Came here to make a Sinclair joke as soon as I saw it was a Burke post. As is so often the case, yours was better.

I was a 19 year-old kid on active duty, far from my Marietta home and watching the game with a room full of Pirates fans, including the senior guy in my unit who, by his very presence in the room, controlled the television. As soon as the ump signaled safe, that guy jumped up, turned off the tv, and stormed out. It…

Bottom of the 12th, Yankees down 8-7 to the Orioles, bases loaded, nobody out, and Aaron Judge and Giancarlo Stanton coming up. If you’re going to be down a run, this is the situation you want, right?

Thanks for the excuse to post this....

More like O-Lost-a-Ball, amirite?

I kinda feel bad for Mike, but not for Mike.

I remember when she levitated Tom Cruise over a couch.

I’m guessing there will be folks in Ithaca demanding the players be held accountable for the death of an innocent bee.

This was an easier game when Rex was still in Buffalo.

I don’t work full time in a law firm anymore. In fact, my regular gig now requires me to think a lot about how to describe the legal system to non-lawyers, so this was a good exercise for me. Thanks for being genuinely interested.

I certainly agree with the last sentence. Our civil and criminal legal systems (which are more distinct than you might imagine) derive from very old English laws, rules, and customs which very much elevated form over substance. There has been a tremendous amount of information in about the last 80-or-so years. A…

Maybe it helps (or maybe it doesn’t) to know that these aren’t accusations in the legal sense. When the defendant makes actual allegations against the plaintiff, the Answer contains what are called cross-claims. (In federal courts and in a lot of states that aren’t California, they are called counter-claims.)

Actually, all this (an unverified Answer) is a document that says “we might argue any of these things at some later time.” They aren’t actually saying any of these defenses are viable right now, just that they may be viable later down the line if the evidence points in that direction. If you don’t plead every…

My dad recently met a lawyer who told him, “I hate the 99% of lawyers who give the rest of us a bad reputation.”

I like it.

Good point. The article mentions the West Point connection. I think they wanted “Black Knights” originally, and the Army said no way because they’ve gone out of their way to brand all the West Point sports teams exclusively as the Black Knights (it’s no longer deemed proper to call them the Cadets the way Navy is…

That is a great name, but I think they were forbidden from using anything with a gambling connotation. Maybe if the logo had been Snoopy riding atop his doghouse with scarf billowing in the wind?

I’m a Deadspin guy and don’t often stray into these parts, but there’s a line in The Force Awakens that I’ve never seen subjected to a lot of analysis (which is not to say I’ve looked around really hard). It bugs me, and I need help from folks with far more expertise in these things:

Wouldn’t just the Knights have been a better name anyway?

Whatever happened to the THISISSOSTUPID “file to” tag?