bmo

This weekend:
Brentwood, Britain Dillian Whyte vs Alexander Povetkin (WBC interim heavyweight title). Katie Taylor vs Delfine Persoon (WBC, WBA, IBF, WBO lightweight titles) Los Angeles Shawn Porter vs Sebastian Formella (WBC Silver welterweight title). Las Vegas Eléider Álvarez vs Joe Smith Jr.

Preliminary Draw for Concacaf Qatar 2022 qualifiers:
Group A: El Salvador, Antigua and Barbuda, Grenada, Montserrat and US Virgin Islands
Group B: Canada, Suriname, Bermuda, Cayman Islands and Aruba
Group C: Curacao, Guatemala, St. Vincent and the Grenadines, Cuba and British Virgin Islands
Group D: Panama, Dominican Republic, Barbados, Dominica and Anguilla
Group E: Haiti, Nicaragua, Belize, St. Lucia and Turks and Caicos Islands
Group F: Trinidad and Tobago, St. Kitts and Nevis, Guyana, Puerto Rico and Bahamas

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.

This just might be the stupidest unwritten rule I've ever seen. To add on to what @bmo was saying, a 7 run lead in baseball isn't necessarily a guaranteed win because this is a game where there is no clock. You should always try to help your team get runs when you can; not have sympathy for the other team and allowing them a chance to get back in the game.

Ineos squad named for the TdF - Bernal will lead, Geraint Thomas is out, will lead the Giro, Chris Froome also out, will lead the Vuelta.
 
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/cycling/53830140

I have no problem with what Tatis did. You don’t want him to hit a grand slam on a 3-0 count? Throw a better pitch or don’t throw 3 straight balls. You might only get one good pitch per at bat and you have to make the most of it. That is what Tatis did. 

I agree...way better to implement the mercy rule...if you're 10 or 12 runs down after 7 or 8 innings, there's no chance to get back...why put players' health at risk playing senseless stints? just stop and call it a day...normally, the season is 162 games long, it's not that you don't have many chances to make up for a bad loss or the fans don't have many other chances to watch some baseball...
 
if I were the commissioner, my first actions would be:
 
- get rid of DH also in the AL (not having him in the NL)...
- mercy rule (12 point difference after 7 or 10 after 8 and the game is over)
- cancel the pure sh*t of the 3-batter rule and the "international-alike" extra innings with runners on base at the start
- allow games to end with a tie after 12 innings, at least in RS (frankly, I just can't find anything interesting in watching position players pitching in the 16th or 18th or having the bullpen completely burnt for a week because one of the 162 games of the season went too long)
- allow a 28 (maybe even 30)-man roster from the beginning of the RS (without the super extended rosters in September)

well said...
 
in a sport and in an era where the individual stats are basically the main point the teams build the players' contracts on, how can you still ask people to give up such kind of chances?
 
tbh, I'm really tired of these "unwritten rules" of the US pro sports...they're just pure hypocracy...they might have been good 100 years ago, but c'mon, man! we're in 2020 and everything is different from the age when they were established...

Baseball can either implement a mercy rule or they can stop complaining about people running up the score for ever, please.

I have no problem with what Tatis did. You don’t want him to hit a grand slam on a 3-0 count? Throw a better pitch or don’t throw 3 straight balls. You might only get one good pitch per at bat and you have to make the most of it. That is what Tatis did. 

Hottest debate in American sports today: the unwritten rules of baseball.
 

Women's Golf IGF LPGA Tour 2020 (AIG Women's Open)  
Troon (SCO) - 20 August 2020 - 23 August 2020  
 
Official Website Programme Results System Results Database Facebook Page Discussion Thread

Just managed to watch the Monaco event Sunday evening, but holy crap what a race by Cheptegei  
 
Without any doubt one of the sports highlights of the past few years, I'm very glad I managed to avoid any spoilers until I watched it  

I think it’s going to be summer again.

Amazing news for Italian baseball, after an awful week of doping cases. After 22 years Italy will back to host an European championship
 
 

Denmark has hereby officially announced a national bobsleigh team aiming for the 2026 Winter Olympics!
6 athletes on the team with triple jumper Jannick Bagge as pilot.
They'll be part of the ISBF Development programme with Bagge scheduled to go through pilot training and the hope that they'll be starting in 2 Europe Cup competitions this winter.
 

Yeah they did Winter in 2018. I think people liked it just as much, but it was a pain in the ass for JMRC to film some of the events. I remember there was editing issues as well, and it was more expensive than other seasons.

Su-Wei Hsieh and  Simona Halep officially withdraws from US Open.

Was hoping for a upset from wisps but no probs the Maniacs finished 3rd so yeah that's fine. 
Hoping for newer events maybe Winter Marble League 

Undecided on that. Communications gives me a couple of options. I could do journalism, PR, copy writing/advertising, social media, public speaking, etc.
 
I’m not really sure where I want to specialize yet. I’ve still got some time to figure that out. I’ve really enjoyed all my comms classes though, so I’m certain I made the correct choice.

Well, I already declared my major at my community college, so I’ll stick with it at a four year.
 
I’m a communication studies major. 

For the "childrens day" in Argentina, the goverment doesnt have a better idea to put a Clown to make the Covid report......
 
 

2021 FINA Swimming World Cup calendar:
 
Cluster #1
1. Singapore (SGP) – September tbc *
2. Jinan (CHN) – September tbc*
 
Cluster #2
3. Berlin (GER) – October 1-3
4. Budapest (HUN) – October 7-9
 
Cluster #3
5. Doha (QAT) – October 21-23
6. Kazan (RUS) –October 28-30

Finished the 2015 African Games today, as well as, the 2020 Marble League. With the conclusion on the TISC Special and the start of my uni semester tomorrow, I guess summer is officially over