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Just because you make it to the "bigs" don't mean that you know exactly how to play the game. On another note, baseball continues to water down their talent and its going to be even more evident with the "steriod" testing. Why can Roger Clemens continue to be the best pitcher in baseball at 43? years of age. Sure, in the mold of Nolan Ryan he has great mechanics and work ethic and he's not afraid to pitch inside, but the other side is that you don't have to pitch but to three or four batters per team - the rest are batting .250 and are overmatched. Randy Johnson was supposed to be the Savior for the Yankees since Clemens had left, but as they learned, he's not the same pitcher he was three/ four years ago, but he's still one of the better pitchers in the game. That said, its still fun to watch, but I wonder what my boy will be saying about baseball 10 years from now???? Thanks David |
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[QUOTE]Originally posted by RPatrino "...if the batter swings, and the strike is caught, I combine my "sideways point" (eyes looking forward, of course)with a mild "out" hammer. I do not verbalize strike three. Now,if the players act confused,they don't realize the ball was caught, and they start to act "hinky" I will verbalize, "batter is out".
If the third strike is not caught, then I just do my "sideways point" (eyes looking forward, of course), with no mild "out" hammer." On the head - this is what I've done for years, and I've never had a problem. This mechanic removes doubt from everyone's mind. If there's doubt in MY mind if the ball was caught or trapped, I will already have discussed this possibility in a pregame with my partner(s), and will have made eye contact with him (them), and based on what indication signal we have agreed on I will make my call. Do I still catch heck now and then? Yep. Love this game! JJ [Edited by JJ on Oct 14th, 2005 at 09:58 AM] |
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A better plumber in my town has a pernicisou effect on all the other plumbers. It's amazing how "communists" come out of the woodwork when someone begins using "capitalism" as it was intended. It's a business, for crying out loud. They've already got profit sharing. All that nonsense is an attempt to keep losing franchises in business. What's wrong with market corrections? If the Twins can't cut the mustard.... Don't use the mores of amateur sports in the same breath with the professional game. Everybody seems upset that player salaries are sky high. The American way is for the worker to get what he can. If somebody wants to pay six million a year for a guy who bats .245, more powser to him. |
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http://www.bizjournals.com/sanfranci...10/story2.html Dallas hasn't won a playoff game in 10 seasons. But most of the people who follow "America's Team" are people who latched on in the 1970s or the 1990s when the Cowboys were winning. I've talked to Cowboys fans who have never been to Texas, have never been to a game, etc. I HATE fair-weather, band-wagon fans. It's easy to be a fan when the team wins. You lived in New York (which I didn't know), so enjoy your Yankees. It has nothing to do with Texas, Carl -- I am rooting for the Astros to win it all. And I live in Wisconsin, but I've been an Eagles fan since I've been walking. I grew up in PA. I could send you a cheesehead, though, if you are interested. --Rich |
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I don't disagree with you. But in all sports around here, if you don't use strict NFHS mechanics, then you will be lucky to get a post-season assignment. If you are lucky enough to get one, then you better know your evaluator really well to move on to another round. Here it's the hammer for both strike and out, as per the signal chart on pg. 70.
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If somebody wants to pay six million a year for a guy who bats .245, more power to him.
Absolutely right. People who complain about the money ballplayers make act as if someone is putting a gun to the owners' heads. Apparently these people prefer that the ultra-rich owners keep more of their money. If I want to pay somebody $200 to mow my half-acre lawn, that's up to me. If someone wants to mow my lawn for $5, that's up to him. I've heard people argue that the government should dictate what jobs pay. (I live in a university town.) All pay--of truck drivers, secretaries, painters, probably umpires, too--should be determined by "experts" (like them) at universities. "Comparable worth" is their euphemism for this kind of Stalinism. The free market, you see, results in inequity. One guy even claims that everyone should make the same. "Garbage collectors need the money just as much as surgeons," says this Ivy Leaguer. And to make up for the fact that some people inherit money and others don't, no one should be allowed to inherit money. Instead, in the new Utopia, everyone will get $80,000 from the government at age 21 or so, to get started in adulthood. Yes, I'm serious. In New Jersey, public schools must pay baseball umpires and softball umpires the same. Gender equity. So an ump has a choice: $74 for an 80-minute softball game where arguments are rare and the fans are polite, or $74 for a 160-minute baseball game where. . . . Well, guess which sport is overflowing with officials and which sport needs them. [Edited by greymule on Oct 14th, 2005 at 11:46 AM]
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