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Joe Maddon tossed, likens home plate collision rule to Chicago's 'soda tax'
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| 10/14/2017
| Jesse Rogers
Posted on 10/14/2017 10:36:01 PM PDT by BenLurkin
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posted on
10/14/2017 10:36:01 PM PDT
by
BenLurkin
To: BenLurkin
Before the rule change it would have been a great play by the catcher. But he knew the rule.
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posted on
10/14/2017 10:39:10 PM PDT
by
doug from upland
(Stand and honor the flag --- locking arms BS doesn't cut it)
To: doug from upland
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posted on
10/14/2017 11:16:30 PM PDT
by
TTFlyer
To: BenLurkin
I thought the blocking rule was supposed to be an umpire’s judgement, like whether the third base umpire thinks the batter swung at the pitch. If, in the umpire’s judgement, the catcher blocked the plate, then he blocked the plate. Maddon would have a point if this is true because the replay official is not the umpire and the umpire cannot change a non-call after the fact.
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posted on
10/14/2017 11:58:13 PM PDT
by
OrangeHoof
(Let Trump Be Trump. Would you rather have Hillary?)
To: TTFlyer
It may be but the catcher knew the rule, tried to get away with a slick violation, and got caught. Good thing it wasn’t the winning run.
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posted on
10/15/2017 12:03:48 AM PDT
by
doug from upland
(Stand and honor the flag --- locking arms BS doesn't cut it)
To: BenLurkin
In the old days the runner would flatten the catcher.It could be the end of either or both players careers. I dont think one can impede a runners.proogress in any way.
P.s....not a dodger fan.
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posted on
10/15/2017 1:27:43 AM PDT
by
Getready
(Wisdom is more valuable than gold and diamonds, and harder to find)
To: Getready
In the old days the runner would flatten the catcher.It could be the end of either or both players careers.
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Funny when the Cubs runner slid into 2B he ‘whiplegged’ towards SS and didn’t get called out AND the eventual winning run scored on that play, I didn’t see Madden out there ‘protesting’ for the Nationals Infielder.
(I don’t think the relay would have been in time BUT..’they made the stupid rules, may as well enforce them).
I agree with above about ‘old days’ and the see the reasoning but BB is getting like FB back in the days when the Defense said ‘May as well put the QBs in skirts if we can’t hit them’.
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posted on
10/15/2017 1:41:59 AM PDT
by
xrmusn
((6/98)""If the earth were flat, cats would have pushed everything over the edge by now")
To: BenLurkin
It goes both ways.
Without the rule Culberson would have plowed him over and broke his leg and been safe.
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posted on
10/15/2017 2:05:51 AM PDT
by
ifinnegan
(Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
To: ifinnegan
I agree with the new rule—do not want to see great players get injured on the home plate play.
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posted on
10/15/2017 4:18:23 AM PDT
by
cgbg
(Hidden behind the social justice warrior mask is corruption and sexual deviance.)
To: BenLurkin
That's why he doesn't live in Chicago. His restaurant is in Tampa's Hyde Park, not in Chicago's Hyde Park...😀. He loves the Cubs, but he loves the Tampa Bay area...
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posted on
10/15/2017 6:09:45 AM PDT
by
Deplorable American1776
(Proud to be a DeplorableAmerican with a Deplorable Family...even the dog is :-))
To: Getready
See Ray Fosse....
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posted on
10/15/2017 6:11:37 AM PDT
by
dfwgator
To: BenLurkin
I'm a Cardinal fan, that alone tells you what I think if the Cubs, but...
I caught in hs and college and coached catchers in high school for 25 years. For all of my coaching career high school had the block/slide rule.
I support the rule but there are a couple of flaws, one highlighted on thus play. I've seen the throw take the catcher up the line toward 3rd and the catcher get run over and the base runner penalized even though it was the catcher pursuing the ball that caused the contact.
And what happened on this play. The throw is pulling the catcher back side of the plate. The step he takes to get in front of the throw is the same step he would take to block the plate. That's why it had to go to replay. The difference between having the ball and legally blocking is tenths of seconds.
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posted on
10/15/2017 6:38:51 AM PDT
by
fungoking
(Tis a pleasure to live in the 0zarks)
To: dfwgator
I will never forgive Pete Rose for that.
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posted on
10/15/2017 7:37:58 AM PDT
by
BenLurkin
(The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
To: dfwgator
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posted on
10/15/2017 7:44:56 AM PDT
by
GOYAKLA
(" Winning not Whining"!)
To: GOYAKLA
And in the All-Star Game to boot.
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posted on
10/15/2017 7:58:03 AM PDT
by
dfwgator
To: TTFlyer
Stupid rule. Disagree. Long overdue.
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posted on
10/15/2017 8:18:22 AM PDT
by
libertylover
(Kurt Schlicter: "They wonder why they got Trump. They are why they got Trump")
To: dfwgator
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posted on
10/15/2017 9:41:46 AM PDT
by
GOYAKLA
(" Winning not Whining"!)
To: Getready
"In the old days the runner would flatten the catcher."
And that's the way that it should be. I played catcher through Little League, Babe Ruth League, High School, and college, and then played many years of softball .. close to 50 years total .. and have been run down more times than I can count, but never injured. If you're set up properly, low squat or knee down, the most I've had it do to me was knock me over backwards. If there's a chance that the throw is going to be close, then I would block the plate; if not, then I would stand in front of it.
Nothing gave me a greater satisfaction as a catcher than to stand strong and tag a runner out at home plate, either catching his leg on mine in a slide or physically having the ball between him and I when he tried to run over me.
50 years and I can still so those plays in my mind's eye with a great deal of satisfaction. Don't be a catcher if you can't take the punishment ...
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posted on
10/15/2017 9:53:33 AM PDT
by
BlueLancer
(ANTIFA - The new and improved SturmAbteilung)
To: cgbg
Pete Rose in the All Star Game showed what a bad person he is.
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posted on
10/15/2017 9:53:38 AM PDT
by
ifinnegan
(Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
To: dfwgator
Fosse was set too high ... if he had been set lower, it would have been Pete Rose that suffered the most punishment ...
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posted on
10/15/2017 9:55:05 AM PDT
by
BlueLancer
(ANTIFA - The new and improved SturmAbteilung)
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