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Comment Re:(YouTube) footage? (Score 2) 223

From what I understand of the link: Segura made multiple minor league baserunning mistakes in this play. Segura was leading off second base and could have attempted to steal third base regardless if the pitcher threw the ball home or not, he just made his first baserunning mistake and went too early for third and saw that the pitcher could have easily thrown him out at third, so then Segura ran back to second before the pitcher could attempt to pick him off at second. Braun made it to second base, and in that situation Braun is automatically called out because two baserunners cannot occupy the same base at the same time.

Braun should not be called out. Once you advance, the base is yours. The runner who was previously on the base (Segura) must advance to the next base before being tagged out. You are right about two runners not being allowed on the same base, however it is the lead runner who is to be called out when it happens. This is baseball 101, the sort of call little league umps like myself see all the time. I could give the major league umps some slack since pro players don't make such a rookie mistake hardly ever, but it still doesn't excuse the fact this is very basic rules knowledge in the game.

Incidently, once Braun takes second, Segura can be forced out by tagging the ball at third - no need to chase him down.

I'm amazed the major league umps missed this.

Comment The reason the software can't score it. (Score 1) 223

The umps are wrong. Each runner has an entitled base. They are only safe at that base, and no others... If the runner behind you takes your base, you must advance to the next to be safe, you aren't safe anywhere else..

The correct call, Seguro, not the runner from 1st, was out at second. The moment that runner touched 2nd base it was his, seguro's base became 3rd and he's out if tagged anywhere else on the field.

This is very, very clearly spelled out in the rules of baseball. You can't run backwards, it's against the rules, and whoever supervises the umpires needs to pull that entire team in for review and suspension for blowing a series of calls that severely.

Comment Re:Always a letdown. (Score 1) 209

It "only" says that if you manage to do that you can violate causality and create paradoxes.

How? I've read the descriptions - they all hinge on the principle that for something to exist it has to be observed. To me that's as stupid as a man claiming the sun doesn't exist when he can't see it in the sky.

Comment Re:Always a letdown. (Score 0) 209

First point - If we as a species perceived everything by sound I'm quite certain the same statements would be made by us regarding breaking the sound barrier. And yet, we have

Second point - Who was it that said that when an esteemed scientist tells you something is impossible, he is most likely wrong?

Final point - The arrogance of modern physicists never ceases to astound me. Compare what we know about the universe to what can be known, and I'm fairly certain you'll find that it would compare unfavorably to what the cavemen understood about the universe as compared to modern man.

Why is it so hard to say, "I don't know, let's find out?"

Comment Re:Easy... (Score 4, Interesting) 1121

To make that claim is to profess that you do not understand what sola scriptura is. I was born in a Baptist family, a family which believes every word in the Bible is literally true and cannot begin to fathom the very possibility that any of it was false. When I did, my faith flew apart until I converted to Catholicism some years ago.

Comment Re:Easy... (Score 1) 1121

I would then ask you to try to explain then why Chapter 1 uses the word "Elohim" for God, and Chapter 2 uses the word "Yawyeh". That alone is proof to me that the stories are from two different writers from two different traditions. But in resorting to vulgarity you have shown the worth of your tongue, the span of your mind and made manifest your ignorance. Good day.

Comment Re:Easy... (Score 1) 1121

Maybe.

Look, we're talking about legends handed down orally for at least a few hundred years before being written. It's uncertain how much they morphed in that time, when the story of Lilith was coined, when it split off. For all we know it could have started as one tribe's alternate name for Eve.

Comment Re:reductio ad absurdum (Score -1, Flamebait) 1121

It's folk like you that Alexander Pope alluded to when he wrote, "A little knowledge is a dangerous thing."

In brief, you're wrong. But I don't have the time to explain it to you, and you likely lack the intellect to comprehend that you are wrong due to the Dunning-Kruger effect

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