IGT 09/12 - NYM at TOR in BUF - Swing Your Hips, NOW!!

[kcmets]

Lugo 2-2, 2.05 vs. Ray 1-4, 7.51



[YOUTUBE]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kmcl7uUiDH0https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kmcl7uUiDH0[/YOUTUBE]

[kcmets]

What he said, again...

Frayed Knot wrote: Remember, first pitch sked for 1837 EDT tonight.

[ashie62]

Ready to do the hippy hippy shake on S-A-T-U-R-D-A-Y Night.



LGM

[ashie62]

Jeff McNeil - LF

J.D. Davis - 3B

Michael Conforto - RF

Pete Alonso - DH

Dominic Smith - 1B

Robinson Cano - 2B

Jake Marisnick - CF

Wilson Ramos - C

Amed Rosario - SS



SP: Seth Lugo

[ashie62]

Cavan Biggio - RF

Bo Bichette - SS

Travis Shaw - 3B

Randal Grichuk - CF

Vladimir Guerrero - 1B

Lourdes Gurriel - LF

Jonathan Villar - DH

Alejandro Kirk - C

Joe Panik - 2B



SP: Robbie Ray

[Edgy MD]

Come on, Ike and Tina. Give us some offense.

[Edgy MD]

The cardboard audience members in Buffalo look more-or-less consistently and appropriately sized.

[Edgy MD]

Gary: Three-and-two on Rosario. Ramos on first, not likely to go.

#analysis

[Edgy MD]

Kirk looks like the catcher in Moneyball who wears a big pair of underwear.

[Frayed Knot]

And the "limit" on replays is once again ignored.

[bmfc1]

Cano needs to start hitting to make up for his lack of range.

[kcmets]

Mets need to show some chug-a chug-a motion like a railway train, NOW!!

[Frayed Knot]

Let's just get it over with and have reviews of every call.

[bmfc1]

This is where a 3d C would be helpful--so they could pinchrun for Ramos.

[Frayed Knot]

Bo Bichette's given first name is actually Bo, it's not short for anything.

Papa Dante was born Alphonse Dante Bichette.

Dante Jr., older brother of Bo, was a high draft pick by the Yanx but his career has seemingly stalled.

[LWFS]

I DO enjoy Miguel Castro's sock/shoe game immensely

[LWFS]

His not-letting-the-opposing-team-hit-it game is decent, as well

[kcmets]

Alonso, lost at the plate...

[Frayed Knot]

The story about Gary missing last night's game recalls the great WC Fields joke.

In one of his movies, WC's character faked the death of his Mother in Law to get out of work and go to the track.

"It must be hard to lose your mother in law" his boss said to him. "Yes" he replied, "it's nearly impossible".

[LWFS]

Nimmo, he does get on

[LWFS]

Ramos, he does do that

[bmfc1]

2-0 count, the pitcher is upset at the calls, and Wilson weakly grounds into two. So much for his carryover from last night.

[LWFS]

So... unlimited challenges, then?

[Johnny Lunchbucket]

What this game needs is another replay

[Johnny Lunchbucket]

Ffs

[bmfc1]

Fuck you Amed. You can join Luis Castillo and go fuck yourselves or each other. I don't care. Fuck you both.

[bmfc1]

Mattingly would have enjoyed all the challenges. Apparently "using your challenges" is just bullshit.

[Frayed Knot]

So MLB is telling us that that replay provided "definitive proof" not only to flip a call but to end a game by erasing the tying run with a flipped call?

BULLSHIT!! Regardless of which team is helped or hurt, that one was no more or less definitive than the previous pickoff review and despite all the

assurances that only "obvious" calls will be reversed, the track record shows that anything with 51% probability and guesswork is enough to stop

the game a half dozen times and correct "wrongs" that couldn't carry an agreement beyond MAYBE a slight majority of those viewing it.



This system sucks, it always sucked, the NFL has been at this since the Reagan administration and their system sucks worse and gets worse all the time

despite claims that they just need a bit more time to "smooth out the rough edges".

"But there will be challenge limits!! ... And there will be time constraints!! ... And if it corrects just one bad call it's worth it!!!" ...



No!

It!

Isn't!





And tonight was a 3-2, 8-1/2 inning game that took nearly 3-1/2 hours and MLB seemingly has no idea why or how to correct it.

I might have a few suggestions for them.

Edited September 12, 2020 by Guest

[bmfc1]

Well said. I watched some of the tennis today and their replay system figured out "in or out" in a few seconds. With this system and these dopes it takes 2 to 3 minutes every time.

[Frayed Knot]

The tennis system is more akin to the proposed Robo-Ump which, as you know, is something I'm in favor of. It's a technology driven device with near-instant feedback which makes a definitive In/Out call.

It involves no guesswork, no 14 camera angles to examine so as to Maybe get a new view, and no staring at super-slo-mo like it's the Zapruder film with some hidden info that will bust the case wide open

if only we look long enough and hard enough.

And, as far as I know anyway, tennis DOES have limits on challenges and they DO enforce them. The players (not some dude in a booth somewhere) make the appeal and it needs to be instant and they need

to use them wisely rather than risk them on 50/50 shots on the basis that there's no harm in NOT trying it and maybe they'll get lucky.