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I'll keep it short - the unwritten rules of baseball are pure trash.

Imagine a similar outrage if Bayern Munchen scored three goals in the last ten minutes while 5-2 up on Barcelona... oh wait, they did... and there was no outrage.

Baseball's unwritten rules are the most archaic and unneccessary thing in pro sports. No wonder the sport can't compete with gridiron football and basketball anymore.

Elliott wins at the Daytona Roval.

Kaz Grala finishes 7th on his Cup debut. It's funny, #3 was basically retired after Earnhardt's death and only allowed back in because of Childress' grandsons and now Kaz fuckin' Grala is another driver who competed with it. Not bad for someone whose father was born in Slupsk

2 minutes ago, LDOG said:

 

Aha.

He seems to have more organized opposition than Putin in Russia.

No surprise given the entire population of Belarus is smaller than population of Moscow

16 minutes ago, LDOG said:

Would Lukashenko lose if the elections were completely fair or is it (like in many other countries with authoritarian or populist governments) mostly the more "visible" urban educated population that is against him?  

He'd probably lose.

Flying bikes in MotoGP. Red flag again.

Well, this is what happens when you put bikes on a track designed for cars.

Massive crash in the Moto2 race at Red Bull Ring. It looks like Hafizh Syahrin's season might well be over.

No surprise. Has any Amendment been repealed since the Prohibition BS? Even some of the most liberal Supreme Courts are not touching those sacred Amendments from 18th century

High drama in the semi-finals with both ending 17-16!

Ronnie O'Sullivan vs Kyren Wilson in the final.

26 minutes ago, rybak said:

Lukashenko just stated that Poland, Russia, Ukraine and Netherlands started to invading his country 

Did he forget about Lithuania?

8 minutes ago, Olympian1010 said:

No where in that article does anyone accuse her of sleeping with Brown. I’d say she’s pretty self made as a state and national politician, as she largely won all her elections based on her own efforts. That article even says her opponents were using those rumors to attack her in her first candidacy for state office. Brown also reeks of one of those politicians who’s so self-obsessed and scared because of his past misdeeds, so he begins to throw everyone under the bus just to create clout.

Yeah, a 30 year old woman was dating a 60 year old man for what reasons exactly then?

23 minutes ago, OlympicsFan said:

I wouldn’t call what the EU did „ignoring“ ...

Taking actions against countries like Poland or Hungary would be far more important than doing anything about Belarus.

Yeah, EU has proven they can't do anything about global Russian influence so they might as well flex their muscle vs minnows like Poland and Hungary In the last 12 years Russia has invaded Georgia, annexed Crimea and caused unrest in Ukraine plus carried a military operation in Syria and EU thinks a conservative government in Poland is the real evil

Not exactly impossible but Inessa Kravets' WR turned 25 years old yesterday.

What people don't remember is she had two no jump and this was basically a "safety" effort as she took off very early on the boards. This was a 15,6X effort tbh.

For a while there was a bunch of 15,3X results in women's triple jump but still nobody has broken this one.

Btw, Kravets' 1996 Olympic gold jump (15,33 into a head-wind) is still 6th on the all-time list as well.

It's safe to say EU doesn't give a flying rat about Belarus. It's not surprising given how they ignored the War in Donbass or shooting down the Malaysian Airlines flight before. Belarus has nothing to tease EU into fighting for democracy there

1 hour ago, American1998 said:

Thanks for your response. 

Does that make equestrian less "legitimate", than running, relatively speaking?

 

Equestrian doesn't rely on human factor alone. I'd say it's a more difficult event than any form of running.

It can't be measured since every award - Nobel Prize included - is ahem... awarded so it's a judgement decision. There's nothing judgemental in Olympic results. 

You can compare Nobel Prize to something like a Golden Ball in football (soccer) though.

Bouzkova beats Konta 6-4 6-4.

I still remember Bouzkova playing Katowice qualies in 2013 aged 14 wearing a random T-shirt you can literally buy in a retail store

6 minutes ago, bmo said:

She was back on the court within 5 minutes so could be a bit dramatic, but still concerning.

It's not concerning at all if you're familiar with the usual WTA drama.

Konta's created fake drama before so let's ignore this one, shall we?

Eugenie Bouchard looked pretty sharp today

ES doesn't cover Diamond League for some time though?

15 minutes ago, dcro said:

 

Yeah, apparently lots of fans lost their shit over Mason starting as P.I., without even bothering to see if that was supposed to be a part of character development all along.

 

And not all reboots are inferior by design. Usually I am not a big fan of them, but this one seems to be much less formulaic than the original. Characters are quite interesting, with plenty of depth to them. It gave me Chinatown vibes - a huge plus in my book.

Oh yeah, Ving Rhames as Kojak was a total failure while the Magnum P.I. and MacGyver reboots serve no real purpose either. Once Law & Order and CSI franchises run out of gas the Americans have no other ideas other than rebooting more vintage titles or adapt European scripts outright

Funny thing is, these protests could be inspired by Russia as Putin wants as weak Belarus as possible. Without export to Russia, Belarus economy would collapse in three months. The only change of scenery will happen when Russia allows to remove Lukashenka. He's very weak right now and that actually makes Russia tolerate him.