Dude... We Got So Slammed.

Which is probably THE key stat in hockey when talking about goaltending. Brodeur at 92 percent to Nabokov’s 91 percent which may not sound like much, but the extra percentage point is a lot over the course of a long season. AND Brodeur was playing on an inferior team. His team also had less scoring to support him (222 goals to 206 goals).

2 for 5 Tonight @ Tuscon. 1 Double. He better be on a flight to SF as we blog. 412/466/621 (34 AB’s)

DFA’ing Brown is a necessity.

Please.

E-Mule needs to get his ticket out of town asap. Thanks for the one good month, EB but now “Get the hell out!”

:)

because Crust will start due to his bat. So why not send one down so they contiune to get playing time. Unless them getting one maybe two at bats and playing one-two innings is going to make them better. I think Buck goes back down first. Then if he begins to struggle CarGon or Sweeney may go down. At least till rosters expand or we fall out of the race then all bets are off.

and instant replay too, but not for every pitch or every call. Some calls are obvious and there’s no need to use an electronic strike zone for every pitch.

What I’d really like to see is an implementation like in professional tennis – each player can make three incorrect challenges per set. If you’re challenge a call and you’re right, you keep your three (or two, or whatever you have left). If you’re wrong, then you use a challenge up. If you’re out of challenges and you disagree with a call, too bad for you. But this way, the player (pitcher, catcher, manager, whatever) can decide when it is actually important for them to challenge a call.

“Creepy” because it steals their souls??

Would it be more “human” just to bring people out of the stands at random to call the game.
Then it would be really “human’ with all the familiar “human failings”.

When each baseball comes off the assembly line, is it “creepy” to weigh each ball, to see if it conforms to a standard? Electronic scales?? What about the humidor at Coors Field in Denver? “Stepford Balls” in Denver, where they all “bounce” like back in California?

No one watching the game would ever know the difference…and everyone participating will know they’re getting a fair shake. No more arguing.

The ump simply has a buzzer in his pocket. If it buzzes, it’s a strike. Each team gets access to the signal, so that an ump can’t miss a call (doubtful). Visually, the spectators and the players won’t see a single thing differently. So madmongoose, ...HOW WOULD YOU KNOW?? and what is the “silliness” you object to??

The game would improve tremendously, I think. Psychologically, I think it would take away a negative that players would not have to deal with…”Does the ump have a bias against me/ my team, and what do I do about it?”

Another problem with “bad calls” on balls and strikes, IMO, is that the umps attempt to “even it out”. “Ooops, blew that one…oh well, I’ll be generous with so-and-so”.

traveling at the “high speed” of thirty miles per hour, several learned passengers wrote down everything they were thinking, everything that came to mind, in order to compare their thoughts “at high speed” versus “at rest”.

Tomatoes, also called “Wolf Peaches” were regarded as highly-poisonous. A good garden decoration, but eating one would kill you. A highly-publicized “demo” (this was, 1816? 1808?) proved it to be wrong, and prominent “death by tomatoes” expert skulked away from the event to a barrage of verbal disdain.

provided the car gets hit with 1.21 gigawatts.

no contact lenses or glasses? No video allowed, so you cannot review your last AB in the clubhouse (like Cust did, then hit a HR during one game).

Those are all ” technologies” that were unavailable to the “classic players”.
An ump would still “call balls and strikes”. You wouldn’t know the difference, no one would see anything different. The ump would have the benefit of “seeing better”.

If getting the “best umpiring” is not an objective, why not have a lottery before each game of “qualified people”, and then choose out of a hat?? Then it would just be like “old times”!! and plenty of fun!

... with the Giants.