Jeter A Jerk?

[MaTH716]

Originally Posted by Cannon Shell

It was an error on the umpires part. Jeter didn't obscure the umps vision and there are 3 other umps on the field that can be consulted with. Not to mention that it sounded like the ball hit wood, not a person. The umps blew it, period. The "people are in an uproar" will soon go back to ignoring baseball unless there is something to hate on. I prefer to call out a guy for cheating when he actually breaks a rule.

We now live in a world where the best basketball player is hated because he has a large ego, one of the top football players is disliked because he does a lot of commercials and now one of the best baseball players is disliked because he tricked an umpire? And this is progress....

I think the people are in an uproar more because of who did it, than the actual act itself. Like I said before, the guy who did it has been a put on a pedestal his whole career for the way he plays the game (almost to a holy level) and now he overacted his way onto first base. If it was anybody else (maybe except A-Rod), this would have been a non story that would have been forgotten now. But since it was a guy who has been a boyscout his whole career, the thing has been blown way out of proportion.
Bottom line, it was just another blown/bad call but the umps.

[SCUDSBROTHER]

Originally Posted by MaTH716

Bottom line, it was just another blown/bad call but the umps.

Listen to that sound. If they couldn't get that right, then that's it. Time to have each manager get a certain limited number of reviews each game. Let them get away with butchering balls n' strikes. Everything else should be reviewable. Whether a pitch hit the bat (or the batter) should be reviewable. Whether somebody went around (or not) can be kept botch-friendly (for the purists.)

[MaTH716]

Originally Posted by SCUDSBROTHER

Listen to that sound. If they couldn't get that right, then that's it. Time to have each manager get a certain limited number of reviews each game. Let them get away with butchering balls n' strikes. Everything else should be reviewable. Whether a pitch hit the bat (or the batter) should be reviewable. Whether somebody went around (or not) can be kept botch-friendly (for the purists.)

I really believe that this isn't the usual scenario. They got this call wrong based on the Oscar winning performance of Captain America. They must have figured if he's riving in pain, then he must have got hit. Anybody else in the league probably wouldn't have gotten the benifit of the doubt that Jeter did.
But the bottom line is that it was another botched call by the umpires. You would think another form of replay is going to be introduced somewhere in the near future.