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2012 major league baseball thread v. Playoffs make baseball watchable

I stand by what I say

Phillies are a 2nd half team

we'll see come October
 
i hate the phillies for their fans(mostly some family members), their bullshit announcers, and their decade of success

time to die
 
dude Harry Kalas is a legend in Philly. And decade? its only been 5 straight winning years, the Braves dominated for 13 years
 
fucking yankees, 6 runs in the 8th last night.

way to pull minor when he's pitching a shut out. thanks for blowing it venters. what a shit show that game was.
 
Hopefully the giants can get some easy wins vs the astros/mariners over the next couple series. Fucking texans......

Lincecum really needs to get his act together.
 
First perfect game in franchise history by Matt Cain. Tied a perfect game record with 14 strikeouts.

Go giants!
 
Giants rape a Kemp-less dodger team, 1 inning away from 3 straight shutouts and tying the NL west. Like I said before, the dodgers need Kemp or they arent making the playoffs.
 
Thoughts on expanding instant replay in MLB? Right now it is used to to determine if a home run if fair or foul, if the ball ever left the playing field, and if there was spectator interference.

This year the changes pending are whether or not a player catches a fly ball or not (there have recently been a few instances where the player did not catch the ball, but played it off like they did, fooling the umpire into calling the batter out), as well as reviewing interference calls to include all wall boundaries and not just home runs.

Other areas of debate for instant replays include balls/strikes, safe/out in base running, whether a batter is actually hit by a pitch, and determining fan interference for foul balls, instead of just home runs like it is now.

Balls/Strikes should never be reviewed IMO, and the way an individual umpire calls pitches is part of the game. Calls in base running are part of the game too, although the blown call in Armando Galarraga's near-perfect game may be a good argument for it, it would slow down an already slow sport to the point where I would leave the stadium in debt for the amount of $9 beers I would need to get me through the game. I wouldn't want them to add reviews for fan interference for foul balls because it still won't always be definite whether or not the player would have made the catch, although I'm sure that Steve Bartman wouldn't mind them allowing it. I'm somewhat neutral on allowing replays for hit by pitch, but I think that a player selling being hit when they really weren't is part of the game, much like in football when a player draws a penalty using acting/dramatics.

All in all I think that the addition of more areas of instant replay would be detrimental to the sport. In a game where it is a tradition for players and coaches to argue calls with umpires, and curse at them while kicking dirt at them to the point of being ejected, it would be stupid to take the way a game is called out of the sport. What would the sport be without being able to heckle umpires over blown calls, and old managers getting their only exercise in the month by running up the stairs of the dug-out and over to the umpire to yell nonsense at him 1 inch from his face? Not to mention making a slow placed game even slower, turning the 7th inning stretch into the time to wake up and start watching the game again after passing out after the 3rd inning.
 
balls and strikes would be overkill but I see no reason to not use it to overturn clearly wrong baserunning calls. The example you gave really is the ultimate example and same thing with a couple plays at the plate every year.
 
^ Will that ever happen though? Look at the NFL for instance, which has had instant replays around for a lot longer than the MLB. They started with reviewing every score this past season, and have been doing automatic reviews under 2 minutes for however long, as well as the obvious challenges, and although the reviews from "upstairs" are a lot faster than the challenge reviews, it's still something that has fans booing whenever a team scores and then has to wait for the review before they can kick the extra point.

I don't think that they would allow just one umpire to review all the video, and it would likely be a separate team of umpires doing it. Like it's not always easy to determine of a fan interfered with a play, and if they decide they did, then they have to determine what the ground rules would be. As I understand it, they currently go by the majority when a play is reviewed, so it wouldn't just be one umpire sitting in a video room making the decision all by himself.
 
^ then how about a panel of 3 empires that all review the play separately, majority rules.

I like instant replay for all non-strike calls in baseball. One bad call in baseball can be devastating.
 
Maybe I'm just more of a traditional fan when it comes to baseball, which is why I don't like the idea of moving to replays for most things. An ump making a call that blows a game is part of the sport. Also, replays aren't always going to be right, as seen in football with some plays being overturned or not, when everybody else in the world thought it should/shouldn't have been.

So would every call (other than balls/strikes) be confirmed via replay in this 3 ump system? It's just way too messy. Like lets say its the second inning and someone hits a groundball and it called safe at first when they were really out. They stand on the base as the next batter comes to the plate, then slowly take their lead, and wait, time out. We are hearing from the umps upstairs that you were out. Now the coaches have to change their signals to the batter since it's now a different situation he is batting in, so he steps out of the batters box to read the signals, and now the we've just wasted another 2 minutes on a simple close call that was originally called the wrong way. Or lets say there's two outs and a man on first and third, and the batter bunts it or something, and the play is to second and the runner is called safe and a second later the man on third scores. The crowd goes wild, but wait, after review the runner was out at second, and since the runner that scored did so after the runner was out on second, the run doesn't count since it was the third out. I say let the calls on the field stand.
 
Ok then only use it for plays at the plate.

Its just getting too advanced to NOT use it. They have the technology to call balls and strikes via a machine
 
the pirates are 10 games over .500 and in first place...keep raisin' the jolly roger fellas, mccutchen better get the starting spot in the all star game to replace kemp

phillies are 10 games below .500

let the good times roll
 
Phillies are going to make a run, I just want them to get a Wild Card at this point. But when Howard comes back, this team will be noticeably better. His addition lets everyone else bat in their appropriate spots. Pence was at his best hitting after Howard last year, and Carlos Ruiz is .001 behind McCutcheon in batting average. Not to mention Halladay is coming back.

They may not be the best team in the regular season but that didnt exactly work out last year either. I got a feeling they could be the Cardinals of this year.

I mean, when you can throw out Halladay, Hamels, and Lee, you git as good a chance as anyone if you make the playoffs.

Yankees lineup is looking fierce right now though
 
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