For the HP umpire in US v. Venezuela
 

Por favor no llame más lanzamientos ilegales.

Gracias.

How many did she call?

As Keith Olbermann would say, dos cienes y seis.

I dunno for sure, but it was too damned many.

translate please

Please don't keep calling illegal pitches.

My wife is from Argentina (and no, she didn't help me with the translation). ;)

1) I didn't like the over-demonstrative third strike calls.
2) A BU seemed much too close to 2nd on some CF camera shots. Was that the case or was it just camera angle. If so, is that an ISF mechanic?

Naturally, I assumed these were against our pitchers, but no... from the writeup ... Yikes! Were these all called by the PU? What were the violations?

Look out when Cat pitches! She'd better keep control of her leaping! (I haven't looked at the roster... is she on the team?)

I only caught the last inning and Hollowell was nailed by PU on first pitch. US pitchers need to remember in international play there is no "touch and go" or quick touch. The requirement is two seconds and it is called.

That was the only one I saw too. You could almost hear PU talking to F2 - at least that's what I think I was hearing.

Yep, heard that, too. The umpire may be wired for sound, but that would be awfully risky keeping that mike open. Maybe it is an area mike at the backstop that was picking that up.

Yes, Dora was wired. You could see the remote behind her back at her belt.

I didn't see the early illegal pitches, either, but it sounded from the talking heads like the early ones had all been for pause violations, too.

Every IP that I saw that Dora called was for the two second violation. and I watched most of the game.

:D They were using a 2 second stop as a minimum for the pause before delivering. If the pitcher went more than 10 seconds it was an IP also. I did not like the mechanics for the ISF, but thats what they were told to use. I watched it for four innings and did not like the mechanics of any of the umpires.

agree - they look silly

Every one of the IP calls were for failure to pause a minimum of two seconds after receiving the sign (or simulate receiving the sign) while on the pitcher's plate.

Dora was wired for sound. At no time did I hear any Latino swear words, and I am pretty sure I know them all (and have used them at some point in time). In fact, a smile crosses my face as I convinced my nephew to order a three-word specialty dish, the last two words of which were "tu madre." I thought this Hispanic waiter was going to caca he was laffing so hard.

Anyway...the microphone experience was much better than the IP experience.

Meanwhile, a highly placed source informs me that umpires were instructed to be "big and demonstrative" on 3K, sell safe and sell outs. Know this: because of the way the technology works, your television picture (even if you have the latest high def) is somewhat compact, and to make something look big and demonstrative on your TV it is REALLY big and demonstrative in person.