@bendreyfuss It especially doesn't make sense in situations where the violation isn't intentional or inherently dangerous. The only reason for a ban is to incentivize clean play, so if the violation is the result of bad luck what's the ban supposed to accomplish?
@BSmile I remember this game very well. There was a lengthy rain delay and the game itself went 19 innings. Ended at about 3:45 a.m. - and they still did the postgame fireworks show.
@iowahawkblog I do enjoy how Texas Tech is turding up their own punchbowl for playoff season, when they'll have to try to claim with a straight face that their Big 12 schedule was some kind of Iroquois gauntlet.
@WGNNews I wonder what the working families who want relief at the gas pump, at the store, and on their insurance bills make of the $3 billion per year the city spends on public pension payments?
@ScotBertram@Schneider_CM My one concern is that the responsibility for getting calls right has to some extent been moved to the players; there's a sense that if you fail to challenge a bad call you have nothing to complain about. I worry this will delay the move to full ABS, which is where we should be.
@BearFlagFan@iowahawkblog@NicoleAuerbach That's all true, but the advantage is that the rules are knowable in advance and uniformly applied. I too think score difference should matter more, but details like that can be debated. And it's not like the results are wacky, those 2025 standings would have been very defensible