I question whether the human eye and brain has that ability under any circumstances. That's an awfully high degree of differentiation you are asking them to take on.
Doesn't matter. A player doesn't have a right to stand in the ump's face and argue a call. If contact happens while the player is doing that, that's his own fault.
He was safe Yea, saw it in real time didn't know how it was possible... how umps can see things like that but still fail to call a consistent strike zone is beyond me. They do call a consistent strike zone. The TV camera angle skews everything for the fans.
Jeffrey Dahmer, John Wayne Gacy, Richard Speck, Charles Manson, Scott Peterson, and a whole host of crazy, psycho killers and the like agree with you. Oh, and speeders.
As someone who likes to pretend that athletes are my friends and try to relive the glory days of high school baseball by imagining what it is like in the Cubs' clubhouse, this really bothers me. Carlos (notice how we're on a first-name basis?), how could you?
Huet had a 2.53 GAA and a .909 save percentage this season. He's not as good as Khabibulin and he's a bad fit, but he's not a bad goalie. He better have a good game tonight, though, or all heck breaks loose.
Really? I wouldn't. OBP is on a 1.000 point scale; Slg is on a 4.000 point scale. I'm not sure why that's relevant. They aren't measuring the same thing, so the different denominators are irrelevant.
*sigh* Not that I didn't already know we were in trouble, but when a hockey coach starts with the whining, it's a last-ditch effort to rally the troops.