Are you there God? it's me, biggles. If you really do exist, could you please use your divine influence to make Bob Nutting trade Aroldis Chapman before the All Star break? Kthxbai
MLB 2024: Baseball is for Everyone (subject to local blackout restrictions)
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I know he used to play for the Reds, I couldn't tell you where he's playing now.
He's on the Pirates' bullpen, typically pitching the 8th inning. More often than not this season, if he's on the mound, it means Pittsburgh is going to blow a lead, let the other team break a tie, or have an even bigger deficit to try and come back from.
Ronald Acuna Jr. tore is ACL and is done for the season. As someone who had him on his fantasy team, it sucks, but it really sucks for the game of Baseball. The league is better when he is in it.
Like for the second part, not the first part.
Here's something that I don't think has occurred in the modern MLB in a while. The Seattle Mariners east coast road swing was done entirely by rail. The team flew into Baltimore for a series against the Orioles, took the train to New York to face the Yankees, then finished off with a trip to Washington D.C. and the Nationals. They finished 4-6.
My reactions exactly, doublely so as a Braves fan.
No matter what part of the world we're from or what team we support, I'd like to think that we can all agree on one thing: that Ángel Hernández is the shittiest umpire in Major League Baseball.
Well, good news! USA Today is reporting that Hernández is retiring. His last game was on May 9th as the home plate umpire at a White Sox/Guardians game in Cleveland. Last season he only called 10 games due to a back injury, but still somehow managed to rack up 161 bad calls, according to the Twitter account Umpire Auditor.
Good riddance, Ángel. Don't let the door hit you in the ass on your way out.
Well, good news! USA Today is reporting that Hernández is retiring. His last game was on May 9th as the home plate umpire at a White Sox/Guardians game in Cleveland. Last season he only called 10 games due to a back injury, but still somehow managed to rack up 161 bad calls, according to the Twitter account Umpire Auditor.
Good riddance, Ángel. Don't let the door hit you in the ass on your way out.
Our long national nightmare is over 
About godsdamn fucking time.
And there was much rejoicing.
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Laz Diaz has to be in the conversation, but Bucknor will step on your neck for the rest of the game and threaten to murder your teammates' dogs and cats if you take more than 0.002 seconds to get out of the box after he calls you out, so...
Hey Virginia, there is a Santa Claus.
Unfortunately there are many disciples of the West/Hernandez school of shitty umpiring. We see the sloppiness and downright blindness every game we watch. Some are worse than others of course.
[Wind Timby Up Time] That's what happens when the union protects workers from their own gross ineptitude [/Wind Timby Up Time]
Unfortunately there are many disciples of the West/Hernandez school of shitty umpiring. We see the sloppiness and downright blindness every game we watch. Some are worse than others of course.
[Wind Timby Up Time] That's what happens when the union protects workers from their own gross ineptitude [/Wind Timby Up Time]
You're not wrong. The MLBUA has MLB by the balls, because as Richie Phillips' horrific attempt at a wildcat strike in 1999 (with the mass umpire resignation) showed, MLB fully understands that no umpires equals no baseball.
I think umpires are tasked with an impossible job, but 150+ years of precedent makes them generally maintain an air of "We Are The Grand Arbiters of Never Being Wrong," which makes it so much worse. We expect oftentimes old men to be able to make split-second calls on tiny balls being hurled 100+ mph with movement.
Many umpires do occasionally admit to being wrong, after the fact and in private to players. But Rule Number One of Umpire Ethics is "Never, ever ever allow anyone to Show You Up." That is why they almost never change a call, even if they know a split-second after they make it that it was wrong. And it is why they hate the automated strike zone: it Shows Them Up.
And from the Iowa Cubs games I've seen, the ABS system still needs a lot more time in the oven before I'd even consider bringing it to MLB full-time.
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moment, as I know we don't generally agree on the efficacy of unions.Technically the replay system shows them up, if we're being honest. But I feel like 2 challenges per game would be better.
The thing that bugs me as much as the bad strike calls are the swing/no swing calls. They should really change the rule to the bat crossing the foul line or put a camera over home plate. Because the corner umps are basically guessing 80% of the time.
I wonder if the ABS could use the on-screen "box" we see on TV, tho that is only a 2D representation.
I don't know why a ten month old story is suddenly get play on Seattle sports radio, but a poll of 999 baseball fans say that Seattle Mariners fans are the least hated and best behaved in baseball; with New York, Boston and Houston being the worst.
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