MLB

[numbers]

Is there a worse job in sports than baseball umpire though? At least in the other sports the officials have some cover, the NHL and NFL officials act as a team and really no one person takes blame or wrath after a bad call. No one knows NFL or NHL referees names. NBA officials are more individual and recognizable, but when they blow a game everyone just says it was part of a David Stern orchestrated conspiracy.

[Chris_H_2]

Is there a worse job in sports than baseball umpire though? At least in the other sports the officials have some cover, the NHL and NFL officials act as a team and really no one person takes blame or wrath after a bad call. No one knows NFL or NHL referees names. NBA officials are more individual and recognizable, but when they blow a game everyone just says it was part of a David Stern orchestrated conspiracy.

On the flip side, umpires/officials in no other sport are as protected by their respective union or league than MLB umpires.

[Harry Lime]

Damn, Brew Crew. You have Braun and lights out playing from Gomez and the amazing Jean Segura, and you're 15-20? That pitching staff needs to get their shit together.

[MadTIGERmaN]

Damn, Brew Crew. You have Braun and lights out playing from Gomez and the amazing Jean Segura, and you're 15-20? That pitching staff needs to get their shit together.

4 in Pittsburgh, just what the doctor ordered.

this, sure was a bad week to be an umpire...

this, sure was an odd place to put a comma...

I could have gone ! crazy!

Ya gotta feel for those umpires for the most part though, they do a great job. But to blow the pitching change rule? and the home run review? I'll even put the error Crawford got on Monday night? in their (dropped the ball long after the catch / got ruled no catch) Those calls were SO bad!

[BurtReynolds]

Bryce Harper's gutsy and stupid defensive madness is killing my fantasy team.

[MadTIGERmaN]

Bryce Harper's gutsy and stupid defensive madness is killing my fantasy team.

he must have horrible peripheral vision, or tunnel vision
just before that play happened, Josh Hamilton pulled up short on a ball thinking he was going to hit the wall... and the ball lands on the warning track for a bases clearing double LOL

[BurtReynolds]

Bryce Harper's gutsy and stupid defensive madness is killing my fantasy team.

he must have horrible peripheral vision, or tunnel vision
just before that play happened, Josh Hamilton pulled up short on a ball thinking he was going to hit the wall... and the ball lands on the warning track for a bases clearing double LOL

haha. and Harper just came back from smashing into a wall a couple of weeks ago! and toe surgery.

[MadTIGERmaN]

Bryce Harper's gutsy and stupid defensive madness is killing my fantasy team.

he must have horrible peripheral vision, or tunnel vision
just before that play happened, Josh Hamilton pulled up short on a ball thinking he was going to hit the wall... and the ball lands on the warning track for a bases clearing double LOL

haha. and Harper just came back from smashing into a wall a couple of weeks ago! and toe surgery.

he must have horrible peripheral vision, or tunnel vision

I watched that play last night a few times... he takes a good step+ while looking at the fence, doesnt brace for it or anything? were his eyes closed? LOL it just looks so odd... like "ah well, i missed the ball, might as well look cool doing it and make sports center"

[verb_to_trust]

Thats a clown question , bro:

[Fuck You Jobu]

Dear new owner of the Cubs, the only reason anyone attends your games at all is because of your falling down stadium that happens to be in a phenominal area in the city of Chicago.

Move the Cubs you moron. You have a AAA team without the stadium. You do need to redo the stadium.... emphasis on YOU.

Pretend you're the Cubs' owner. Your ballpark is 100 years old and in bad shape. In fact, the concrete is crumbling, you cannot offer modern amenities, the concourse is impassible, you can't add seats, you can't add boxes, you can't add advertising, you can't add signage, and you can't do anything without City approval because your ballpark has been landmarked. You want to renovate. But renovations cost money.

You first ask the City to refund a portion of the "entertainment tax" which each fan pays with each ticket he or she purchases, but the City refuses because it does not want the bad optics of a taxpayer-funded stadium, even though the Illinois Sports Authority renovated Soldier Field on the taxpayer dime and actually paid to build U.S. Cellular (and certain private, for-profit businesses (e.g., a bar)) around it, all because the owner of the team to the south is best friends with Bud Selig and the former mayor of the City is a White Sox fan and was from the neighborhood in which U.S. Cellular sits. So you say "fine, I will fund the $500 million in improvements on my own, but the only thing I would like is the ability to generate added revenue through advertising in the stadium." But the owners of the rooftops across the street from your stadium are protesting and threatening to sue because the new signage will block their views of inside your stadium, and they won't be able to generate as much money from your product. And the alderman in whose ward Wrigley sits favors the rooftop owners.

Then when you propose additional night games because you can generate more money through ticket sales because more people can attend during the evening after work than during the day (and more than half of your home games occur during the day by City ordinance), the Lakeview Neighborhood Association, which is supposed to represent all homeowners and businesses around Wrigley, objects because night games will lead to less parking spaces in their neighborhood. And the alderman sides with the Association.

So, in a nutshell:
- you own a ballpark that singlehandedly is responsible for (i) the money that neighboring businesses generate, and (ii) the high property values of the homeowners in the neighborhood;
- you want to renovate that ballpark with your own money;
- you want to raise money with your own product but the neighbors won't let you;
- you can't renovate that ballpark without City approval;
- no other MLB owner has the limitations that you do; and
- when you throw your hands up and say "I give up," people rip you for being a short-sighted, money hungry whore of an owner (the horror) that only cares about money and not wins.

I don't blame Ricketts one bit. Fuck the rooftop owners. Fuck the Lakeview Neighborhood Association. Fuck Alderman Tunney. And fuck the City. I say move. Watch peoples' home values plummet. Watch all the bars and restaurants close. Watch the tax revenue to the City decrease. Fuck them. I'd rather have a WS title in a ballpark that's modern and nice in a suburb than in that toilet anyway.

[End of rant]

Yup, quite depressing actually

I've been waiting for him to threaten (yes, just threaten) to move the team and he finally did. Ricketts needs either better friends or better people skills.

[Charlie]

Thats a clown question , bro:

hahaha! the route that he took to the fly ball was god awful.

[MadTIGERmaN]

welcome back Zack Greinke! with a base hit in his first at bat back... and 3 scoreless so far.

[Fuck You Jobu]

Thats a clown question , bro:

hahaha! the route that he took to the fly ball was god awful.

Yeah you hate to say someone deserves that, but that was horrible.

[philpritchard]

Thats a clown question , bro:

hahaha! the route that he took to the fly ball was god awful.

Yeah you hate to say someone deserves that, but that was horrible.

That's one of the weirdest attempted catches I've ever seen. It just seems like he had absolutely no idea where he was on the field.

[MadTIGERmaN]

I still think his eyes had to be closed hahahahaa
but i still love watching it LOL

[numbers]

I'm not saying Harper shouldnt be in the major leagues by any means, hes a stud, but this is what happens when a 20 year old learns a new position at the major league level.

[Norah]

[Norah]

Man, those Astros.

[Harry Lime]

Milwaukee has four guys in the top 11 NL batting average. What the hell's the problem?! The pitching isn't THAT bad.

[MadTIGERmaN]

Milwaukee has four guys in the top 11 NL batting average. What the hell's the problem?! The pitching isn't THAT bad.

they have 5, FIVE! guys over .316 coming into today
and the rest of the team BELOW .232

and their starters ERA's are... UGLY
3.49 (Lohse going into today)
4.50 for Yo
5.44 for Estrada
5.94 for Peralta
6.58 for Burgos (which is really just one horrible start)

and none of them have been pitching deep into games.

that IS pretty bad.