mvp 78
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That's every sport though. From protecting Tom Brady to giving Lebron extra free throws to Yaz saying "that's not a strike for me." That almost goes with the territory. It's the least surprising thing to me.
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LHH and RHH are clearly called differently. Not so damn bad! Home pitchers are called more favorably than visitors. Not so damn bad! 9th inning calls are worse than 1st inning calls. Not so damn bad!
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6/22 White Sox @ Boston
mvp 78 replied to a700hitter's topic in Mike Grace Memorial Game Thread Forum
Papi can't play every day. -
!!! Considering how much you've crapped on the team in the past, this post made my day. (no sarcasm)
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It might be way down on the list, but it's on the list. It would speed up the game for certain. If you can make a simple change to improve the game, why hesitate? I've never said it's the most important issue affecting the game today. It is "an" issue affecting the game.
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And Kimmi's original point had nothing to do with productivity. It was more about fears concerning the workforce changing, which is constantly happening regardless of what we post on here.
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Well, I've already stated numerous times that baseball is currently a game that is beloved by an aging core. Once the boomers die out, we can expect contraction. In order to reach a younger market share, they should attempt to modernize parts of the game that are antiquated. Will it fix the bottom line tomorrow? Nope. Could modernizing the game prevent the bottom line from crashing in the future? Maybe.
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So the MLB umpires we watch and model on aren’t so damn bad after all — or so I say. It was funny. What else would you expect from an umpiring blog?
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Do you want me to read the study too? Or just the blog post?
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My favorite part so far "The data covers 4,914 games, 313,774 at-bats, and 756,848 pitches (non-swinging pitches only). That’s over three-quarters of a million pitches.
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Games would be quicker. Fans win. Players would have a better idea at when to swing as there isn't an amoeba blob of a zone to contend with. Players win. Umps would be under less scrutiny. Umps win. This conversation would die. We all win.
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ERod is just a pitch tipping situation. We just have to wait for good Clay to come around. Easy peasy!
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So having a properly called strike zone wouldn't be more productive?
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I'm convinced. Bring in Jake Peavy and I'll prepay for the playoff tickets.
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6/22 White Sox @ Boston
mvp 78 replied to a700hitter's topic in Mike Grace Memorial Game Thread Forum
White Soz bro. Title bro. Bro. -
If PED's helped the umps, I'm all for it. We're talking about umpiring not player performance. The umpires are not athletes. They are there just to do a job, the same as an auto worker or accountant.
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99 ERA+, .9 WAR... Yuck. Those guys grown on trees. I said "decent" not "markedly average."
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6/21 the return of Clay Buchholz
mvp 78 replied to Station 13's topic in Mike Grace Memorial Game Thread Forum
Stating otherwise? Idk. It sounds awfully a lot like you think Clay is better than back of the rotation material. To me, he's even a poor option for a 5th starter. -
How is it not the same thing? The auto industry went from humans on an assembly line to robots monitored by humans. Accountants went from writing out all their work and doing the calculations themselves to data entry in a spreadsheet.
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Who was the last decent starting pitcher the Sox obtained midyear? Mike Boddicker?
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I will often change the channel when they go to a replay. I think the replay system is a big blunder. Manufacturing automobiles and entering numbers into an Excel spreadsheet are not tasks that rely on human interaction. The sport of baseball does. At one point they were, which was my point.
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Most of us wanted starting pitching in the offseason too. Some of us told the rest of us to just be patient. I don't believe we will get a substantial addition to the rotation during the season. This team has spent the past few years twiddling its thumbs while the obvious need was for better starting pitching. They dumped Lackey for nothing. They lowballed Lester. They could have paid Scherzer, but ignored one of the best pitchers in the game when he was available. I have no confidence that the rotation will be fixed this year. The offense is good enough to be WC contenders, but the pitching is very suspect. If Wright comes back to earth, look out...
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How is a batter supposed to know what to swing at when umps can be all over the place? Isn't that the crux of the issue? Doesn't it make the most sense to have a standardized strike zone? And god forbid if a player or manager complains about an ump closing his eyes during a pitch...
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IF the only errors made were in the gray zone, I'd never complain. The fact that there are erroneous calls made like that Papi K is just embarrassing.
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Based Speier: https://www.bostonglobe.com/sports/redsox/2016/05/09/can-computers-call-better-than-umps/NALM25cSoZB8KLevTSrUPN/story.html The technology isn’t perfect. PITCHf/x has a margin of error of up to about an inch — though as Byrnes notes, that pales in comparison to a call that misses by nearly six times that amount. Byrnes suggests that while umpires will be skeptical of potential job loss from a change, crews could be expanded not just to preserve a plate umpire responsible for all calls not related to the strike zone, but also a fifth member who would work with a technician on the strike zone and also provide an on-site arbiter of other plays subject to replay. Good news if you keep ranting that baseball's beauty is in it's imperfection. PITCHf/x still has a margin of error of an inch!!! Check mate anti-robot movement!
