Not just that, but the violation that it caught directly led to the outcome: bonking the ball off the Oklahoma player sent it out into open space where a recovery was much more likely. This wasn’t calling a play back because of some holding on the other side of the field or something.

They are worried that somewhere in America, one family is still actually enjoying watching baseball together, and feel compelled to stamp it out.

They just released it yesterday. It’s blatant cheating. You’re allowed a bit of leeway after a crash, but 2.5 minutes of motorpacing is not “a bit of leeway”

It’s pretty easy when the keeper bites hard on a move that starts about 3 yards too soon to actually work, and helpfully falls over for no reason.

I watch kids practice it pretty much every week in U10 and U12 town soccer, and most can pull it off occasionally in a game by 4th or 5th grade.

I really think they need to have an in between call for stuff like this. In youth soccer kids play with “direct kick from the the 18" instead of penalties, and it seems like the right sort of thing for something like this—you get a good chance to score to make up for what was lost, but not a nigh-guaranteed goal.

Deadspin as a whole hates VAR and will force every single narrative to fit that, no matter what. Yesterday’s article basically hand-waved the Florenzi foul away with what boiled down to “blatant cheating shouldn’t be called if you weren’t very good at it and didn’t get caught right away”. Today it’s “probably a foul”.

I feel like Agassi gets a pass on this for basically inventing it as a viable tactic. It was pretty exciting to see some guy take these serve-and-volleyers and just smash ball right back at them faster than it came in, since nobody really thought it was possible to do that as a winning strategy. Also, since they guys…

There’s also the fact that the “perfect framing” really makes it look like it was a very low pitch pulled back up. One of the things that stood out to me in Jason Kendall’s book was that he said framing was B.S.—you’re mostly trying just to catch the damn thing—and that if you move too much you’re just going to make a…

It’s not just about saving themselves (though that factors in); it’s that it is effectively impossible for a small group of riders to get away from a larger group on a flat stage, except once in a while where a large group splits off because of wind. A few (non-contender) guys always try, but mostly to get some TV…

My district and local PD has explicitly told us that regardless of what’s protocol, they won’t ever second-guess a decision we make during an emergency. They know that people panic and make bad choices, or make good choices that happen to not work out in hindsight.

In about a decade of teaching, I have never once had a class that I couldn’t teach effectively because of a student’s hair, hat, shirt, shoes, whatever.

In about a decade of teaching, I have never once had a class that I couldn’t teach effectively because of a student’s hair, hat, shirt, shoes, whatever.

Oh thank god. I was really worried that the stroke was kicking in somewhere around “monadnocks”.

Pause it when the ball is struck: dude was 99% likely onside regardless of the defender that went with him (I mean, the camera angle isn’t ideal, but it’s pretty clear he isn’t past the other defender either).

The negative temperature things aren’t really colder than absolute zero, they’re more about how they respond to changes in heat.

It’s really not that big a deal. I used to pour liquid nitrogen directly over my hand (palm facing down! This part is important) to freak out labmates. It just feels a bit cool.