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  • Blzer
    Resident film pundit
    • Mar 2004
    • 42509
    #8476
    Re: MLB Off-Topic

    Originally posted by Speedy
    Who was the crew chief?
    I believe Mike Everett, but that shouldn't matter in the case of a replay review, should it? Whatever New York says, goes.

    Speaking of which...

    Major League Baseball admits that the replay umps screwed up last night
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      • CMH
        Making you famous
        • Oct 2002
        • 26203
        #8477
        Re: MLB Off-Topic

        Originally posted by Blzer
        I believe Mike Everett, but that shouldn't matter in the case of a replay review, should it? Whatever New York says, goes.

        Speaking of which...

        Major League Baseball admits that the replay umps screwed up last night
        Am I the only one that finds it maddening the article wouldn't have a link to the article mentioned in it?

        Who manages these pages?

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          • Blzer
            Resident film pundit
            • Mar 2004
            • 42509
            #8478
            Re: MLB Off-Topic

            So I've been watching the catch from this replay so many times that I ignored his girlfriend in that shot entirely. That is one of my former students, Christina. Very cool!

            I'm going to try and contact her and see what has unraveled for them since the incident, especially with them wrongly being kicked out.


            Originally posted by CMH
            Am I the only one that finds it maddening the article wouldn't have a link to the article mentioned in it?

            Who manages these pages?

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            Good call. At first I thought that could have just been an article update, but normally they would keep the original message if so and just update on top of that.

            EDIT: Here is that article, anyway. And what do you know, they provide that exact kind of update in it as well.
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              • CMH
                Making you famous
                • Oct 2002
                • 26203
                #8479
                Re: MLB Off-Topic

                Thanks Blzer. That's as bad as the triple Judge hit. A clear homer that the replay officials somehow got wrong.

                Not sure what they're doing there.

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                  • TripleCrown9
                    Keep the Faith
                    • May 2010
                    • 23663
                    #8480
                    Re: MLB Off-Topic

                    It's Minors stuff, but in an insane scenario last night, the Tri-City Dust Devils needed to lose to keep their playoff hopes alive. If they won, they eliminated themselves. They also needed Spokane to lose.

                    Good news is they lost. Bad news is Spokane hit a walk-off.
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                      • Sportsforever
                        NL MVP
                        • Mar 2005
                        • 20368
                        #8481
                        Re: MLB Off-Topic

                        Originally posted by TripleCrown9
                        It's Minors stuff, but in an insane scenario last night, the Tri-City Dust Devils needed to lose to keep their playoff hopes alive. If they won, they eliminated themselves. They also needed Spokane to lose.

                        Good news is they lost. Bad news is Spokane hit a walk-off.
                        How did that work? They needed to lose to keep their playoff hopes alive? That doesn't even make sense...
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                          • TripleCrown9
                            Keep the Faith
                            • May 2010
                            • 23663
                            #8482
                            Re: MLB Off-Topic

                            Originally posted by Sportsforever
                            How did that work? They needed to lose to keep their playoff hopes alive? That doesn't even make sense...
                            They were playing Vancouver, who was in first place and won the first half of the season. If Vancouver won, they'd win the second half and Tri-City would make the playoffs. If TC beat Vancouver, Spokane would win the second half and Spokane would make the playoffs.

                            It's all moot now because Spokane won their game, but still a weird crazy scenario.
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                              • CMH
                                Making you famous
                                • Oct 2002
                                • 26203
                                #8483
                                Re: MLB Off-Topic

                                Originally posted by Sportsforever
                                How did that work? They needed to lose to keep their playoff hopes alive? That doesn't even make sense...
                                The only thing I can think of is the split season format, or whatever it is called.

                                A lot of variables where other teams can make the post season if the teams that won the first half didn't win the second half.

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                                "It may well be that we spectators, who are not divinely gifted as athletes, are the only ones able to truly see, articulate and animate the experience of the gift we are denied. And that those who receive and act out the gift of athletic genius must, perforce, be blind and dumb about it -- and not because blindness and dumbness are the price of the gift, but because they are its essence." - David Foster Wallace

                                "You'll not find more penny-wise/pound-foolish behavior than in Major League Baseball." - Rob Neyer

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                                  • TripleCrown9
                                    Keep the Faith
                                    • May 2010
                                    • 23663
                                    #8484
                                    Re: MLB Off-Topic

                                    Originally posted by CMH
                                    The only thing I can think of is the split season format, or whatever it is called.

                                    A lot of variables where other teams can make the post season if the teams that won the first half didn't win the second half.

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                                    This is basically it. Vancouver won the first half and Tri-City would make the playoffs if Vancouver also won the second half.
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                                      • Sportsforever
                                        NL MVP
                                        • Mar 2005
                                        • 20368
                                        #8485
                                        Re: MLB Off-Topic

                                        Originally posted by CMH
                                        The only thing I can think of is the split season format, or whatever it is called.

                                        A lot of variables where other teams can make the post season if the teams that won the first half didn't win the second half.

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                                        Originally posted by TripleCrown9
                                        This is basically it. Vancouver won the first half and Tri-City would make the playoffs if Vancouver also won the second half.
                                        I was curious if that is what it was...in the 1981 MLB season they did a split season and the league had to change their policies when it became apparent that a team could benefit from "losing" to make the playoffs, similar to what you are describing.
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                                          • CMH
                                            Making you famous
                                            • Oct 2002
                                            • 26203
                                            #8486
                                            Re: MLB Off-Topic

                                            Originally posted by TripleCrown9
                                            This is basically it. Vancouver won the first half and Tri-City would make the playoffs if Vancouver also won the second half.
                                            The only thing that confuses me, what place was Tri City in?

                                            Were they tied with Spokane and won the season series? Curious how they could have leaped them with a loss.

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                                            "You'll not find more penny-wise/pound-foolish behavior than in Major League Baseball." - Rob Neyer

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                                              • TripleCrown9
                                                Keep the Faith
                                                • May 2010
                                                • 23663
                                                #8487
                                                Re: MLB Off-Topic

                                                Originally posted by CMH
                                                The only thing that confuses me, what place was Tri City in?

                                                Were they tied with Spokane and won the season series? Curious how they could have leaped them with a loss.

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                                                Based on what I'm seeing, because it's just a few tweets that I'm trying to decode as well, if both Spokane and TC lost, TC would get in with a better overall record. I'm assuming two teams from each division make the playoffs.

                                                Spokane finished the season 61-52, Tri-City finished 60-53. If they finished with the same record, I'm assuming TC won the season series over Spokane.
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                                                  • Blzer
                                                    Resident film pundit
                                                    • Mar 2004
                                                    • 42509
                                                    #8488
                                                    Re: MLB Off-Topic

                                                    Did they play like they tried to lose?
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                                                      • TripleCrown9
                                                        Keep the Faith
                                                        • May 2010
                                                        • 23663
                                                        #8489
                                                        Re: MLB Off-Topic

                                                        Originally posted by Blzer
                                                        Did they play like they tried to lose?
                                                        I don't know, I don't have avenues for watching Minor League games. They lost 5-0, though. So maybe they did.
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                                                          • SPTO
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                                                            • Feb 2003
                                                            • 68046
                                                            #8490
                                                            Re: MLB Off-Topic

                                                            Thank goodness they don't do the split season thing in MLB (though they had to do it for expediency in 1981) because that kind of scenario would cause people's heads to explode. I could imagine how the screaming heads at ESPN and Fox would go nuts over it.
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