Holy Crap I Just Had a Nightmarish Flashback to Jeffrey Maier

[Palmoripken]

What a douche:

Jersey shore sack of ****. That .gif just pretty much sums up everything that Yankees fans are.

Well if it walks and looks like a dick then it must be a ?

[Jagwar]

What a douche:

Jersey shore sack of ****. That .gif just pretty much sums up everything that Yankees fans are.

That GIF makes me want to tell Scotty to beam me to the front row in LF and hit at least 5 people in the face with a club.

[eddie83]

The umpire is getting blamed, not sure how you get that he isn't.

I do, I just don't get the Selig angle here. If he hadn't added the boundry rule everyone would be complaining tomorrow that replay didn't exist in this situation, here the play was covered and his name is still brought up.

If he adds calls on the bases and a play isn't looked at because the umps wouldn't review it would that be his fault as well?

I tend to defend Selig because like any commisioner he is far from perfect but overall I think he has done a good job and gets piled on for everything.

[BaltimoreTerp]

Great but that has nothing to do with what happened tonight. This was covered but as usual Selig gets the blame, not the person who was actually at fault.

If they had MLB support, replay would be seen by everyone involved as a way of getting the call right, not correcting an umpire's mistake. It's obvious that everyone with a vote on the decision feels the latter. And with that support the umpires would be more apt to use the system.

[Hank Scorpio]

Check out the fat pig behind him going, "FU."

Go have a couple more bratworst, tiny.

[fansince71]

What a douche:

Jersey shore sack of ****. That .gif just pretty much sums up everything that Yankees fans are.

Ha ha, the guy to the right looks to be pointing at him, like, it wasn't me.

[TonySoprano]

What a douche:

Jersey shore sack of ****. That .gif just pretty much sums up everything that Yankees fans are.

Watch - He'll be on Regis tomorrow and will get seats behind the dugout...same deal as Maier:angryfire:

Ha ha, the guy to the right looks to be pointing at him, like, it wasn't me.

Fat guy in Yankees sweatshirt two seats to the right actually came into contact with the RFer's glove

[BaltimoreTerp]

I do, I just don't get the Selig angle here. If he hadn't added the boundry rule everyone would be complaining tomorrow that replay didn't exist in this situation, here the play was covered and his name is still brought up.

If he adds calls on the bases and a play isn't looked at because the umps wouldn't review it would that be his fault as well?

I tend to defend Selig because like any commisioner he is far from perfect but overall I think he has done a good job and gets piled on for everything.

As long as he has to be dragged kicking and screaming into the TWENTIETH century, those of us in the 21st will blame him for any errors that involve that disconnect. And they will be completely valid complaints.

[eddie83]

Why not? What makes you think a sport that legislates against SHOWING many instant replays (at least in parks, and there's some evidence about broadcasts as well) would do whatever they can to promote a system they were brow-beaten into installing in the first place?

5 years ago how many people were *****ing about replay? 2 weeks ago how many people were complaining about hard hits in the NFL? A day before Barbaro got hurt at the Preakness were people complaining about horse safety? All sports react to the public and media.

[waroriole]

I tend to defend Selig because like any commisioner he is far from perfect but overall I think he has done a good job and gets piled on for everything.

I can't think of any big decision that he's made that I agree with. Wildcard, expansion, All-Star game rule, lack of replay, interleague play. All awful decisions IMO.

[Jagwar]

Watch - He'll be on Regis tomorrow and will get seats behind the dugout...same deal as Maier:angryfire:

Fat guy in Yankees sweatshirt two seats to the right actually came into contact with the RFer's glove

Tell you one thing. Mike Greenberg is going to be all over this tomorrow. He has been criticizing MLB for a while on how bad umpires have been, and how easy it would be to expand replay to avoid plays like this from influencing a game's outcome.

[Moose Milligan]

Check out the fat pig behind him going, "FU."

Go have a couple more bratworst, tiny.

Yeah, that too.

He can have a heart attack right after that brat, for all I care.

[eddie83]

I can't think of any big decision that he's made that I agree with. Wildcard, expansion, All-Star game rule, lack of replay, interleague play. All awful decisions IMO.

I like all of those except more replay.

[eddie83]

If they had MLB support, replay would be seen by everyone involved as a way of getting the call right, not correcting an umpire's mistake. It's obvious that everyone with a vote on the decision feels the latter. And with that support the umpires would be more apt to use the system.

I keep hearing how the umpires want more replay and here they had the option to use it and didn't. You don't put the option in and then say what the hell let's forget about it.

[BaltimoreTerp]

5 years ago how many people were *****ing about replay? 2 weeks ago how many people were complaining about hard hits in the NFL? A day before Barbaro got hurt at the Preakness were people complaining about horse safety? All sports react to the public and media.

Just because you don't hear them loudest doesn't mean people weren't complaining. It might take some specific event to galvanize the media, but I heard plenty of complaining about all three long before each time frame you suggest.

And I don't know how one could be a sports fan with any attention paid to those sports and NOT heard those things.