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  1. h2oface
    This is the Santana I saw at Angel Stadium in the 7-3 loss (the Pujols 600 homer game) and against the Dodgers at Dodger Stadium. He is just soooooo inconsistent. I still can't believe he had such a good start of the season. You take up to May 7 away....... At least he still has some good outings too.
  2. h2oface
    Cowards throw at batters on purpose. Fans and ball players need to grow up.
  3. h2oface
    another bases loaded with one out.... and only one run. at least they got one, i guess. tired, though.
  4. h2oface
    Even though Dozier didn't really seem to be giving it his all as far as speed, at least he slid feet first!
  5. h2oface
    The perfect strike pitch, and the Rangers get screwed.
  6. h2oface
    With Gee coming up. I think a lot of fans will be checking out the rest of the year with this product being fielded......
  7. h2oface
    Mejia can't be giving up a homer to a lefty on a 1-2 count. 3 run dinger with 2 outs. ouch.
  8. h2oface
    Dozier needs a week off to get it together and rest up for the late season home run barrage.
  9. h2oface
    I am just relying on the tech. I am not calling them. The tech is, and showing us, every pitch. With no bias, With no bad angle. Consistent and correct. I have never wanted to be an umpire. I don't have the need for power in that role. That's it for me on the subject tonight. It is what it is.... until the tech is used, which is going to happen, just a matter of time now.......
  10. h2oface
    You said it, not me. Sure it cut over the plate....... sure it did. Umpires stand right there, and miss them all the time. No different tonight.
  11. h2oface
    Dozier needs more time off.
  12. h2oface
    Beltre called out on a clear ball inside. I hate it. Even if it was in favor of the Twins. I hate it. Ump was even looking right at it... looking over the inside shoulder.... still missed it.
  13. h2oface
    The zone should be the same zone for all players. When you base it on the body parts of each player - the same body parts, to establish an equal zone - percentage wise based on each particular body height - you have created conditions that should be the same for all players. I don't see how you can get more fair than that. I think it is an interesting idea, for sure. I just don't think it creates a fair zone for all players. It seems to me that the advantage is to the pitchers, anyway, the bigger the zone gets, as per height. It has to be harder to pitch to Altuve and a squeezed zone, than Judge, and the massive zone. It really is a different discussion.... the zone change. Whatever the zone, all instantaneous tools should be used to get it correct.
  14. h2oface
    This team looks like they don't give a ..........
  15. h2oface
    It that new attention to advanced stats............
  16. h2oface
    Buxton only walked twice that at bat.... oh wait.... he swung at them. nevermind.
  17. h2oface
    I am sorry. I don't know what to respond. We are discussing pitches not swung at. A swing and a miss is a swing and a miss, no matter who or what is calling balls and strikes on pitches that aren't swung at. I have no response. I don't even know where to begin.
  18. h2oface
    Think of facial recognition. The software can establish the varying parameters based on height as the batter stands in instantly. I think the idea interesting of a strike zone that is the same exact dimensions, regardless of body type, just like the hockey and soccer net is the same for all, but this is different, and more nuanced. I think that is a later change to be discussed. It changes the rules. First.......... just let there be correct calls, and then, perhaps, the other can be discussed. I would keep the strike zone based on body size, myself.
  19. h2oface
    I contend that the umpires are the inhuman element of the game. The players are the human element. The umpires are, and always have been, guessing. Some guess better than others, but it is not humanly possible to call balls and strikes correctly, consistently, and accurately. The great eye of a batter being cheated, or the great perfect pitch being missed...... that is not what the game was designed to do. It was assumed that the zone would be consistent, not peripatetic. Now we have the true inhuman element technology to make it right, instantaneously. Plus..... everyone can see that they are wrong in that same instant. Before the tech, the arguing could be all opinion. Now it is fact that they missed it, and it is affecting every game that is played, and has affected every game that has ever been played. The human element is what the players do, the glory and mistakes. Give the game to the players, as it was always intended. Let there be a true consistent strike zone. The umpire can still stand there and make the correct call for show. They still get to call the plays at the plate, etc. They can just stop being wrong, and then pompously defending the wrongness.
  20. h2oface
    My bet, even before the season started, was that this would be his last season, no matter what happened. The new team deserves to pick who they want. It was trite to make them keep Molitor this year, in my opinion, but I guess they were intent on fulfilling a spoken and written agreement.
  21. h2oface
    I was planning on going to Petco, a stadium I had not seen yet and been to a ballgame at, but after attending the Dodger series and having to watch Colon, and then watching the Twins blow the games to a last place team in Oakland, being deprived of getting to see Buxton, watching Dozier pout ......... I have convinced myself to see Petco some other time. I may still go. It is a real sickness.
  22. h2oface
    Anyone know who the Diamondbacks offered?
  23. h2oface
    So you think that is a lock.... for a team with no pitching and a -72 run differential with 59 games left? Let's see, to win 74 games this season now, they would have to go 24-35. I have seen swoons by this team way worse than that. During the Dodger series, I kept telling myself it is the Dodgers.... everyone is losing to them and getting swept by them. But them I watched a pouting Dozier strike out 5 times in one game, Sano setting the MLB record for striking out, Taylor imploding..... hell, the whole pitching staff..... and do the same deer in the headlights against Oakland! They duplicated the futility against a last place team!..... .....and a 24-35 record the rest of the season is sure not a lock in my eyes. Trade the whole damn bullpen if they want.......
  24. h2oface
    This doesn't change much. Now instead of needing more than 5 runs to win games, they just need more that 6.... maybe 7.
  25. h2oface
    And/Or.... convert relievers to starters............
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