Counterpoint: permanent brain damage is the only way to ensure a two-year-old remembers attending a baseball game.

At the very least give the infant a glove and a fighting chance 

I appreciate that nuance is always the enemy in this conversation but:

Nobody actually pays for first class out of pocket. They are either enjoying an elite upgrade or their employer is footing the bill.

Seriously. The upcharge from economy to 1st class was almost certainly more than $1500. Of course he got shot down.

If you’re a lap down you don’t do the ‘last lap.’

Nobody thinks it can’t be better but the old way of “Oh well, guess we’re out of the World Cup because the world’s shittiest referee missed two handballs, an offside and the keeper getting kicked in the nuts in the lead up to the winning goal” was infinitely worse.

Sometimes I wonder if the constant VAR whining is just the writers trolling their readers/commentors because Deadspin seems to get off on doing that these days but given the multi-year crusade against accurate football judgments I have to sit back and assume that they’re just really into poor officiating. 

I was under the impression that its one job is to annoy Deadspin writers who have a problem with accurate officiating decisions. In that, it is succeeding spectacularly.

And yet it got more calls right than wrong. Its works so im good

This isn’t a question of whether it came off the arm of Gauvin at all?

It’s not perfect. We get it. We also get that far more often than not, VAR is right and it prevents the kind of horseshit incorrect calls that used to happen in every damn game in these tournaments.

He won’t tolerate lollygagging. Or side-burns.

Meanwhile, the reinvented Phillies have managed to completely implode two months earlier than last year, with a much higher payroll. Progress!

“The Mets sincerely regret the incident that took place...”

On the bright side, the 19 outs in 6.1 innings pitched ties the record for most outs recorded in that amount of innings

Big hit to Santa Anita. Hollendorfer’s horses were the glue that held that place together.

Actually the arbiters of the Unwritten Rules look down fondly at being mad about hitting a home run. After all, you should be disgusted for bringing too much attention upon yourself and “killing the rally” with a grandiose dong.

Big if true.