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Looked good to me


8 posted on 08/11/2025 5:07:18 AM PDT by Hot Tabasco (Why can't you tickle yourself?)
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To: Hot Tabasco

I thought so too. It is where the ball is when it crosses the plate and not where the catcher catches it. Without seeing it from above it is not easy to know if it clipped the plate as it was tailing.


21 posted on 08/11/2025 5:16:16 AM PDT by pas
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"Looked good to me"

Agree. It tailed a bit inside as it crossed the plate, but I don't think it was an egregiously bad strike call. I've seen plenty of pitch calls much worse than that from male umpires. Everyone needs to relax.

22 posted on 08/11/2025 5:17:54 AM PDT by Sicon ("All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others." - G. Orwell)
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To: Hot Tabasco

If it was supposed to be inside the box, it looks like it did, in a slicing move

Strike !

The player didn’t like the call ? Too bad. The ump and the ball/strike call has always been a fudge factor in the game.

Woman ump ? Meh, at least it isn’t a trans ump. I shouldn’t give them ideas.

I no longer follow the game , but I recall that some umps, earned reputations, not always good, as being blind, crooked , cross eyed , myopic, slobs, bums, etc. I see that the tradition of trashing the ump is still alive.


35 posted on 08/11/2025 5:32:48 AM PDT by OldHarbor
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They’ll probably raise prices for the scout seats (behind home plate).


63 posted on 08/11/2025 6:48:20 AM PDT by Tell It Right (1 Thessalonians 5:21 -- Put everything to the test, hold fast to that which is true.)
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