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The thread is now open for our weekend series with the Mariners
Kind of hate the off-day heading into the series given the current 14-2 streak, but hopefully the players find it useful.
Seattle seems to have gotten a lot better offensively than they've typically been. Franklin and Miller have given them a boost and Seager has really developed into a good hitter. Smoak has also hit really well lately. Although they are only 16th in the league in runs scored this season, they are 3rd in August.
Always tough to have to face Iwakuma and Hernandez. Hopefully we can take at least two of three to keep alive the streak having not lost a series since Cleveland.
I had not seen the almost 2 HRs by Chris Young until now. Wow we're those close.
What does everyone think of this?!
COOPERSTOWN, N.Y. -- Major League Baseball decided Thursday to implement instant replay on virtually every play but the strikezone - including three manager's challenges per game - that will begin in 2014, Commissioner Bud Selig announced.
"It's a historic day,'' Selig said.
MLB vice president Joe Torre, Atlanta Braves GM John Schuerholz and advisor Tony La Russa presented the all-encompassing replay proposal to the 30 ownership groups, which was widely accepted, Selig said, and expected to be formalized at their quarterly owners' meetings Nov. 13-14 in Orlando, Fla.
The replay will include up to three challenges that mangers will be provided during a game, one in the first six innings, and two beginning in the seventh inning through the game's duration. If a manager is successful with his replay challenge, he will not be charged with a review.
If a manager exhausts his three challenges, and umpire crew can make a review of its own only to determine home-run calls, a rule that will be grandfathered in with the new regulations.
Baseball, using its central MLBAM offices in New York, will be provided with replay cameras that will be monitored by men with umpiring experience. They will make the final call on disputed plays, not the crew chief.
What does everyone think of this?!
The first one was as close as you can get. I watched the whole game and I thought that was no doubt gone
We're all prepared to get ruined in Arlington, as usual.
May come as a surprise ... but I oppose the change.
My problem with instant replay is what we have seen in both college and NFL ... officials become sloppy in their calls knowing that coaches will challenge and gets the official off having to make a good call to begin with.
Seems to me MLB has been on the umpires and teams to speed up the games ... and now comes out proposing replay which with challenges is going to result in more delays and ruin the flow of the game. Managers will make preemptive challenges to disrupt the flow of the game ... stall to get relief pitchers ready ... or delay if it looks like rain. (whatever)
What would be better for me would be MLB using replay to keep score on the work of the umpires and move poor performing umps back to AAA to ensure quality work.
No doubt it will pass the ownership vote ... but I am convinced what this is going to do is just result in umps not paying as much attention to making good calls ... and when a play might be in question ... rather than owning the decision ... the umps will just tell managers to "challenge it" ... rather than making sure they are right to begin with.
I don't like the change.
We're all prepared to get ruined in Arlington, as usual.
Every year I saw lookout for Seattle and I'm always wrong. I thought this could have been the year where they'd make a turn but no cigar yet. At some point soon you guys will get good again I'm sure of it.