aren't biathletes banned from this year's games?

I heard that he's also not allowed into BBWAA's official AOL chat room. They take shit like this very seriously.

MOM: [gathers kids around kitchen table] I'm sorry, guys. The last thing I ever want to do is embarrass you or make you look silly. You know that, right?

I agree, he played a marvelous first base.

Let's vote for JACK MORRIS so we can blame Murray Chass.

1. Let's all guess what the most frequently-occurring ballot will be (e.g., four or five names, Maddux/Glavine, etc.)

Goddamn pussies keep ruining football.

Your last paragraph contains the nut of the matter: there was nothing Middlebrooks could do. And guess what? IT. DOES. NOT. MATTER. His rights ended when the ball went past him; anything—ANYTHING—even a nanosecond after that is the act of a player not making a play. An infielder not playing the ball who impedes a…

Red Sox fan here. It was the right call. The runner would have been safe by 3 feet if there wasn't a large 3rd baseman lying down on the base path with his legs in the air.