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ALCS Yankees vs Angels

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After wasting numerous chances to win game 2 and 3 the Angels finally get game 3 to stay in the series. It seemed like a matter of time before NY would make them pay for missing opportunities, but not today.

Game 4 will be huge, obviously.
 
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Third base umpire Tim McClelland must be drunk because he has missed two of the easiest calls ever, one for each team.

He's making a fool of himself on national TV. :lol:
 
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Jake;1572571; said:
Third base umpire Tim McClelland must be drunk because he has missed two of the easiest calls ever, one for each team.

He's making a fool of himself on national TV. :lol:
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I'm not sure the replay they showed of Swisher leaving third base was conclusive. When the foot is coming off the bag almost directly toward the camera it's tough to see when it left the bag. I'm surprised the announcers didn't mention the possibility of a make-up call on that one, since Swisher was clearly out when picked off second base just before that. Calling him out at third for leaving early took away the controversy of the ump blowing the call on the pickoff play.

The play with Cano and Posada was pathetic to miss. All he needed to be looking for was the glove holding the ball and the runners' feet. And neither Cano nor Posada were moving very fast at the time.

Baseball clearly needs to put in replay for plays on the base paths and in the outfield. Imagine if the ground-rule double that was unbelievably called foul several days ago occurred with runners on 2nd and 3rd, two out in the ninth of game 7, with the team at bat trailing by one run.

Like somebody said last week, the time to look at the replays would be no greater than the time that goes by when the managers argue the calls.
 
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BB73;1572833; said:
Like somebody said last week, the time to look at the replays would be no greater than the time that goes by when the managers argue the calls.
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True, but it's a lot more fun to watch a manager go apeshit than it is to watch umpires huddled around a video monitor.

If they do bring in replay, I hope that it is accompanied by a mandatory diversion rule. 3 umpires watch the video while the 4th has to go into a MMA cage with a manger. Something like that.

Or hot women jello wrestling. That could work, too.
 
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BB73;1572833; said:
I'm surprised the announcers didn't mention the possibility of a make-up call on that one, since Swisher was clearly out when picked off second base just before that. Calling him out at third for leaving early took away the controversy of the ump blowing the call on the pickoff play.
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Yankees radio basically alluded to this point...
 
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First thing I thought was 'makeup call'. I was also surprised those words were never uttered by Buck or McCarver.

I found in interesting that Buck and McCarver spent the better part of the next inning criticizing the call that went against the pin stripes...
 
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Bucky Katt;1572843; said:
True, but it's a lot more fun to watch a manager go apeshit than it is to watch umpires huddled around a video monitor.

If they do bring in replay, I hope that it is accompanied by a mandatory diversion rule. 3 umpires watch the video while the 4th has to go into a MMA cage with a manger. Something like that.

Or hot women jello wrestling. That could work, too.
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^^^^^I like these ideas^^^^^^
 
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