OT - Baseball Playoffs are excruciating
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Baseball is interesting to follow through box scores and highlights, stories about a favorite team during the season.
Watching a full game on TV (and playoff games are worse)?
Not fun.
Watching a full game on TV (and playoff games are worse)?
Not fun.
This is where I stand. I love the MLB site. I watched the highlights of the Astro's rally this morning. I also watched Bellinger's homer.
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Did MLB show the strike 3 on Martinez in the bottom of the 8th, then the ball on a strike 3 in the top of the ninth? Absolute disgrace...Diaz should be fired. Not for being a cheat...but because he sucks! Game should have been 2-2 heading to the bottom of the ninth.
Not in the highlights I watched. This article discusses it.
Umpire Laz Diaz’s Missed Calls Played Far Too Prominent A Role In Red Sox’ Loss To Astros
let me be clear..this call did not cost the Sox the game. They walked 7 guys, although in honesty it should have been only 3, and they left 11 guys on base. They should have been ahead 6-2 when this awful call was made.
Well, let me say this. I could do a fifth of Jack, and smoke 3 joints, and still call balls and strikes better than this guy! Rob Manfred has to be saying this morning: "WTF!"
To each his own, Roy. IMHO, baseball (especially playoff baseball) > college football > pro football. By a significant margin.
OP - What??? You don't enjoy watching batters step out of the box after every pitch and waste 30 seconds to adjust their gloves & cup, knock the dust off their cleats? You don't appreciate it when a relief pitcher who just warmed up in the bullpen for 15 minutes has to come out and throw another 20 warmup pitches from the mound? How about the 50 shots / game of guys spitting in the dugout? Fantastic television.
also love the prolonged debates about whether a bat flip or a fist pump was disrespectful and against the "unwritten" rules of the game.
also love the prolonged debates about whether a bat flip or a fist pump was disrespectful and against the "unwritten" rules of the game.
They should not have a World Series title. They were not punished nearly sufficiently. It's Pro wrestling if a team can get away with that. And if fake shit is your thing, Pro Wrestling would be more entertaining.
I loved baseball my whole life. It just doesn't interest me anymore largely because of the cheating scandal, backyard looking infield shifts, all the metrics, and apparently pitchers can't throw more than 50 or so pitches anymore.
Yup, especially stepping out of the box. My daughter had a softball game on Saturday and a girl on the other team stepped out of the box after every pitch and called time just like the big leaguers. Her at bat lasted about 8 minutes. Ha
Agreed and I have no dog in this fight. I went to mlb.com this morning and couldn't find one mention of the poor calls behind the plate. I take it the league is protecting the umps? How can one write an article about this game and not bring it up? That's weak!
Listened to a guy on Sirius radio...MLB network...he had a great point to make. We now have the technology to get this right. Why not use it. His proposal ,that I really agreed with, was to allow coaches to have two challenges per game on any play. This includes balls and strikes. The coach keeps the challenges as long as they don't lose whatever they challenged. In the ninth inning EVERYTHING is reviewed including balls and strikes and all scoring plays. This was a disgrace last nite. Like I said in an earlier thread, the Sox allowed this call to be important by not leaving 11 guys on. But when you see how awful these 2 calls were and have the ability to correct them...it's just not right.
