Pretty clear that intent is a factor. The guy who trucked the catcher made a split-second misjudgment about which way the catcher would move. Ramirez chose to fire a ball at a guy’s head. Good on baseball for understanding the difference.

I mean you’re being sarcastic. But your last sentence is 100% accurate.

Intentional act punished more strongly than accident wouldn’t get enough clicks would it?

A reckless beaning is worse than trucking a catcher, given the circumstances.

That was no reckless beaning. That was absolute headhunting.

not knowing shit about baseball should be a suspension from writing about baseball. i’d love to see you try to make a snap decision about what part of the plate a play will be at while running full speed. throwing at someone’s head is dirty and intentional. what marisnick did was neither dirty nor intentional.

I don’t know, a 90 mile per hour fastball to the upper shoulders is much more dangerous than running a guy over. Not only that Marisnick actually felt bad about it, which is why he quickly checked on the catcher he ran over, and didn’t say a word when the pitcher almost took his head off.

I'm a White Sox fan, so  consider that when I tell you that Mai Tai Guy is EXACTLY why you should hate all Cubs fans. They are Red Sox fans with less success to back it up, less self awareness, and 163% more douche-bro-ness.

his assessment of drink choices at a baseball game (probably 11 bucks for a beer and 12 for the mai tai) is spot on

It’s the former.

Nobody over the age of 15ish should be bringing a glove to a baseball game.

Every adult that brings a glove to a game and doesn’t have a kid with them should be put on some sort of list.

This. Enough already with GBA. 9/11 was 18 goddamned years ago. There are people at the ballpark who weren't even born when it happened. 

I am going to say yes, because it was the Washington Nationals.

Sports should just have like a Hulu subscription tier where you just pay extra and skip the Anthem and “God Bless America.” I would pay it. 

CTRL-F “frisbee dogs”

3,854,833. Splinter in tongue from using wooden spoon to eat chocolate malt. 

no no no no no no no

No Mitch McConnell?

Y’all mofos put Henery Hawk and whoever the fuck Ralph Wolf is over Marvin the Martian?  Shoot this list into the sun.