Maineac
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Depends on how it's said. In a conversation to me, you're right. If it's loud enough for everyone in the stands to hear - that in of itself is enough for me to EJ. Even with absolutely nothing else. is it prolonged? Profane? Personal? Exactly what criteria do you base the EJ on? The criterion I base this on is his not so veiled accusation that I'm cheating. "That's two." Two calls you think I missed, that benefitted the other team. I agree I might not send him simply on the count, maybe that can be shut down with a "knock it off," but it's a really short leash from there for me.
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Announcer: "Everybody knows the rules." LOL.
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http://m.mlb.com/video/v32596711/?cid=mlb
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From today's first game of a double header between the Red Sox and Rays at Fenway. I think it was a hell of a call, because in none of those angles does it look like Pedroia ever got the plate before Molina tagged him. http://m.mlb.com/video/v32513355
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Here it is: http://nypost.com/2013/10/27/boston-manager-umpires-were-right-rule-is-bad/
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Agreed that that was a great call. If anyone needs to be wearing goat horns here it's Saltalamacchia for that lousy throw.
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Me too. I've found that adding a couple of large blinks while doing it speeds the process.
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Good information here from the pool reporter who interviewed the umpires after the game: http://www.asapsports.com/show_interview.php?id=93868
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I don't understand your question I think he's asking if you need a new washing machine. clear as mud, .... I'll leave it to Maineac to respond, thanks He is saying that whenever someone makes a statement like that they are, in fact, taking something away from the Sox. I don't care either way. The Sox or Tigers could have gone and I am no worse off about it. Now, it's time for the Cards to continue their playing and take another championship. But, if they don't, oh well as long as the umpire crew does its usual good job. Yup, that's what I was going for Jeff. Just having fun with you really. The statement happened to be about the Sox, but the sentiment is just that anytime a statement starts with "not to take anything away..." it usually does. No offense intended.
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How can you tell when someone is, in fact, "taking something away from the Sox?".....
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Are we going to argue/speculate about another thing that is impossible to prove/disprove? How about discussing what we can see. Bad luck for Pena? I think it was bad blank for U3. Fill-in the blank. OK, let's. I see a catcher turning the wrong way after a bad throw. Chances of getting an out there even without the umpire in the way? Minimal. If he hustles down the line like dumbdumb said or if it's Avila, the odds go way up. In fact, the runner probably doesn't even try to get to third. Of course, that's just speculation on my part.
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He DID get tagged. Could that be called Umpire Interference? I believe that Pena would have tagged the runner out had he not tagged Drake instead. No way Pena gets him. Turned the wrong way to make the tag and the fact that he ran into Drake shows he couldn't see where he was reaching. Coming around blind like that Pena would have to have been extremely lucky to get Middlebrooks before he got to the bag. I don't think Drake ever expected Pena to turn that way for the tag, and I don't think Pena ever expected the umpire to be that close to the play. Bad luck for Pena, IMO.
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Interesting conversion from bucket to mask
Maineac replied to Mike Prince's topic in Umpire Equipment
I know Carlos Santana of the Cleveland Indians has worn them in the past, not seeing him play that often I don't know if he still wears them or not. So it's not unheard of, just not that common I guess. -
After what happened with the pitch he wanted, what F2 did at 0:21 was honestly enough for me. I played F2. You turn like that towards an umpire you know you're on really thin ice.
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That was great. Gave him plenty of rope, then gave him the gate. And at that moment Johnson ceased to exist to Jim Joyce.
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I'd say he hit his location just fine.
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Agreed. I think Aybar screened second base from him with his body. Only call he had was safe, IMO.
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Maybe using a raft isn't such a bad thing....
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He tossed the bat after the call. gonna have to agree to disagree here ....he was in the process of tossing his bat on what he thought was ball 4 and headed to first ..... and completed the toss (with his hands up ... I agree that didn't help him, but ....) .... Disagree. He started walking to first, but didn't toss the bat until he heard the umpire ring him up. Then the big dramatic roll of the head and the rest of the show. No matter what he actually said, it was quite apparent how he felt.
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These bump this up to assault, and should be handled accordingly. This isn't MLB.
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I was taught an approach I like a few years ago: "Be approachable without being negotiable."
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maven, that video was great. Thanks for posting it. Oh, and I think he's pure class as well.
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It means you can criticise the government without (generally) being imprisoned. it has nothing to do with your "right" to say whatever you want on a baseball field or in an internet forum. As for the rest, well, go away fanboy is I think the bumpersticker that applies here. Oh my god, another one who has no idea that free speech applies everywhere. Free speech does not apply everywhere: "As most famously described by Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes in Schenck v. United States, “The most stringent protection of free speech would not protect a man in falsely shouting fire in a theatre and causing a panic.†Other types of speech by individuals also fall outside the protection against prior restraint, including fighting words and obscenity."
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The announcers told you why. Because now they expect to see it. And when you expect to see something, it's pretty easy to find it. Self-fulfilling prophecy.
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Lost me at "from his spot in the dugout...."