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Brant · Posted: Sat Oct 10, 2009 11:40 am Post subject: Huge victory

As a resident of Avella School District, I want to offer congratulations to Coach Frank Gray and the players on the Avella High School football team for their stunning upset of Fort Cherry last night. Hard work and a never-say-die attitude, despite the long odds, pays off big time. Go Eagles!
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amom · Posted: Sat Oct 10, 2009 9:55 pm Post subject:

I loved reading that this morning! Go Avella!
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SSSS · Posted: Mon Oct 12, 2009 10:17 am Post subject:

I was very excited when I read that in the paper. Those kids and coaches deserve so much credit for holding things together out there.
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busdriver · Journeyman Joined: 16 Mar 2009 Posts: 3497

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The Yankee-Angels played game 4 last night and this umpire is the most incompetent umpire ever and he is the "Chief Umpire". Made 2 major screw ups just in the 2 innings I saw.

One he called a Yankee out for leaving third too early on a tag up when replay showed he never even looked at the runner and split screen showed clearly the runner was safe as the ump was looking skyward at the time.

But this video should be a classic in Umpire Schools for the "Most Incompetent Ever" award.

Clearly both runners are not on a base and he calls one of them safe.

SSSS · Posted: Wed Oct 21, 2009 3:49 pm Post subject:

good heads up play by the catcher nulified by a boob of an umpire.
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Brant · Posted: Wed Oct 21, 2009 3:54 pm Post subject:

Officiating in pretty much all the major sports has gone in the crapper. I never thought I'd say this, but hockey might now have the most efficient officials. The baseball umpires are clearly the worst, and they seem to have almost an arrogance about their missed calls and their ever-changing strike zones. Sometimes a ball six inches off the plate is a strike; sometimes it's a ball. Sometimes a pitch just above the belt is a strike; sometimes it's a ball. When I was a kid watching games on TV, the umps were amazingly consistent with the strike zone. If you saw one really bad ball/strike call in a game, that was about the limit. And today, of course, they make very, very nice, six-figure salaries to screw up the game royally.
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ellipses · Mod Joined: 29 Sep 2008 Posts: 9218 Location: WashPa!

I don't understand why they don't use the technology available to them...

I mean, we have video of the catcher clearly tagging two guys who are not on a base...

What is the explanation for this?
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Brant · Posted: Wed Oct 21, 2009 4:01 pm Post subject:

I know they don't want to mess with the flow of the game, but especially in the playoffs, isn't it more important to get it right? And from what I've seen of the instant replays on home-run calls, the umps seem to get it done much more quickly than NFL officials. You could do as they do in the NFL by giving each manager a couple of challenges.
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dick · Journeyman Joined: 28 Jan 2009 Posts: 3134

I'd like to see a few rules in baseball.

1) Pitch clock. Kind of like the play clock in football. From the time the pitcher gets the ball in his glove, he should have say... 20 seconds. If the clock is up (not due to the batter) a ball is added to the count. Give a pitcher maybe one time extension per inning. Chit happens.

2) Managers Challege. Also like challenges in football. Give the manager two challenges. Figure out a penalty for a wrong challenge... maybe an out or something.

I've been thinking about a rule where a pitcher has to pitch to at least two hitters. I just get frusterated watching these games where the pitching is micromanged so the lefty / righty match up is in their favor. This would probably be too drastic of a change though. What I'm really wanting is for the network to find something besides commercials to go to while the RP is warming up. Show me the bloopers or the trivia or the kiss cam... just don't cut to commercials every batter. Thats when I see whats on another channel.
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SSSS · Posted: Thu Oct 22, 2009 10:16 am Post subject:

Love the pitch clock idea!
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Brant · Posted: Sun Oct 25, 2009 11:32 am Post subject:

The hockey schedule is all about money. Teams can draw better if they have games on Friday night, Saturday night and Sunday afternoon. The Pens are going to draw crowds anyway, but they needed all the help they could get just a few years ago. And even though they played two games in a row, I don't think they play again until Wednesday.
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