I don’t know enough about curling to know if he cheated. I know it was reviewed by the refs and they said no violation occurred, or at least that’s what I read. I don’t consider the refs flubbing a call and the player saying he was right to be cheating anyway. Happens in every team sport in every game. Happens almost every time a ball or strike is called in baseball.
I also know almost nobody here cares about curling and if they lose, it won’t be big news here.
If our hockey teams lose, which they probably will, we’ll go into mourning.
MLB is going to use non-humans to calls balls and strikes. The batter or pitcher can challenge the call. I’m not sure how many challenges you get, but if you are wrong, you are not allowed to pee for the rest of the game.
The batter, pitcher or catcher can challenge. Each team gets 2 challenges per game. If you are correct, you don’t lose your challenge, so if the ump sucks you could go 13/15.
It’s good they’re moving to that. Much more fair. I guess my point is I don’t see what this Canadian curler did as being cheating. The rules said he had to not touch the rock beyond a line. It seems he did touch the rock beyond that line, and the refs flubbed the call. The player then insisted he was right and told the other guy to f off.
I just can’t see how this is worse than a wide receiver catching a ball with one foot out of bounds and the ref flubbing the call and the wide receiver saying “f off, I was in bounds”. Or any other similar example. Nobody has any outrage over that. Nobody calls that wide receiver a cheater. It’s universally accepted that bad calls and players thinking they were in the right are just part of the game. Similarly, I’m not outraged over this curler and I don’t consider him to be a cheater.
For sure it’s FAR less bad than a soccer player taking a dive to get a bad call, which so many of them do. Those guys truly are cheaters.
I don’t what it is but I really love that guy. He’s just a better person than most people, including me. I hope the US elects him President, but I don’t expect it.
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for the men’s gold on Sunday.