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Pushing an Agenda at Baseball’s GM Meetings

Posted in Baseball, MLB, Rulebook, Umpires on November 7, 2012 | Leave a Comment »

Now that the county has moved past the distraction of a presidential election, it can get back to the important business of its national pastime. From today until Friday, major league baseball’s general managers will convene in California to discuss some important rule changes and, perhaps, a trade or two along the way. Instant replay […]

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Time for MLB to Play by Its Rules

Posted in Baseball, MLB, Umpires, World Series on October 29, 2011 | 8 Comments »

Lost in the excitement, and chaos, of Thursday’s game six were two plays that major league baseball needs to seriously address in the offseason. The first involved a hard takeout slide by Matt Holliday, while the second featured the left fielder as the victim when Adrian Beltre blocked his retreat to the bag during a […]

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Double Trouble: Failure to Protest Compounds Umpire’s Costly Error

Posted in Baseball, MLB, Umpires, Yankees, tagged , , on August 18, 2011 | 1 Comment »

Every time an umpire blows a significant call, there is the usual clamoring for instant replay. However, even that fail safe proved insufficient in the last night’s game between the Yankees and Royals. The controversy started in the bottom of the third inning when Royals’ DH Billy Butler lined a Bartolo Colon fastball off the […]

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Treating the Patients, Not the Symptoms: Baseball Needs to Improve Umpiring Before Expanding Replay

Posted in Baseball, MLB, Umpires on October 8, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

While there have been some exciting games over the first two days of post season play, including historic pitching performances by Roy Halladay and Tim Lincecum, there have also been too many examples of bad umpiring. In the Yankees vs. Twins ALDS, game one was witness to an erroneous trap call on a Greg Golson running […]

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Quirky Last Play Almost Scuttles Halladay’s No Hitter

Posted in Baseball, MLB, Umpires, tagged on October 7, 2010 | 2 Comments »

Somewhat lost amid the euphoria of Roy Halladay’s historic no hitter against the Reds in game one of the NLDS was the fantastic play made by Carlos Ruiz to end it. The quickness of the Phillies’ catcher not only helped preserve history, but all helped avoid controversy. Why? Because on a careful review of the […]

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