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I've thought since they "unified" the National and American umpires that there was a tremendous overall fall off in the quality of their work.
The American umps were always bad in Yankee Stadium, but that was the only place there was a noticeable bias.....then they changed the umps affiliation.
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I dont know what it is, but I cant get into baseball anymore. When I was a teenager baseball was a daily part of my life. Younger I would watch it daily...the Cubs on WGN and the Braves on whatever station they played on I forget. The Braves were my fav team back then. Smoltz, Glavine, Justice, Gant, to name just a few. They had an awesome team.
Anyway back in the early 1990s they had the baseball strike and it just shattered all the enjoyment I found in the game. Ever since I have never felt the same about baseball. Wish I could, but I just cant.
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Personally, I think the Rays have spent their best effort and are on the route to defeat in the Series.
That is not to say the umps were ever intending to let the Rays best effort have much chance to succeed.
But, then, maybe I interpolate incorrectly and those umps are really that hopelessly incompetent.
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The umps and MLB were very lucky that the Rays tied that game last night. If not, their choices were not very pretty. They could have continued the game in very nasty weather, or halted the game. If they halted the game and did not resume, the Phillies win the series in a shortened game and very anticlimatic. If they did resume, the Phillies may have ended up winning the series at 2 AM and most of the city would be asleep.
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You can cancel the swipe tag at 3rd missed call with the play where Jamie Moyer dove towards first and flipped it from hs glove to Ryan Howard, when the runner was clearly out.
There was also the play where Jimmy Rollins got hit by a pitch and the umpire never even noticed, and the play where the home plate ump called the batter out on strikes, then changed his mind and asked the ump at 1st if he swung, and the ump at first said "no" and they called it a walk.
The strike zone has been ridiculous for both teams, and I agree completely that last night it hosed Kazmir, but there has been awful umping for and against both teams. It has not been remotely one sided, in my opinion.
quote:Originally posted by glassman: sorry, but this is not a world series level performance by the umps, and quite frankly it seems like they are all in favor of the Phillies...
i'm not a fan of either team, but this sux.
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They have stretched the season out way too far. I know they don't want to, but it is time to bring back the regular scheduling of double headers so that the most important games of the season are not played in numbing cold and so that, if it becomes necessary to reschedule one of them, it doesn't further stretch the season into winter.
The game was never intended as a contest of endurance against the weather.
The most endearing work ever penned on the game, The Boys of Summer, cast its hold on the imagination of the reader with its title, which sets the game into the mindset that made it our National pastime. Even here, the lust of profit and greed of corporate bigwigs, undermines what is the heart of American.
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Expansion team? No, just move the rays there so they can draw reasonable crowds.
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