So that's you're argument: people might get upset?

People got upset about the stupid AS tie fiasco, and having WS homefield determined by an exhibition game. It did about as much good as getting angry at God.

So?

People get mad. Wah. The game should have ended. We have clear visual proof. These will go both ways. Live with it.

I'm sure people will learn to live with it.

My point is that there have been literally hundreds of thousands of MLB games.

This is, to all accounts, the ONLY TIME that a potentially game-ending play has been possibly botched (I still contend that he was bobbling the ball anyway, ymmv).

Why add a process that has been unnecessary for over a hundred years for a once-in-a-few-hundred-thousand chance? Is it because it was a possible perfecto? Is it because we have MLB Network, ESPN, Comcast, and FoxSports showing us replays ad nauseum?

Quote: Originally posted by bosoxbill on 6/08/2010So that's you're argument: people might get upset?

People got upset about the stupid AS tie fiasco, and having WS homefield determined by an exhibition game. It did about as much good as getting angry at God.

So?

People get mad. Wah. The game should have ended. We have clear visual proof. These will go both ways. Live with it.

I'm sure people will learn to live with it.

No, my point was, comparing a game called due to rain (ie: weather, an "act of God/nature") to the decisions of some MLB officials after the fact is apples to oranges.

The point is that individual accomplishments are wiped out all the time due to circumstances beyond the control of the ballplayer.

And I'm pretty sure some of the rest of you are straight agin the idea that individual accomplishments should matter, as they are a by-product, and not the point of the game.

So that point - that some ballplayers might get upset that their work was for nothing, in the unlikely event that this proposed rule is triggered - is not a very good point. And is, thus, completely discarded.

AN UNMITAGATED DISASTER!!!!!!

Quote: Originally posted by toddcommish on 6/08/2010Why add a process that has been unnecessary for over a hundred years for a once-in-a-few-hundred-thousand chance? 

Because being right MATTERS, especially when you can do it FOR FREE.

Sometimes accidents happen that can't be made right. This isn't one of them.

Being right matters. It matters 1 in 5 times. It matters 1 in a few hundred thousand times.

If you can just shrug and say "f it. I don't care if it does sometimes come out wrong" then I'm glad you don't work for me.

Quote: Originally posted by MikeT23 on 6/08/2010AN UNMITAGATED DISASTER!!!!!!

Your drawing is the prettiest one on the fridge. Here's your blue participation ribbon.

Don't be mad because you used a big word you didn't fully understand. That's on you.

...sez the guy who can't even spell "unmitigated."

Perhaps. But I used it correctly. Unlike the guy who sez "A blown call in baseball is a disaster."

Not quite up to JT/Primetime standards, but a classic RSF anyway.

It's gettin there, give em time.

Would you say this thread has become a "disaster"?

By bosuxbill standards, of course.

Being that almost anything can be construed as a disaster by midget terms, most definitely this is a disaster.

Well, my example was a direct impact on the game as well as an individual achievement. I mean, that took the win away too. We lost a game AND I wasted my arm.

But that can be ignored as any random interpreter pleases.