packetofgravel
packetofgravel
packetofgravel

If it all goes south they can just blame it on the boogie

There’s not currently any penalty for intentionally choosing a style of play that results in fewer possession and shots - for underdogs, it’s often the right strategic call. That would be a pretty major impact to suddenly punish teams for that, and could lead to all sorts of weird incentives (teams suddenly start

You misspelled "dong".

Adding "your mom" to those is funny.

Astros fan here. The Astros’ run-in to the All-Star break is:

...by way of throwing a cleat or a knee into the guys planted ankle. It’s completely out of character with the course of normal play. It’s all no contact and throwing a ball around; then BOOM! you got a guy trying to snap someone’s leg to ultimately save one out in what is one of 180ish games.

Yeah, I watched the replay of it on MLB Network and my first thought was “how is that legal?” After the rule they put in place after Chase Utley broke that guy’s ankle, you can’t slide into second like that any more. And after all the hullaballoo about trucking the catcher after Buster Posey got blown up, you’d think

Yeah, punishing purposely sliding into another player—thereby endangering his health and/or career—doesn’t mean we’re turning baseball into a pussy sport. It means we’re protecting current players and teaching younger players to play the game in a cleaner, safer way. Old-school, dangerous unwritten “rules” are

Doubtful. This is pretty cut and dry. Guy left the basepath just to slide into the catcher. Pretty hard to deny that. Either remove the rule or enforce it.

1. His eyes are locked on the catchers leg as he approaches.

he took one for the thiem

Giri you forgot to mention, Fed is back to number one with Rafa loss today.

Kyrie Irving also thinks Imbiid’s orbital issues are complete bullshit.

The dodger did win.

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Thanks for making me think of this classic!

Apparently not. I receive all my correspondence from AOL Instant Messenger and nobody has filled me in on the deets yet...hell nobody has clued me in on anything lately.

Starred solely for your awesome name.