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mick Fri Apr 06, 2007 09:17am
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Originally Posted by M&M Guy
Hey! I heard he's purdy danged smart.

Anytime a team with only 83 regular-season victories wins the World Series, it gives hope the to the rest of us poor, huddled masses.

And now, back to the junior circuit. Did you see yesterday the White Sox won in the bottom of the ninth by AJ Pierzynski getting nicked (not hit, or hammered, or walloped, etc., just nicked) by a pitch with the bases loaded to bring in the winning run. Of course, leave to him to be in the middle of a little controversy as to whether he made any attempt to get out of the way of the pitch.
Anytime a player tells me that he wasn't trying to get hit, ... he was trying to get hit.

Rich Fri Apr 06, 2007 09:27am
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Originally Posted by mick
Anytime a player tells me that he wasn't trying to get hit, ... he was trying to get hit.
And if the pitcher hadn't thrown it there, nobody would have anything to say :)

Mark Dexter Fri Apr 06, 2007 10:00am
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Originally Posted by mick
Anytime a player tells me that he wasn't trying to get hit, ... he was trying to get hit.
Would this be the corollary?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=26axJdDKYWw

Jurassic Referee Fri Apr 06, 2007 12:26pm
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Originally Posted by Mark Dexter
Would this be the corollary?
he umpire showed remarkable restraint for not throwing him out earlier for bad acting. I can imagine what he told the player's manager what he thought about his actions.

Adam Fri Apr 06, 2007 12:45pm
Has anyone ever seen an umpire rule that a player didn't make an attempt to avoid, therefore no base is awarded? I've never seen this called, at any level.

mick Fri Apr 06, 2007 01:11pm
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Originally Posted by Snaqwells
Has anyone ever seen an umpire rule that a player didn't make an attempt to avoid, therefore no base is awarded? I've never seen this called, at any level.
Yeah. I have one every few years.
Sometimes they lean into the pitch and sometime they merely refuse to move. But everytime the pitch is a round-house curve that couldn't hurt a gnat.

Jurassic Referee Fri Apr 06, 2007 02:37pm
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Originally Posted by Snaqwells
Has anyone ever seen an umpire rule that a player didn't make an attempt to avoid, therefore no base is awarded? I've never seen this called, at any level.
There was a famous play no-called back in the late '60's when Don Drysdale was trying to break the major league record for most shutout innings pitched in a row. He hit a player with the bases loaded, which shoulda forced in a run, but the umpire(Harry Wendelstedt iirc) ruled that the player didn't try to get out of the way. Drysdale then got him out and went on to set the record. Wendelstedt took a lot of crap but later most everybody agreed that he made the right call. Gutsy call, but Wendelstedt was a gutsy umpire. His son, Hunter, is a MLB umpire now.

tjones1 Fri Apr 06, 2007 03:28pm
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Originally Posted by ChuckElias
I'm not sure if you're saying that b/c you hate baseball or b/c you're writing off certain teams. But I'll just throw out there that on PTI tonight, Wilbon gave the Cards 0% chance to win their division b/c he picked the Cubs to win it. :D
No, no. Silly joke because the Cards are off to an 0-3 start. ;)

tjones1 Fri Apr 06, 2007 03:30pm
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Originally Posted by Snaqwells
Has anyone ever seen an umpire rule that a player didn't make an attempt to avoid, therefore no base is awarded? I've never seen this called, at any level.
Yep, I've had this call before, not only that but I called a strike on the batter.

rockyroad Mon Apr 09, 2007 12:13pm
Wow...come back from my vacation and see that my Mariners are 2-1...off to a good start! Of course, they've had several games snowed-out (Snow for crying out loud???), but a good first series...let's see if they can keep it up. Traded Meche who had a good first outing and Piniero who has looked good in spring games, so we'll see what they can...I predict another 68 wins this season - yuck!!

ChuckElias Mon Apr 09, 2007 09:24pm
I think this is hysterical. The Indians' home opening series got snowed out (the whole series -- not rain, but snowed out!), so their next "home" series is being played in Milwaukee.

http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/news/story?id=2830648

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The Indians moved their series against the Los Angeles Angels to Milwaukee's Miller Park after a spring snowstorm wiped out Cleveland's series against Seattle for the fourth straight day Monday.
Meanwhile, my Sox play a day game tomorrow against DJ's M's. Jeff Weaver goes for Seattle. Is he the good Weaver? Of course, it's supposed to snow here on Thursday for the series finale!

mick Mon Apr 09, 2007 09:45pm
Tigers are 50-50.

Pistons' magic number is 1. :)

Jurassic Referee Tue Apr 10, 2007 02:15am
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Originally Posted by ChuckElias
I think this is hysterical. The Indians' home opening series got snowed out (the whole series -- not rain, but snowed out!), so their next "home" series is being played in Milwaukee.

Meanwhile, my Sox play a day game tomorrow against DJ's M's. Jeff Weaver goes for Seattle. Is he the good Weaver? Of course, it's supposed to snow here on Thursday for the series finale!
1) Cleveland....Milwaukee.....nobody can tell the difference anyway.:rolleyes:

2) This is the Weaver that in his total career has had half a good year with Detroit and half a good year with St. Louis.......and has parlayed that into becoming a multi-millionaire.

Nevadaref Tue Apr 10, 2007 02:40am
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Originally Posted by Jurassic Referee
1) Cleveland....Milwaukee.....nobody can tell the difference anyway.:rolleyes:
Major League was even filmed in Milwaukee!

rockyroad Tue Apr 10, 2007 04:26pm
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Originally Posted by ChuckElias

Meanwhile, my Sox play a day game tomorrow against DJ's M's. Jeff Weaver goes for Seattle. Is he the good Weaver? Of course, it's supposed to snow here on Thursday for the series finale!

Well, Weaver was freaking OUTSTANDING today! Gives up 7 runs in two innings...M's go on to lose 14-3...good thing the M's signed that guy this past winter...can't wait to see what he does in his next start. Geesh...:mad:


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