6/27 vs Yankees

[moonslav59]

I think there have a few others like this.

 

Bottom line is most every game has good and bad. I’m just commenting on both sides of the same coin.

 

I like your post game quips.

 

Keep 'em coming.

[Maxbialystock]

Robo umps is not a computer game.

 

Having 100% consistent calls on balls and strikes would legitimize the game and create a level playing field whereby players don't have to guess and study who the ump is each night and adjust their approach accordingly.

 

 

Got it. Professional baseball, which has been played for 150 years with human umpires, was, well, sad to say, illegitimate. Forget Don Larsen's perfect game because he had a human umpire. Same goes for the brilliance of Sandy Koufax because those home plate umpires were probably giving him the benefit of the doubt. And just how many of Babe Ruth's home runs were the result of home plate umpires not calling strikes by opposing pitchers?

 

To me part of the greatness of all sports, very definitely including MLB, is that they are human endeavors--including the humans officiating.

 

The most popular sport in the entire world is soccer football, which is also the least officiated sport in the world. One official calls all the fouls wherever they occur on a very large field of play and is assisted only by sideline judges who call offsides.

 

I don't like the replays we now have to live with, but do recognize they definitely limit on field tantrums we used to see by players, coaches, and managers. Overall, I think they save time in an era when games take longer and longer. Speaking of which, why is there almost no effective control of the time between thrown pitches, which I believe is supposed to be 25 seconds?

 

Speaking of level playing fields, what about all those pitchers doctoring baseballs for the past 100 years? PED's? Ballpark idiosyncracies that favor the home team? Stealing signals, which we know both the Astros and the Red Sox have done--and probably plenty of other teams who weren't caught? The Black Sox, who created an unlevel playing field for their Chicago fans by intentionally throwing games? And how about MLB's occasional dictums which can greatly affect the game, like lowering the mound, suddenly enforcing a 100 year old rule, etc?

 

What you call a level playing field I call a desire for a reality that does not exist on the field with the players and umpires. They cannot see balls and strikes with the accuracy of that rectangle, so it is a false assumption that it's an unlevel playing field.

 

Or take your point about players having to adjust to what the umpire is calling in that game. How is that different from having to adjust to the idiosyncracies of the pitcher you are facing or the batter you are facing? Indeed, by now every player and every pitcher goes into a game with computerized info on the tendencies of whomever they are going to face. That does not mean the opposing pitcher or hitter will conform to what the computer predicts. Hence in game adjustments. Hence better success for hitters the third time they face a pitcher in that game.