Non-fascists, of course.

And where are the fascists? Right on the other side of that line. I don’t know how much more clear we could make this.

To that end, so is a regular keyed lock or the window. Locks keep honest people honest, but a snazzy electronic lock also lets you feel cool when you're talking to your neighbors.

To that end, so is a regular keyed lock or the window. Locks keep honest people honest, but a snazzy electronic lock…

I guess it depends on if you’re at work to express your moral superiority or to work. Make that decision for yourself but remember only one will pay the bills. If it’s simply that important to you, make it a silent protest for the sakes of your employer and colleagues.

This picture is from after contact was made, but I meant his left foot as he was receiving the throw. I think I mixed it up because my brain refused to believe that he would set up with his back to the throw.

“In order to” indicates an action designed to produce a specific result, so ruling on that requires determining intent. It’s a poorly written rule if they don’t want umpires to rule based on their interpretation of a player’s though process and emotional state.

If you get arrested at the game, you don’t have to risk walking alone through the parking lot or to the L afterwards.

You can’t say if he deviated “in order to initiate contact” or to try to avoid a tag without knowing his intent. So now umpires are relegated to judging intent based only on video evidence. The same umpires that can’t be trusted to judge intent when a pitcher is ejected after hitting a batter in the foot with a 68 mph…

They’ve significantly improved helmets. The hockey style helmets are much safer in collisions, with foul tips, and even when the catcher gets hit with a follow through. They also improve field of vision so you don’t have to take them off to catch a pop up or a throw. Lucroy chooses not to wear the safer helmet, and…

In order for it to be intentional, you’d have to believe that Marisnick didn’t know the rule, didn’t think they’d call it, or just didn’t care. I can’t believe any of those are true.

That’s an argument about intent; I was speaking to the actual path. It does make you wonder why the rule is specific to catchers. Why isn’t there a universal rule that applies equally to all bases or to a pitcher covering a throw home? Probably because it’s really only catchers who intentionally put themselves in the…

He has to lean right to catch the ball because he has his left foot over the baseline. He literally has his back turned, looking over his shoulder to the incoming throw, because he’s trying to block the plate. 

But then he wouldn’t have been able to make the play. He couldn’t get close to reaching the ball from the plate, and if he had gone to get it the runner would have been safe.

I don’t disagree. He’s not allowed to stand in the baseline without the ball, which he’s clearly doing. The runner has no idea where the ball is at that time, but presumably it’s close. The usual play is for the catcher to catch the ball and dive backwards with a swipe tag, so it’s not a bad idea to try to go inside…

Watch the video, especially the slow motion about 3:40 in. His right foot is in foul territory until he lunges for the ball at the last possible instant, which is well after Marisnick has already moved inside. That throw is at least 6-8 feet up the line. Go out and get it. I get that he’s trying to make a play, but…

10x on average, 41x on median, both of which are really misleading and not that representative. Throw out the top and bottom 5% and you’d get a better comparison, and see that while there still some disparity it’s not as extreme. If the Democrats want this to be a thing, they need to disguise it better so that it’s…

I think you’re right, but suspend both of them. Lucroy will be out a couple of games anyway so it won’t really matter, but send a message to catchers that they can’t block the plate or act like they’re going to block the plate or stand in the baseline, either with or without the ball. I’ve never seen a second baseman…

Lucroy was on both sides of the baseline when Marisnick deviated, so you'd be correct no matter which way he had chosen to go.

He probably will be suspended, but the problem is that catchers have made no change in the way they set up. They still wait right in the baseline, blocking the path of the runner, now armed with the knowledge that if there’s any contact the runner will be called out. I can’t recall any situation where a runner was…

Put out an empty pickle jar and tell him “These are the only tips I’m accepting today,” and if he ignores you that’s when you pinch his nipples with your grill tongs.