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  1. Not weird stat:  Yankees pitchers have accounted for 4 of the 24 perfect games in MLB history.

    Weird stat: All 4 Yankees pitchers who have a perfect game have a first name starting with the letter "D"

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  2. 9 hours ago, beerguy55 said:

    And Macarena is about a woman who cheats on her boyfriend while he's away on conscripted military service...

     

    My favorite though is the old ladies who request  "Please Release Me" at wedding receptions!!!

    I played "Paradise by the Dashboard Light" at my wedding reception. I don't think anyone got the joke.

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  3. Saw it called - and fully agreed - in a game this weekend when I was BU. Like this one, the batter 'swung' after the catcher already caught the ball and was on his way up to throw. By rule, once the catcher secures the ball, the pitch is over - can't very well strike at a pitch that's already over. No prob nailing this as BI if it even remotely impacts the play.

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  4. 1 hour ago, ChrisUrbz said:

    NFHS is a JOKE... Not only the wrist bands but now they are regulating how you wear eye black. 

    That one really isn't an NFHS thing (at least not yet, not in baseball)....but many states have made it a state adoption. From what I gather, these include MI, NC, PA, NJ, NY, NV, but I'm sure there are others.

  5. 1 minute ago, ArchAngel72 said:

    You are correct I mis stated my stance in my OP and corrected it. The rest of the thread I had stated a difference between a crack and a rumble.  I apologize for that misdirection of my meaning and not clarifying my stance in the original post better. But I figure the rest of the thread HAS established what I feel is thunder and what I feel is to be ignored.

    If the rest of the thread does not clarify that for you Maybe this post does

     


    Fair enough, thx

  6. Just now, ArchAngel72 said:

    No I am not I am talking about rumbling that sounds like a TT going by on the road. 

    If I hear a crack I stop If I see the sky light up I stop.  If I hear a rumble I do not 

    The fields I do have a local major airport within 20 miles 

    DO You guys realize how many times I hear something that SOUNDS like thunder but 95% of the time is not..

    No you do not.. 

     

    Now you're just backtracking, you very clearly said you would ignore thunder. 

  7. 14 hours ago, BLWizzRanger said:

    No one is arguing that when lightning is cracking all around that you leave....

    Yes, someone is arguing that.....if you can hear it, it's cracking around you, even if it's still in the clouds and you can't see the strike.

  8. On 6/27/2022 at 3:30 PM, ArchAngel72 said:

    Meh with me and the LL kids 

    Thunder aint nothing  I need to see lightning myself. The second I see a lightning bolt. Time OFF THE FIELD..

     

     

    heck that was not thunder that was a semi on the highway...

     

    What exactly do you think caused the thunder? It's not God bowling.

     

  9. 19 minutes ago, Jimurray said:

    You have OBR wrong. In all codes on a batted ball all runners must execute their responsibility. Only on an award does OBR and NCAA (with some doubt as to what they mean) only require the B-R and R3 to advance. And in OBR the umpire should tell them to do so, NCAA who knows. I think @Richvee the BRD has some cites that says a FED abandonment call is a forceout but an OBR is not.

     

    My mistake, thank you. I do virtually no OBR games, so I confused the two provisions.

  10. 1 minute ago, Richvee said:

    The miss and subsequent appeal for sure is a force. My question is, would the call of abandonment be a force?  

    Oh, gotcha...I imagine it would have to be under the same principle of an out made by a forced runner before they achieved the base to which they were forced. But there was no way abandonment was being called in this situation, trust me 😉

  11. 4 minutes ago, Richvee said:

    Another good reason not grab this end of the stick. We have very little guidance from Fed if this is a time play or force. No need to call it if it’s a time play, and I’m not sure I can find a rulebook or case play interp to back me up if I call it a force. 

    Oh it would have been a force, bases were loaded. This is one of the rules differences in Fed vs NCAA/OBR, only the batter-runner and R3 have to touch their bases in those codes but all have to do so in Fed. If they had appealed it, U3 would have ruled an out in this case, for a missed base on a force. This would fall under 9-1-1(d). Case 9.1.1 SIT D is analogous, though not exactly the same it deals with a runner missing a base to which he was forced and negating the run.

     

  12. 5 minutes ago, Jimurray said:

    Did they know that it could be appealed until the last umpire left the field? They should of course delayed a little bit as they did to see if a play happened at 3B. What do think about calling abandonment on R2? That would have been quite the situation also that we don't have much guidance on in the interps.

    Most definitely. They did delay a bit, about 4-5 seconds, then started walking and then jogging off. It's a fine line, I think, don't want to sprint off and abdicate responsibility but don't want to delay too long or abnormally and give away that there's something there. 

    I don't think abandonment ever entered their minds or would have been the right call, the defense has some obligation here. R2 ran the bases, just not legally. Abandonment would have been quite the firestorm :). 

  13. 12 hours ago, mw94 said:

    And I am pretty damn sure the Plate umpire knew the rules if you notice he is hanging around the plate well after R3 touches home & looking toward 3rd base.  He does not leave until the defense has left the field

     


    He did, as did U3 (this was a 4 person crew), both of them saw it immediately and hung around for a few seconds before departing.

  14. 11 hours ago, SJA said:

    IMO Ad companies in sports are nothing more than pimps and whores, but that pays a lot for the ridiculous owner and players salaries. It's all about the $$$$$$$$$$$$$. 😞 

    Well, of course it's about the money, it's professional baseball. As in it's their profession, their livelihood, their business. Is any of that a surprise?

    And also, it isn't even anything new on umpires. Seen any logo on MLB umpire CP's or masks lately other than Wilson? No? Why is that? Could it be....Wilson's money?

  15. Everyone has their limits of what they'll tolerate, and I respect your choice, but gotta admit - not going out in A and not rotating as PU doesn't even register on my radar of things to block people over. Either way is easily handled - I know I've either got the catches or the bases, simple enough. And in 90%+ of the cases, I would anyway. Just doesn't seem like too big of a deal to me, but again, that's just me.

    I only have two guys on my pay no mind list, both for integrity/lying issues.

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  16. 15 hours ago, SH0102 said:

    Have to agree with Matt on this one. They can wear jewelry in NCAA and MLB so it isn’t really a safety issue.  And even if it is, what’s a stud earring going to do?  If you get hit in the ear by a pitch it’s gonna hurt more?  Pretty sure you’re already toast anyways.

    I can get on board with no “dangly” stuff that can get snagged or caught during a tag or slide, but a non-dangly earring, a necklace that isn’t all dangly and loose and flopping around...who cares?

    They can wear it in NCAA and MLB because the players are adults, not minors who are legally incapable of waving liability and accepting that risk. 

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