Sorry about forgetting about the slide. Yes, it was illegal, and the runner at first should’ve been called out for baserunner’s interference. Obvious missed call. Dirty? Um, not so clear. It was a guy trying to do too much, and he was wrong; but I don’t think it was an effort to hurt Scutaro or anything like that. If the umps get the call right, and call the runner at first out, there’s a lot less to talk about.
Nonetheless, once again, we’re talking about the umpires. The missed tag on Blanco, a
call in the Giants favor, was terrible. The action happened right in front of the umpire, who was looking right at the play. The infield fly rule disaster, the constant ball and strike disputes, I mean come on….
For Bud Selig and Joe Torre to keep insisting that these mistakes are acceptable, that human error is part of the game…. well, it just makes them look ridiculous. Sure, mistakes are part of life. But everyone, I mean, everyone, does everything they can to mitigate them, to make sure they don’t happen. People spend their lives trying to atone for mistakes. People ask for forgiveness for their mistakes. If you make a mistake, fine. Apologize, fix it and get over it.
However, if you make a mistake, and there’s a way to fix it right in front of you, and you refuse to do anything about it, you’re an asshole. The cashier gives you too much change and you keep it? Pretty slimy, no? What if the cashier gives you too little change, and then tells you, too bad? That’s what happens all the time in baseball. Pitcher throws a strike. Bam. Next pitch, same spot, ball. Too bad. Move on. And not only can’t the teams do anything about it, neither can the umpires.
In baseball, if the umpires make a mistake –other than on home run calls– they are prohibited from doing something about it. They are not allowed to see a replay. They are not allowed to have someone from the commissioners office call them up
and say, hey, you just missed that call. All they can say is sorry, and let’s move on. That’s absurd. Baseball has a system in place right now that they don’t even have to pay for. It’s called television. In fact, television pays them. In these playoffs, MLB is paying two extra umpires to stand twenty feet away from the other umpires and asking them to do what all of us at home can do effortlessly, which is to see what’s happening.
Why not have those same two guys watching the game on a high definition TV? There could be one in each dugout. Or right there by the cameramen. Or up in the press box. Whatever. There’s no way this can be done quickly and efficiently? Bullshit. In fifteen seconds, everyone in the world could see that Blanco was out, everyone could see that Holliday had slid over the bag and that the play was illegal and the runner at first was out. At home, on their high definition televisions, everyone can see the runner is out of the basepath, that the fielder trapped the ball…. everyone, except for the men given the task of figuring out what’s happening and ruling on it.
You wanna know how ridiculous baseball is, all you have to do is look at what happens on disputed home run calls. First, all of the umps get together and talk about whether or not the play is in dispute. Um, yeah, that’s efficient. Then, all of the umps leave the field. One guy has to walk all the way inside the clubhouse, or wherever the hell they go, and sit there looking at what, the clubhouse TV? Who knows, who cares.
I know about ten people who could come up with something more efficient and simpler than that in about a week. Give one of the umps an iPad for crying out loud. Do something. Sure football’s system ain’t perfect. It’s a thousand times better than what we have in baseball.
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…Not to mention that Timmhy’s good work out of the bullpen this postseason — basically the only good pitching he has given us all year — was with POSEY CATCHING, not Sanchez.
Timmy may think he pitches better with Sanchez catching, but he doesn’t. Unless Bochy has been suddenly struck stupid, he has to know that. SO. WHAT. THE. F**k??????????
I didn’t second-guess Roger Craig when he started Hammaker over Krukow in NLCS Game 7 back in 1987. I didn’t second-guess Dusty when he flipped the ball to Russ Ortiz in WS Game 6 in 2002. But Bochy’s decision tonight just seems deranged. If anyone has an explanation, I would like to hear it.
Hector Sanchez just struck out on a pitch in the dirt to go 0 for 3. Beautiful.
Is anyone else just tremendously PO’d that Sanchez started at catcher tonight? This takes Belt out of the lineup which weakens us offensively, at least against a RHP. Having Sanchez catch and Posey play 1B also weakens us defensively at two positions.
As for the argument that “Timmy thinks Sanchez calls a better game than Posey”, two comments: 1) If Sanchez calls a better game, then why did Timmy have by far the worst year of his career with Sanchez as his personal catcher?; 2) Why bend over backwards to keep Timmy happy, when he stunk up the league all year? How about doing what’s best for the other 24 guys?
I can see having Posey not catch Lincecum sometimes during the regular season, since Timmy tends to beat up his catchers’ bodies. But in a freakin’ must-win playoff game??
So Sanchez goes hitless (through six innings, as I’m writing this) and can’t handle a catchable throw at home plate that costs us two runs. I like Bochy, but if you make stupid lineup decisions you deserve to lose, and the odds are overwhelming that you will get what you deserve.
Hunter Pence and his great pre-game speeches: Hunter, hiw about a little less talking and little more hitting?
how this guy hit over 300 in a season is beyond me. He looks totally off balance on everything. Here’s to hoping he regresses to the mean and gets on a tear for the rest of the postseason, we could use the help.
Pence is surely a better hitter than he’s shown with the Giants — if he was really this bad he wouldn’t be in the major leagues — but a lot of his drop-off after the trade to SF is just the change from playing in two of the best hitters parks in MLB (Houston and Philadelphia) to playing at ATT, which is arguably the worst. Pence is a decent player, but he was never a star — the ballparks he played in just made him look like one. If Giants fans think he’ll hit .300 with 25HR next year they are delusional. A .270 BA with 15HR is probably the best we can expect…
WHo cares about his ATT numbers. His numbers everywhere are garbage. Not to mention, he looks awful.
The umpiring is an ongoing joke.
Human error is acceptable? Fine. Let’s randomly fuckup their paychecks, then refuse to correct them or install a system that gets them right.
Let’s not throw a bunch of technology at baseball and fuck it up. The basic idea of getting the call right is undeniably the point but do you really want to shit on umpires all the way from T-ball to the major leagues?
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The absolute last say of the umpire is the only thing that makes baseball work. Messing with that at the highest levels will have repercussions all the way back to little league.
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I am not a Luddite or anything like one. But I was trained to respect umpires since I was knee high and even when they are wrong they have the last word. It’s one of the last absolutes in my world. Umpires want to ‘get it right’ more than anyone in the game.
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they use instant replay in the little league world series
you lose
SHUT THE FUCK UP
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All decisions are predicated on the effect it will have on Selig’s personal finances. It is the only constant that explains so much of the bad he has done during his ill-gained tenure.