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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. I remember a couple of times it changed the result of the whole game. There isn't any umpire/official/judge that wants replay because it's obvious that they screw up. Maybe the best solution would be is to never show any replays. What I don't know won't hurt me.
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that's what many have been saying. We
do watch the game.
When you have a pitcher that can prove that he can put it 2 inches off the plate anytime he wants, then he's deserves to get that call from the PU.
Now we have only a few who can do that, Glavine, Shilling, Maddox, and a few others. But we also remember Tom Seaver, Jim Palmer and etc, etc,
Seaver was the master of the low strike, he could put if there anytime he wanted and he got the strike.
Palmer was a master on the inside and outside corner,
But, I never heard Hank Aaron complaining though about the pitches that were called. I don't think Rod Carew cared either, they just waited for a pitch to hit and did just that.
TV is ruining the game by showing a pitch that the F2 catches perfectly but might be a bit outside. You won't see the batter complaining either because they respect that pitcher.
What has happened is the young pitchers (and use that term loosely) don't know how to hit their spots and they wnat the zone bigger and bigger so they won't walk so many hitters and baseball is actually listening to them???
Same with my games, when I have a young man that can hit his spots he's going to get a lot more calls than 85 percent of the pitchers that we see that don't have a clue and when they actually throw a strike it surprises even themselves.
I think you understand where I'm coming from.
The game was beautiful, now baseball is trying their best to mess it up.
Thanks
David