These four-hour games with a dozen or more walks don't help college ball's popularity.
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Well, yeah, there's that too.Generous my ass. They are flat out missing calls.
The first game showed real bias with giving Knight a generous zone and Hill having to throw down the middle. Yesterday's ump was at least consistent.Generous my ass. They are flat out missing calls.
I agree as they apparently don't have any idea that it is not where the catcher catches the pitch, but where it actually is when it crosses the plate. And Dang if the guy throws a magnificent curve that just misses the plate by an inch or 2.......Ring it up. It would speed the game up and we would have better action.
Then they cannot call a slider below the knees a Strike.If it missed the plate it missed the plate. That’s a ball. I don’t care how awsome the curve was. I agree some changes need to made but not this.
The first game showed real bias with giving Knight a generous zone and Hill having to throw down the middle. Yesterday's ump was at least consistent.
You want to see batters hit, but you also want the umpire to give a huge strike zone? That is contradictory. If you want to see hitting, then the strike zone needs to be smaller, ie., Something the batter can reach.The problem with the strike zone, is that every umpire has a different one. I like a pitcher’s umpire. “Throw that right hand up...Blue. I came to watch the ball being hit, not for you to walk batters”
THIS!Just be consistent. Good teams/pitchers/hitters will adjust within a couple innings.
But be consistent for both teams. Same as basketball refs. If you are gonna call it tight, do it both ways and stick with it. Teams will adjust.
I just think that most borderline calls should go to the pitcher, and pitches above the belt should be strikes. Hitters will swing earlier in the count and put balls in play. Might also consider a pitch clock and a limit on visits by catchers and pitching coaches.
This would make the college game more viewer friendly. ...That and stop putting the camera on old stink-eyeing fatsos and start putting them on smiling young hotties.
Why does the pitcher get the benefit of the doubt. To me hits and scoring is what makes the game exciting. I love baseball but get tired of two pitchers going at it with no hits. You should want to increase the hits not increase strike outs. The benefit of the doubt should go to th
Why does the pitcher get the benefit of the doubt. To me hits and scoring is what makes the game exciting. I love baseball but get tired of two pitchers going at it with no hits. You should want to increase the hits not increase strike outs. The benefit of the doubt should go to the batter.
The SEC and NCAA hates us!!
When it is win or go home, I have no problem with excessive situational pitching changes. You can't bring a benched player back into that game and it becomes chess by attrition.