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Tiger fans not happy with HBP in bottom of 12th. and Seattle fans not happy with 3-0 pitch called ball 4 in bottom of 12th. controversy in games involving 2 of the best, 1 game LA, with Wegner and now 1 Seattle with Porter. doesn't matter if you are a veteran or new guy on the block when those controversial moments/plays/situations happen. no one is immune. https://www.mlb.com/video/victor-robles-hit-by-pitch-after-review?t=replay-review

one suspended and one fined https://www.mlb.com/padres/news/jose-iglesias-suspended-one-game-xander-bogaerts-fined?msockid=2502131e2e6d6b102d9b059f2f806a85

look at these four scorecards from he link below -- every single time i read an article it talks about the batters being hosed so bad and the umpires taking the bats out of their hands and batters are lucky to be batting over 200 with the umpires humongous strike zone. i may be reading the 4 charts wrong, but the umpires are squeezing the zone for the batter at a rate of 20-8. at that rate we should be getting tons of 300 hitters and a bunch of 7-5 games. are umps being reminded with 30 emails a day that it is preferable that if you do miss, as we all do,it is better to miss by calling a strike a ball, because fans don't come to see a pitching dual. are they told the pitch is a ball until it is a strike rather than a strike until it is a ball. are they told it is better to be a hitters ump than a pitchers ump. just trying to figure it out with what is written all the times about the umps so what is happening here? https://athlonsports.com/mlb/philadelphia-phillies/rare-walkoff-error-mlb-postseason

takeshi hirabayashi, not the actor, can probably get it done for you, if you can get him, and if he can and wants to.

guess the physics say throw home rather than 1st, rather than by runner distance to the base. of course the throw has to be on line to start with. or how many times do pitchers 'practice or real' throw to 1st base in their careers. how many times to home. oh well, let's see them blame the umpires. and wow. 3 fielding errors in the game total. https://www.mlb.com/gameday/phillies-vs-dodgers/2025/10/09/813042/final/video

i have enjoyed watching John Tumpane-------148 for 152 Adrian Johnson-------141 for 146 Adam Hamari---------157 for 161 Chris Segal-----------127 for 131 Nic Lentz-------------142 for 147

we do know that Chicago is called the windy city for a reason.

i think this would be hard to justify in the old days. if you justify the overhead conditions like sun, then you would have to justify lights. there has been the justification of a wind driven situation only. the rule says if any infielder. and that is 6 people could catch the ball with normal effort, and normal effort because you can't find the ball in the sky does not count IMHO. and dont leave pitchers out of the equation just because they tell them to run away from the ball. looks like the pitcher could have handled this with normal effort if they were allowed to do so. now if they rule the wind carried it where no player has been before, that, has been the one opening in the equation, on this mile high infield fly.

yep, nice job. and that pitch in the 3rd inning was not impactfull at all, and the other 2 would be very very very suspect to use such a descriptive and negative term on a mistake. what a crock of BS. heck, i guess just walking on the field and taking a deep breath or clearing your throat or ecpectorating is impactful. enjoyed watching 2 unearned runs and 2 errors by detroit that looked a whole lot more impactful if that is the term they want to use. so on 152 more chances of the exact same plays they made their errors on, i wonder if their stats would show 148 of 152 or would they be better. who knows they maybe would not make that error ever again in their career.

HBP on this one below https://www.mlb.com/video/andres-gimenez-hit-by-pitch-after-review?t=replay-review but not on this other one below---hey, we still got a job (except if they start using the infrared for the above and for hitting the foot or not off the bat, and if they start using the newly invented check swing program) if they go to ABS calling all pitches with umpire using ear bud in ear to signal all strikes like they did in atlantic league (and MLBUA accepted this way if MLB wanted to do it that way), with the exception that umpire would call a pitch totally outside of set parameters like a pitch that hit the bull like in bull durham, or bounced in front of the plate into the strike zone. cant wait till the day all these technologies combine and are used at all levels. oh yea, they still need us to try to break up fights before they start and to take numbers down of those involved, and to call bag benders and pole benders on the lines, and to be mind readers on intentionally pitching at the batter/or umpire or a runner running to first like dibble did because he was ticked at batter for bunting on him or whatever, or running lane interference, or giving fans the finger or other signs players give fans, and trapped balls at different areas, including trap by catcher on foul tip or foul ball or not. and for the lineup card exchange to begin the game and signal substitution changes, and to write up unsportsmanlike conduct reports especially if managers and umpire have there hands covering their mouths so that jomboy cannot interpret/or have other interpretors brought in to decifer what is being said, and to check the pitchers gloves and hands, and to check for corked etc bats and to check for legal/illegal gloves and check other field situations including calling for tarps etc. https://www.mlb.com/video/andres-gimenez-not-hit-by-pitch-after-review

yep. some guys are very vertical from the waste up. some are very verticle from the knee down, so based on body type----in your wheelhouse will be happen/advantageous for some and not for others. they will say it all comes out equal in the wash baloney. so once again we will not use technology that is available, but only the technology we pick and choose.

click on link 'according to statcast', but read the other baseball america if you want to, looks like a strike to me. but that is going by statcast generic box for everyone, not according to verbal rule as written in rule book, which means players have there own personal vertical high low. for now lets leave the rule as written in words which is like a new imaginary line for each person verbally stated but not numerically stated. so mlb has now defined those lines as 53.5% of each batter's height vertically on the high pitch, and 27% of a each batters height vertically on the low pitch for next year. so, they need to be writing the rule to say that numerically in numbers rather than describing the strike zone verbally in written words only. so lets see over the years how those high and low percentages change to get what they want as hitting and pitching averages that are in the best interests of MLB and make the games so millions and millions of tickets are bought by fans. Or, will those exact numbers now ruin the game unless they continually make adjustments every year or two. will the game move more towards a super slow pitch sofrball game or towards a more pitching dual game. where is that perfect point that keeps millions and millions coming through the turnstiles. or will more parity between all teams become more and more the issue as it always has been part of the equation in the mix of millions and millions served. TV only games in the future with no fans at all. or stadiums with just sky boxes to fill. they are literally pricing the dummies of the world like me out, on both real and TV, where an occasional game was a possibility in the past. baseball for winners (not me) and not losers (me), just like the american way (wasn't that from an old Superman intro) i saw on you tube from times gone by? so what's going to happen for the San Diego bush league players situation added oops-- article forgot to paste. E-dumbdumb https://www.msn.com/en-us/sports/baseball/padres-confront-umpires-in-dugout-after-brutal-call-in-wild-card-game-3/ar-AA1NOJFx?ocid=BingNewsSerp

think there was some stadium built back in the day, not the brand new ones that totally forgot to build an umpire dressing room since umpires are just lowly 2nd class citizens. But, the big thing to me is what are we teaching our youth, what is the lesson learned from this, after the game display. if you don't like a decision made, you go try to yell and scream and try and wupp some arsh to show them whose boss. this is what players are portraying, no wonder all those attacks that people probably do not like me posting, are what everyone, including our youth, are learning to carry forward. so who did they learn it from. the adults, and players who only care about winning and wupping arsh. like i said, win the first 2 games and this game would have never been played. go look in the mirror. or outright win the season so you don't play in the WC to start with. teach kids some sportsmanship, not just kicking people like they are a piece of crap, when you lose and then want, look at me look at me when you win. two faced front runners.

max just in case you love this mask, you know where you can break in and steal it. https://www.facebook.com/baseballhall/posts/1094354602858750/

https://apnews.com/article/tomlinson-merzel-division-series-umpires-ed3004701fe943277f0670dc24f154c4 we already knew Bellino from a previous post WS will come from this group. hmmm--nobody new with a plate assignment on their first try post season assignment, but Tomlinson and Merzel did skip W/C and go straight/right to D/S assignment. oops Ceja and Tosi did get plate assignments on their first try D/S assignment and not starting in RF, which would mean no plate, and each had a previous W/C assignment to start their post season careers. added later Bellino is the only CC from above with only 1 WS--good candidate for 2nd Wegner has not had a WS since 2017--good candidate for 3rd and of course Barksdale and Porter have sat out WS since 2022 and are good candidates for a 3rd. of the non CC--it would look good if guys with double figure years seniority could get their first one and help with future CC considerations if they so desire. and of course any single digit seniority guys to get their first. wonder if there will be retirements after this year is over and done with, that would open CC spots for next year. only the shadow knows.