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Wednesday, October 12, 2005 Doug Eddings: ...that was my 'strike three' mechanic, when it's a swinging strike. If you watch, that's what I do the whole entire game.Mr. Eddings has been caught in a lie. UPDATE: Here's a black and white version that prints up nicely on an 8.5 x 11 page. You know, in case you want to take it somewhere. Like a baseball game. Comments:Again, boo hooey hoo. Don't start hating the White Sox because a call goes their way. This thing happens ALL THE TIME in baseball. There is human error, we aren't the fucking NFL, and like Sciosia said, maybe if y'all played a little better, didn't allow Ozuna to steal second, didn't hang a splitter on an 0-2 pitch, that play wouldn't have decided the game. When the Angels lose this series, you'll no doubt pin the entire blame on one play by one umpire instead of Vlad Guerrero limp-dick bat. Of course you don't like to see controversial calls decide a game's outcome, but this time it did. Take a lesson from your team's manager and stop the puerile whiny baby shit. Play better baseball and let's finish the series. GO SOX. You'd think that after decades of losing, the White Sox fans could be gracious winners, admitting they got lucky. Hell, the team was even able to do this last night. Guess that was expecting too much, though... "Again, boo hooey hoo. Don't start hating the White Sox because a call goes their way." I don't recall writing anything about the White Sox. I guess some people read what they want to read. "unrepentant fans like this have me finding a new team to despise. of course, hating the chisox is a little too easy since they have been second-rate in a second-rate city for a long long time." I believe that is hating. You didn't write it, Richard, and I didn't claim you did. That's a quote from one of your readers. I believe I covered the "getting lucky" aspect when I talked about human error and the fact that that call went the White Sox' way. My point remains the same: there is no sense in whining about a call. One call in and of itself does not a game decide. If you think it does, you must not watch much baseball. I think it's hilarious reading the Angels mlb forum and all the people calling the White Sox and AJ "cheaters." Face it, you got outsmarted, outplayed, unlucky, and you lost. GO SOX. It's not the call of whether or not the ball was in the dirt that bothers us, it is the fact that the umpire called out and then changed his mind without letting others know. No one should blame the White Sox (AJ did it to hopefully help the team and the Sox capitalized) and the umpires aren't to blame for the loss (the Angels certainly could have lost within the next few innings)...but the call changed the game in significant ways. Just a question I'm asking Angel fans and bloggers: If the White Sox win the pennant/World Series, will you hold a grudge against them and not credit them with the pennant/championship? No, just as I do not hold a grudge against the Patriots for the Tuck Rule. It was somewhat cathartic for them to win the regular season game against the Pats the next season, but as Scioscia said, if the team had played better to that point, they would have been able to absorb a bad call and still won. My animosity is solely directed at the umpire(s). be angry at the umpires if you want but again: it's part of the game. What happens during Game 1 if the second base umpire makes the correct call on OC's illegal slide into second to break up the DP? The Angels possibly lose that game. It's part of baseball. It goes both ways and making "liar" posters of the umps doesn't do shit and makes you look like whiners. But he was lying. That was not his strike three mechanic the whole game, it was his strike three, yer out mechanic the whole game. And I don't recall OC's slide being illegal, if I recall correctly, the baserunner is allowed to go anywhere within the basepath, even if there is a guy in his way, because the baserunner owns the entire basepath. If a slide is initiated before the force has been made, it cannot be an illegal slide (sort of like how a pass rusher in football is allowed to hit the QB after the football is thrown if his momentum carries him there. If a player does not want to be taken out by a slide, he needs to be off of the base (which happens to be a part of the basepath). This was also evident in the Angels-Braves game when Erstad plowed through the Estrada...Estrada had a leg in the basepath, therefore he is fair game. I'm not sure if this makes me feel better, but at least they admit they got a gift: "I feel for them. There's no question is was a screwed-up thing," Konerko said. "You kind of feel like you got away with one. I don't know what to say other than we'll take it as kind of a freebie." Link The rules on baserunner interference in breaking up a double play are very murky. Rule 7.09g: "If, in the judgment of the umpire, a base runner willfully and deliberately interferes with a batted ball or a fielder in the act of fielding a batted ball with the obvious intent to break up a double play, the ball is dead. The umpire shall call the runner out for interference and also call out the batter runner because of the action of his teammate." I suppose some would read that as any deliberate attempt to break-up a double play (of course that's never the way it's been called, and "Lucas" knows it), but note the use of the term "batted ball". This has always been interpreted as interfering with the initial fielding of the ball, not any relay or throw. So there is no such thing as an "illegal slide" (provided you are in the baseline per rule 7.08). Lucas here is just grasping at straws to reach a moral equivalence for his own peace of mind. Thank you for that lovely picture. I will bring it to the game tomorrow AND paste a copy on my office door! Although rumor has it, there are talks they are removing Eddings from the rest of the ALCS! Who's this Lucas guy? I didn't even know the White Sox had enough of a following to make a blog. I guess that's why he posts over here. Welcome Lucas. If they remove Eddings, MLB will be saying (for the world to hear) that he sucks. Looks like his children will be making their own presents this year. |
