Playing to Tie
May 5, 2019 11:14 PM   Subscribe

 
Paging the Chappell brothers...
posted by pompomtom at 11:23 PM on May 5, 2019 [3 favorites]


Oh man, check this one out, where a pro golfer set a towel down to avoid getting his pants dirty, and ultimately (another rule was involved) it disqualified him, costing him second place and $37,000!
posted by JHarris at 11:31 PM on May 5, 2019 [1 favorite]


I supplied the wrong URL for Season Two, here's the proper playlist.
posted by JHarris at 1:36 AM on May 6, 2019


This looks good, thanks JHarris...

Paging the Chappell brothers...

Too soon!

Actually first thing I thought of: Australia deliberately scoring very slowly to beat the West Indies in the 1999 Cricket World Cup, in the hope of improving the West Indies' net run rate, meaning that the West Indies would qualify for the next round on net run rate ahead of New Zealand, and therefore Australia would carry forward points from their win over the West Indies, rather than not carrying any points forward for their loss to NZ.

The plan failed but Australia (naturally) won the World Cup after South Africa (naturally) choked.
posted by Pink Frost at 3:01 AM on May 6, 2019 [3 favorites]


Cricket shouldn't be a allowed in this. It's like fielding a pro in a game with kids.
posted by Kosmob0t at 4:01 AM on May 6, 2019 [9 favorites]


Because it's my sport I was interested in what they had to say about the cycling example. I was disappointed that they didn't include or explain footage, they just sort of "wow!" over the rule and the incident.

Here's the incident in question. Not surprisingly, after this sort of high-profile application of the rules, some some public monocle-dropping from the media when Hindes said it was intentional, Team GB backed off and said it wasn't intentional. Shortly thereafter the governing body changed the wording of the rule from "a mishap" to "a legitimate mishap."
posted by entropone at 4:16 AM on May 6, 2019 [1 favorite]


Cricket shouldn't be a allowed in this. It's like fielding a pro in a game with kids.

They could barely even say Duckworth–Lewis–Stern method in a 4½ minute video, let alone begin to explain it.
posted by scruss at 5:23 AM on May 6, 2019


These are some of my favorite sports content online. If they pop up in your recs after watching these, I can also heartily endorse the Beef History and Rewinder series from SB Nation, as well as all the Jon Bois content they host.

I enjoy the Collapse series, but they are pretty sports nerdy in a way that can feel off-putting, but they are still very good.

I will mention but cannot endorse the The Worst series, which is hit and miss and has a sort of post-ironic mocking tone that I generally dislike. It is popular, so others enjoy it, and perhaps you are amoung them.
posted by neonrev at 6:07 AM on May 6, 2019 [1 favorite]


This was a great way to start my morning. Thanks!
posted by Tell Me No Lies at 6:15 AM on May 6, 2019 [1 favorite]


They could barely even say Duckworth–Lewis–Stern method in a 4½ minute video, let alone begin to explain it.

That Wikipedia article might as well be written in another language for all I got out of it. BRB going to spend the rest of the day reading about cricket terms.
posted by Literaryhero at 6:17 AM on May 6, 2019 [1 favorite]


I call shenanigans. Ryan is using the same binder as the "rulebook" in each video. #bindertruther
posted by Rock Steady at 6:39 AM on May 6, 2019


Because I am a hockey fan, I have always liked the one about Roger Nielson finding loopholes to exploit.
posted by nubs at 7:35 AM on May 6, 2019 [1 favorite]


The George Brett pine tar incident where MLB ultimately chose to NOT enforce their rule should be included somewhere. Yankees wus robbed!
posted by AugustWest at 7:42 AM on May 6, 2019 [1 favorite]


And hey, I don't think this was in the main post - S3 is under way.
posted by nubs at 7:48 AM on May 6, 2019 [1 favorite]


I call shenanigans. Ryan is using the same binder as the "rulebook" in each video.

Inter-league regulations specify that an armchair history MAY create a dimensionally unstable interleaving of multiple rulebooks in quantum superposition.
posted by cortex at 7:49 AM on May 6, 2019 [1 favorite]


Mod note: Fixed season 2 link.
posted by restless_nomad (staff) at 8:22 AM on May 6, 2019


Inter-league regulations specify that an armchair history MAY create a dimensionally unstable interleaving of multiple rulebooks in quantum superposition.

Ah, yes, but if you look at the text of the rule (Dimension 3, Title XXIV, Chapter 14.3, Section Blue, Subsection Light Blueish-green, Paragraph 4, Grayble XJ22) it says "an armchair history MAY create a dimensionally unstable interleaving of multiple rulebooks in quantum superposition. The sheet you slip into the little plastic window on the front the the dimensionally unstable binder must bear the OSHA "Dimensional Instability" warning label prominently. [emphasis mine]" And his clearly does not.
posted by Rock Steady at 8:34 AM on May 6, 2019 [1 favorite]


Yes but it's clarified in Appendix 7 ("on the permissibility of nonorientable surfaces in text alignment") that the warning label is not required to be aligned with a 3-space collapsable plane of view, so long as it is parsable by a totalistic metadata scanner as defined by the Retroactive Television Tech Advisory Supplement of 2037.
posted by cortex at 8:50 AM on May 6, 2019 [1 favorite]


Who is the host of this?
posted by glonous keming at 9:44 AM on May 6, 2019


@glonous keming The host is https://twitter.com/rysimmons
posted by seiryuu at 11:16 AM on May 6, 2019 [1 favorite]


Also great to see a bunch of the Polygon crew represented.
posted by Rock Steady at 11:39 AM on May 6, 2019 [1 favorite]


Thanks, seiryuu! At first I though it sounded like one of the McElroys but I wasn't sure.
posted by glonous keming at 3:55 PM on May 6, 2019


About the Texas Hammer... am I correct in hearing that both he and the other guy both call themselves "The Texas Hammer?" Like, they're both the one thing? Is that confusing? Shouldn't they more accurately be called "Those Texas Hammers?"
posted by JHarris at 7:07 PM on May 8, 2019


No, "The Texas Hammer" is the plural; each of them alone is a Texa Hammer.
posted by cortex at 7:09 PM on May 8, 2019 [3 favorites]


Ah, I just noticed I made the "Texas Hammer" comment in entirely the wrong thread. Sigh.
posted by JHarris at 6:08 AM on May 16, 2019 [1 favorite]


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