I would read the horizontal body position as specifically contrary to the rule:

He hit him SHOULDER-FIRST!

Give credit to the Dodgers for some ferocious plate discipline, especially the guys who walked with two strikes on them. Two strikes, two out, down a run in the bottom of the ninth. You have to be pretty cold to hold back on just about any pitch within reach in that situation.

Was at the game last night and it was more ridiculous ending than the two balk offs I’ve witnessed.

Since it was a weekday non-giveaway game, the crowd was pretty thinned out by the end but those of us who stuck around to take our lumps had the stadium rumbling.

It’s always fun to see 20,000 idiots with nowhere better…

hiring this guy as bullpen coach was a mistake

“We’ve switched the Diamonbacks’ bullpen with the Mets’. Let’s see if anyone notices.”

Funnily enough, I just finished reading Sir Hillary’s account of he and his colleagues’ first summit of Everest, “High Adventure”. I was struck by all the things that had to go right, sure, but mostly I was struck by how much that team had to rely on their instincts honed by years of climbing experience. There was one…

Callaway is one of the most mellow guys around while NY beat reporters are some of the most annoying, shameless and miserable people in the business. For some reason I am going to give Callaway the benefit of the doubt here. They are constantly writing “Mickey is Getting Fired” pieces while pushing for Wally Backman.…

Reporters are so soft now. I remember the days of Herbert McGoo, Joe Dribbler, Dick Frank, Johnny Johnson, Big Jim Pincus, Wally Habbermaster, and their ilk. They’d get a quote out of ty Cobb or honus Wagner if it meant a fight. If you thought you could throw McGoo out of the clubhouse he would patiently oblige and…

Fitting that the tweet sounds like it came from a bot

I know there’s some sort of rule of the internet where the first one to reference Hitler or Nazis loses; I think you can add to that “the first guy who hits the other with a ‘what the fuck you lookin’ at, bitch’ is the loser” corollary.

Not your only mistake. Chris Archer is scheduled to pitch tomorrow. 

Really oughta take the “r” out of “brawl” for these.

“[P]erforming anger at one another.”

A friend of mine has Alpha-Gal Syndrome (a SEVERE red meat allergy from tick bites, which is becoming more popular) and this would have had her hospitalized, if not worse.

I know people think they’re cute and funny, commenting about indignant vegans (even so, stop lambasting people for their dietary choices), but ANY…

Cool, people like me with soy allergies would get sick and have no idea why. Changing a person's order without asking or informing them is stupid and dangerous. 

More likely there were a bunch of skeptics who ordered it and while eating the real meat burgers, thinking they were the Impossible burger, they were saying, “Yuk! This is terrible! It tastes nothing like the real thing!”

LOL at Jobs being one of the good ones.

He was on the first MLB team to start 9 black players in a game too actually.

You folks know Steve Blass, right?  He is the guy who delivered the eulogy at Roberto Clemente’s service after Clemente died on New Year’s Eve in ‘72, right?  Blass denied it, but his wife and friends thought his “yips” started because he was so torn up about Clemente’s death.  You folks know who Roberto Clemente is,…