I’d like to see them take balls and strikes away from the umps. It’s not their fault but the human eye just can’t see what cameras and technology can. The umps shouldn’t decide who wins and loses, the players should and watching strike zones that are never consistent and always changing takes away from the enjoyment of baseball. When I watch tennis and see those line calls made correctly by a camera that can clearly show a ball hit the line by 1/8", well, I never enjoyed McEnroe berating an official for 5 minutes, so glad they got that fixed. Also get rid of umps who think people paid to come see them. All in all they do a good job, notwithstanding the limitations of human vision.
In any game, the players’ job is to run up such a blowout that no bad call can make a difference. If the US Olympic basketball team in 1972 had played the way they traditionally did, they could have been in the shower room for five minutes and the Russians couldn’t have caught up. Instead they played like they were already counting their endorsement money. They deserved to lose.
If you let the other team get close enough for a bad call to make a difference, you lost, regardless of the point score.
StCleve72 over 7 years ago
I’d like to see them take balls and strikes away from the umps. It’s not their fault but the human eye just can’t see what cameras and technology can. The umps shouldn’t decide who wins and loses, the players should and watching strike zones that are never consistent and always changing takes away from the enjoyment of baseball. When I watch tennis and see those line calls made correctly by a camera that can clearly show a ball hit the line by 1/8", well, I never enjoyed McEnroe berating an official for 5 minutes, so glad they got that fixed. Also get rid of umps who think people paid to come see them. All in all they do a good job, notwithstanding the limitations of human vision.
Steve Dutch over 7 years ago
In any game, the players’ job is to run up such a blowout that no bad call can make a difference. If the US Olympic basketball team in 1972 had played the way they traditionally did, they could have been in the shower room for five minutes and the Russians couldn’t have caught up. Instead they played like they were already counting their endorsement money. They deserved to lose.
If you let the other team get close enough for a bad call to make a difference, you lost, regardless of the point score.
hcarpenter1 over 7 years ago
ewwwwwwwww
we are back to the guy in the snake thing again