I don’t watch a bunch of hockey, but I loved how objective the Flames’ announcers were. Most of the regional network games that I watch have announcers who react in disgust when there’s a borderline foul or strike called on their team (Warriors, Kings, Giants are bad, A’s are OK).

The anonymous scouts are Billy Beane and the mouse in his pocket.

First pitch isn’t 90 feet.

1. Drew, I swear that you’ve posted that “PA announcer quit” story before.

It is crazy that Harper and Machado remain unsigned while teams claim that they are prioritizing winning the World Series, especially if you run with the assumption that these players are available for around the reported numbers. For Harper, for example, $300/10 seems to be what’s being floated around.

I’ve run some…

Maybe this makes me heartless, but I still think that $5k was fair the first time. Kuchar won the tournament in spite of having a replacement caddy, not because he had a replacement caddy.

I’d still much rather Ortiz have the money than Kuchar.

I feel like complaining about Joe Rogan is the same thing as yelling about the refs after a football game. Both sides think the refs are in the bag for the other team 100% of the time, but most of the time they’re just doing their best and miss a couple calls. 

He’s not perfect, but he keeps an open mind, knows that he…

We can argue about whether “for profit” makes something inherently evil, but I do have a problem with the premise that charter schools provide “just as poor or poorer education than the distressed public school districts”.

I’m sorry if this is obvious, but can you give me a really high level explanation of why supporting charter schools is incompatible with being a Democrat?

I think you are right (touch vs. actually control), but it’s still high risk in that the coverage team is closing in at like 10 yards/second and footballs are known to take funny hops, so there is a lot of uncertainty there.

Why would you want them to re-write that rule, of all rules? I love it, because I envision the nerd in the truck face-palming while the announcer is going on about “a BONE-HEADED play by Harris.”

It’s not so much “fumble protection” as it is creating two (or more) alternate universes and giving the receiving team its choice. For example, say that it’s touched at the Eastern one yard line, picked up, returned 98 yards, and then fumbled and recovered by the kicking team at the Western one yard line. The…

Rationale is that the receiving team is entitled to catch the kick, and the punting team isn’t supposed to touch the ball first. If they can down it then that’s fine, but as soon as they touch, they establish a ratcheting “worst-case scenario” for the other team. Without this rule you would leave the door open for all…

Which rules do you know?

A couple weeks ago he had another awesome heads-up play. On a kickoff, he positioned a foot out of bounds and stretched in like a first baseman and picked up the rolling ball. This got then the ball at the 40.

It looks like this is the guy: http://www.buttecounty.net/boardofsupervisors/SupervisorDougTeeter

This probably isn’t the best way to make friends and get out of the greys, but both the author (and Jim Nantz or whoever) should know that there’s no such thing as triple coverage. This was a dumb shitty pass into what looks like double coverage and the third DB rolled over once the ball was in the air.

I think that’s well worth the $13 difference. 

I think that’s well worth the $13 difference. 

Obviously this play was awesome, but it’s incredibly dangerous and probably should be outlawed. I was on the punt team in college (longsnapper, D3, chicks love me), and punt coverage was terrible. You have to run top speed while handfighting with someone, you’re vulnerable to someone peeling back and killing you if…

If you lined up every blogger and commenter from the entire Gizmodo Media universe (including Kluwe), none of us would have caught that pass, and all of us would have flinched.