My Question is WHO CARES?
You are watching people paid millions to play a children’s game very well.
Get a life.
...the “close enough” rule has been around quite sometime
You need to check your glasses, or the ump at 2nd base needs to check his.
Go Cubs
Long before there were any Mets. Probably around the time of Tinkers to Evers to Chance.
Been there, did that ... for 14 years.
‘bout the time Ty Cobb lacerated a few shins with his filed metal spikes.
Just before the NBA stopped calling traveling.
This, believe it or not, is known as the “in the vicinity” call—NOT in the rules but invented by major league umpires. What REALLY gets interesting are the handful of times each season when an umpire actually calls the runner SAFE because the fielder didn’t touch the base. Something like the George Brett pine tar imbroglio—ignoring a rule 99% of the time and then, for no apparent reason, enforcing it.
The second baseman has to touch Nancy Pelosi? Ohhhh.....that’s right.......she’s the old bag.
It is only done when the runner is trying to break up a double play by running into the infielder. It is done to prevent injuries.
Supposedly it’s to protect the fielders. It’s been around a long time. Plays at first and third are called much more closely. It’s a bit like offside in hockey. If they called everything, they’d constantly be stopping play.
Around when Michael Jordan removed the need to actually dribble the ball when going from the top of his key to dunk in the opposing basket.
Or when actually TOUCHING a QB resulted in a flag every time (put ‘em in a dress and be done with it!). Likewise a DB actually defending a pass without getting a pass interference flag.
I can’t comment on hockey, but very few can, since very few watch. Soccer even more so because less so.
And don’t get me started on that abomination to sports, the baseball DH...
Why, hell! The umpire doesn’t even have to call a ball even if it’s totally off the plate. He can call it a strike. But if the runner from third misses the plate by that much, the umpire will call him out.
Baseball is a mysterious, horribly traditional joke.
Head coach wears little boy clothes (what other sport does that?)
Can hit foul balls all day and still have an “at bat.”
Ball doesn’t have to be over the plate any more.
2nd Baseman doesn’t have to touch the bag on a double play.
Players cannot re-enter the game if taken out once.
Pitchers pulled in from the bull pen get 7 or 8 new pitches, even if they’ve pitched out there all night.
Coaches count pitches and usually yank out a starter if he’s anywhere near 100 pitches no matter how well the pitcher’s doing.
Coaches will not put in his best pitcher to close a game.
Wooden bats.
Even though a batter stands there and watches a pitch go by, he can still step out of the box and spend a lot of time realigning his gloves, hat, and pants, even though he didn’t swing and nothing on him moved.
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Do they have “instant replay” like football does? Just asking, as I haven’t watched baseball in many years, since the ‘69 Mets in the WS.
When did it start, you’re axing? You saw it today? Well, it was supposed to start tomorrow May 1, as I understand it. Damn, they started out too early!