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I will admit that I have no idea what Boone is talking about in the context of arguing with the umpire. Like I get the positive connotation of 'savages in the box', but how does that at all relate to them being angry with the strike zone? I thought it was a bad lip reading thing until I actually played it with audio.
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I will admit that I have no idea what Boone is talking about in the context of arguing with the umpire. Like I get the positive connotation of 'savages in the box', but how does that at all relate to them being angry with the strike zone? I thought it was a bad lip reading thing until I actually played it with audio.

 

Meaning they control the strike zone, swinging at strikes and avoiding balls. Like when everybody used to say if Ryne Sandberg thinks it was a ball then it was a ball.

 

The thing I don't get is how he can say that one pitch was "way outside" from the angle he was at, given that what we see it looks like it may have been only slightly outside, if at all.

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Watching the Yankees-Rockies game just now. The Yankees had a catcher’s interference that was so blatant Sanchez was shaking his glove in pain from hitting the bat. Ump didn’t call it.
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NEW YORK—Describing the task of calling balls and strikes as mostly guesswork, MLB umpires admitted Thursday that pitchers throw way too fast for them to actually see the ball. “The ball is pretty small and it’s moving really quickly, so even when I’m watching super closely, it’s still impossible to tell,” said home plate umpire Scott Glennon, who further echoed the sentiments expressed by most of his colleagues by adding that pitches like sliders and curveballs move all over the place, making it even harder to tell what happened. “It’s good when the catcher reaches really far away from the plate so I know that it’s probably a ball, or if the batter swings and misses so I don’t have to pretend I knew where the ball went. Otherwise I just have to signal real emphatically to convince everyone I saw it.” Glennon also admitted that, like most of the league’s umps, he simply alternates back and forth between calling “safe” and “out” for every close play at the plate.
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https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/2019/10/25/mlb-umpire-apologizes-tweet-suggesting-violence-over-trump-impeachment/?fbclid=IwAR2-nn-Mo9vvFhaT-3OQn8spS-ssfmBHDcsTEeXTVFq74SsJlIrj68GOqVI

 

A Major League Baseball umpire apologized Thursday for a tweet in which he reportedly suggested violence would ensue from an impeachment of President Trump.

 

“I want to personally apologize to everyone that my words made feel less safe,” Rob Drake said in a statement to ESPN, which had first reported on his tweet.

 

“I especially want to apologize to every person who has been affected by gun violence in our country,” Drake also said in the statement.

 

Drake, 50, has not been working in the postseason, but he has been a full-time major league umpire since 2010. He started calling spring training and major league games in 1999. According to his MLB bio, the Arizona resident is a co-founder of Calling for Christ, an umpire-focused ministry.

 

Oh Christ.

 

The MLB umpires’ union described Drake on Wednesday as “a passionate individual and an outstanding umpire” who “chose the wrong way to convey his opinion about our great country.”

 

“His posting does not represent the view of the MLBUA or reflect those of the umpires we represent,” the union said of Drake in a statement. “… We are a group of individuals with diverse opinions and beliefs, united in our desire to continue our excellence officiating MLB games.”

 

If there's one organization that probably would, as a whole, think this way, the MLBUA would probably be it. Feast your eyes upon the very face of progress: https://mlbua.com/the-union2

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