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Originally posted by beatlejuce
Maybe the system is flawed and should be looked at but...
tell me how many times an umpire calls a strike and 5 seconds later an overhead view shows the ball CLEARLY 6 inches outside the plate.
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Almost never. Very few of the overhead cameras are, in fact, directly over (or in line with) the plate. And, it could be that the umpire was calling that pitch to make a point (it's accepted "game management" at times at the upper levels).
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I remember a couple of times it changed the result of the whole game.
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It changed the result of the whole game more than any of the other 250 pitches the the players (including the batters) made plays on (or didn't)? Wow! Let us know how this happened.
Tee makes the point that Sandy is doing this to show the umpires "who is the boss." I agree. It also has the effect of showing the players (and managers) "Who is the boss."
The umpires didn't just get together one day and decide, "We're going to change the strike zone" -- the zone that's called is (generally) the one that the players and managers (as a whole) want. SUre, they could (and perhaps should) change the rule book to reflect that, but that requires a formal agreement between the players association and MLB -- and that ain't gonna happen.
The ML and minir-league umpires that I"ve talked to (none since QestTec) don't object to evaluations / feedback by people who know what they're talking about -- including video and other "technologies". But, I've seen nothing that indicates that the technologies (as implemented) are accurate / reliable enough to rate or score the umpires.