SMALL BALLERS GON LOOK MLB 2024 Thread

BasinBictory

OUT with the GOUT
Ngl - reading the last page of this thread, and when the Doyers were down 5-0, and with my PTSD of all my favorite sports teams having, at one time or another, suffered epic collapses - I seriously had the thought that the Jankees would manage to pull off what has never been done and come back and actually win the series. I literally turned off the radio and thought I'd just later learn that the series was 3-2 and going back to L.A., with the Jankees having all the momentum.

I was almost having a mild anxiety attack. I saw @CJ_24 's post about Capobianco being the Grand Marshal at the Jankees victory parade and it immediately made me think of Trump supporters and how we as a society have come to the point of actually celebrating and defending the worst of humanity.

Fortunately, my curiosity got the better of me and I tuned back in around the 7th inning, after learning that the Dodgers had closed the gap to 5-6.

Watched the rest at home and then stayed indoors because of all the celebratory gunfire.
 

Skeeter

Uber felon
Ngl - reading the last page of this thread, and when the Doyers were down 5-0, and with my PTSD of all my favorite sports teams having, at one time or another, suffered epic collapses - I seriously had the thought that the Jankees would manage to pull off what has never been done and come back and actually win the series. I literally turned off the radio and thought I'd just later learn that the series was 3-2 and going back to L.A., with the Jankees having all the momentum.

I was almost having a mild anxiety attack. I saw @CJ_24 's post about Capobianco being the Grand Marshal at the Jankees victory parade and it immediately made me think of Trump supporters and how we as a society have come to the point of actually celebrating and defending the worst of humanity.

Fortunately, my curiosity got the better of me and I tuned back in around the 7th inning, after learning that the Dodgers had closed the gap to 5-6.

Watched the rest at home and then stayed indoors because of all the celebratory gunfire.
I'm not sure I can care this much about anything let alone sportsbawl
 

pavel

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I saw this at a game in Reno this year and it took all of 2 seconds to appeal and revise the call. OH NO
 

CJ_24

Well-Known Member
There is gray area within that definition. Robo umps are stupid
"The official strike zone is the area over home plate from the midpoint between a batter's shoulders and the top of the uniform pants -- when the batter is in his stance and prepared to swing at a pitched ball -- and a point just below the kneecap. In order to get a strike call, part of the ball must cross over part of home plate while in the aforementioned area."

What is "the midpoint" between the shoulders and the top of the uniform pants?
What is "just below" the kneecap?
What is "part" of home plate.

There is some gray area within the definition of those terms. Robo umps arbitrarily create a definition of the strike zone that is not actually in the rulebook.

It's lunacy
 

Skeeter

Uber felon
"The official strike zone is the area over home plate from the midpoint between a batter's shoulders and the top of the uniform pants -- when the batter is in his stance and prepared to swing at a pitched ball -- and a point just below the kneecap. In order to get a strike call, part of the ball must cross over part of home plate while in the aforementioned area."

What is "the midpoint" between the shoulders and the top of the uniform pants?
What is "just below" the kneecap?
What is "part" of home plate.

There is some gray area within the definition of those terms. Robo umps arbitrarily create a definition of the strike zone that is not actually in the rulebook.

It's lunacy
Literally none of that is grey. It's all right there defined.
 

kella

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I'm all for it, granted, that's because I don't really care about baseball unless the Tigers are in the playoffs and as a team that routinely runs out half a lineup hitting near the Mendoza line, they would very much benefit from sending out the hot hand instead of their reserve catcher in a high leverage point!
 

Southpaw

Fuckface
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So theoretically if you had bases loaded and Juan Soto struck out popped out, you could just have him bat again?? Like it’s so dumb I can’t even fathom. Who suggested this??
 
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