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Post by noetsi on Aug 18, 2019 15:13:37 GMT -5
This is a game talking about the umpires and user names is better than the game...
8-2 Cleveland can sure hit.
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Post by noetsi on Aug 18, 2019 15:33:36 GMT -5
Ok all we need is 7 runs
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Post by noetsi on Aug 18, 2019 15:37:12 GMT -5
Time for Tauchman to tag one
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Post by inger on Aug 18, 2019 15:44:27 GMT -5
Hey Pipps! I missed commenting on Tony Conigliaro, but that was not only a horrific tragedy, but the biggest story of this then 13-year old boy’s baseball season.
The kid that lived next door to us was hit by a swinging bat as he wandered too close to the on-deck circle as it caught him right on the edge of his outer right eye socket.
The doctor told him that if it would have been 1/4 inch in one direction it would have taken his eye out. If it had been 1/4 inch the other way it would have caught his temple and likely would have killed him. I haven’t seen him in about 50 years, but I imagine he still carries that horseshoe shaped scar around his eye...At the time he was bruised up about as bad as Tony C....
He was a year older than me, and was the first kid to ask me to have a catch with him when I was 9 1/2 and had never experienced playing baseball in any way...
Strange how we sort of forget those landmark moments that wind up shaping our lives, and then Tony Conigliaro steps out of baseball’s shadows and reminds us...
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Post by inger on Aug 18, 2019 15:45:20 GMT -5
We start to sneak back into the game... Umpires must be doing better... (:
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Post by noetsi on Aug 18, 2019 15:45:26 GMT -5
lol judge and the umpire joshing at 2nd base
8-4
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Post by utahyank on Aug 18, 2019 15:45:57 GMT -5
Judge looking much better in his AB's....
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Post by inger on Aug 18, 2019 15:46:24 GMT -5
lol judge and the umpire joshing at 2nd base 8-4 I get the feeling that at 8-2 a lot of our fellow posters turned their TV sets off... |
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Post by inger on Aug 18, 2019 15:49:18 GMT -5
Urshela-damn-near-believable... Thought it was gone...
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Post by noetsi on Aug 18, 2019 15:49:28 GMT -5
Urshela hit it hard just not quite hard enough
2-2 in a really tough series works for me. Next we go play Oakland who is white hot.
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Post by inger on Aug 18, 2019 15:49:55 GMT -5
Again, fighting to the end...All we can ask for...
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Post by noetsi on Aug 18, 2019 15:50:29 GMT -5
lol judge and the umpire joshing at 2nd base 8-4 I get the feeling that at 8-2 a lot of our fellow posters turned their TV sets off... Its usually safest for me to post then  A couple of breaks and one less pitch from CC and we might have won this. |
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Post by noetsi on Aug 18, 2019 16:24:03 GMT -5
Tampa rallied to win 5-4. They can't play detroit forever.
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Post by rizzuto on Aug 18, 2019 18:36:22 GMT -5
Well this pitcher will be gone next inning anyway Maybe, but unfortunately this thug umpire will still be there, deliberately screwing the Yanks with these calls and then trying to pick a fight with them if they dare to question his majesty. I know I'm in the minority here, but I think the Yanks are completely in the right expressing their disgust with this charade. Then, you have company in the minority. I agree with you. I also believe that if the umpires were troubled with Gardner banging a bat in the dugout, then a warning should haven been issued, or at the very least, notify Boone in advance of the consequences should it continue. |
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Post by rizzuto on Aug 18, 2019 18:51:07 GMT -5
Also, regarding umpires. I thought the crew that called the Toronto series was damn near unnoticeable. Meaning, they didn't miss many calls, and if so, they handled the communication with the players and managers in such a professional fashion, it satisfied rather than escalated the circumstances. Competence, humility, and civility go a long way. Cuzzi and his crew had rabbit ears and princess-like sensibilities. Communicate clearly and calmly, then enforce consequences as stated.
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