News: Umpires Progress Report on New Zone

[Jim Porter]

I watched the Red Sox/Yankees scrimmage today. I don't know who was behind the plate.

I saw only two pitches that were called strikes throughout the entire game that I thought would not have been called last year.

There were some pitches that I felt, under the new zone, should have been called strikes.

But who am I? I suppose it's much easier sitting in my Lay-Z-Boy with a beer mug in one hand and a bag of Lays in the other.

Laying around, that's all I've got to do. I've lost a week of games because of snow! Damned New England weather.