Weird Rules
Jan. 6th, 2020 12:19 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
brainwaneAre you aware of SBNation's "Weird Rules" video series? It is about the edge cases of organized sports. What numbers are allowed on basketball jerseys? In baseball, if a switch hitter faces a switch pitcher, which one has to commit to a stance first? How does the National Hockey League deal with it if the power completely fails in the middle of a game in a championship series? Here is one of my favorites: the mechanical and rule-making response to Shaquille O'Neal's destruction of basketball hoops.
If you are the kind of non-sports-watching person who enjoyed Jon Bois's 17776 please consider checking this out.
You know that pedantic joy of finding and talking about human ingenuity, loopholes, and obscure achievements? That is this series. There are three "seasons" on YouTube now and I hope they make more.
If you are the kind of non-sports-watching person who enjoyed Jon Bois's 17776 please consider checking this out.
You know that pedantic joy of finding and talking about human ingenuity, loopholes, and obscure achievements? That is this series. There are three "seasons" on YouTube now and I hope they make more.
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Date: 2020-01-06 06:31 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2020-01-07 01:52 am (UTC)The only obscure sports info I know: at Wrigley Field, if the batter's ball gets stuck in the ivy, it's an automatic double. But that's a condition of the venue, not a response to one particular person! LOL Shaq.
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Date: 2020-09-20 11:24 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2020-09-20 11:24 pm (UTC)