Two points here. Indulge me. It's Sunday, I have nothing better to do than rant and if you're here on a Sunday, I assume you have nothing better to do than read it.

1) Justin Verlander, in what I assume is a hat tip to the anniversary of Jackie Robinson breaking baseball's color barrier, decided to break a barrier of his own. For far too long [in Verlander’s eye’s, but no one else’s], pitchers have had to unjustly choose between throwing over to first to pick off a runner or delivering the ball to home. And since the dawn of baseball, the commingling of these two distinct throws was frowned upon. But Verlander bravely took the mound in Oakland yesterday and said nay to conventional thought and delivered baseball history’s first integrated pitch/pick off move. The umpires, however, weren’t overly thrilled with Verlander’s political statement and/or extreme mental lapse. They ruled it a balk. Fascists.

2) The fact that MLB doesn’t make their videos embeddable is the retarded. And I don...