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An unusual sequence in yesterday's Yankees game. It's the last time they meet this season, and the series was tied 6-6. The game winner will hold any possible playoff tiebreakers between the two teams.
With the Yankees up 7-1 in the 7th, Jazz Chisum is on first, and Boston didn't hold him on, so he stole second. The Boston announcers call it a bush-league play and complain that he doesn't know how to play the game. Jazz takes off and steals third on the very next pitch. One Boston announcer is apoplectic and saying the Sawx should bean Austin Wells to make up for Jazz's play. -Boston's pitcher grooves a fastball, and Austin hits a home run. Boston's announcers are not happy, as the next Yankee also hits a home run. The wheels fall off, and the Yankees go on to win 16-1, and the Sox announcers insist Jazz doesn't understand how to play the game. Jazz, uncharacteristically, had nothing to say after the game, but calling for a player to hurt another shouldn't go unpunished. When your team loses the biggest game of the season by 15 runs, blaming an opponent seems pretty weak. The Yankees widened the gap between the teams by winning three of the four games.

This year's schedule is just plain strange. The Yankees had eight days off in August, including two in the middle of a home stand, but had to fly to California and play today without a travel day.
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A 7-1 lead is not enough to apply the blowout rules, especially now that a blowout where you can use a position player to pitch has been codified by MLB.

As far as calling for a beanball- that is never the call of anyone but the guy who is going to get knocked onto the back of his head if the batter charges the mound, which is the pitcher. They don't do that much for things like that anymore anyway. That's mostly reserved as retaliation for hit batsmen, dangerous slides and similar things that can cause injury.
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Agree. Just a day or so ago a team lost with a 6 run lead in the 9th inning. I absolutely want my team trying to add runs when up by 6. It’s a Neanderthal radio announcer commenting. Just ignore him.

In response to a question from a reporter about a game in which Jimmy Johnson had been accused of running up the score, Johnson said,”if you don’t like it then play better. “

Football is about to kick off its pre-bowl season, but as many as 400 roster spots are stuck in the court system. There are multiple lawsuits over eligibility still to be settled, and the SEC is seemingly disintegrating. The SEC Athletic Directors voted to sanction LSU 16-0, while SEC coaches are trying to sign their own former NFL players. After the NCAA adopted new rules for incoming players, hundreds of formerly ineligible players are appealing for another year. It appears at least some of them will play this weekend as schools get temporary court orders.

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Football is about to kick off its pre-bowl season, but as many as 400 roster spots are stuck in the court system. There are multiple lawsuits over eligibility still to be settled, and the SEC is seemingly disintegrating. The SEC Athletic Directors voted to sanction LSU 16-0, while SEC coaches are trying to sign their own former NFL players. After the NCAA adopted new rules for incoming players, hundreds of formerly ineligible players are appealing for another year. It appears at least some of them will play this weekend as schools get temporary court orders.
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I would like to see the college football playoffs board of managers to make a ruling on this. They are independent of the NCAA and should come out and say that any team that plays a player that was on an NFL squad is prohibited from playing in the playoff. It would be much harder for a team or player to fight this since it is not an NCAA sanctioned group. A team like LSU that is capable and hoping to make the playoff would have to decide if it would be worth it to play a former NFL player and possibly be excluded from the playoff.

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Football is about to kick off its pre-bowl season, but as many as 400 roster spots are stuck in the court system. There are multiple lawsuits over eligibility still to be settled, and the SEC is seemingly disintegrating. The SEC Athletic Directors voted to sanction LSU 16-0, while SEC coaches are trying to sign their own former NFL players. After the NCAA adopted new rules for incoming players, hundreds of formerly ineligible players are appealing for another year. It appears at least some of them will play this weekend as schools get temporary court orders.
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I would like to see the college football playoffs board of managers to make a ruling on this. They are independent of the NCAA and should come out and say that any team that plays a player that was on an NFL squad is prohibited from playing in the playoff. It would be much harder for a team or player to fight this since it is not an NCAA sanctioned group. A team like LSU that is capable and hoping to make the playoff would have to decide if it would be worth it to play a former NFL player and possibly be excluded from the playoff.
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The SEC already tried this with a much better claim to having authority - they would take enormous financial penalties against schools and their head coaches -and they got bitch-slapped by a court which put a temporary injunction on them. Apparently, Greg Sankey isn't in complete charge on his plantation.

And the SEC university presidents didn't vote 16-0 to prohibit the players in question. They voted 15-0-1 with the LSU president abstaining.