On Houston vs Sox game not realize we get the strike box on pitches showing where the ball crossed the batters box?

Puke is calling strikes against Astros on pitches 3 inches outside the strike zone.

Who really cares?

Let's go Brandon

We need an electronic ball & strike call.... they have tested it and know it works... but so many idiots want the "essence" of the game protected... basically do not want it called correctly

I don’t watch that anymore!!!

Democrat.

I assume the Astros know what pitch is coming?

Exactly

There's too much money involved in professional sports. Ever notice how big money ruins everything? I have no proof of it having an effect on the outcome of the game but these days you gotta wonder about some of the B.S. that goes on and we aren't supposed to notice or say anything. Kind of like politics.

Yeah because it has been working so well in the Atlantic League....

Cheaters gonna cheat….oh, wait a minute. Do I hear trash cans banging?

Oh Nose, not another rigged sports event, say it ain’t so.

Good Got Damn thing they don’t pull that schit with our Ballot Boxes, now that would be somethin

Every time the FBI busts a sports gambling operation where college players are caught betting on the games (point spreads/outcomes) the news media buries it.

Jag the phag has no clue what she is watching

LOL

I want that t-shirt.

If the umps are doing their job correctly you won’t even notice that they’re there.

Lots of folks can’t understand why batters get so hot about umpires’ calls but when you see the umps put on a show when somebody strikes out, it seems as if the ump is taking the side of the pitcher and celebrating the batter’s strikeout.

So, you want to chime in and let us to know you dont have a clue as to what im talking about, right?

That was not exactly the question.

The White Sox kicked the schit out of Houston last night.

LOL

Hahaha. High iq stuff from you right there, but as usual, another lie. Still pissed i didnt vote for your phag hero, the Zero.

Well, them and the ump actually.

Crying a lot is not a winning strategy.

LOL

There's no crying in baseball......

Don’t tell jag.

LOL

So how many if you fat fughks have actually geared up and set up behind a catcher and called balls and strikes? Little League doesn’t count. Has to be college level / minor leagues or higher. Seeing a pitch 1/2 inch off the plate looks easy from your recliner with an electronic strike zone on your TV.

And not to mention the first time a pitch is headed for your skull, do you have the balls to not flinch and trust the catcher will get his glove there in time?

Not saying I’m for or against electronic balls and strikes. It’s just umpire badgers don’t generally have a clue about what it takes to call balls and strikes. 300 times a game.

Agrees with you xarcher 98 to the cup will make you question why one wants to be an umpire.

Have you watched Joe or Angel call a game lately? How the fuqk either of these clowns have a job is incredulous. Ray Charles and Stevie Wonder of umpires.

I don’t watch that anymore!!

Anyone with 2 brain cells firing and watch even a little baseball have seen games Tom Hallion has called. All summer his strike zone was consistent with how he called the game last night.

When puzzy lose they always blame the cheat, doesn't matter what it is in life. When the lose they whine.

They have issues for sure. And their blunders get millions of views on social media. But the great calls do not. I call that the 90/10 rule. 90% of the problems are caused by 10% of the people. There are bad umpires just as there are bad doctors, auto mechanics, plumbers and well, you get the point. Maybe the umpire union plays into some of it.

The intent of my post was to note how easy it is to call balls and strikes from the recliner with a strike zone superimposed on the flat screen.

So go ahead and mark me down as one of the idiots who wants the "essence" of the game protected.

I hate to see the human element of the game removed. Different umps have different strike zones, part of the game for hitters and pitchers is learning them.

Yeah, I don't like the instant replay biz either.

It's probably because the Astros are no talent, cheating, pussies.

Exactly.

Unless you're Jag.

They dont want it for the essence of the game. They want it so the right teams will end up in the playoffs. Follow the MONEY.

Its why Landry and Tex Schram were driven out of football. They were the driving force behind instant replay. They were told the Cowboys would never have a winning season as long as they were in the game, and they didnt.

NOT ME!

The notion that we accept different umpires having different strike zones is not acceptable. There is only one strike zone and each umpire us instructed to call that strike zone. Players should expect to have the same strike zone called regardless of the time or place. The human element is not that players have to adjust to an umpires strike zone, but instead how accurately can an umpire call the pitch.

Yet you both care enough to post on the thread.

LOL, this thread reminds me of getting pushed into umping a senior babe game once. I didn't want to do it but one of the umpires didn't show up and the coaches from both teams asked me to help them out. Stupidly I said yes. The winning team beat the other team by 8-9 runs and lead the game the entire time. Some grandma from the winning team rode my ass like a $40 mule the entire evening. I called her grandson out at first on a bang - bang play in the second inning. The call, right or wrong never had any bearing on the outcome of the game, her team dominated the other all night. That didn't slow her down one little bit. She never let up, the old banshee screeched the entire game. When you really need a foul ball to knock somebody out... no go. I always wondered if the old bat was drunk that night. As soon as the last out was registered and I was walking off the field she stood up and gave me the middle finger. It was so damned funny I started laughing and I thought she was coming over the fence to whip my ass! People...

If we remember back years ago to the Maddux, Glavin, Smoltz era the umps essentially turned the strike zone on its side and called strikes 6-12” off the plate.
Keep the umps and just call the strike zone as it’s written in the rule book. I think having the strike zone depicted on tv has actually made the umps do that better. Instant replay for the close calls on the bases, foul balls down the line, etc shows the umps are usually correct.

Agreed, 100%. It's just like wanting all of these new gun laws. If they actually enforced the laws already on the books, we would have little need for "new" laws.

I've always felt the best thing for youth baseball is the seating be 1000 yards from the field and let kids play the kids game. I've missed my share of ball/strike safe/out just like every umpire had but I'll take my goods over my bads.

Uh,

it's not like it's HOCKEY,


so does it really matter?

PS, look at what video review has done in slowing down most sports that now use it. There are call for some sort of detection in HOCKEY pucks to make sure one fully crosses a goal line when hidden by a goalie's glove or body. Watching soccer sucks more nowadays as they stop the game to contest/view offsides and penalties. Let the refs do their jobs.

***** THIS *****


You've never seen little league parents syndrome until you've had to deal with parents who have "invested" a few thousand dollars in their little ski racers and think that their good, but not great, kids would be coached up to become an olympic or FIS World Cup elite level ski racer. I coached kids between 12 and 18 when I was in graduate school and there were some parents who apparently thought that there was a formula that involved pouring X dollars into a program would produce Y outcome for their kid, whether the kid had talent or not.

Hell...why not just play virtual baseball and completely ruin the game.

The DH has ruined it enough.

I umpire games from age 8 thru college and without question the coaches/parents in the 11-12 age range create 90% of the problems. My opinion is the coaches think they qualify for manager of the year award and the parents think their son is their next meal ticket. And the both think they have a better look at a ball/strike from their seat than I do from behind the catcher. Parents don’t know the rules and coaches only know some.

I haven't watched much of baseball since that rule started up. Sure took a major part of "strategy" out of one of the most strategic of team sports.

From a long time Astro fan who badly wanted them to win last night, it's hard to tell if old jag waz full of booze or just full of chit when he started this circus....

They got their collective azzes handed to them by the WS last night. No umpires involved.

The batter looks white, maybe the call is reparations for all the privileged calls he's gotten in the past.