Mets/Cards - Spiezio Triple

[SanDiegoSteve]

Originally Posted by GarthB

I've had a former ML player tell me that when Angel Hernandez boots a fair/foul call that costs Steinbrenner the World Series, instant replay will debut the next season.

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

[GarthB]

Originally Posted by SanDiegoSteve

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.

[SanDiegoSteve]

Originally Posted by GarthB

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!

[LMan]

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.....

[SanDiegoSteve]

Originally Posted by LMan

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.

[GoodwillRef]

[QUOTE=GarthB]

Originally Posted by GoodwillRef

Those are judgement calls.

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.

[umpduck11]

[QUOTE=GoodwillRef]

Originally Posted by 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.

It's a slippery slope from fair/foul to ball/strike.

[mcrowder]

Originally Posted by PWL

I'm just curious as to why the fence and back wall are so close at Shea. Also why there is no yellow line at the top of the fence either.

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

[GarthB]

[QUOTE=GoodwillRef]

Originally Posted by 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.

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?

[bob jenkins]

[QUOTE=GarthB]

Originally Posted by 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?

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?

[SanDiegoSteve]

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:

Originally Posted by Somebody

What you want to quote

[GarthB]

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

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

Like this:

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.

[LilLeaguer]

Originally Posted by GarthB

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.

[LilLeaguer]

Originally Posted by GarthB

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.

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.)

[umpduck11]

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

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

Like this:

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