So, what you're saying is that it will never happen, since Angel will never be placed in that situation, right?

You give baseball too much credit. Remember, Angel worked the 2002 and 2005 World Series.

Yes, but I was hoping they had learned their lesson!:D

To keep this on the Cards/Mets theme, anyone else catch McCarver's comments that (RE: balks):

1. F1 has to come set for at least "1-thousand one", and
2. F1 has to come set with his glove in the same position for every pitch?


I thought the 1-second rule died before I was born.....

See page 2 of this thread for prior responses.

[QUOTE=GarthB]
You know what I mean I don't think it should be used for out/safe or ball/strike type of calls. You guys take everything so literally. Fair/foul, homerun/no homerun, fan interference, those types of situations.

[QUOTE=GoodwillRef] It's a slippery slope from fair/foul to ball/strike.

They should ALL be like that, and most of the HR controversies would go away.

[QUOTE=GoodwillRef]
No, I didn't know what you meant. I didn't know if you knew what you meant. I knew what you wrote.

I am not familiar with you as a poster or as an umpire, and I do not know what you do or do not understand.

Okay, let's take fair/foul situations Will this include whether or not the ball might have hit the batter in the box after hitting the bat and before rolling "fair"? Or do you need to further refine this judgement call?

[QUOTE=GarthB]I'd also like to know what will happen if an umpire declares the ball to be "foul" and replay shows it is "fair"? Where will the runners be placed?

I would like to know why everyone has suddenly forgotten how to use the quotation features correctly, so here's a review:

[quote] must be followed by a close of quotation, which is a / before the word quote.

Like this:

[QUOTE=SanDiegoSteve]I would like to know why everyone has suddenly forgotten how to use the quotation features correctly, so here's a review:

I merely hit the "quote button" and how it comes out is how it comes out.

Edited to add: See how screwed up it is this time? There must be an issue with the "quote button" feature. Trust me, Bob and I aren't screwing this up in purpose.

Previewed
 

Hmm. Quoting a quote seems to get things messed up. The result of the Quote button here had two Quote tags (one for GarthB, one for SanDiegoSteve) and one /Quote end tag. It was messed up. I manually added a second /Quote end tag and things appear to be better. At least, the preview looks OK.

Another try
 

I see that in my last post I ended the SDS post incorrectly, attributing Garth's words to Steve. It matters where you put the /Quote end tag, and I've lost some of Steve's original message. (The quote button has never brought out nested quotations completely.)

[QUOTE=SanDiegoSteve]I would like to know why everyone has suddenly forgotten how to use the quotation features correctly, so here's a review:

Perhaps you could start a thread containing a quote option tutorial. :p