Which in turn attracts bears. See? It’s not just a slippery slope, it’s a positive feedback loop.

McIlroy also had a fan ejected for repeatedly shouting “Erica,” his wife’s name.

Other advertising slogans banned include “Wazzup”, “Where’s the beef” and “Gosh, it would be nice if there were some women around.”

What would really be bullshit is if they could get some other guys like up in a booth somewhere, who could not only see from a better view but could also watch as much video as they wanted, and could then radio down to the coach. Then the coach could just be like, oh this is what they are doing.

I think it’s much more simple than that: These coaches are mostly all middle-aged dudes who have the same aversion to new technology that so many of our 55+ year old dads do. There’s a certain subset of older guys who act like new technology is emasculating somehow.

Zimmer talks the talk. And he walks the walk.

Andy Reid: This is really nice.
Assistant Coach: Yeah, check out the formation.
Reid: What’s this?
Assistant: The... clock in the corner?
Reid: Yeah, it keeps counting down.
Assistant: That’s the game clock.
Reid: How do we stop it?
Assistant: [stares]
Reid: [stares]
Assistant: ...you call timeout.
Reid: [looks for pause button]
…

No, I believe the writers of the actual show had the same thought.  Anthology of Interest I think it was.

Am I the only person who’s had a weird thought regarding Zoidberg probably tasting really good if boiled and served with a little bit of butter? 

the American Medical Association. It’s a professional organization for physicians

It actually would have been pretty amusing if they had announced that Professor Farnsworth, Zapp Branigan, and Fry would be there but Zoidberg was not invited.

Your festival is bad and you should feel bad!

Now see this just doesn’t make any sense. Wouldn’t you *want* a Crisis Actor to run your offense during crunch time?

I think the problem is that you aren’t getting 12 starters. You’re getting 12 long men out of the bullpen. And this is just a hunch on my part, but I’m guessing that once you throw X amount of innings you just need a bunch of time off. I’m not positive you can say “Well he pitched 7 innings and needed four days off,…

You would definitely need a couple extra guys for injuries, extra innings, or guys getting lit up early. Although if a guy has a really good outing and gets through his three in 30 pitches you might let him go four.

The biggest problem is that you would have to find 9 pitchers who can throw 162 innings (three innings every three games), and last year there were only 58 pitchers who did that in all of baseball. It’s probably not going to work with anything less than a full staff of pitchers.

You hit the nail on the head. No pitcher that has the ability to make a ton of money is going to buy in to the system. In theory, though, given the right arms it’s an interesting idea.

Years ago Jim Leyland had the idea that he could manage a pitching staff by having nine guys, each of whom would throw three innings every three games. I am a little surprised that nobody has tried this since the “third time through the order” penalty is understood much better now and teams also understand that a…

It also works in Basketball!

“Wait, you can run the bullpen into the ground, too? I’ve wasted my life.”