2016 MLB Postseason Thread

That guy had like a drop or two of blood on his sock! Bauer was out there hemorrhaging like a gator bit his damn hand off!

Plus, I'm a Yankees fan who loves any chance to take a shot at that gasbag crook.

 

We all hate Schilling, but comparing the two is ridiculous.

Well, Tony probably loves him.

 

Schilling - the old_tony of MLB.

 

JC, let's try to never have a simultaneous mind meld again. That was fucking scary.

 

Lighten up, Francis. It was tongue-in-cheek.

 

FIFY!

 

I hate replay in baseball. Does anyone really think that a player who steals a base, arrives at the bag first, and loses contact by a half-inch, for a half-second as his body slides over the bag should be called out? Christ.

Home runs, foul balls and force plays at first base. Nothing else should be reviewable.

 

If a player is being tagged while he is not in contact with the base, he should be called out.

 

I get that, but I look at it almost like the infinite end zone. If a runner crosses the end line while inbounds in the NFL, but the ball is in his hand outside the boundary, it's still a touchdown. If a runner slides into second base and he loses contact with the bag while he's above the "safe zone" if you will, he should be safe. If he slides past the bag and is tagged while he's not above the "safe zone," he's out.

When the runner beats the tag, the fielder shouldn't get credit for holding his glove against the guy (again, unless the runner slides past/to the side of the bag).

 

pern, you're completely right. They've basically invented a new rule because of replay. You would have never seen that call previously -- only if a guy went way past the base or something, not while he was off for a quarter of a second.

And replay was meant to get existing calls correct, not create new ones. I think they're going to carve out an exception on this.

 

It isn't a new rule. They are simply able to enforce the rule more accurately.

 

Cleveland is looking pretty tough.