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Every time I read something about parts of the umpiring job being taken from the humans and assigned to machines or whatnot, my first and last thought is always that the umpires brought this upon themselves by going out of their way to protect their authority to be wrong. How many years and...

I find those sorts of takes - for any team - to be ridiculous. If a team makes it into the postseason, by default, they’re a winning team. They may not have performed as well in the postseason as was expected or hoped, and it’s reasonable to be disappointed, but the idea that anything short of...

I dunno, I mean, there are no perfect solutions to any ticketing problem, so does that mean they shouldn’t try anything ever? I don’t think it’s unreasonable to try to get Padres tickets into the hands of Padres fans rather than ticket scalpers from Des Moines or Hartford.

Yes. There are many examples of ticket sellers in the past using geographic restrictions to limit ticket purchases to residents within a certain area. To name one example, Bruce Springsteen has used geographic restrictions on some previous tours when he was only going to be playing single nights...

I think that’s the key issue - in theory, the game shouldn’t need a time limit. But the lack of one has been abused by players in a way that’s grown exponentially worse in the past couple decades. Three and a half to four hour games were not routine occurrences throughout the long history of the...

They are in support of a breast cancer charity in honor of Mother’s Day. The Red Sox do it every year.