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QUOTE (farmteam @ May 11, 2016 -> 06:13 PM) Tangent, but I was just thinking how great it'd be to see what greg would do in a gay bar. I'd sit back with the popcorn. He would be ignored at a much higher rate than here. He would also have to find a better toast than "bottoms up"!

QUOTE (GreenSox @ May 11, 2016 -> 05:05 PM) The umpire as part of the sport is far more part of the culture of baseball than referees are in football, hoops, et al. Pretty obviously. Umpires enforce rules like in every sport. They get some calls correct, others wrong, the same as other sports. As far as the culture, how many fans would recognize an umpire on the street? Who ever said "Let's go to the game tonight Jim Joyce is in the crew? Or "John Hirschbeck is behind the plate tonight, let's go to the game". But again, you are a good poster so I'm certain you must be thinking of this in a much different way than I am to reach that conclusion. I'd like to read your reasons.

QUOTE (KyYlE23 @ May 11, 2016 -> 12:42 PM) come on man, basically the entire pen besides Carroll pitched the night before. Albers came in and was out of gas, Robertson and Nate were basically not available. Did you want Jennings to come in? We are looking at Carroll as the only guy who didnt pitch the night before, everyone else was pretty much on fumes Baseball is a long grind and with only 25 roster spots everyone is going to get called on. RV didn't really have a choice. He did the most obvious move. He has to be able to use the 25th man in a five run game.

Where did you find the information that it is real accurate? I couldn't find anything.

QUOTE (Chisoxfn @ May 11, 2016 -> 11:40 AM) Bottom line...not a player on a big league roster should not be expected to be able to deal that (especially when you add in the fact that the pen was taxed). On a normal day, okay Carrol probably doesn't get the job, but there were so many things outside of the one matter that I would argue Robin was off on (he left Carrol in for one batter too many). Grand scheme, that wasn't why we lost the game. Defense didn't make plays that it could have and our pen (including Albers) let us down big time.

QUOTE (RockRaines @ May 11, 2016 -> 11:19 AM) Since when is a large lead a high leverage situation? His job was to not give up a billion runs and save the pen. Exactly what the last guy in the pen is supposed to do. WE've had less days off than every other team, and half the pen if not more was unavailable. Exactly.

So how many games will be played this season How many games will be decided by a wrong call over balls and strikes? Now we now how big of a problem it really is.

QUOTE (OmarComing25 @ May 11, 2016 -> 11:05 AM) Just because baseball managed to survive doesn't mean you shouldn't continually strive to improve the game wherever you can. Of course.

QUOTE (RockRaines @ May 11, 2016 -> 11:05 AM) Depends who is starting the next day, who pitched the nights before and how much rest they've had the last week or so. Agreed. The only reason to not put him in the 8th with a 5 run lead is it pisses off the other team to think you are so confident in the win

QUOTE (chw42 @ May 11, 2016 -> 10:57 AM) Even if umpires are right 95% of the time on pitch calls, do you realize how many missed calls that is? Over the course of one game, that's at least 10 missed calls. Over the course of one night with a full slate of games, that's 150 missed calls. Over the course of a whole season, that's ~24,000 missed calls. Based on your numbers you win. No disputing that. I wonder how baseball ever managed to survive with so many missed calls night after night.

QUOTE (RockRaines @ May 11, 2016 -> 10:59 AM) Thats literally exactly what he's on the roster for, especially when the team has less rest than every other team in the majors. When else would be pitch? Perhaps the third inning when you are down 5.

Yes, it is a brutal stretch coming up. What needed to happen was for the team to win a lot of games prior to this stretch. Mission accomplished. They could be hitting this stretch at .500. Or even a few games under.

QUOTE (bmags @ May 10, 2016 -> 02:44 PM) The whole 45 first half stolen bases for scotty pods was pretty crazy. Probably around this time when a similar game happened where we were trailing or came back to tie. Pods got on base. Stole second. Bunt to third. Driven home. Sox win. It was just automatic with him on the base paths. I had way higher confidence on that team. But, I do feel really good late when Eaton comes up and knowing what comes behind him. I remember that happening. Ozzie-ball. Does anyone remember the game?

I really have to congratulate Greg. His ability to continue to troll you guys is amazing.

QUOTE (pittshoganerkoff @ May 11, 2016 -> 10:28 AM) The introduction of instant replay has either made the umpires lazy or they were just not that good to begin with. I'm not sure of the percentage of times calls are overturned, but it's too high. I'm not sure about an automated strike zone, but it has seemed that the strikes zones have gotten bad. If you watch a game with a pitch tracker, you can see a lot of pitches not being called correctly. It would be okay if the calls were consistent, but they're not. You see the same pitch called a ball and a strike a lot, especially the close ones. Maybe it's something they could test in spring training one year, like football did with the extra points. Based on the really small number of calls that are even questioned, including very close plays, I would say it proves the umps are very good. If one in a few hundred gets questioned, that's very good even if it gets overruled. When they are talking an inch off the plate I wonder how far off the plate the graphic shows. We are being fed an enhanced view for entertainment. I wonder how exact they are actually able to detect.

QUOTE (Dick Allen @ May 11, 2016 -> 08:11 AM) If they aren't going to do anything about it, they probably should ban pitch trax. All it does is makes the umpires look bad. And these are the best in the world. It shows just how tough of a job it is. Great point. These are the best in the world. Again, does anyone have evidence how reliable and accurate pitch trax is?

QUOTE (GreenSox @ May 11, 2016 -> 07:05 AM) Pitch framing catchers would object to this idea. The irony is that officials are most ingrained into baseball versus all of the sports. And yet baseball umpires would be the easiest officials to completely replace with automated technology. The only issues would be plays that would require human review. I'm interested in how you came to that conclusion.

QUOTE (lostfan @ May 11, 2016 -> 07:00 AM) I had this happen last fall. Long story but the parents didn't want to take their kids to practice, and one kids mom in particular didn't want to come to practice on Saturdays. She got mad because her son learned nothing. Lol how's that my fault? First of all I'm sorry I didn't turn your wack ass son into Bryce f***ing Harper, but secondly how am I supposed to teach him anything if you only are at practice an hour and 15 minutes per week, until the sun goes down? They were looking for an excuse and a scapegoat so they could pull their kid out of the league.

How do you envision this being implemented? A light goes on somewhere? Everyone turns to the scoreboard? Is the technology really that accurate? We accept that it is because it gives us this really nice graphic. I wonder just how accurate it truly is. I would have a lot more questions before being able to get 100% behind the idea. But I do think it is something that should be seriously looked at. Especially if it speeds up play.

QUOTE (lostfan @ May 10, 2016 -> 07:50 PM) Earlier today the kids I coach were doing warmup throws this kid says "I'm definitely not pairing with Richard" (my son) standing right in front of me. Then he turns around and says "coach, did you bring your glove so I can work on pitching?" I said "no my shoulder is sore. Not today." Then while he was still looking I threw a ball from the dugout to a kid in deep center field about 150 feet away (to those kids it may as well be a thousand feet). I mean... I was going to but you just insulted my son right in front of me, so f*** off little dude. That was super petty of me to do but I don't even feel bad. Lmao. I wasn't wrong though. Be a better teammate. I had about half my team not show up to practice last night. A trend that keeps getting worse. Our competitive season is over, but this is also a class that they earn credit for. Some of the kids made up really lame excuses which was basically just lying to me. So f*** it. No more leaving for the course at 3:15 if half won't show up. They can sit in the classroom until the end of the school day at 4:05 and be stuck in all that s***ty end of the day traffic. Yeah, it's good to be coach.

I wonder if the airlines offered two options, one with the current security levels or one like the good old days of just walk on, which flights would fill up faster.

QUOTE (Dick Allen @ May 9, 2016 -> 04:46 PM) Whataburger Shiner

QUOTE (InTheDriversSeat @ May 9, 2016 -> 10:23 AM) Television stations tonite: May 9, 2016 Chicago White Sox at Texas Rangers Stadium: Globe Life Park in Arlington, Arlington, TX Announcers: Ken Harrelson and Steve Stone Game telecast time: 7:00 PM Central / 8:00 PM Eastern * ‘WGN Sports on my50’ 7 over-the-air TV stations: Chicago WPWR-TV Gary, Channel 50 (my network TV) South Bend WMYS-LD, Channel 69 (my network TV) * Indianapolis WNDY-TV Marion, IN, Channel 23 (my network TV) * Rockford WIFR Freeport, Channel 23-3 (Justice Network) Peoria / Bloomington, IL WAOE Peoria, Channel 59 (my network TV) Quad Cities WQAD-TV Moline, Channel 8-3 (my network TV) Cedar Rapids / Waterloo / Iowa City KCRG-TV Cedar Rapids, Channel 9-2 (my network TV) . Rangers baseball is on FS SW. Channel 26 in my lineup.

QUOTE (Alexeihyeess @ May 9, 2016 -> 12:10 PM) If you're looking for an authentic Texas experience I contend that you'll find it in greater purity and abundance in places like Amarillo, Lubbock and Wichita Falls than Dallas or Houston. But hey that's just me. I think the only real interesting parts of Texas are the desolate western plains and the Mexico/Texas hybrid cities in the south. If you are looking for a stereotype Texas experience the panhandle or stretches of west Texas may fill the bill. But a state 5 times larger than Illinois offers a much wider experience than those outdated cliches. I'm not certain what nightlife Dallas is missing. From bars to concerts, teams playing every major and minor sport, museums, theater, what can't you do in Dallas that you can in other cities?

QUOTE (lostfan @ May 9, 2016 -> 12:20 PM) I have a couple friends there. Plus, meeting kapkomet's goofy ass in person. I'll ignore your little snub.