MLB 2021 Season Catch-All

I only saw the replay but... uh.... that didn't quite look like he broke the plane?

There was so much daylight between the bat and the plane that the Blue Angels could have flown through it easily.

A more intelligent and rational person than me came up with the following on Twitter: "1st base ump did his own research on that swing."

Stupid that it can't be reviewed. Give every team 3 challenges and let them review any damn thing they want.

Also, robo umps now! These crappy umps can't call balls and strikes.

Fedaykin98 wrote:

Stupid that it can't be reviewed. Give every team 3 challenges and let them review any damn thing they want.

Baseball is slow enough as it is. Challenges can already take upwards of 5 minutes with many lasting as long as 15 minutes. The problem is there's no damn rule about what constitutes a swing.

It's good thing for baseball that none of the other three teams in the LCS have any lingering controversies!

Rat Boy wrote:

It's good thing for baseball that none of the other three teams in the LCS have any lingering controversies!

Nope. All 4 teams are completely clean with nothing untoward about them!

Vector wrote:
Fedaykin98 wrote:

Stupid that it can't be reviewed. Give every team 3 challenges and let them review any damn thing they want.

Baseball is slow enough as it is. Challenges can already take upwards of 5 minutes with many lasting as long as 15 minutes. The problem is there's no damn rule about what constitutes a swing.

This is also 100% true, I heard a commentator talking about this last week. It's a bit like soccer, actually. In soccer, people say "How can that be a yellow, he got the ball first!", but the rules say nothing about touching the ball. Nothing. But it has been interpreted that way frequently, so it's like it becomes a precedent similar to court rulings in the US. Same thing with checked swings.

In my opinion, if the bat gets into a position where it's been brought around and is anywhere near the plate, the batter intended to swing - which, as I understand it, is the criterion. He might have changed his mind, but he's literally mid-swing, so obviously he intended to swing. It's crazy.

And I'm not taking a position on what the rule *should* be, I'm just saying that the current rule and the near-universal application of it are incompatible. One or the other should change.

All this series had to do is not make the public question why things are the way they are in baseball since we're going to be getting plenty of that in the next round, but here we are.

Prederick wrote:

I only saw the replay but... uh.... that didn't quite look like he broke the plane?

WOOF that's not even close.

I feel compelled to warn ATL fans not to get too riled up based on my experience's rooting against the Dodgers this year.

What'd I say?

Yeah that one felt over for a bit... Whew.

Space City strikes back!

Framber killed it tonight, and the Astros need one more win at home!

A good article about the proposed rule changes being tested in the minors.
https://www.theringer.com/mlb/2021/1...

That is really long. But some great stuff in there. I'm chipping away at it through the day

On balance, I'll live with Houston taking the series. At least it's not them.

If it ends up being Astros versus Dodgers, Governor Newsom better have the National Guard on stand by in Los Angeles.

Rat Boy wrote:

It's good thing for baseball that none of the other three teams in the LCS have any lingering controversies!

And then Atlanta piled another one on by having anti-vaxxer Travis Tritt do the anthem.

That's a terrible thing to do regardless of his vaccine stance.

And if the World Series goes past Game 4, who knows who Houston and Atlanta will throw out there to try to top that?

Atlanta could trot out that racist math teacher doing the soh cah toa rain dance. Then the fans will claim it's not racist because it's Deion Sanders' math teacher or some sh*t.

Bring back Chief Knockahomah

They can move that up five-ish weeks. That's fine with me.

Game might be over after a couple innings. We'll see

Bob Melvin, not Bruce Bochy, will apparently be the next manager of the Padres. He probably got tired of waiting around for the future of the A's to be decided.