Bingo... This has to be it. Horribly executed and now he’s on deadspin, but intended as just screwing with the homeplate umpire.

As a high school baseball umpire, this is a crazy hypothesis. You are taught to watch for the touch of the plate above all other priorities on an over the fence home run. The idea of throwing dirt on the plate so that you can get a mark for a touch is completely incorrect according to every umpire manual I’ve read or…

What do you mean the problem is bad refs? The NFL has an interest in hiring the best refs and pays fairly well - so they tend to get the best refs in the game. If there are better refs out there, where are they? In College games? No one EVER has a problem with the officiating there. Please don’t even try to tell me…

This is the greatest Kinja I’ve read in months.

Exactly this! Growing up in the late 90s in the midwest, to like Billy Joel (especially the non-hits) was punk on its own. Even moreso at college -any asshole could claim to love Pavement and Wilco in my circles (and I did that too) but to love Billy Joel was a distinction and something you had to vigorously defend. I…

This is legislated against at the high school and college level. In both cases the rule is that any contact on either side of the bag, or past the bag (high school only) is INT and 2 outs are given (the force at 2nd and the batter-runner). This prevents a ton of injuries. If the 2nd basemen is on or in front of the…