With this move, MLB appears to be joining the “Nobody can say it” camp, which is an unwise but wholly unsurprising development

The game is played and experienced in real time, and in real time, this call is off the defender 100% of the time. It’s not like the ball bounced off the offensive player’s calf on its way out or he reached out in a desperate attempt to save it and smacked it. It was a bang-bang play where the defender poked it out of…

I’ve always appreciated that you’ll usually see NBA refs, when looking at a replay where a guy loses the ball out of bounds because he was hacked (so the offensive player touched it last because the defensive guy didn’t even touch the ball) will just leave the ball with the offense. College refs explicitly are not…

A long time ago I heard a soccer announcer say “players win games, coaches lose them, and referees ruin them.” I think that’s particularly applicable here.

Yeah, either this or they have to watch the replay at normal speed. It should be blatantly obvious that a call needs to be reversed and if it isn’t, then just get on with the game. 

We as a society did this. We heap so much crap on any referee that gets a call wrong that these refs decided to replay every loose ball call they had the ability to review because they weren’t gonna catch crap for getting it wrong. And as a result, it swung one of the best national championship endings that I’ve ever…

i think the best way to do replay is to institute a 30-second cap. if you can’t figure it out in the window then the call stands. you can fix the total fuck ups without it turning into what we saw last night

Yes, it was ridiculous. That play happens 5-10 times a game and is always called off of the defender. The need to scrutinize the replay to that degree in the final minute to see if it touched or rolled off the offensive player’s hand is asinine. An obvious bad call should be reversed, but it’s pretty clear that wasn’t…

It’s cool, I’m pretty sure you can buy a replica in Joe Rickett’s Etsy shop.

I'm so happy your family is doing well and is together. Bless you all! 

And zero minutes of acceptance testing for the stupid name “Taycan.”

My thought as well. There’s about 10 days per year when this condition would come up in Michigan. 

Kudos to her. My baby spent 11 days in the NICU, three years ago, and it would take a lot to get me to ever go back. 

But they do...and they’re the ones writing it off!

You don't even know what a write off is.

A lot of Sonic’s are franchised, but Sonic Corporate said they’d be reopening with “new management”, so it’s entirely possible those guys lost their franchise agreement over this giant screwup.

You can but I don’t think most people do, which is why I don’t think any Sonic franchisees (besides this idiot) pay tipped wages. Even if most fast food franchisees are miserly shitheels, they also want employees to keep showing up to work every day.

We’re going to pay people less because we can: US Management-Labor Relations 1789-2019