Ditto. How the game could have gone without the blown call, we can only speculate. But the ump blew the call, and it should have been dealt with. Of course, with Selig in charge - nothing will change. He'll talk about new stadiums and dealing with steroid use. But won't do jack.
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Ditto. How the game could have gone without the blown call, we can only speculate. But the ump blew the call, and it should have been dealt with. Of course, with Selig in charge - nothing will change. He'll talk about new stadiums and dealing with steroid use. But won't do jack.
Sweep! Congrats to the Dodgers. 
Why are the games in Philly ridiculously early (and even earlier Colorado time) while the ones in Colorado very late at night where it is freezing (and 10pm in Philly)? Why can't MLB playoffs make more sense than that?
^ Probably the TBS schedule. They have a lock on all division series games, so they have to fit it all in somehow.
Well, they finally got it right with J. D. Drew's homer.
Not any more. When the guy cracks, he cracks big time.
[Okay, so the ump needs his head examined. Fine. We get it. But don't give me that conspiracy-theory crap about "the game was fixed" or anything like that. This isn't the fucking Black Sox.
I've even seen comments on the MLB.com message boards about how that ump was a Yankee fan and he wanted his team to win.Talk about leaps in logic...
Yeah. Did the NBA ever get around to refunding all the fines it levied against Mark Cuban for complaining that Tim Donaghy was fixing games?
As I recall, right up until Donaghy was indicted people were making fun of Cuban and saying the refs were just making human errors.
Of course, as I've said before, the only way the refs or umps can influence a game is if it's close anyway. So no, Cuzzi didn't cost the Twins the game. The Twins lost the game on their own by not playing their type of baseball (e.g. with bases loaded and no outs in extra innings, Twins baseball is to sac fly the first run home and then play for more runs).
Having said that, Cuzzi made exactly one call the entire night and it was blatantly wrong. Of course, it's now being reported that Cuzzi has had other controversial calls this year. All involved the Yankees and all of them went the Yankees way.
Good luck to whoever wants to be the Mark Cuban of MLB. Bet he pays a lot of money in fines before the problem is actually exposed.
If thats the case you have to do it all around. Checks for strikes, foul balls, outs at bases etc. And then baseball turns into football. No thanks
Honestly I think the scheduling was arranged to favor the Red Sox and Yankees. Both teams have gotten some pretty choice scheduling slots. I think the Yankees have played at 6 for the past two games and are playing at 7 tonight. Really, what they should do is give the NL games to one channel and the AL games to another. You wont be able to watch every game but at least youll watch the games you actually care about
I agree. More so then having them check everything, they should have a system to hold the umps responsible for blown calls. There just needs to be accountability somewhere.
The problem with instant replay in baseball is the lack of a break point to review the calls. Home runs are relatively easy to take a break to check. The ball is gone into the stands. Either it was a fair ball home run, a foul ball, or a ground rule double. Even if the ball somehow ended up in play on the field, at the end of the play, either the original call is upheld or a home run is awarded.
But any other call leads to wild discretion as to what to do. In other words, how would the play have ended up? Look at the blown call in New York. Everyone thinks it would be easy to review because the ball bounced into the stands, and in that one instance, they are right because a break in play occurred afterwards.
But most fair-foul calls don't bounce into the stands afterwards. If Mauer's hit just goes into the corner, just how many bases do you award him when the bad foul call is overturned? Is it a long single, a double, or a triple? There is a case to be made that particular hit could have ended up as either if it stays on the field of play (although personally, I think it's most likely a double in that case).
Bottom line is that replay is too difficult to implement in practice. Accountability is what I want to see when such an obvious call is blown. Cuzzi simply shouldn't work the rest of this series.
But any other call leads to wild discretion as to what to do. In other words, how would the play have ended up? Look at the blown call in New York. Everyone thinks it would be easy to review because the ball bounced into the stands, and in that one instance, they are right because a break in play occurred afterwards.
But most fair-foul calls don't bounce into the stands afterwards. If Mauer's hit just goes into the corner, just how many bases do you award him when the bad foul call is overturned? Is it a long single, a double, or a triple? There is a case to be made that particular hit could have ended up as either if it stays on the field of play (although personally, I think it's most likely a double in that case).
Bottom line is that replay is too difficult to implement in practice. Accountability is what I want to see when such an obvious call is blown. Cuzzi simply shouldn't work the rest of this series.
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