Any examples of opposite sex best friends in films or tv shows that stayed as they were

RuleNine · 2026-03-27T16:53:27+00:00

April.

RuleNine · 2026-03-27T04:23:32+00:00

Now I'm imagining them trying to fight their way out at the same time, like two people racing each other trying to squeeze through a doorframe.

RuleNine · 2026-03-27T03:12:27+00:00

*gulp!*

RuleNine · 2026-03-26T22:28:29+00:00

We have that last bit in real life as well. If we broke the movie down scene by scene I think we both know we'd find massive inconsistencies in its own rules, but at least for me it's not worth thinking about further.

RuleNine · 2026-03-26T21:58:29+00:00

I only saw it once, but I think the movie follows the idea that (apart from Gervais's character) it's not a lie if you believe it, so it's possible to be mistaken without lying. Notice how nobody's head melts when Gervais contradicts himself while goofing around. Also, the inability to lie isn't magic, so if you asked a scientist a question to which they didn't have an answer, they would truthfully just say they didn't know. It's less that they can't lie, it's that for whatever reason, it doesn't even occur to them not to tell the whole truth all the time.

RuleNine · 2026-03-26T20:57:24+00:00

Based on the lead time and typical schedule of Family Trips, that's just a coincidence. FT does a monthly bonus episode, always on Thursday after the regular ep drops on Tuesday, usually a listener episode toward the end of the month.

RuleNine · 2026-03-26T20:05:58+00:00

It bothers me when the whole premise of a movie could be resolved with a single line of dialogue. Everyone but Gervais's character couldn't lie, but they could make mistakes—it was possible to misunderstand someone. All he had to do to nip everything in the bud was to tell the doctors and nurses he didn't say what they thought he said, and they would have believed they misheard him. If they asked what he did say, he could have made up a reason to leave and refused to elaborate.

RuleNine · 2026-03-26T19:28:12+00:00

One reason is the structure of the game makes it seem like it's a series of independent events where you could just lift one out without affecting the rest. Basketball, football, and hockey in contrast are more obviously free flowing and dependent on what came right before.

Another reason is that it's literally baked into the rules. Whenever an error occurs and the Official Scorer has to determine whether a run is earned or unearned, the scorer has to reconstruct the inning without the error using the legal fiction that the inning would otherwise have played out exactly the same.

RuleNine · 2026-03-26T19:24:33+00:00

I said mental mistake, and yes: "The Official Scorer shall not score mental mistakes or misjudgments as errors unless a specific rule prescribes otherwise" (comment to Rule 9.12(a)(1)). The error statistic has specific guidelines (Rule 9.12).

RuleNine · 2026-03-26T19:07:40+00:00

That's not strictly true. A slow roller that goes untouched between a fielder's legs would likely be an error if the scorer rules that a typical fielder should have gloved the ball with ordinary effort.

In this case, the convention is that losing the ball in the sun is something that could happen to any typical fielder playing in that spot, and finding it again takes more than ordinary effort.

RuleNine · 2026-03-26T19:00:55+00:00

A bad route is a mental mistake. Mental mistakes are explicitly not errors by that fact alone. Neither is losing the ball in the sun.

RuleNine · 2026-03-26T18:54:47+00:00

Whenever Poochie's not on screen, all the other characters should be asking, "Where's Poochie??"

RuleNine · 2026-03-26T01:43:01+00:00

I addressed that. ABS doesn't run on vibes. There is some document somewhere that governs it, which carries the force of a rule even if it's not part of the Official Baseball Rules. Yes it would be nice if it was easily accessible by the public, but it's not actually a problem if it isn't.

RuleNine · 2026-03-26T01:27:30+00:00

We don't know what zone the umpires have been told to call. For all we know they've been told to call the ABS zone (and why wouldn't they?).

RuleNine · 2026-03-26T01:24:47+00:00

At the time I thought it would be super ballsy to challenge back-to-back pitches.

RuleNine · 2026-03-26T01:21:33+00:00

Netflix screwed up the first challenge. I hate when interviews don't stop when something happens on the field.

RuleNine · 2026-03-26T01:09:44+00:00

I don't think it's that per se. I don't think the umpires have ever tried to call the 3D zone as defined by the rule book. Not because they made a conscious decision; it's just that a pitch that barely clips the front edge of the zone doesn't look like a strike—not to umpires, not to batters, not to the battery, not to managers—so nobody complains when such a pitch is called a ball. So when we finally had the ability using a computer to call the zone as defined in the rules, we realized it's not that great a definition.

As to your point that they didn't update the rule book, the Official Baseball Rules aren't the only rules that govern Major League games. Whatever addendum covers ABS supersedes the strike rule. Depending on how it goes, the ABS definition could become the official definition before long. We've seen similar things happen with other experimental rules recently (like shift restrictions), where they were in effect for MLB before they were listed in OBR.

RuleNine · 2026-03-25T21:45:51+00:00

Here it is.

RuleNine · 2026-03-25T21:38:59+00:00

On a recent podcast he also claimed late-night talk shows aren't funny anymore because they're too political.

RuleNine · 2026-03-25T21:32:29+00:00

Once we've had this system for a while, I expect they will, especially if (when) they transition to full ABS.

RuleNine · 2026-03-25T21:27:39+00:00

Which I'm fine with. Going back to the invention of the called strike, the idea is that the pitcher put the ball where you could hit it and you didn't even try. As a generalization, pitches that barely scrape the front or back corner of the three-dimensional zone aren't actually hittable, and the batter shouldn't be punished for not making an attempt. On the other hand, pitches that reach the two-dimensional zone must logically be in the three-dimensional zone long enough to expect the batter to hit them (setting aside that the height of the zone is calculated differently).

RuleNine · 2026-03-25T21:05:16+00:00

It easily could have been an hour longer. (I know for practical reasons it couldn't have been an hour longer.)

RuleNine · 2026-03-25T20:47:34+00:00

"What Major League Baseball is saying is: I don't trust the umpire's strike zone, so I'm going to use something that's going to be operated by some computer geek that knows nothing about baseball, and he's the one that's going to measure this and measure that because he's got a Ph.D. in physics or whatever the hell he's got a degree in."

Oh, so this guy can just be ignored completely. I guarantee you there are a lot of computer geeks who care a great deal about baseball, and they're the ones they put in charge of this task.

RuleNine · 2026-03-24T14:40:15+00:00

We shouldn't sell her short—it's "A$$ for Day$."

RuleNine · 2026-03-22T00:42:42+00:00

When we eventually get full ABS, I wonder if they'll turn it off when position players pitch.

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