"Savage Lizard" <savagelizard@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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I'm all for human drama but I want it coming from players and coaches,
not the umps.

ScottW

"AguaGirl" <someone@somewhere.net> wrote in message
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Really? How many pundits think Pujols changed the zone
on Peavey with a word to the ump in game 1?

ScottW

"Savage Lizard" <savagelizard@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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I'm all for human drama but I want it coming from players
and coaches,
not the umps.

ScottW

Bingo, Scott! The rules of The Game must be enforced with
consistent accuracy to ensure the fundamental fairness that
is the very integrity of any game. I'm for any technology
that improves getting calls right, beginning with an
electronic strike zone. As for delays caused by reviewing
replays, Hell, many arguments with umps over calls take up
more time than running replays several times. ("Damn, Joe,
we've run that play six times and Weaver is still arguing
with the ump!") Besides, what's a little break in the
action for a game whose very nature is leisurely?

But I'd sure miss the classic manager-ump confrontations.

-Johnny (Nobody, not even hotheaded Billy Martin, argued
with an ump with the style and passion of Earl Weaver. Who
can forget him on his hands and knees piling dirt on home
plate? Or turning the bill of his cap backwards so he could
put his nose right up against the ump's?)

P.S. My favorite rhubarb story is the one Leo Durocher told
about his fight with an umpire. He says that he and the ump
kept kicking each other in the shins until he finally
figured out that the ump was unfazed while Durocher was
getting hammered because it was the home plate ump and he
was wearing shin guards under his trousers.

P.P.S. In the old days, when caustic lime was used to mark
lines, arguing managers would kick it on the umps' shoes and
trousers to ruin their wardrobe.