If he had completed the landing sure, but the way the rules are written, if you go up to catch a ball, you have to come down in a way that falling down/being tackled isn't part of the act of going up. Dez never had his balance on those three steps, so it was all still part of the catch, and he didn't complete the…

But that still isn't the rule. The rule says that in the process of making a catch you end up going to the ground you must maintain possession through the entire process. It doesn't matter how many times his feet hit the ground as he stumbles, or if he lunges in a specific direction, he has to hit the ground and…

You also don't have a working understanding of the rules. The rule may be stupid, but that is clearly not maintaining possession when going to the ground.

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Perfect, since I think the Hall of Pretty Good is in Branson.

Ha.. God no.

The issue is Bonds and Clemens made the writers look bad. I mean it was freaking obvious what was going on. Granted everyone was ok with it. The owners and players were making money, and fans were happy since they long ball and 20 strikeout games and the players were doing what people always claim the wanted…

To you these things mean nothing. To a percentage of the electorate (the ones that are all about story and deride "stat-heads") a story is a big sell and can and does matter.

Well, since they made the World Series in back to back years before Maddux joined them and made the playoffs the two years after Maddux left not sure how Maddux was the driving force on 4 of those 14 years.

Playoff ref crews are not units. They are all-star crews. Which actually helps to explain the issue. If Morelli doens't work with that HL, he may not have realized that he had a view to contradict the BJ.

Exactly. Each official focuses on one or two players. The ref has the QB. On any given play you may have 2 officials who can see a specific action. I disagree with the reversal (there was some hand contact and since there is absolutely no playing the ball by the defender its DPI), but its how the system is…

After 3 years there were no interpretable results. DNA degrades over time. There was no findings in 2014, there is no idea if there was anything on it in 2011. Not saying the player did or didn't rape the woman, but there was something that could connect the two and it was never tested.

In 1960 sure. Now you can probably have it in 10 minutes because you often have more than 1 satellite.

Which countermeasures? It was never beaten by countermeasures, as far as I am aware, it just became obsolete because there was a more cost-effective way to do the mission (satellites with digital imagery).

It hasn't been a big motivator since the 1920s. Everything, including the SR-71 was done to go higher and faster, it was to serve a military mission of some sort. In this case the mission was "fly over the USSR with a camera in a way that is most likely to get the camera and its pictures back safely"

I actually prefer the NJ method. The fact that you more or less have to go to a liquor store for all booze is a plus. In a supermarket, the alcohol has to compete for shelf space with food, so the selection is fairly crappy. A privately-run liquor store is going to have a much better variety. Also, a good number…

How can an article and 300+ comments about worst states to get drunk in not have the word Utah appear anywhere? Last call is an extremely early 1AM. A bunch of places can only sell 3.2 beer, so good luck getting drunk without consuming 8 beers... Hell, they had to just pass a law allowing you to order your beer…

There is no maybe, its definitely a factor, the question is how much of a factor:

Injuries are most certainly the reason for some over prediction, as they are one way absolutes for the injured players (they will never result in a under prediction) and if you are limiting the data set to "fantasy relevant players", an in-game injury to another fantasy relevant player may be limited. Using the…

By writing 27 stories about owning it.