You take ANY pitch that lands in the batters box at your 17ing ankles. And I was there to see it in person.
If we consistently had players chasing balls like that for a third strike people would (rightfully) lose their 17ing minds. You have to protect on close ones with two strikes, but you can't just take the position the ump might make a ****** call so I'm going to swing at anything I can reach with my bad. ****** calls are going to happen, but you can't change your approach just expecting ****** calls. It doesn't make sense for a pitcher to throw fastballs down the center of the plate because an ump might make a really ****** call, and it doesn't make sense for batters to chase obvious balls that would be hard as hell to do anything with because an ump might make a really ****** call.
It's a dog turd call. But submit your well informed opinion to BOC and correct him please from your couch. He needs your insight.
It’s the way I watch the game. And sometimes I pause it, rewind it, and re-roll it to see if what I just saw actually happened the way I saw it. I dont like constantly blaming umps and refs for player lack of success.
No one does. Truth is that this ump missed many calls for both teams. To miss that one in that moment with a ball that far down and inside is a trash call.
Then take your *** up there and hit it. It was six inches off the ground. Everybody sees it but you. Not the hill to die on but you sure as **** live trying
Fair enough. The ump missed some calls. I never said that pitch was a strike. I said it looked too close to take. He swung at an 0-2 pitch six inches outside on the previous pitch and managed to foul it off. I guess it looked better to Ace. Down by 4 runs, 2 outs, bases loaded, ump missed the call.
That depends. Can we get the 6-inch-off-the-ground-in-the-left-batters-box pitches called strikes? Seems like that would have helped.
He’s doing his job. Not the all American we had him made out to be but he’s best in conference. If he had swung at that you’d be beaching about how bad his eyesight is. You and the other troll are the only ones on this board who think he should have swung at that should tell you something. But the fact that our coach knew when he argued balls and strikes he would get tossed yet still did so should tell you it was a 17ing bad call. But you keep making a moron of yourself.
