As they said on the broadcast last night: if that’s not interference what’s to stop slow baserunners from doing the exact same thing? On a clean double play ball like that you’re already out and you can’t do a takeout slide at second so why not obstruct the play at first?

It seems obvious to me that it should’ve been interference, but I guess they’re thinking since the ball didn’t hit Holliday, it was still technically catchable? Who the hell knows.

So, a loophole in the rules allowed a player to gain his team a slight advantage?

Only because the umps blundered.

Matt Holliday has been making baseball fun in that exciting, boneheaded way for a long time - and the fact that he’s done it for both the cardinals and the Yankees is proof that we *can* have good things.

Definitely. It’s the likeliest thing! But it wasn’t a ball that was hit even all that close to first base. There’s a reason why you don’t see this play happen often (or really ever)—professional baserunners don’t often lose track of the action so badly that they assume a force out when a fielder isn’t even within…

Ok, is there a small chance that he looked away at contact *just* long enough to not see that the ball hit the ground? As in, he hears the crack of the bat, looks ahead for a split second, and when he looks back at first, the ball is on a line into Moreland’s glove, so Holliday thinks he’s about to get doubled off…

I’m sorry you had to spend some of your Sunday reading A THOUSAND WORDS. Take the rest of the day off.

How is that understandable?

Uh...no. That’s not the rule. At all:

Is that two puns in one sentence? Respect.

It’s like his brain was on holiday for a second there.

Just get blazed and watch reruns of Gilmore Girls, it’s basically the same thing.

Sometimes I feel like I need a white people pop culture dictionary.

Big deal. There wasn’t even a wrecked Volkswagen in his way.

What I don’t understand is why someone is held at gunpoint for urinating in the bushes and doing 25 cents of damage to a promotional sandwich sign and having the press turn this into the crime of the century while flat out misreporting the facts.

Could you imagine being so fired up in your quest for gas station bathroom justice that you would use the word “irresponsible” against a blog, while defending a known blockhead, and not have just a weeeeee understanding of the irony?

Oh, hey Ryan. Welcome to Deadspin.

Also this is the damage the sandwich sign. Please be fair in your reporting

“...his story was a hefty embellishment, chalked up to some combination of booze and immaturity.”