Crunchy, I already conceded defeat on this issue.
My husband and I are the only ones I guess who believe this (oh, and the D’backs manager I guess)
it’s over. I’m done with it.
done.
jarbaby
If he’d done it while he was playing for Celtic, the ref probably would have carded him for handball :rolleyes:
Ok, I must’ve missed that. Sorry for bringing it up again.
I’m going to have to disagree, sorry. Bernoldi was “battling for position” my Yank ass. Uniquely to Monaco, there is no room for a faster car to overtake a slower one whose driver does not wish it. “Not showing enough balls” had nothing to do with it. Bernoldi was simply blocking Coulthard, in a way that none of the other backmarkers had the dickishness to do. Coulthard wasn’t “making fine progress through the field”, he was simply catching up after that little starting grid incident that wasn’t his fault and that the other drivers also knew wasn’t his fault. They therefore did the sportsmanlike thing and allowed him to try to compete with his peers at the front of the field, while they competed with their own peers at the back.
Only in his own sexual fantasies is Bernoldi in an Arrows competitive with anyone in any car other than a Minardi or Prost. That “Hey, look, I’m ahead of a McLaren!” act didn’t fool anyone but Arrows fans (and there aren’t many -I have one of the free Arrows caps that their lonesome, bored souvenir vendors threw into the crowd in Montreal last year when they realized nobody was buying their stuff and it would cost money to ship it back to Europe). Arrows’ only function is to lay rubber on the circuit early in qualifying, and then get out of the way of the competitive teams.
I do understand the willingness of a Dutchman to give unquestioning support to any team willing to hire Jos Verstappen, of course.
- Milt Pappas of the Cubs retires 26 consecutive Padres. The pitcher is due to bat with two out in the bottom of the 9th, and the Padres send in a pinch-hitter. I forget the exact sequence, but I do recall he worked the count full, and then lost him. (He got the next guy out to preserve the no-hitter – the only time I know of that a no-hitter was anti-climactic.)
The next day, there was a certain amount of talk from fans about how the pinch-hitter should have swung at one of the balls, to preserve his place in history. (As the last out in a perfect game? I think he’d be better known as the guy who broke up a perfect game – though, ironically, I don’t remember his name.) There was also a certain amount of talk from fans about how the ump should have widened the strike zone. (Interestingly, WGN-TV broadcast the game. The always showed batters from the center-field camera. But for the last batter, they switched to the upper-deck-behind-home-plate camera. I never heard an explanation, but I assumed it was to protect the ump from second guessing.)
My point is, I don’t recall anyone taking these “complaints” seriously. Sportswriters who commented on them said any bending of rules would tarnish the accomplishment. The players said similar things.
Tangentially – twoards the end of '73, as Aaron closed in on Ruth’s record, a couple of pitchers (Andy Messersith was one; I forget the other) commented that if they faced Hank when he had 714 homers, they might lay in a fat pitch so they could be remembered as the guy who gave up #715. As I recall, they were reprimanded, perhaps even fined, by then-commissioner Bowie Kuhn. (I don’t believe either pitcher actually found themselves in that position, and the honor of course went to Al Downing.)
Just rambling sports memories…
– Beruang
Wasn’t there a controversy a few years ago about a pitcher giving Mark McGuire an intentional walk?
Re not talking about a no hitter: that’s more of a tradition as opposed to an unwritten rule. Nor is it uniformly followed: I read that in the 1960s (circa 1964 or so): Jim Bunning was telling his teammates: “Hey, guys, only X more outs for my no hitter” (he got it)
This isn’t an unwritten rule, but a custom: In baseball, the player batting after the pitcher generally takes his time coming to the plate from the on deck circle after the pitcher has batted (assuming the pitcher made an out and it didn’t retire the side. This is especially true if the pitcher had to run to first base). This is to allow the pitcher a chance to get back to the dugout and rest a bit before resuming pitching the next inning.
That would be his Father’s Day perfect game in 1964. Wow, he was telling his teammates that during a perfect game?
There are many rules that society relies on in order to function, that are not offically set down but which are generally accepted. How many times have you heard "well it isn’t illegal, but it sure isn’t ethically or morallly right?
Joseph Campbell told a story in The Power of Myth about two American students who were attending an English university. They were invited to play rugby and soon discovered that they could make good use of the forward pass. After this went on for a short period of time, the English students asked them to stop. The Americans cited the fact that there was not a rule against it. The English students agreed with that and added “But that is not the way we play the game.” That ended the use of the forward pass for the two Americans. Campbell referred to this as ethos and went on to explain that it is something our modern society is losing.
According to Mickey Mantle, in Ken Burns’s documentary Baseball, Don Larsen was talking about it (or trying to - the other players didn’t want to talk back to him) during his World Series perfect game.
I think I heard about that somewhere, possibly residue from the Baseball series… Or maybe it was a broadcaster. Anyway, interesting break of the unwritten rules!
An unwritten rule in chess is that you do not force your opponent, assuming he is of reasonable skill, to take the game all the way to checkmate when either your position is hopeless or mate is inevitable. What you do is simply stop your clock, tilt over your king, or say “I resign”.
One great exception to this is Grandmaster Donald Byrne allowing the young upstart Bobby Fischer to checkmate him in a game that has been dubbed “The Game of the Century” (20th, that is…). The game is a testament to Fischer’s extraordinary skills, and includes perhaps the most profound queen sacrifice ever seen. It is reported that, after the game, Byrne was asked why he did not resign before Fischer’s forced mate was concluded, and that he responded, “What? And ruin this young man’s beautiful game!?”
Bloody hell, dantheman, give me my due! You heard about it right here, in this thread! I mentioned it up near the top of this page! You even responded to my post!
Geez, you guys NEVER notice me around here …
Oh.
Well, of course you knew. You’re an evil overlord.
Sorry, you had it. I can’t remember back that far.
Yeah, I remember this rule. Too bad I had to teach a friend a lesson about this, once.
One of my biggest chess rivals growing up was named Bruce. He was as intelligent as me, very possibly more, and he was certainly more driven than me in everyday life. However, despite relatively equal talent levels at chess, I’m confident I was the better player. Why? My gamesmanship skills were far better than his, and I was quite a bit cagier. Make no mistake. Bruce was good and he was smart. But psychologically, I had it all over him.
Anyway, he’d occasionally make futile attempts at getting into MY head. One time, he insisted on playing out a hopelessly lost position (I think I was ahead a queen and a rook). I pointed out to him that if he resigned now (didn’t cite the unwritten rule), we could play another game (we’d play during our lunch hour).
“No way. You might stalemate me.”
:rolleyes: :rolleyes: :rolleyes: :rolleyes: :rolleyes:
Well, just as he was starting to piss the living shit out of me, I realized what I had to do: Promote every pawn I had, while trapping his king so it could only shuffle back and forth. Until some guy walks up…
“Dan, do you really have FOUR queens to Bruce’s lone king?”
Bruce turned his king down. Actually, he knocked all the pieces over. And from that point forward, he obeyed the “unwritten rule”. 
On a 3-0 count, that last pitch has to be well outside the strike zone for it to be called ball four.
On a 3-0 count, that last pitch has to be well outside the strike zone for it to be called ball four.
In baseball, the batter cannot incline his head to look at the signals the catcher is giving the pitcher.