Kay, Cone and Singleton over here. I like when Singleton is with Kay because we don't have to deal with him fawning over O'neil or Leiter.
A-fkng-men, I have never like Suckcliffe anymore than I despise Joe Morgan, for different reasons, but both really fk up a game IMO....
I'm still trying to figure out, why I can't get this on YES, as MLB Xtra Innings isn't even on my TV today, wtf- it was yesterday....I'd much rather put up with Cone or shit, just about anyone but Suckliffe....Sciambi is peacock too...
Honestly, I did not realize there was an Asst. Hitting Coach, kind of redundant, what's Thames do, load the pitching machine, or only toss BP....? Thames, Thames.....wtf- Thames....of all people...?
...Gardner has not learned evidently...still doing the same shit...trying to work the count, lets the first 2 grooved pitches go by for called strikes, then stands there with the bat on his shoulder for a called strike 3.
Some things just aren't changing....I don't foresee Gahdnah being a force at all this year....just a hunch...
There ya go, that's baseball Suzyn! Fucking HP ump blew an obvious inning ending strike three call and the batter promptly delivered a two run RBI hit which probably turned out to be the difference in the game. I would've liked to see someone (coach?) chew out that ump's ass and get tossed just for the hell of it- at least get the ump's blood pressure up and let him know he owes us one! Down the road a few more years, the next "big thing" MLB should do is somehow find a way to implement the technology and method needed to ring up balls and strikes to batters. Just can't continue to allow very fallible umps to "judge" hundreds of pitches per game. It may sound ridiculous NOW, but sometime in the future I believe it will be possible to set up electronic strike zones for each individual batter as they step into the batter's box.
I imagine Joe is still pissed, the failure to hit Correa in the back*, running on the grass, cost these boys the game.....of course there were several other factors, *but this one sticks in my craw....
The home plate umpire was flat out terrible. Balls and strikes is one thing but that's a blatant missed interference call going towards first base.
All pitchers on a play like that throw a quick shovel pass (underhand) to 1st base base & Betances couldn't do that because the runner was in the way. And as Joe brought up after the game, if you hit the runner, he's out. Just a real bullshit call.
...hitting the runner in the back when he's out of the baseline may sound good in theory and it might get the runner called out but you just never know for sure, especially today when the HP ump was bad all day in every facet of his duties. ...but in Betances defense, on a band bang play like that you're simple trying to get the ball to the 1Bman as quick as you can, and I doubt that the brain processes the play and the rules of the game that quickly and realizes the runner is out of the base line and a little voice in your head goes off and says "Oh, he's out of the baseline, hit him in the back and maybe they'll call him out". ...but it's still hard to believe that both the HP ump and the 1B ump could not see that the runner was clearly running on the grass instead of the chalked baseline box the whole way...as Charles Barkley would say, "Turrible, just turrible".
