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future HOF'er https://www.facebook.com/calvulcans/videos/base-former-california-outfielder-alan-porter-2000-is-the-home-plate-umpire-for-/1548799632787450/

ya liked that one, did you. well, everyon oops many here (umpire empire) talk about getting the best umpires to get the best results, so just thought i would propose a solution. and umps did work like that at one time. and treat it like a called infield fly that everyone lets drop. you dont have to go anywhere, but if you do you put yourself in jeopardy. and why do a lot want to bust on the pros. it is the level of play. lets have people on here show their 3-5 inch misses and goofy play with a video. where are they. and our scorecards. and that pitch review percentage of overturns for pitchers catchers and batters requests looks awful to me, not even 70%. and so why did everyone let this graph below fly, from 10-13 pass. what??? you get a pass, one off, based on the score (living with the angels).

dang--looked like a hitters umpire to me---13 strikes called balls versus 7 balls called strikes. I am use to seeing that the other way around. why is that all through the season. why not have a 2 to 1 favor of missed strikes called balls. why do umpires miss the other way usually. calling 13 balls strikes and 7 strikes balls. what's been going on for years and years. imagine this is the same at all levels. give the hitters a break. the pitchers already get an extra pitch before walking a batter. why do they need extra help. doesn't it take the ball being hit to have the maximum amount of action in a game. and just let the best umpire work all 7 games behind the plate every day just like Klem did. and if you want to be nice 2 best umpires working every other day. this would include the college world series.

PU stats from the divisional series from lowest to highest score--strictly total accuracy, not by most impactful, courtesy of ump scorecards. we know every single stinking pitch is impactful to start with for every game ever played, because it changes the whole dynamics of every single at bat, and therefor the dynamics of that game. From pitch one, any missed pitch totally ruins that game because of a, what if scenario, for every batter/pitcher, and either the pitcher or batter will be scarred for life. Do we even need analytics to tell us this, since the founding of baseball many many years ago. Should have made things even on the pitchers/batters to start with, ie 3 balls is a walk or 3 strikes is an out. Why give the pitcher 7 pitches to throw and get 3 strikes instead of 6 if you love seeing the batter hit the ball, and hitting the baseball is the toughest thing in all of sports (so it is written/they say). oh well. Just remember for next year, baseball did have the option of having all pitches called by ABS, rather than the challenge system and umpires agreed to this. So, if they want to belly ache, with the challenge system, go cry to management and commissioner who wants the challenge system, don't take it out on the umpires. Tell boone to get on the horn to the commissioner rather than umps (especially call up umpires), If he uses his challenges unwisely, or uses them up entirely and then wants to go argue later. I bet that phone in the dugout will go to commissioner's office 1-800-commissioner. of course it adds a little strategy on when to use the challenge system, just like there are other baseball strategies used as the game progresses. DS wegner---137/149---91.95-------WS---279/291--95.88 DS baker-----141/148----95.27------WS---189/202--93.56 DS porter-----219/228---96.05------WS---155/159--97.48 DS little-------162/168----96.43-----WS---162/170--95.29 DS johnson---141/146----96.58------WS---105/113--92.92 DS tumpane--148/152-----97.37-----WS---131/140--93.57 DS hamari----157/161------97.52-----WS---137/144--95.83

just in case you did not know a little after 3 from New York https://www.mlb.com/press-release/press-release-umpires-for-the-2025-world-series-presented-by-capital-one-announced?msockid=1a97cbea85ee625b0460dd6484fe633a where is Tumpane man on this forum. know he is happy. it was worth the wait. if by chance their is a sweep going on in the process, guess who will have game 4. Yep, Mr. Tumpane. @834k3r might be Tumpane man.

last night at second. 1. if he just runs straight to the base no effort to avoid or peal off or slide (risking taking one in the face), no movement whatsoever, what 'would' MLB have for the call. 2. looks like he 'jumps up' in the air skyward, rather than raise hands up skyward, turns head and body and takes the hit to back of helmet. would all the levels, LL, MS, HS, HSjv, Collegiate, MiLB and any other leagues or travel ball have interference. what about scenario 1. what would all leagues have with just straight, no movements at all and risking hit to the face, as their call. 3. so without the vertical leap in the air would this be legal, with just a head turn.

soccer ref stops and gives lecture...scroll down to lecture https://brobible.com/sports/article/florida-soccer-referee-yell-at-parents-viral-video/ and at another soccer game not a good look https://www.9and10news.com/2025/10/15/traverse-city-soccer-game-video-captures-referee-player-altercation/

just a little play on words. when i saw MadMax, instantly thought of you and threw in the media hog part. of course this article was about the fake MadMax, not the real MadMax that we all know and love. now back to the mask pads section for the real MadMax.

@MadMax on the cover again. USA today. Max--you print media Hog you. https://www.mlb.com/

dang. you use to have all the latest MLBUM's. what happened to 22,23,24,25 and especially 26.

so when the ball goes up, just have the whole infield yell at each (like the walton family good night), i can't find/see it, i can't find/see it, while stumbling around, then when it drops, grab the ball and start a double play. acting school at its best other than jeters, it hit me, it hit me, hand fake out. i think the old days did it better and this would have been IFF and nobody would have argued. just the batter being called out and runners staying at their base (unless they wanted to gamble on the fielder not catching the ball), and you could use each players fielding abilities rather than the average, so you had to know your personnel. Ozzie Smith got a wider birth for ordinary effort versus the average player ordinary effort. what was ordinary for the Oz, would not have been ordinary for others and that was taken into account. and i believe what i just put above was not written in the book but that was how the old guy that went to the ump school explained it back then. you only had ordinary effort, there was nothing about of the average player at their level part. oh well the mlb response. and the supervisor in the article won a NASO award if i remember right from reading back in the day articles here and there. https://www.mlb.com/news/why-the-infield-fly-rule-was-not-called-for-cubs-brewers-in-nlds

at exactly what point are umpires suppose to wait and call verbally and point the infield fly rule, as learned at the umpire schools, since many of the instructors are MLB. is it suppose to be when the ball reaches the apex of its parabola, or shortly thereafter. or is it suppose to be called when the ball is at the halfway point of its apex going up or halfway on its descent. just where is that point for it to be called when it is called.

j08. i am with you on IFF, especially since baseball did not have the exception years ago. but, they put etc in your definition above, which means there could be other causes, so why does that eliminate the sun. it is their fault that that they put the etc clause rather than getting rid of etc just listing all the possibilities including the sun, or putting sun and wind and then the etc, and letting rain be the in the unlisted etc category. once again, no etc, just put all the ones in the definition, and then add to the rule when off the wall ones need to be added. or keep the etc as an escape 901c in the old days but add sun in with the wind and rain. if they dont want sun or lights in the etc, they should say so. what is and isn't. then add or subtract as needed.

no answer, but noticed it was also different on the DS. one league started with CC at third and the other league with CC in left field. W/C started all CC's at same position.

here's what the fans want. and you wonder why officials are being attacked and confronted more at the amateur player levels. the kids are watching and grow up learning from the adults and from the pros. win at all costs. sportsmanship is a dirty word and for losers in life, just like in real life. https://www.sportskeeda.com/baseball/news-garbage-better-mlb-hold-umpires-accountable-fans-rage-mlb-s-one-sided-punishment-jose-iglesias-xander-bogaerts

Tiger fans not happy with HBP in bottom of 12th. and Seattle fans not happy with 3-0 pitch called strike instead of 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