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Umps blow another HR call

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05:27 AM ET 05.22 | For the second time in three games at Yankee Stadium on Wednesday, umpires missed a home run call that could have been made correctly with the use of instant replay. This time, the Yankees' Alex Rodriguez was robbed. He drove a ball to right-center field, and it rose until caroming off a yellow staircase to the bleachers. The ball bounced back to the field and was ruled to be in play. Rodriguez, who had slid safely into second, protested. The umpires conferred but did not reverse the call. Asked if he had seen a replay, the crew chief Tim Welke said, "We just did and we made a mistake."

New York Times

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May 22, 2008  05:30 AM ET

A-Rod is back and on a tear.....and Joba is joining the rotation. Life in the Bronx just got better!!! Let the climb to the top begin.

May 22, 2008  05:45 AM ET

Great...baseball whining. Go do your juice. Let the umps run the friggin game. Screwed-up priorities for these players. Getting mad about everything now. Keep juicing. Heck the umps juicing. Your mamma juicing. Ump makes a bad call....so what - "It Happens" and big deal. Hey man the owner's are just gonna turn their heads.

May 22, 2008  06:34 AM ET

Great. Joba will start and then Hawkins or Farnsworth can blow his games in the 7-8th innings!

May 22, 2008  06:35 AM ET

BAD DEAL, anyway huge win last night when the Yanks are playing as bad as they were.

May 22, 2008  06:40 AM ET

Bond: your post is a joke. I don't know if mommy didn't hug you enough, or if your wife just doesn't let you give opinions at the dinner table...take your "I hate the world" opinions elsewhere.

The umpires have made three mistakes this week on home run balls. Perhaps they're angling on needing another few umpires (i.e. playoff/world series staffing) at the games, but the truth is they're screwing up calls. Baseball games take long enough as it is...if they are going to implement replay, they had better find the most efficient way to do so. I believe MLB needs to step in and ask the Umpires Association to see what the heck is going on. With 4 at each game, "We just screwed up" isn't a good enough answer.

May 22, 2008  07:08 AM ET

This will be the last straw in the instant replay argument, and it will be used next year for home run calls and, perhaps, fair/foul calls.

May 22, 2008  07:38 AM ET

If you didn't see the play, the ball hit about four feet above the wall, then bounced back on the field. I don't think I've ever seen a HR call missed on such an obvious play.

May 22, 2008  07:45 AM ET

Freakin A-Rod... Too bad his bat makes up for his personality (barely).

Give me a R
Give me a E
Give me a P
Give me a L
Give me a A
Give me a Y

There is really no reason to not have instant replay. But how do you limit it? How do you keep teams from abusing it? Take an out/AB away? Limit to 2 uses?

May 22, 2008  07:47 AM ET

On second thought, I like the human aspect of the game... Blown calls, umps getting in the way of fielders, rediculous strike zones.

Never mind..

Give me a R
Give me a E
Give me a P
Give me a L
Give me a A
Give me a Y

May 22, 2008  08:02 AM ET

Replay should be like in football. Managers should get like 3 challanges per game. And it can only be used on close plays at home and home runs/foul balls. NO strikezone disputes or anything like that.

Pretty simple if you think abuot it.

May 22, 2008  08:08 AM ET

so this must be payback for the delgado call? the only problem here is that this ball was well over the fence.

they should've used the yellow paint on the bottom of the foul poles instead of that staircase. I can see why the umps didn't see it. Its difficult to see the ball land on the replays.

I still say replays won't work in baseball. In the last two yankee games there have been at least 5 pitches that crossed the batters box line and were called strikes. None of these pitches were breaking balls - striaght as an arrow. That is at least 3-4 inches off the plate - umps are clearly missing those calls.

Missed balls and strikes can either extend at bats or shorten at bats and that can have as much of an impact on a game than a missed HR call.

May 22, 2008  08:14 AM ET

You can't do balls and stikes or else everyone would want to replay every pitch they don't like. Then 3 hour games turn into 6 hour games. You have to limit it to only certain circumstances.

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May 22, 2008  08:27 AM ET

It's simple...you use IR on home run calls only, and the managers have nothing to do with it. You'd end up adding about a minute to a game, maybe 3-4 times/year.

I think we could all live with that.

May 22, 2008  08:32 AM ET

Lasik surgery might work. Replay sucks in every sport, It breaks up the continuity of the games. A blown callis good it gives the sports talk guys something to whine about.

May 22, 2008  08:34 AM ET

I love how the Yankee fans come out now and whine about a HR call because it went against them...where were you arguing for Replay on Sunday night when the Mets stomped your A$$

May 22, 2008  08:37 AM ET

****, bjt. I knew it wouldn't be long before a moron like you stumbled in.

We were here on this blog, saying the same thing. Look it up, fool.

May 22, 2008  08:40 AM ET

I'll make this REAL simple for you...here's a link to the story about the blown call on Sunday night. Read the comments, and learn something.

http://fannation.com/truth_and_rumors/view/50850

May 22, 2008  08:42 AM ET

Luckily neither call mattered in the result of the game. But yes, we need replay for stuff like this. But NOT for balls/strikes.

Give each manager 2 replay calls. Have an ump up in the booth be the decider.

 
May 22, 2008  08:44 AM ET

Or use the official scorer to be the decider. After all, he is official and he knows the rules of the game.

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