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Its time for the ball/strike calls to be taken away from the home plate umpires.

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  • bronco2078bronco2078 Posts: 10,244 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @tommyrusty7 said:

    @bronco2078 said:
    imagine being so morally bankrupt that you bet on baseball :(

    I worked in a casino too many years to waste my money gambling on anything. The odds are always against you.

    of course but casino odds are incredible compared to sports betting.
    sports bettors usually have the mistaken belief they are intelligent enough to out think the house.

    Its why I gave up on sports talk radio because the advertisers are all sports betting (and ED meds)
    and the hosts have prostrated themselves to such sickening lows that they babble endlessly about betting on the dumbest garbage
    A buddy had sportshub on the other day and they were going on about betting on golf of all things :D

    how dumb would you need to be to do that?

    and betting on an app on your phone :D ya like thats a great idea

  • bgrbgr Posts: 1,872 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @bronco2078 said:

    @bgr said:

    @Basebal21 said:

    @bgr said:

    @Basebal21 said:
    Learn how baseball is played

    Is that the one with the racquet and the hoop and the horses?? You have no credibility.

    Should Skenes still be in the minors throwing 40 pitches that you argued for? Do catchers telepathically call pitches now?

    I would have put Skenes in the majors after his 3rd minor league appearance when he got up to 60. But. What I did for you was to explain the thinking of a mlb team which wants to maximize their investment. I used their words and linked an article. You were not arguing with me. The odds are a bit against him finishing the season strong. If only based on empirical data. I admit it’s not always fair to treat all examples equally and Skenes is certainly a rare specimen. You won’t get any of this until you learn to accept that you don’t know the future.

    I am not aware of any catchers using telepathy or of any successful examples of telepathy. I suspect they use pitchcom (eye roll). That you don’t know that catchers can communicate with the pitcher using pitchcom speaks volumes.

    you should be ejected from the forum for using italics

    and did you actually type the word eyeroll ?

    You must be an important person. Come visit me.

  • Basebal21Basebal21 Posts: 3,634 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @tommyrusty7 said:

    @bronco2078 said:
    imagine being so morally bankrupt that you bet on baseball :(

    I worked in a casino too many years to waste my money gambling on anything. The odds are always against you.

    Baseball really might be the worst thing to make a bet on. As im sure you know casinos just move the line so they basically win no matter what outside of some major upset. MLB teams other than this years White Sox all lose 50 games and win 50 games and the rest is really hard to determine on a day to day basis

    Wisconsin 2-6 against the SEC since 2007

  • DocBenjaminDocBenjamin Posts: 1,492 ✭✭✭✭✭

    :o

    Home plate umpire Nick Mahrley was taken off the field on a gurney after being struck in the head by a broken bat Sunday during the fifth inning of the game between the host New York Yankees and Colorado Rockies.

    In the bottom of the fifth inning, Yankees slugger Giancarlo Stanton’s bat splintered just above his hands as he blooped a single into left field off Rockies pitcher Austin Gomber.
    The broken barrel of the bat struck Mahrley in his facemask, and the umpire collapsed to one knee.

    Medical personnel quickly rushed onto the field to attend to Mahrley.

    The 41-year-old appeared to be conscious as he spoke with medical staff behind home plate. The umpire remained on one knee as a brace was placed on his neck.

    After 16 minutes, Mahrley was put on a gurney and taken off the field on a utility vehicle as the Bronx crowd gave him a round of applause.

    “Nick is being evaluated by the Yankees medical staff and is currently going through a full battery of tests,” a Major League Baseball official said.

    The umpire was diagnosed with a concussion and will have additional tests in the next few days, according to a source familiar with the situation, who added Mahrley won’t work for part of next week, at a minimum.

    The Rockies posted on X, “Sending our best to Umpire Nick Mahrley.”

    Crew chief Marvin Hudson took over home plate duties with the Yankees leading 4-3 and the bases loaded with one out. Umpires Hunter Wendelstedt and John Tumpane split the rest of the duties. The Yankees won the game 10-3 behind two home runs from Aaron Judge.

  • bronco2078bronco2078 Posts: 10,244 ✭✭✭✭✭

    16 minutes? They need something like a pitch clock for injuries , shovel the bum into a laundry cart during a commercial or I'm out

  • DocBenjaminDocBenjamin Posts: 1,492 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Wood bats should be replaced with plastic.

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