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| Why don’t you fix your little problem and light this candle  |
Link to article. That is not even close. Each team gets two, just two helmet pats to challenge a called pitch. That is not a robot umpire. I hate these kinds of titles. anyway, this would have saved Yamamoto's Immaculate Inning earlier this season. I watched it live and nearly broke my TV. Yamamoto's Immaculate inning stolen. This business will get out of control. It will get out of control and we'll be lucky to live through it. -Rear Admiral (Lower Half) Joshua Painter Played by Senator Fred Thompson | ||
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| Internet Guru |
It's a step in the right direction. Nothing worse than an inconsistent strike zone. | |||
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| Get my pies outta the oven!  |
I’m all for it. Some of these umpires are shockingly bad and they brought this on themselves. | |||
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For some silly reason, I keep picturing The Jetsens's robot maid Rosie with a catcher's mask. Rednecks- Keeping the woods critter-free since March 2, 1836. | |||
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I’ll take consistency over watching Angel Hernandez guess his way through nine innings | |||
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is circumspective |
Thankfully, he retired last year. "We're all travelers in this world. From the sweet grass to the packing house. Birth 'til death. We travel between the eternities." | |||
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If successful they retain their challenge. Seems reasonable. | |||
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| Purveyor of Fine Avatars  |
With bonehead calls like this, where the umpire called this a ball, it's easy to see why the movement for electronic umpires is growing: "I'm yet another resource-consuming kid in an overpopulated planet raised to an alarming extent by Hollywood and Madison Avenue, poised with my cynical and alienated peers to take over the world when you're old and weak!" - Calvin, "Calvin & Hobbes" | |||
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The Enemy's gate is down. | |||
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They can't be worse than Laz Diaz or Angel Hernandez. | |||
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Saw that one a while back. The catcher's fault for setting up so far outside. He fooled the ump the wrong way. lol Speaking of which, you want to change/ban something, I'd be for doing away with "framing" the pitch. It rarely works, and it's just annoying/insulting to all involved. Maybe it's just that catchers today don't seem to know how to do it. It only works if it's subtle and slight. "Helping" a borderline pitch. I was watching a bunch of footage the other day and these guys are moving the glove a foot or more. Who do you think you're fooling? (no one, because it isn't working) They're just embarrassing themselves and the pitcher. | |||
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I’m 100% for this! Angel Hernandez and CB Bucknor were the worst umpires I’ve ever seen! | |||
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