My wife was watching the match, regarding the fifth set to quote her “Watch these before they show up on deadspin.”

I’m sure watching it on grass makes the experience even better.

Times sure have changed. In the 1970s, before all this league and sponsor red tape, you could swap all sorts of things with your teammate, even your wives.

Yeah step 4 better be “Helicopter lands on the field to airlift the referees out of the stadium.”

He details it in the Ball Five version. I also recommend I'm Glad You Didn't Take It Personally, which focuses on 1) the reaction to Ball Four and 2) his sportscasting career.

I emailed Jim Bouton 10 years ago as a recent film school graduate who loved his book and wanted to see if I could get my hands on the TV show scripts or DVDs of the series, this was his response:

I look forward to the first referee that uses this rule and causes a home team to forfeit. Soccer fans, especially the extremist racist ones, are so well know for taking calls against them with a calm and thoughtful demeanor.

What I remember best is when a player called an ump a "motherfucker" and was told "all right, you're going to regret that" and thereafter every single pitch that came his way - even if it bounced five feet in front of the plate - was called a strike.

LOVED reading Ball Four as a kid. The image of New York Yankees sticking mirrors under hotel doors to maybe catch a glimpse of a naked woman has stuck with me.

He’s eligible for a bigger max after 10 years in the league. He’s currently at 8. There’s no way he was signing anything other than a 2+1 no matter what team he signed with. 

it is fraud and they should serve some jail time.

Those aren't redactions; they're tiger stripes. Go Bengals!!!!

You skipped the best part. Rickett’s wife (formerly of JPMorgan Chase) is an anti-tax activist who complained about a property tax increase!

I found out last year that I’ve been overtaxed for 7 years due to the size of my property being incorrectly inflated by the appraisal district. But there’s nothing I can do to recoup my overpayment because of the two year limitation they set. So it only makes sense that my overpayment and his underpayment essentially c…

Goddamn it -- if you can't trust the filthy rich and their attorneys, who the hell can you trust?

Well, I’m fairness, that wasn’t the dumbest tweet of the day. Hmm, I wonder what was...

Meanwhile in Bill Simmons’ office…

Aside from the ridiculousness of adding Avengers to this picture, IF you are going to add Avengers, make believe characters from comic books and movies, to a tribute to the very real US Women’s Soccer Tean, why would you go with Iron Man over Captain Freaking America?

Plus Captain Marvel. It also looks like the Friends are appearing as their characters, especially Joey and Rachel, but I dunno and I’ve already spent more time on this than I can believe.