tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7941261488380355005.post1707703778943211856..comments2024-03-18T20:39:01.965-07:00Comments on Raising Matt Cain: April Fooled in AZM.C. O'Connorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12258035192484655635noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7941261488380355005.post-18057582025865624992014-04-02T21:54:41.181-07:002014-04-02T21:54:41.181-07:00Sorry Zo, what I meant is that the review umpire g...Sorry Zo, what I meant is that the review umpire got it right: the play was not clearly conclusive from the replays. I don't share your conviction, but my thought is that he was out at 1B, but just that there was some reasonable doubt, and thus why the review umpire had to agree.<br /><br />Dunston gets the dunce cap for going for challenging that play.obsessivegiantscompulsivehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11362706004246875823noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7941261488380355005.post-9867363881115410812014-04-02T18:18:43.566-07:002014-04-02T18:18:43.566-07:00I still think he was out at first, and the call wa...I still think he was out at first, and the call was incorrect. But you point up another problem. Not that I blame Dunston, but now it is already umpires vs. tv slo-mo replays. Dunston is watching the feed relaying advice as to whether or not to appeal to Bochy. So Dunston gets the advantage of slo-mo and viewing the play about 5 times while the umps stand there with their thumbs up their ass. So the umpires are at a disadvantage, except for the "beyond a shadow of a doubt" problem. That means that almost every appeal is going to be correct and the umpires are going to be compelled, not to get it right, but to determine degree. Not that he was out, but was he out by enough of a margin to overturn the call. What utter bullshit.Zonoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7941261488380355005.post-44589148745155920082014-04-02T16:16:11.206-07:002014-04-02T16:16:11.206-07:00Oh, and I was going to add, runs scoring at the pl...Oh, and I was going to add, runs scoring at the plate is just as big before the 7th as after the 7th start, who was the brainiac who decided this one, someone who never played baseball ever?<br /><br />Just look at how many 1-run games a team faces in a season, and some teams have up to 25% of their games 1-run games. obsessivegiantscompulsivehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11362706004246875823noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7941261488380355005.post-46444740456121799322014-04-02T16:13:36.655-07:002014-04-02T16:13:36.655-07:00Eh, the Giants earned that first game win and that...Eh, the Giants earned that first game win and that second gave loss.<br /><br />I think the ump got the call at first right: http://mlb.mlb.com/news/article/sf/barry-m-bloom?ymd=20140402&content_id=70683054&vkey=news_sf<br /><br />And I can forgive the ump for the second call, some, the runner did hop up, but his eyes should have been right on the glove and the glove clearly gave on the slide, but it was so quick, I can give him that.<br /><br />Bochy had it right in the first place, he wanted automatic reviews on plays at the plate, and this is exhibit 1A for why it should have been done. Not sure why they decided to make plays after the 7th umpire reviewable at their discretion. Umpires don't want to make obvious errors either, he should have had that option available to him.<br /><br />And I don't blame Bochy. His pitcher was already at 80 pitches, he was hoping to get out of the inning. And 99 out of a 100 times, that don't lead to an extra base hit that results in a play at the plate. But as fate likes to do sometimes, when there is a flaw to the rules, the Giants suffer the negative results of that flaw, like 3 game playoff series, and such. <br /><br />If anyone is to blame, it is Dunston for recommending to Bochy that he challenge the play, he had the views, I saw them and they were not conclusive and, worse, some of them looked like he was safe.obsessivegiantscompulsivehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11362706004246875823noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7941261488380355005.post-91717757614652284942014-04-02T15:38:29.122-07:002014-04-02T15:38:29.122-07:00Here: http://deadspin.com/mlb-replay-had-its-first...Here: http://deadspin.com/mlb-replay-had-its-first-major-fuck-up-1556969950<br />Look how clearly the glove is between the foot and home base.Zonoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7941261488380355005.post-59141649392252642192014-04-02T15:32:20.774-07:002014-04-02T15:32:20.774-07:00Two games into the season, and the flaws in MLB...Two games into the season, and the flaws in MLB's replay system are evident. 1st - Pollock was out both and first and clearly at home. But apparently, a request for a replay puts the umpire into a criminal trial, where the burden of proof needs to be beyond the shadow of doubt, not just the preponderance of evidence. So if the umpire is not found guilty, the manager loses a further appeal. I get the reason, so that one manager doesn't clog the system with appeals, but the result is that the game was lost on a clearly bad call. So if, as everyone keeps saying, the intent is to "get it right" then they have made the situation worse. Not only does the Giants manager not have an appeal, but there is no ability to go to replay by the umpires until the 7th inning - and we weren't there yet. So even if another umpire disagrees, we stand pat on a blatantly bad call.<br /><br />Consider, though, if Pollock would have been called out and Gibson appealed. Then the call would have been (correctly this time) upheld, Bochy would have gotten a call for the play at home (leaving aside the fact that it wouldn't have occurred) and would have had yet another appeal at his disposal because he was right. So by the fact that the umpires refused to correct the call and get it right based on a preponderance of evidence, then they compounded the error by making another much more directly harmful bad call right after without a way to correct it. Either take away the penalty for bad judgement on your first replay, or, as Flem suggested, have some automatic reviews built in, like for all plays at the plate. If not, I'm ready to throw the whole system out. Second game of the season, and it made a farce of the whole replay concept.Zonoreply@blogger.com