Who are you to draw the line on where replay ends by the way?

balls and strikes are something that can even out of the course of the ball game, and I didn’t see an anti-Yankee bias from the home plate ump so much as the borderline incompetence so common in recent seasons. (in general, I view ALL claims of home plate ump bias as HIGHLY suspect, due to the sheer number of calls and the way the human mind works–I’d need a graphic with every pitch, and a ratio of 3-1 or so favoring one team, before I’d even consider such a claim)

bad calls in the field, however: considerably less likely to even out. and that call was as bad as everyone’s said. if I were a Twinkies fan, I like to think that I’d be taking the high road and cursing my team for all the baserunners left on (or maybe cursing Nathan for being a choking dog who can’t close in the post-season, check the guy’s splits!) but as a Yankees fan, I don’t want to win that way.

adding fair/foul replay would be so easy. require a managerial challenge, limit the total number if you want, award a ground rule double if a ball was incorrectly called foul.

but really, I’m not sure this is about replay. this is about increasingly incompetent umps who are also increasingly interested in throwing players out for dubious reason, developing personal strike zones and personal gestures, and who generally seem to think the the fans in some way care about them and their antics.

what about relegation? make it so umps get sent down to the minors, send the worst 10% down every year? as it is, it seems like umps get to the bigs and they’re here to stay; players have to perform or they get sent down…….

doh!

(ah, nobody will see the end of this thread anyway…)

“beer”, is a close third ; )

looks like there’s a new thread and i was late to this party. what else is new…

and forget about handedness, i hope Brew-ney replaces Marte if we make it the LCS…

i composed a tune called “The Flip”, a few years back. but it wasn’t just about that play – it also had to do w/ a “flip” technique i used on the bass pedal and a tribute to my man Hank Mobley, who had an album (and song) called “The Flip”. : )

Devastating as it was, I can live with it for those reasons.

“Honey! Come in here! See? See? This is what I’m talking about! Goddamit! You gotta see this! Where are you? Honey?!? Shit.”

Much of life is about problem solving, from which socks to wear today, to how to deal with a soured marriage, to how to we feed the world’s poor. Everyday, we are face 100′s of problems, from the miniscule to the important.

As mehmattski says in [42], dealing and fixed problems is a great deal about what live on earth is about. Parents teach it, teachers teach it, Gurus teach it. Ya know… the difficult we do easily, the impossible takes a little longer. Who knows, maybe if we can get the bugs out of baseball, we can’t turn our attention towards government next.

Anyway I was never too worried in this game. First of all, I thought they’d win the series even if they lost the game. Second, I figured they had a chance in the bottom of the ninth. Third, I was drinking.

I loved seeing Robertson and Cervelli – the “next generation”(?) – getting out of that jam. During which the Twins froze on that liner to Teixeira. Exactly the thing Gardner should have done on Damon’s line-out. Terrible mistake there, but otherwise I loved the deployment of Gardner, one reason why he’s better kept on the bench.

A-Rod’s performance thus far has been impressive. I feel positive about it, but assuming the Yanks advance, isn’t anyone a little worried that this ends up being a repeat of 2004? He’s certainly gotten the monkey off his bat, so to speak, but a small part of me wants to withhold judgment till we see the ALCS. At any rate that home run was just awesome.

The ump’s mistake on the “foul” ball was egregious, but kind of like Holliday’s error, subsequent events render it less than earth-shattering. For one thing, Mauer got on base. Then beyond that, the Twins still loaded the bases with no outs and couldn’t score! So yes – horrible call, and you don’t want the ump’s screw-ups determining the outcome, but I think the Twins overcame that mistake, only to sink their own battleship.

Marte was horrible. I don’t really blame Girardi for bringing him in there too much. If he’s on the roster, he should be used. Otherwise, don’t put him on the roster. In fact – don’t put him on the roster.

I wasn’t too happy to see Hughes and Rivera give up those runs.

Oh and Posada has really become noticeably problematic behind the plate. Maybe he shouldn’t have talked so much about Burnett/Molina because it ended up shining an unfortunate spotlight on his own evidently declining skills.

i agree that baseball needs to clean up its calls. but what i hate is implementing it step by step. it’s absurd that we only have replay available on home run calls, but calls that can impact the game just as much can’t be reviewed. if we go to replays, or computer umps, it has to be everything together, including balls and strikes.

1. Runner on Second, no outs.
2. Runner on First, no outs.

The umpire is not vindicated by the fact that the Twins loaded the bases anyway. He completely changed the whole makeup of the inning with his blown call. I would say the same thing even if the next three twins hitters hit home runs, or if they all struck out. If the ump had made the right call, the inning would have been different. I’m not saying the Twins would have definitely scored, but the inning would have definitely been different.

*** The Twins would’ve gotten a run if Kubel singled, but what if it changed the entire next at bat and the pitches? Maybe Marte walks Kubel and it’s 1st and 2nd just like it was…Is there a guarantee that Mauer scores on Kubel’s hit? Is there a guarantee that the next hitter, who singled, doesn’t walk or strike out?

*** The Twins can bitch but they had bases loaded with no one out. They came away empty. Sorry. Bad calls are part of the game and a team must react to the bad call to recover.

*** If you disagree with my first point and assume that Kubel gets a base hit EXACTLY like he did, then fine, but that means Tex still ties the game on his homer, right? Then red-hot Arod comes up, no?