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Peanut President posted:I got you Should be posted everywhere it’s an extremely succinct summary of what’s been happening
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harperdc posted:Reader mode on Firefox/Safari should help. I think incognito mode on Chrome still works too? Not sure, I use my parent's subscription to the NYTimes like a good millenial (and they use my WaPo subscription, so it's not one sided). Good, succinct article by Petchesky. There's a great longform to be had about the Ad Apocalypse back in like 2014-2015 that killed websites like the Awl and the Toast and seriously hurt other independent outlets. Until then a small outlet could be profitable by finding its niche, and it didn't have to be that big. Too bad there's no place to publish such a piece anymore.
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quote:Reporting sports with integrity requires knowing that there’s no way to wall off the games from the world outside. The games are literally played within a rectangular boundary that’s been drawn on the floor/ground, or within actual walls.
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General Dog posted:The games are literally played within a rectangular boundary that’s been drawn on the floor/ground, or within actual walls. waiting for ben shapiro to unironically tweet this
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https://twitter.com/StevePoliti/status/1194227287270600704 Real good story of the 7 years leading up to a court case about a coach telling a HS freshman to slide. You guess it from the rest of the article, but the ending finally describes the dad and suddenly everything becomes clear: quote:Rob Mesar, meanwhile, is convinced his own clumsy testimony doomed his son’s chances to win the case. But it is the play at third base itself that consumes him, night after night, and he figures it will for the rest of this life.
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Kalli posted:https://twitter.com/StevePoliti/status/1194227287270600704 This is like the Streets suing Coach Taylor but a million times stupider euphronius posted:Didn’t the parents sign a waiver for their kid to compete I think the argument for “recklessness” goes beyond what’s in the waiver. Henchman of Santa fucked around with this message at 15:55 on Nov 12, 2019 |
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Kalli posted:https://twitter.com/StevePoliti/status/1194227287270600704 More like, suddenly everything becomes clear: quote:He says he is a business owner
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To be fair, sliding is bullshit and you shouldn't do it even on nice fields.
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euphronius posted:Oh it was an insurance company fight over medical bills yeah but that's, like, communism 
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Salvor_Hardin posted:To be fair, sliding is bullshit and you shouldn't do it even on nice fields. what
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I got thrown out of a beer league slowpitch softball game once for not sliding on a forceout at second and destroying the second baseman, AMA
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Eric the Mauve posted:I got thrown out of a beer league slowpitch softball game once for not sliding on a forceout at second and destroying the second baseman, AMA Same, but in sixth grade, it was a first baseman, and I clotheslined the kid
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MourningView posted:what It hurts.  Probably because the fields I play softball on are all pebbly. I hate sliding.
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euphronius posted:Oh it was an insurance company fight over medical bills Well more than medical bills, pain and suffering too, along with a shortened life expectancy. A stupid lawsuit though, the article is right that it would have essentially ended all sports below the college level. Every time a kid gets injured, the question would be, "did the coach act recklessly?" Amazed it even got to a court room, and even more amazed that one juror still agreed with the parents.
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Kalli posted:https://twitter.com/StevePoliti/status/1194227287270600704 I thought this was gonna be about a dude getting clobbered on a bad take-out side at first. How does messing up a slide completely obliterated an ankle like that?
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Salvor_Hardin posted:It hurts. Get proper trousers and learn how to slide? It can definitely be uncomfortable, but I have more fear of a routine ground ball than sliding into a base.
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Nissin Cup Nudist posted:I thought this was gonna be about a dude getting clobbered on a bad take-out side at first. How does messing up a slide completely obliterated an ankle like that? I mean, I can see if he slid late and his foot hit the base weird that he could easily break an ankle, but not THAT much damage.
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Nov 12, 2019 19:49
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Nov 12, 2019 19:53
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Ankles are basically the 2nd easiest thing to gently caress up in amazingly simple ways, just behind knees.
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I can definitely see a bad slide loving an ankle up pretty badly. Locking your knee and jamming the foot against the bag could definitely do some real damage.
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ilmucche posted:I can definitely see a bad slide loving an ankle up pretty badly. Locking your knee and jamming the foot against the bag could definitely do some real damage. You don't even need to hit the bag. If maybe the bottom of your foot gets caught on the ground and you keep going you could gently caress it up.
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ilmucche posted:Get proper trousers and learn how to slide? It can definitely be uncomfortable, but I have more fear of a routine ground ball than sliding into a base. Saw a guy burst a testicle from a ground ball that took a hop. He had to get it removed, but he hit a walkoff in the final a couple weeks later so I’d say it was a wash.
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Henchman of Santa posted:This is like the Streets suing Coach Taylor but a million times stupider I thought this exact same thing, immediately. euphronius posted:Oh it was an insurance company fight over medical bills Which is what happened in Friday Night Lights! Eric the Mauve posted:I got thrown out of a beer league slowpitch softball game once for not sliding on a forceout at second and destroying the second baseman, AMA One of my 3 or 4-ish concussions happened during intermural softball when I got trucked by a bigass frat dude while blocking home plate. The ball got to me first, so the dude got called out after sending me rear end over teakettle. Good on you for not being Chase loving Utley.
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This great umpire reaction happened this year in regards to a slide: https://twitter.com/handlit33/status/1166088651689877504 Covered by our favourite now dead sports site: https://deadspin.com/francisco-cervelli-lands-flying-karate-kick-on-base-so-1837593689
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ilmucche posted:This great umpire reaction happened this year in regards to a slide: Hahahahaha that's amazing
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Not sure if this was posted earlier but a few Deadspin people were on this podcast and talked openly on what happened. Surprised at how candid they were about who hosed up. https://slate.com/podcasts/hang-up-and-listen/2019/11/the-end-of-deadspin-on-hang-up-and-listen
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habeasdorkus posted:One of my 3 or 4-ish concussions happened during intermural softball when I got trucked by a bigass frat dude while blocking home plate. The ball got to me first, so the dude got called out after sending me rear end over teakettle. Good on you for not being Chase loving Utley. I should have worded that better--what I meant was that I didn't slide, and because I didn't slide I ended up destroying the second baseman. Context: I'm on first, no outs, weak ground ball to shortstop. En route to second I see the shortstop coming in and conclude (a) he won't have a play at second and will go to first, therefore (b) I'm going to take third on the throw to first. But he got to the ball and went to second with it far faster than I anticipated. By the time I saw the second baseman moving across the bag right in front of me to reach out for the throw it's far too late to slide. The second baseman was a little skinny guy. I'm big and comically uncoordinated, but faster than I look in a straight line. I tried to stop, but no chance. Crushed him like Scott Stevens and sent him flying. Benches clear and the ump screams at me to get the gently caress in my car and leave. Ump was in the right, by rule in that league if there's a force play at second you are required to slide (presumably to prevent exactly what happened from happening). But it was doomed to happen the instant I decided to try for third, starting your slide too late is exactly how an overweight thirtysomething dude annihilates his knee/ankle/both.
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Salvor_Hardin posted:Just allow for overrunning every base like 1st base and do the double wide half orange base to give the runner a lane through. Your bad baseball idea is not as good/bad as "Homerun ends the inning." 
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habeasdorkus posted:Oh man, yeah. You were damned if you did and damned if you didn't in that situation. Hope the dude was OK and that you got a chance to apologize later when tempers had cooled. He was fine and I was sentenced to having to bring beer for both teams to the next game we played against that team.  Salvor_Hardin posted:Just allow for overrunning every base like 1st base and do the double wide half orange base to give the runner a lane through. Yes, yes you will
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