripped over him, out of the baseline I might add. So in any play where a runner touches a fielder, obstruction has been called this year? Oh yeah, that's right, it hasn't. Siting the letter of the law to justify a questionable judgment call is typical of terrible umpires and…

Really? So you would rather me use a kind and sweet analogy like a teacher throwing a kid out of class for asking to go to the bathroom? At least I didn't bring up Hitler.

Mets fan. Baseball fan. Fan of good umpiring, which we haven't seen in the majors in decades. I have no horse in this race.

Authority figures are authority figures, especially those who overstep their authority and then use the "letter of the law" to justify it.

Hey, all I am saying is you are siding with an authority figure who is using the letter of the law to justify a very questionable call. Umpires do it all the time. Jim Joyce has done it before, even if he "apologized" he ruined that perfect game for Galarraga.

It wouldn't have been, we would have gone to extra innings.