There's always a lot of illegal pushing and shoving in those situations. Agreed that was more blatant than most, but I wasn't surprised it wasn't called.
seattlemaninblue
seattlemaninblue
So he would do what, force the union refs to work? Give up their collective-bargaining rights? Would he toss aside the National Labor Relations Act?
Josh: Tell us about all those times you confessed to holding. Yeah, the next time will be the first.
If the Seahawks got screwed by a bad call (or two) the controversy would die tonight. But since it was the beloved, anointed, sainted GREEN BAY PACKERS this story will live for weeks.
You don't know anything about baseball, do you?
Yes, you missed something: junior high English class...
At least Simers has the balls to talk directly to the athletes he's writing about.
Stop before you embarrass yourself further...
Yeah, this would be PATRICK McEnroe. Nice try. #AnotherDeadspinHumorFail
It could go either way...if you suck at reading comprehension.
Whenever someone says "I'm not a chauvinist but..." get ready for the chauvinism.
How dare someone else traffic in "low-grade smarm"? That's Deadspin's job!
That's every game for Felix.
NBC is unlikely to change much. There isn't a complaint heard this year we didn't hear four years ago. NBC really doesn't care what the Twitterverse has to say. It pays a bazillion dollars for those rights and will happily ignore the whining if it gets to recoup its rights fees, promote its networks and sell its new…
It's San Bernardino.
This one captures Deadspin perfectly: "Now all the commenters think that they're the love children of Dane Cook and Jim Rome...and then +1-ing each other."
"Do you know anything?" Because clearly we at Deadspin don't, so we'll continue to traffic it wild, unsubstantiated speculation.
The Mariners drew 3 million people not that long ago. Almost a decade of pure suckitude tends to depress your attendance figures — and your fan base.
I love when Deadspin writers pretend to know anything about journalism. Always good for a laugh or two.
Pretty sure you don't have a clue what you're talking about. Any umpire can get help any time he feels another umpire might have had a better angle or more information. In this case there was no way for him to see the bobble (blocked by the glove) so he got help from the plate umpire.