6/6 Cubs (Arrieta) vs Marlins (Locke) 7 pm CSN

[Brian]

holy crap, why do the Marlins tv announcers wear suits

[Derwood]

holy crap, why do the Marlins tv announcers wear suits

 

Why does anyone affiliated with sports in any way wear suits? I hate it always

[Transmogrified Tiger]

holy crap, why do the Marlins tv announcers wear suits

 

JD's line about Hollandsworth selling car insurance was great.

[Brian]

i think he's flipping a coin on anything not down the middle to decide balls or strikes

[Ding Dong Johnson]

I can't wait to go to Des Moines in a couple weeks to watch Schwarber and Russell play

[We Got The Whole 9]

I can't wait to go to Des Moines in a couple weeks to watch Schwarber and Russell play

And get outplayed there by Seal Boy and Zagunis

[We Got The Whole 9]

Jake is getting a lot of awkward swings

[Transmogrified Tiger]

Lackey is gonna bite Jake's beard off for stealing his 'early runs then shut down' schtick

[We Got The Whole 9]

Don't horsefeathering waste brilliant Jake please

[Transmogrified Tiger]

Strike one to Bryant was worse than like 3 of the pitches he called balls to Jay

[Gilby]

I wonder how embarrassed umpires get when they see their pitch fx data (or whatever they use). I mean we see bad zones all the time, but some of these calls tonight are truly alarming.

[Brian]

DOOOOOONGGGG

[We Got The Whole 9]

Rizzzzzzzzzzz

[Derwood]

Dong is....(sing it with me)...WHAT I GOT

[17 Seconds]

jd is the real steve stone

[Derwood]

I wonder how embarrassed umpires get when they see their pitch fx data (or whatever they use). I mean we see bad zones all the time, but some of these calls tonight are truly alarming.

 

They reject pitchFX out of hand

[David]

that was seriously better than any slider low and away that stone called

 

holy horsefeathers JD

[Brian]

this joker finally turned into a pumpkin

[We Got The Whole 9]

Rizzo's hit like 5 bombs off LHP since I upped that thread

[We Got The Whole 9]

Damn that was a bullet JHey

[Cubswin11]

I wonder how embarrassed umpires get when they see their pitch fx data (or whatever they use). I mean we see bad zones all the time, but some of these calls tonight are truly alarming.

60 Minutes did a thing on the automated strike zone a few months ago and they talked with some recently retired ump (I think, or older current ump) and he basically said umps throw away their game report card after the games that show the calls they missed using Pitch Fx data without even looking at it. If you google 60 min strike zone automation I'm sure you can find the clip.

Edited June 7, 2017 by Cubswin11

[NotSoSober]

that Scooter guy just hit his 4th HR against the Cardinals

[We Got The Whole 9]

Man this is vintage Jake. Everything on the ground or in the catchers mitt.

[David]

wtf?

[Derwood]

I wonder how embarrassed umpires get when they see their pitch fx data (or whatever they use). I mean we see bad zones all the time, but some of these calls tonight are truly alarming.

60 Minutes did a thing on the automated strike zone a few months ago and they talked with some recently retired ump (I think, or older current ump) and he basically said umps throw away their game report card after the games that show the calls they missed using Pitch Fx data without even looking at it. If you google 60 min strike zone automation I'm sure you can find the clip.

 

Real Sports did a story on this too. The umps said they get sent a DVD of their good and bad calls and they throw them away without looking at them. And they said that if they were given an ear piece with someone giving them instant PitchFX ball/strike calls, they'd ignore it and call their own game.

 

Umps continue to be awful in ever way