Tuesday, October 28, 2008

Umpire Blunder

For those of you who have been tuning in to the world series this year, you may have noticed that the umpires are not the greatest. You may have heard the TV analysts being critical of their calls. Of all their blown calls, has anyone else noticed that seem to go in favor of the Phillies? Maybe it is just that I want the Rays to pull off the upset, but it seems the Rays can't even buy a call these days. Cole Hamels' bach was clearly a blown call. Evan Longoria obviously tagged Jimmy Rollins at third. On top of that, there have been numerous times, most recently last night's game, where the blue behind the plate seemed to shrink or expand his strike zone depending on the pitcher. Kazmir had at least 5 balls that I can recall off the top of my memory that when they replayed the pitch with their nice little strike zone box graphic, it was obviously a strike! Kudos to Kazmir. I would have lost all composure and charged the ump. The first couple of times it would have bothered me and the blue would have known it. Then after Hamels got two or three balls called as strikes that were obviously not, especially if compared to Kazmir's balls, I would have completely lost it and been tossed out of the game. Maybe the powers that be are not wanting the Rays to win the series, but the blown calls have all resulted in scores for the Phillies. On top of that, I cannot argue the Rays have just simply been out played thus far and need to prove they can win. They have been sloppy at best through 4 1/2 games. I still think they can pull it out, but they need to focus and quit making so many errors on the field, and hit the ball! Go Rays! Oh, and the umps may be able to help just a little bit!!

3 comments:

Justin said...

Agree to Disagree!!!!

Anonymous said...

How about another post, I think there's been plenty of sports crap to write about.

Justin said...

I have checked the site religiously and there haven't been any new posts. What kind of sports blog is this. Lame!!!!