Too Many Ejection Clips

[BigUmp56]

Originally Posted by SanDiegoSteve

Are you calling my wife a liar?

If my wife says she saw his hand touch the plate, trust me, he touched the plate. She is not prone to exaggeration.

You know I would never call your wife a liar, brother. But from the angle above the plate that I saw this morning it looked to me like it was entirely possible that his hand never made contact with the dish.


Tim.

[SanDiegoSteve]

Originally Posted by BigUmp56

You know I would never call your wife a liar, brother. But from the angle above the plate that I saw this morning it looked to me like it was entirely possible that his hand never made contact with the dish.


Tim.

Yeah, from that angle I couldn't tell either. But from David Eckstein's angle, which was kneeling about 10 feet from the call, with as good a look at it as Barksdale had, swore up and down that the hand touched the plate. Not that you can trust a rat, normally, but Eckstien's a pretty square shooter, and was probably being honest.






I wish I had the next frame of this!:

[SanDiegoSteve]

Okay, I just saw the replay that my wife was talking about prior to the start of today's Padres/Mets game. It was from the 3rd base dugout camera with a zoom lens, and his hand smacked that plate as plain as day, to which Tony Gwynn again said that it was an "obviously blown call."

[nopachunts]

Originally Posted by SanDiegoSteve

Okay, I just saw the replay that my wife was talking about prior to the start of today's Padres/Mets game. It was from the 3rd base dugout camera with a zoom lens, and his hand smacked that plate as plain as day, to which Tony Gwynn again said that it was an "obviously blown call."

Can you post a link to the video?

[SanDiegoSteve]

Originally Posted by nopachunts

Can you post a link to the video?

The story and the video (which is pretty conclusive, really. I don't see how any umpire among us here could come up with a different conclusion after watching this):

Baseball Video Highlights & Clips | NYN@SD: Black is ejected arguing a play at the plate - Video | padres.com: Multimedia

[jwwashburn]

He had to have not been looking at home plate.

That was really bad.

[Bishopcolle]

Ow!!!

[TussAgee11]

Goodness gracious... something is up these days.

Baseball Video Highlights & Clips | FLA@PHI: Victorino is ejected from the game - Video | phillies.com: Multimedia

[Matt]

Originally Posted by SanDiegoSteve

Okay, I just saw the replay that my wife was talking about prior to the start of today's Padres/Mets game. It was from the 3rd base dugout camera with a zoom lens, and his hand smacked that plate as plain as day, to which Tony Gwynn again said that it was an "obviously blown call."

I saw that one...makes me think that it was a missed call.