Running 2011 Baseball Thread, Vol. I: Dedicated to spnited

I like how CC still can't believe how well he pitched down the stretch in Milwaukee in '08.

 

On a Cubs broadcast last year Bob Brenly said it was "nice of Major League Baseball to all the bad umpires on one crew."

 

During the argument over the safe call when Martinez was pulled off the bag, West actually followed Leyland to the dugout at one point. Was about a foot away from the dugout.

Hernandez might have missed a fair/foul call down the line, also early in the game. Angels hitter lined it down the third base line. Hit off the wall, looked like it hit on the yellow stripe, but Hernandez said it was a foot foul.

 

This runner was not called safe.

 

That was a great slide. Umpire shouldn't have missed it.

 

That was the play of the day on Sportscenter.

 

Great slide by a guy who's a really bad all-around player.

I don't see how the call could have been blown. He's right in position to make it.

 

First time I saw it, I thought he was out.

But, you're right, he was safe.

 

Great play all around - the throw, the block of the plate and the slide by Encarnacion, who got screwed by the call. It was about as bang-bang as it gets, though. Ump got it wrong, but when you need to watch in slow motion on replay to know for sure about whether a call is right or wrong, it's hard to fault the ump.

 

Yeah, same here. But even after seeing the replays after the game I never saw his right foot touch the plate before Varitek tagged him. Even Gregg Zaun - who is fantastic in the pre and post-game shows missed it. Quite clear he beat the tag.

Whoda thunk that Papelbon would be the one Sox pitcher the Jays would have success against last night?

 

I thought, what is Leyland yelling about? Then I saw West and said, oh shit, Leyland is gone ... doesn't matter what happened, Leyland is gone.
That ball down the line, Vernon Wells hit it, looked foul to me. Hit the low fence just to the left of the foul pole, about 6 inches foul. Scioscia didn't argue (good thing, it would have taken forever for him to run down the left-field line).
But if the point of this portion of this thread is that the umpires suck, they do.
A few years ago, the all-haughty umpires proclaimed that the new replay technology, super slo-mo, X-Mo, whatever, was proving how good they are. Now it's proving how bad they are.