At least they waited till she got home to take her car. I’m a glass half full kind of guy.

We can dance if we want to...

Isn’t that kind of genius. If you are going to give up a safety why not ensure that you can run as much of the clock out as you can?

Players are told to hold on this play to allow the ball carrier to run around to take as much time off the clock as possible. Since they are going to do an intentional safety there is no harm to hold the defense for a safety as well. This is actually a great play by the lineman and not something unintentional at all.

Is this sports?

He’s in the penalty box for ruffing

Yes you are correct. There is a clear distinction between dropping a ball and simply not catching an easily playable line drive like this. Bottom line is that a play like this kind of just sucks for the offense, there is not much that they (or the rules) can do to prevent a double play here.

You are correct. Judging by how confused he was, there is 0% chance that Russell would have stepped off the bag, taken the throw from Baez, tagged Gonzalez FIRST, then stepped on the bag to force Reddick.

Last week it was the balk, and today is the infield fly rule: all these takes on removing a rule from the game to make it more exciting, when in reality it would just make it awful.

Actually - the rules prohibit a fielder from intentionally knocking down a line drive in order to gain an advantage. Hanley Ramirez tried it a while back. Umps gave the force at second - but the batter was awarded first.

Eh. Infield fly is meant more for actual fly balls. Not for weakly hit line drives from little baby Dodger hitters.

Brandon Phillips did this all the damn time.

In college, however, this isn’t the case. A ref will punch a coach in the face and then flag him for it.

This article read like a “water cooler hot take”. Written by someone who heard second hand what a terrible decision the manager made and then starts passing off their not completely understood (and missing some parts) second hand hot take as their own. It’s weird because most of Emma’s baseball stuff is really solid,…

You’re not wrong, there’s a lot missing from this take. First off the walk of Heyward was a smart move that actually worked exactly as it was intended to - though Heyward had a down year at the plate he did actually start to heat up in September, and he had been swinging the bat well last night including socking a…

I love it. Tired of Deadspin insistence on attempting to break down every game as if it were mismanaged and, in all honesty, being wrong on many if the facts. I watched the game live and thought he played it perfectly. At some point Blanton has to get an out. He didn’t and the dodgers lost

Thanks for pointing this out. The line between the hot takes for hot takes’ sake on ESPN and analysis by deadspin is narrowing.

Exactly. They were wrong about Dusty Baker; they’re wrong about Roberts now.

The baseball analysis on Deadspin is like those YouTube videos of British guys trying to announce NBA games.