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Sibelius Fan

(24,630 posts)
1. Not great, but let's face it, it was just another case of bad umpiring.
Fri Oct 15, 2021, 08:12 AM
Oct 2021

I get tired of watching umps calling balls as strikes. MLB needs to make more calls reviewable. The idea that an umpire standing 90 feet away from home is better equipped to make a call on a bam-bam checked swing than an ump viewing the slo-mo footage captured by the battery of cameras filming what is actually happening is ludicrous.

lark

(24,164 posts)
3. Umps GAVE the game to the hated Dodgers and did it consistently last night.
Fri Oct 15, 2021, 08:52 AM
Oct 2021

Hubs was going crazy with all the bad calls.

Sibelius Fan

(24,630 posts)
4. Flores was zero for 17 against Scherzer. It's stretching it to think he would
Fri Oct 15, 2021, 09:23 AM
Oct 2021

have kept things going had the checked swing been acknowledged. He’s still down two strikes and facing a pitcher that owns him.

I was pulling for the Giants. Damn.

Mr.Bill

(24,791 posts)
8. That umpire also had a very large strike zone all night long.
Fri Oct 15, 2021, 03:15 PM
Oct 2021

He was calling strikes that were the width of the ball outside the box.

RussBLib

(9,666 posts)
10. you think it's time for robot umpire?
Fri Oct 15, 2021, 10:21 PM
Oct 2021

No more strikes called outside of strike zone; no more called balls that were easily strikes.

you could even put in enough cameras so that check-swings get called precisely too.

it's time.

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