OT: Breakdown Dead Ahead...

[Victor E. Bell]

Reading this today from MLB triggered a repressed memory:

http://www.msn.com/en-us/sports/mlb...-due-to-breakdown-in-replay-system/ar-BBkJohI

I talked to MLB. They admitted that they missed the call,” Yost said. “They said that they had a breakdown in their system and they deeply regretted it.”

“This is one of those rare circumstances in which the super slow motion view was delayed and the Replay Official reached a decision without the benefit of that information,” MLB said in a statement. “Earlier today we communicated with Ned Yost, and during the conversation we expressed our regret for this occurrence.”

OK, now compare that to the response from the limp peckers at the Big Ten:

http://www.cbssports.com/collegefoo...iating-mistakes-in-ohio-state-penn-state-game

On Sunday, the Big Ten said "the video feed to the replay booth was tested and confirmed on Friday and prior to the game on Saturday, but at the start of the game, the booth was no longer receiving all available feeds. The technician in the booth followed procedure by contacting the production truck, which immediately began working on the issue. Due to these technical difficulties, only one isolated shot from the overhead camera was available and the view did not provide sufficient information to reverse the call. As a result, the play stood as called. The production truck rectified the technical issues shortly thereafter, and the replay booth had access to multiple feeds for the remainder of the game.”

In another play, Ohio State kicked a 49-yard field to increase its lead to 17-0 in the second quarter despite the snap coming after the play clock expired. The Big Ten said in a statement "a breakdown in officiating mechanics occurred and the crew failed to properly monitor the play clock. There is flexibility for a slight delay between the play clock and the snap of the ball, but in this case, the timing far exceeded the tolerance for normal play clock procedures. The proper ruling should have been a five-yard penalty for delay of game."

The takeaway is this:

MLB: We got it wrong and deeply regret it and expressed same to the manager.
B10: This should have been the call. Here are our excuses. Too bad.

( In fact, in the case of the interception they handed OSU after the ball bounced off the ground, they never even admit they got it wrong, only that they weren't getting some "feed.")

Also, "breakdown" is apparently the cool new buzzword for "f&*$ing up." I plan to incorporate it into my vocabulary more frequently.

 

[Bushwood CC]

Yea, especially considering that you didn't even need slow motion, let alone super slo-mo, to make call in PSU-tO$U game. Ball quite obviously hit ground on replays running on ABC/ESPN (same feeds Replay Booth says they were "limited to") and also running on Jumbotrons right in front of their faces. Replay Rule says the officials are allowed to use any video made available to them and the ABC/ESPN videos were unquestionably "available to them" from multiple venues. Ball obviously hit ground on the replay feeds available to entire stadium and the big turds were obviously cheating and lying as per their SOP and basic lack of integrity.

 

[Victor E. Bell]

Hey! Welcome back Bushwood.

 

[BobPSU92]

Reading this today from MLB triggered a repressed memory:

http://www.msn.com/en-us/sports/mlb...-due-to-breakdown-in-replay-system/ar-BBkJohI

I talked to MLB. They admitted that they missed the call,” Yost said. “They said that they had a breakdown in their system and they deeply regretted it.”

“This is one of those rare circumstances in which the super slow motion view was delayed and the Replay Official reached a decision without the benefit of that information,” MLB said in a statement. “Earlier today we communicated with Ned Yost, and during the conversation we expressed our regret for this occurrence.”

OK, now compare that to the response from the limp peckers at the Big Ten:

http://www.cbssports.com/collegefoo...iating-mistakes-in-ohio-state-penn-state-game

On Sunday, the Big Ten said "the video feed to the replay booth was tested and confirmed on Friday and prior to the game on Saturday, but at the start of the game, the booth was no longer receiving all available feeds. The technician in the booth followed procedure by contacting the production truck, which immediately began working on the issue. Due to these technical difficulties, only one isolated shot from the overhead camera was available and the view did not provide sufficient information to reverse the call. As a result, the play stood as called. The production truck rectified the technical issues shortly thereafter, and the replay booth had access to multiple feeds for the remainder of the game.”

In another play, Ohio State kicked a 49-yard field to increase its lead to 17-0 in the second quarter despite the snap coming after the play clock expired. The Big Ten said in a statement "a breakdown in officiating mechanics occurred and the crew failed to properly monitor the play clock. There is flexibility for a slight delay between the play clock and the snap of the ball, but in this case, the timing far exceeded the tolerance for normal play clock procedures. The proper ruling should have been a five-yard penalty for delay of game."

The takeaway is this:

MLB: We got it wrong and deeply regret it and expressed same to the manager.
B10: This should have been the call. Here are our excuses. Too bad.

( In fact, in the case of the interception they handed OSU after the ball bounced off the ground, they never even admit they got it wrong, only that they weren't getting some "feed.")

Also, "breakdown" is apparently the cool new buzzword for "f&*$ing up." I plan to incorporate it into my vocabulary more frequently.

The bot had a breakdown in its handling of the sandusky matter.

There. That doesn't sound so bad. I feel better.

 

[Victor E. Bell]

You're catching on nicely.

 

[Bushwood CC]

The bot had a breakdown in its handling of the sandusky matter.

There. That doesn't sound so bad. I feel better.

Doofus Delany given huge raise for masterful job as Director of Strategic Breakdown.

 

[GulfCoastLion]

Reading this today from MLB triggered a repressed memory:

http://www.msn.com/en-us/sports/mlb...-due-to-breakdown-in-replay-system/ar-BBkJohI

I talked to MLB. They admitted that they missed the call,” Yost said. “They said that they had a breakdown in their system and they deeply regretted it.”

“This is one of those rare circumstances in which the super slow motion view was delayed and the Replay Official reached a decision without the benefit of that information,” MLB said in a statement. “Earlier today we communicated with Ned Yost, and during the conversation we expressed our regret for this occurrence.”

OK, now compare that to the response from the limp peckers at the Big Ten:

http://www.cbssports.com/collegefoo...iating-mistakes-in-ohio-state-penn-state-game

On Sunday, the Big Ten said "the video feed to the replay booth was tested and confirmed on Friday and prior to the game on Saturday, but at the start of the game, the booth was no longer receiving all available feeds. The technician in the booth followed procedure by contacting the production truck, which immediately began working on the issue. Due to these technical difficulties, only one isolated shot from the overhead camera was available and the view did not provide sufficient information to reverse the call. As a result, the play stood as called. The production truck rectified the technical issues shortly thereafter, and the replay booth had access to multiple feeds for the remainder of the game.”

In another play, Ohio State kicked a 49-yard field to increase its lead to 17-0 in the second quarter despite the snap coming after the play clock expired. The Big Ten said in a statement "a breakdown in officiating mechanics occurred and the crew failed to properly monitor the play clock. There is flexibility for a slight delay between the play clock and the snap of the ball, but in this case, the timing far exceeded the tolerance for normal play clock procedures. The proper ruling should have been a five-yard penalty for delay of game."

The takeaway is this:

MLB: We got it wrong and deeply regret it and expressed same to the manager.
B10: This should have been the call. Here are our excuses. Too bad.

( In fact, in the case of the interception they handed OSU after the ball bounced off the ground, they never even admit they got it wrong, only that they weren't getting some "feed.")

Also, "breakdown" is apparently the cool new buzzword for "f&*$ing up." I plan to incorporate it into my vocabulary more frequently.

The other amazing, or should I say rediculous call was the leaping penalty on Mike Hull on an extra point in OT, giving the Buckeyes 15 yards on the next possession in the 3rd OT. This BS call is almost never seen and essentially assured the Buckeyes the game at the end.

 

[BobPSU92]

You're catching on nicely.

Thanks. Can we similarly use "lapse in judgment"? The November 2011 trustees aren't bad people. They just made an unfortunate error. It was merely a lapse in judgment.

Does that work?

 

[BobPSU92]

The other amazing, or should I say rediculous call was the leaping penalty on Mike Hull on an extra point in OT, giving the Buckeyes 15 yards on the next possession in the 3rd OT. This BS call is almost never seen and essentially assured the Buckeyes the game at the end.

Happy 25th B1G anniversary to us. We're just lucky to be having an anniversary.

 

[Bushwood CC]

The other amazing, or should I say rediculous call was the leaping penalty on Mike Hull on an extra point in OT, giving the Buckeyes 15 yards on the next possession in the 3rd OT. This BS call is almost never seen and essentially assured the Buckeyes the game at the end.

Not to mention the fact that replay clearly shows it was a horse$hit fabricated call, or ahem...I mean a "breakdown in officiating". Jumping in the air is not a penalty - it is only a penalty for "Leaping" if the player initiates their jump using a teammate to launch & elevate themselves which Mauti clearly did not do. The replay clearly shows Mauti simply jumped in the air which is absolutely not a penalty of any kind except in the homer, horsecrap, bush-league tiny ten.

 

[Bushwood CC]

The bot had a breakdown in its handling of the sandusky matter.

There. That doesn't sound so bad. I feel better.

Celebrating 25 years of Breakdowns...err, I mean b1g Turd Ten membership.

 

[demlion]

Also, "breakdown" is apparently the cool new buzzword for "f&*$ing up." I plan to incorporate it into my vocabulary more frequently.

Victor, the use of "breakdown" is actually a cleverly dishonest way to speak of human error, since it implicitly suggests mechanical failure of some kind. It is the use of metaphorical language not to clarify or illuminate, but to obfuscate. It is even more powerful if there is an actual mechanical breakdown somewhere in the story, and if the human error is in part a failure to foresee and account for potential mechanical error. You are 5 hours late to your daughter's wedding. Why? You had a "breakdown" involving your car (aka a flat tire).

The word "breakdown" is designed to take away the usual questions which might follow if you said "flat tire," and cause the listener to look the other way when he MIGHT have asked; "It took you 5 hours to change a tire? You don't have Triple A? There was not a cab you could call? Did you even have a spare? Was the spare in good condition?"

These questions are attempts to get at the truth of why you were 5 hours late, and they are therefore questions in the case of the refs which B1G does not want to hear. So B1G releases a written statement containing the "breakdown" language, and a certain # of fans, including all Buckeye fans, say "whddaya gonna do? The machine thing-y broke. Those PSU fans need to move on."

This way there is no cheap public talk about why in the name of God they did not anticipate there would be problems, and how they managed not to get the F#CKING GAME FOOTAGE from the NETWORK FEED which clearly showed that the guy dropped the pick and the clock was expired on the FG.

What you have noticed is the way that dishonest big orgs lie by omission. Nice post.

 

[Bushwood CC]

Victor, the use of "breakdown" is actually a cleverly dishonest way to speak of human error, since it implicitly suggests mechanical failure of some kind. It is the use of metaphorical language not to clarify or illuminate, but to obfuscate. It is even more powerful if there is an actual mechanical breakdown somewhere in the story, and if the human error is in part a failure to foresee and account for potential mechanical error. You are 5 hours late to your daughter's wedding. Why? You had a "breakdown" involving your car (aka a flat tire).

The word "breakdown" is designed to take away the usual questions which might follow if you said "flat tire," and cause the listener to look the other way when he MIGHT have asked; "It took you 5 hours to change a tire? You don't have Triple A? There was not a cab you could call? Did you even have a spare? Was the spare in good condition?"

These questions are attempts to get at the truth of why you were 5 hours late, and they are therefore questions in the case of the refs which B1G does not want to hear. So B1G releases a written statement containing the "breakdown" language, and a certain # of fans, including all Buckeye fans, say "whddaya gonna do? The machine thing-y broke. Those PSU fans need to move on."

This way there is no cheap public talk about why in the name of God they did not anticipate there would be problems, and how they managed not to get the F#CKING GAME FOOTAGE from the NETWORK FEED which clearly showed that the guy dropped the pick and the clock was expired on the FG.

What you have noticed is the way that dishonest big orgs lie by omission. Nice post.

More than just a cheap way to dismiss corrupt officiating from a morally-bankrupt and corrupt, zero-integrity, busb-league, homer conference...but a disgraceful, self-serving, cowardly, shameless and convenient way to obfuscate, and attempt to avoid, accountability. The VICTIMS of their disgraceful, shameless, self-serving and cowardly behavior - the ones who paid the price and these scumbags literally "stole from" - , 18-22 year old student-athletes who aren't paid unlike the corrupt pond-scum stealing the game from them for their own largess, are a testament to the magnitude of cowardice, arrogance and complete lack of integrity that is fundamental to the POS scum that reside in, and run, this crap conference.