Explanation from the umpires
Posted by: Peter Abraham - Posted in Misc on Sep 03, 2008 
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Here is what crew chief Charlie Reliford said about A-Rod’s home run and the review:
“A fair ball is fair when it leaves the playing field. That’s why the foul poles are there to help us. We had it going right over the pole, all four of us had it going right over the pole on the field. Our views of the replays confirmed that. It was not inconclusive, it was conclusive that Brian’s call was correct.”
“Everything went exactly like they trained us it would go.”
Thats good. Umps can’t be depended on to see everything especially when the ball is 400 feet away in a dome.
Name the player who hit the first home run reviewed by instant replay in MLB history? Of course the answer is A-rod. That surely will make for a good bar room trivia question in the years to come.
I for one am glad that the answer to the trivia question of “who had the first replay in baseball” being A Rod. Now it will be interesting to see who gets the first overturned call. We’ll see if anyone pulls a George Brett and goes ballistic.
Now it will be interesting to see who gets the first overturned call.
It will probably be something Alex did also.
Hmm…overturned call…
Odds:
3:1 Milton Bradley
5:1 Kevin Youkilis
…Please add to the list, my mind is drawing blanks
Pedroia, at which point the rest of his hair will fall out, and he will shrink 3 inches and no longer be allowed on rides at any amusement park.
As a journalist, Pete, you should look up the definition of “ironic.” In your last post, you called the fact that A-Rod was involved in both the first baseball replay and a blown call that brought about replay “ironic.” It’s not. What you described is a coincidence.
“Hmm…overturned call…
Odds:
3:1 Milton Bradley
5:1 Kevin Youkilis
…Please add to the list, my mind is drawing blanks”
2:1 Gary Sheffield
6:1 Jose Guillen
4:1 Lou Piniella
ARE YOU READY FOR SOME FOOTBALL !!!
Keith, while it is coincidental, there is irony in A-Rod being involved in both ends of the replay decision. The odds of one player being a cause and then the first benificiary of this change in baseball is pretty huge. Yet, despite the high odds against it happening makes it ironic.
“Hmm…overturned call…
Odds:
3:1 Milton Bradley
5:1 Kevin Youkilis
…Please add to the list, my mind is drawing blanksâ€
2:1 Gary Sheffield
6:1 Jose Guillen
4:1 Lou Piniella
It’ll probably be someone random like Chad Moeller or Alex Cora or something and it’ll be the highlight of their career. lol
Percival is not a member of the hat tippers club
“It should have never gotten to that point; the pitch before that was a strike,” he said. “Everybody in the ballpark knew it, A-Rod knew it, everybody knew it.”
Doesn’t this mean it was not used properly? I thought they only go to replay when the umpires on the field are in a 2-2 tie over what the call should be.
Yeah it’s not ironic.
“It should have never gotten to that point; the pitch before that was a strike,†he said. “Everybody in the ballpark knew it, A-Rod knew it, everybody knew it.â€
I was saying the same thing but damn Troy relax your in first place
If you get a chance, try to find Sterling’s call. It’s also on espn radio sportscenter updates.
It’s hilarious.
(in an excited voice) “It is high. It is far. It is…(long pause)… It is…(very flat voice) a home run…(in a disgusted voice) I guess they’re calling it a home run…Looked like a foul ball to me.
“Percival is not a member of the hat tippers club
“It should have never gotten to that point; the pitch before that was a strike,†he said. “Everybody in the ballpark knew it, A-Rod knew it, everybody knew it.—
Only the 08 Yankees and Pedro Martinez.
“For $13 I’ll be a Macadamia Nut” – an event occurring despite low probability does not mean irony.
“Percival is not a member of the hat tippers club
“It should have never gotten to that point; the pitch before that was a strike,†he said. “Everybody in the ballpark knew it, A-Rod knew it, everybody knew it.—
Only the 08 Yankees and Pedro Martinez “tip there caps”. Sorry for the repost.
Irony is manny ramirez being a pain in the rear to Joe Torre for 12 years hitting against his teams and costing Torr’s team games and now being a pain in the rear because he’s costing Torre’s teams by butchering plays in the outfield and shaking his head while loafing after the ball.
If Sterling thought it was foul, it was definitely fair.
pat,
lol, why spend hundreds of thousands on video equipment when you can just call the opposite of what Sterling does?
Crew chief, “Inconclusive right now. Get Sterling on the horn. See what he said.”
Ah, the Ironic Police in full force tonight!
The whole definition of the word implies an opinion. Is there any way you can prove something’s ironic? In Pete’s opinion, it’s ironic, so therefore, there’s nothing wrong with what he wrote or how he used the word .
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Ironically, Pete may have practiced an accepted usage.
An Asbury Park man was arrested last week and charged with impersonating New York Yankees pitcher Joba Chamberlain, according to a report in The Coaster. The goal of the accused man, Ryan Ward? Meet girls and maybe score some free eats.
Let’s just say it’s weird. Alex is weird and the fact that he was involved in the two related calls is weird.
At least it wasn’t reversed. Percival was grumbling about that pitch? Butthead needs to walk 60 feet in Andy’s cleats.
You’ll never hear a Yankee talk like that. I thought he was there to be a clubhouse leader.
No, ironic isn’t exactly an opinion. It has to involve an “opposite” of sorts.
Alfred Nobel invented TNT and yet his name is associated with peace. Ironic.
Rain on your wedding day? Not ironic.
Writing a song called “911 is a joke” but then needing to use 911 yourself for an emergency? Ironic.
A-Rod hitting a HR that is ruled a 2B, thus forcing the issue of instant replay–only to be the first player to have it used to confirm a HR? Interesting. Coincidental. “FITTING” as A-Rod said himself. But not ironic.
Irony police in full force, absolutely. Hey, the misunderstanding of the word is a cultural problem…
The Braves/Marlins game today was played before a crowd of 600 fans in total. Wonder if they let them all just move down to the box seats?
Cano = Angel Beroa?
on another note…arod had 4 rbi in a game the yankees won by 4. so unclutch.
GB7 – Funniest ironic post so far.
What may be even more ironic is Joe having to depend on Derek Lowe for a quality start every 5th day. Not mention daily participation in the lineup from Nomar, to mention other 2004 Red Sox castoffs in addition to Manny. Nut cases or prima donnas every one.
pat: I don’t care what the usher says, I’m taking that seat!
hey! did everyone take their balls and went home?
anyway, unless rule V and trades really cut into it, we should have at least 17 relief candidates in 2009. long live the scranton shuttle!
Giambi’s third-inning double extended his streak to 8 straight games with at least one RBI, matching the longest streak in the ALthis season. (Josh Hamilton had at least one RBI in each of 8 straight games, July 5-12). Giambi’s streak is the longest by a Yankees player since Jeter knocked in a run in each of 9 straight games in 2004.
As a journalist, Pete, you should look up the definition of “ironic.†In your last post, you called the fact that A-Rod was involved in both the first baseball replay and a blown call that brought about replay “ironic.†It’s not. What you described is a coincidence.
lol, it has to be ironic, no such thing as coincidence. so they say.
Pete uses the Michael Kay definition of irony. Kay masquerades as an educated guy with a large vocabulary, but has been perpetrating this perversion of the language for years. Just one of the things that makes him hard to listen to…
It would have been *truly* ironic if the first use of a rule that came about (in part) because of ARod losing a home run had been used to take *another* home run away from him. Irony has a Murphy’s Law component to it.
Pete’s use is fine, though — “ironically” makes the point a lot more efficiently than “in a fitting and improbable coincidence…”. Especially in blog update post, for goshsakes.
So? Where are all the detractors who thought replay would slow down the game? That went relatively fast, didn’t it? Faster, in fact, than a Lou Piniella tirade, though not as amusing…
irony (adj): consisting of, containing, or resembling iron; Resembling iron taste, hardness, or other physical property.
irony (adj): an antonym of wrinkley
as much as I have disliked Kay, I have to give him credit for pointing out how bogus that one little piece of foul pole attached to the back cat-walk is. they need to take that thing down. who’s the brainiac who put that there to begin with.
extend the foul pole to the roof! it’s not rocket science (or the definition of ironic)
Amen to Saucy’s last post and Michael Kay’s observation. I wasn’t listening to Kay but I was watching the game on ESPN and it was killing me that one of the analysts was using that “foul pole” attached to the back cat-walk as proof that the ball was foul. I was screaming at the television…”you can’t tell using a foul pole behind the foul pole!” It’s really funny how it seems that all the nuances (brain-farts) of stadium architects are coming to light this season.