2023 college baseball/softball thread

[User 149557]

All your protesting confirms is umpires need replaced by robots because they’re vindictive assholes far too often.

They're supposed to akin to judges in demeanor.

 

[Matt1735]

The standard of umpiring in college baseball has greatly increased over the past few years (10-20). It was never right, but in the "good ol days," umpires would sometimes make intentional mistakes as punishment to players who showed them up. The umpires could get away with it because no one was watching and that's how it was done (even in the major leagues, see Ken Kaiser).

However, just as in all aspects of life, there is video everywhere and the days of doing that are gone. That umpire from Friday's New Orleans game has probably ended his career at the Division I level. And deservedly so.

 

[mateen]

Everyone who's ever played knows and accepts that if you show up an umpire you shouldn't expect calls. The problem here is proportionality. If it was waist high and four or five inches off the plate, that's one thing. Here it was not remotely hittable and it ended the game; officials just can't do that.

 

[Songbird]

Dear God. What a horrible, petty call by the umpire.
Nice job by the UNO catcher to hold the Valley player back and keep him from doing something stupid, when he might have been totally justified in breaking a kneecap or two.

The single worst strike call in the history of baseball, any level, anywhere, all at once.

 

[JC]

I've seen a few times when a pitcher glares at the ump or waves his arms. The next few pitches are balls even if they are right down the middle.

And that is utter stupidity. An umps job is to call the game properly, not ignore the rules because his feelings are hurt.

 

[ChrisLong]

And that is utter stupidity. An umps job is to call the game properly, not ignore the rules because his feelings are hurt.

One of my games in high school, our coach (a noted catching guru) noticed their catcher rose up to throw when we tried to steal. The ump was crouched, looking over the catcher's shoulder.
We couldn't touch their pitcher and our guy was on, too. It was 0-0 in the sixth. We got a leadoff HBP. Coach ordered the runner to fake steal on every pitch. The catcher rose up to throw, thus blocking the umpire's view. If you don't see it, it's a ball. It's in "the book."
Pitcher was throwing 90 mph heat right down the middle and they were called balls because the catcher was blocking the ump. He walked two more and was so flustered that he walked the next guy, too, despite us not fake stealing anymore. Walked in a run and we won, 1-0.
After the game, the other coach calmly walked over to our coach and asked him if he could take a couple of minutes to explain to his catcher what he was doing wrong that caused all of those pitches to be balls. It's in "the book."

 

[JC]

One of my games in high school, our coach (a noted catching guru) noticed their catcher rose up to throw when we tried to steal. The ump was crouched, looking over the catcher's shoulder.
We couldn't touch their pitcher and our guy was on, too. It was 0-0 in the sixth. We got a leadoff HBP. Coach ordered the runner to fake steal on every pitch. The catcher rose up to throw, thus blocking the umpire's view. If you don't see it, it's a ball. It's in "the book."
Pitcher was throwing 90 mph heat right down the middle and they were called balls because the catcher was blocking the ump. He walked two more and was so flustered that he walked the next guy, too, despite us not fake stealing anymore. Walked in a run and we won, 1-0.
After the game, the other coach calmly walked over to our coach and asked him if he could take a couple of minutes to explain to his catcher what he was doing wrong that caused all of those pitches to be balls. It's in "the book."

Your book is outdated and ridiculous. Umps are there to officiate not become a part Of it. Nobody is there to see them and their fragile egos.

 

[ChrisLong]

Every time you guys perceive that somebody made a mistake, you all want them fired and reprimanded. Chill out, brothers.

 

[JC]

Every time you guys perceive that somebody made a mistake, you all want them fired and reprimanded. Chill out, brothers.

It wasn’t a mistake.

 

[Spartan Squad]

And I suspect the “chill out, brothers” includes the Southland Conference who, after all, suspended him because he kind of egregiously violated the book. And by “book” I do mean the “rule book.”

 

[Batman]

Every time you guys perceive that somebody made a mistake, you all want them fired and reprimanded. Chill out, brothers.

This umpire did not make a mistake. Jim Joyce made a mistake when he botched the safe/out call that cost Armando Galarraga a perfect game. Reggie Drummer obviously and willfully made the wrong call — a game-ending call at that — out of some misguided attempt to teach a young man a lesson.
There is a huge difference. One can be forgiven. The other goes against everything an umpire is supposed to stand for.

 

[Spartan Squad]

It wasn’t a mistake.

There’s also that little detail

 

[ChrisLong]

Chris, I like you … but at some point, I’m gonna take your book, turn that sumbitch sideways and shove it up your candy ass.

Idle threat. Save your anger for something that really matters.

 

[dixiehack]

Does “the book” say that the penalty for showing up the ump is forfeiting the game? Because that is what he did making up his mind to call strike three on any pitch that didn’t hit the bat or batter. If he was that upset about it, he should have ejected the batter on strike two.

 

[Batman]

I don't like it when the shooting thread and the sports thread overlap.
An Olivet College (I assume it's a D3 school) ran back to the dugout to retrieve a hoodie that had been left behind, and got shot. Figure it was a robbery, but ... damn.
The player is in the hospital, but recovering.

https://www.lansingstatejournal.com...ngum-university-new-concord-ohio/70023902007/

 

[micropolitan guy]

Wow New Concord and Muskingum are about as rural Ohio as you can get.

 

[Batman]

San Diego beat Pacific 16-9 on Saturday after scoring 10 runs in the bottom of the eighth inning. Thirteen batters came to the plate and none of them hit a ball out of the infield. If you enjoy small ball, this was a thing of beauty.

 

[Justin_Rice]

San Diego beat Pacific 16-9 on Saturday after scoring 10 runs in the bottom of the eighth inning. Thirteen batters came to the plate and none of them hit a ball out of the infield. If you enjoy small ball, this was a thing of beauty.

Holy Little League Batman!

 

[maumann]

UOP: pitcher fielding drills for the rest of March.

 

[Batman]

They have a standardized mercy rule now in the SEC. And Mississippi State still lost 26-3 in its series opener against Vanderbilt.
That's 15 straight SEC losses for the Bulldogs, if you're keeping count, which breaks the school record set in 2010. They've been outscored 55-9 in their last three SEC games. This also wasn't even the worst loss in recent memory. They lost 27-2 against Tennessee in the last series of the 2022 season.

Less than two years after winning a national championship and seemingly being set for life in Starkville, there is a raging bonfire under the chair in Chris Lemonis' office. It might be bigger, but the bullpen took a lot of the fuel to create its own five-alarm dumpster fire.