It's more than a pet peeve. It's stupid. And the only things that can possibly come out of it are a dropped catch or an injury. It's akin to an NFL player diving/flipping into the endzone when they could just walk in. It's akin to a player doing a 360 on a breakaway dunk when they could just 2 hand it in. It's still 2 points, 6 points, or 1 out.....no style points are given. I know people say that it's a habit that he can't break and what not, but that's BS...if that was the case, he would do the same thing when there's runners on, and he doesn't. He sets himself like a professional outfielder to make a throw home. Hell...if that's what it takes, then just pretend there's runners on every play. I'm pretty sure I read somewhere that he said he does because when he first started playing in the outfield he dropped a lot of routine fly balls because he lost his concentration, so he developed this hop so he'd keep his concentration on catching the ball. It worked so he kept doing it.
I was watching the game and even the Cardinals announcer said it was a dirty play. Towles was standing in front of the plate, and Pujols almost missed the plate since he slide at Towles.
I'm using gameday audio and I'm not having any problems. I think last year I had that problem, but after signing out and signing in a bunch it finally worked.
Do you have adblock plus? One of the filters on the EasyList Subscription makes it so it doesn't work. I disable filters on that subscription so it works. Once Audio starts you can enable the filters again, and you should be fine.
Is anybody else having problems with Gameday Audio? It was working fine for me before lunch, but now it starts and plays for half of a second then I get an error and it stops.
Johnson is in the line up. Hopefully Hill does better this time out. Theriot, SS Johnson, CF Lee, 1B Ramirez, 3B Fukudome, RF DeRosa, 2B Murton, LF Soto, C Hill, R, P