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Glaring Umpiring Errors Threaten Baseball's Biggest Month
Once again, the baseball playoffs are overrun with glaring umpiring errors, including some that affected have the outcomes of games. We neglected to bring this up in our earlier discussion of...
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Umpire Goofs Continue To Plague Baseball Playoffs
The Yankees and Rangers will both try to end their American League Division Series tonight, but it remains to be seen if they will get any help from the umpires--or if the men in blue will find some...
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Has Baseball Lost The Ratings War Because It Won't Adopt Instant Replay?
Monday's big-market Yankee-Rangers ALCS game garnered lower TV ratings than the Titans blowout win over NFL afterthought Jacksonville. It's all because baseball is stuck in the past, evidenced by...
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Baseball's Worst Free Agent Signings Of 2010
We are mere weeks from the free agency signing period in baseball. Let's take a look back at last year's free agents and see which ones were the biggest busts... 6. Jason Marquis, Washington Nationals...
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19-Inning Marathon Game Ends On One Of The Worst Calls Ever
The Braves outlasted the Pirates in controversial fashion last night, scoring the winning run when the home plate umpire ruled that Braves baserunner Julio Lugo somehow avoided the tag of Pirates...
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Ump Mocks Joe Girardi, Asks The Yankees Manager If He Wants To Umpire
After being swept by the Tampa Bay Rays in the season-opening series, it has been a rough start to the year for the New York Yankees. So you can forgive manager Joe Girardi if he was a little testy...
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This Is The Absolute Worst Call A Baseball Umpire Has Made This Year
The Colorado Rockies defeated the Los Angeles Dodgers 8-5 Wednesday afternoon in thrilling fashion, but it didn't come without controversy. Jerry Hairston Jr. came up to bat for the Dodgers with two...
View ArticleWatch As A Minor League Umpire Ejects The PA Announcer For Playing 'Three...
Occasionally PA announcers like to have fun with their musical selection during baseball games. But one minor league umpire thought a PA announcer went too far last night when he played "Three Blind...
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This Bizarre Play Proves How Difficult It Is To Be A Baseball Umpire
Most MLB games are pretty standard, with little to throw off an umpiring crew. Then there are situations like what happened in the bottom of the seventh inning of Sunday's game between the Miami...
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Some Believe Umpire Angel Hernandez Intentionally Screwed Up The...
Earlier this week, many wondered how the umpires could have screwed up a replay that clearly showed the A's had hit a game-tying home run. Now there is a growing sentiment that the umpires actually...
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There Were Three Brutal Blown Calls In MLB Yesterday — And Baseball's...
There were at least three plays in baseball yesterday in which an umpire blew what appeared to be an obvious call, leading some to wonder what is going on with the umpiring.Umpiring in MLB is either...
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The 11 Worst Calls So Far This Baseball Season
It's still early, but this Major League Baseball season has already been marred by blown calls and poor umpiring.It's so bad, in fact, that one umpire cost a team the game when he blew the same call...
View ArticleMLB Umpires Made 2 Horrible Calls In A Single Play
The case for replay continues. Tied 5-5 in the top of the 12th inning last night, the Rockies and Padres each had a blown call go against them on the same play. The bases loaded with one out, Padres...
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There Is One Thing (Almost) Everybody Will Hate About Baseball's New Instant...
Baseball's new instant replay system isn't perfect, but it is a welcome step in the right direction of getting the calls right on the field.In addition to blown calls, there is one other common and...
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A Baseball Fan Was Ejected For Interference But Allowed Back In His Seat...
In the first inning of Sunday's game against the Blue Jays, Evan Longoria hit what appeared to be a home run, leading to an unusual scene in which a fan was ejected and then reinstated.Blue Jays...
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One Of The Biggest Hits Of The Week Was Delivered By An Umpire
Usually home plate collisions are between a runner and a catcher. But during the Angels win over the Rays, Ben Zobrist was trying to score a run when David DeJesus was run over by the umpire.DeJesus,...
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Blown Call In Tiebreaker Game Is An Ugly Reminder That MLB Won't Have...
Technically, last night's tiebreaker game between the Rays and Rangers was a regular season game, but make no mistake, the winner-take-all showdown had all the makings of a playoff game, including a...
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Big Data Explains Why Umpires Make Bad Calls
Here’s Matt Holliday. It’s strike three and it was three bad calls.Holliday’s body language speaks clearly, and his reaction is understandable. The pitch was wide, even wider than the first two...
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MLB Umpire Takes Hard Line Drive To the Chest, Promptly Flexes
Joe West, a longtime umpire and apparent country music star, took a hard line drive off his chest protector in the sixth inning of last night's Mets-A's game. For a second, the play looked scary.Then...
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What An MLB Strike Zone Really Looks Like And Why Players Are Always So Mad...
While Major League Baseball has expanded its replay system in an effort to reduce incorrect calls made by umpires, the strike zone remains the most frustrating aspect of a baseball game and new...
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