@iJordanMoore You haven't even thought this out well enough yet to avoid 10am games on the West Coast. Spend a lot more time thinking about this before posting. ;) Because there are a lot of other obvious issues you are clearly missing.
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Jeff Fields
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Jeff Fields
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Professional classical baritone. IT admin: network/security/Apple/PC/MS365/Meraki. Concert, oratorio and opera. Bibliophile.
St. Paul, MN Joined Aralık 2007
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As Major League Baseball, why isn’t there a day game every single day?
There should be a game on at 1pm ET Monday-Sunday. More eyes, every team getting exposure. Stands might not sell out on a Monday afternoon but every team gets seen. Casual fans tune in. The sport grows.
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@Box607 @JacobBSpeaks Anyone who isn't an idiot already knows that the vast majority of MLB umps are extremely good. More than good enough to ignore stupid comments like this.
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@JacobBSpeaks The umpires have 3 choices:
1. Improve
2. Endure the ridicule of being overturned 10 times in a game.
3. Retire
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The umpires that quit because of the use of ABS are the umpires we don’t want in the game anyway.
Finally there is a system to hold them accountable, and if they were smart, they would utilize it to improve their craft.
Baseball is built on failure.
Chris Rose Sports@ChrisRoseSports
Trev thinks ABS is going to cause umps to say they're done working behind the plate
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@JacobBSpeaks Actually, there has been a system like this for years to "hold them accountable", and to help them improve their craft. I'm surprised you didn't already know this. There is no "finally" here.
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@TheGayWhiteApe @JonathanTurley Nobody has ever "proved" that Weiss was right about anything, let alone this. There were no freedoms destroyed here. Bari Weiss simply isn't qualified to give such a lecture, nor is she interesting enough to do so. She's a boring third-rate Nazi who deserves to get ignored.
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@baritone @JonathanTurley No she’s not. She literally proved Weiss was correct about universities destroying academic freedom.
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Bari Weiss was just canceled as the speaker at UCLA Burkle Center’s annual Daniel Pearl Memorial guest lecture. It is the latest example of viewpoint intolerance, led by faculty members who did not want students to hear one of the most impactful figures in journalism...
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@b19hoffman @InnocuousShark @Jdowney1209 @Brett_A_Taylor Actually, no. Most educated people don't have the faintest idea what a margin of error is, statistically. The vast majority of the US population is functionally innumerate.
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@InnocuousShark @Jdowney1209 @Brett_A_Taylor I'm not sure what grade level your education is at but most educated people understand what a margin of error is. A lot of Americans are stupid so it might be confusing for them at first too but I have faith they will get it eventually.
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I understand why folks feel ultra-mega-close calls shouldn't be overturned or whatever, but you have to draw the line somewhere. And wherever you draw it, there'll be edge cases that people can beef about. 1/4 inch buffer zone? Guess what: sometimes it'll hit 0.0001 of that, too!
Codify@CodifyBaseball
about as close as it gets
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@b19hoffman @Jdowney1209 @Brett_A_Taylor It's not "very simple", but if you think it is, then your mind is probably very simple. It's actually a complex issue.
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@Jdowney1209 @Brett_A_Taylor If the system has a publicly stated margin of error of 1/6th of an inch than calls within that margin shouldn't be overturned. It's very simple. Concerning how much people blindly trust technology assuming it is always perfect.
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@Jdowney1209 @Brett_A_Taylor They're not really "arguing". Arguing requires having some sort of cogent argument to present. None of these people have anything like that.
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@Brett_A_Taylor The crazy part to me is that people are basically arguing against consistency and accuracy. And the argument about umpires getting embarrassed is wild to me too. They should be held to the highest standard. It’s ok to be wrong, just not as wrong as Angel was…
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@JuanIsidro @selenaax_ Well, that's easy. You just ask CB Bucknor, and CB Bucknor tells you.
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@selenaax_ The zone has always been:
the explicit zone + a border around the zone exactly the width of the ball - an infinitesimal amount of the ball’s width.
If you “require 10%”, you’re not solving this problem since how do you determine the difference between 10% and 9.9999999%?
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yeah, it should be required that at least 10% of the ball is in the strike zone. I’m sorry this is just egregious.
Codify@CodifyBaseball
about as close as it gets
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@starsgap @selenaax_ Um, yes, it is. Now go back to troll-land and eat some troll food.
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@selenaax_ No, it shouldn't, and that's not what "egregious" means. You're just making up weird things for no reason.
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@b_outliers Except you're pretending to not notice the fact that the player took those steps BEFORE the ump made the call.
Stop pretending. It's not convincing.
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so the “can’t making any moves before you challenge” rule apparently doesn’t apply to taking 5 steps towards first base
Talkin' Baseball@TalkinBaseball_
Safe to say Randy was confident in his challenge
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@canoeisland23 @GlennDOrdway Actually, there are consequences for umpires, but I'm not shocked that you are too stupid to know this. Are there consequences for you being so lazy that you didn't spend 15 seconds Googling this claim before posting it? Sadly not.
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@GlennDOrdway Doesn’t matter. When you have a union behind you there’s no consequences for poor performance.
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I think this ABS technology is going to expose a lot of these umpires..
The Athletic MLB@TheAthleticMLB
CB Bucknor, a member of a major-league umpiring crew since 1999, had eight calls challenged and a whopping six overturned — including this sequence. 🎥 @CBoxSports
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@GlennDOrdway Not really. We've had extraordinarily detailed umpiring data for years. ABS is insignificant compared to that data. We already know how good most umpires are and we know who the bad ones are.
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@RealShelfy @NiftyPerk You don't have any idea whether he was annoyed. Unless you developed magical Harry Potter spells when nobody was looking.
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@NiftyPerk I caught my whole life so I’m confident I know the zone. My issue here is more his attitude. You know your job is hard why are you dropping your arms and getting annoyed at being questioned? Pitch was more than an inch off the plate and he’s annoyed.
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@RealShelfy Can't wait for the end of the ludicrous "pitch framing" era. And it's now clear that era is in serious danger.
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@mddepass @JesseCohenInv In other words, you have serious mental problems, a lot of insecurity, and you've found a scapegoat.
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@JesseCohenInv Tipping expectations have become unbearable, quality gone to crap, service sucks and worried about liberal wackos spitting in the food.
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🚨🇺🇸 Restaurant stocks are in freefall.
What happened to the US consumer?
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@TonyLaneNV This isn't complex. He has been trying to get ready to play the Masters despite an array of surgeries and crippling injuries that would have put most people in a wheelchair. He was doing pain meds to try to survive the training that it takes to do that.
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TIGER WOODS MUGSHOT JUST DROPPED… AND IT’S RAISING QUESTIONS
Blew a 0.00… but still arrested for DUI
No alcohol. Still charged.
Second DUI. Third crash. Refused further testing.
Something isn’t adding up here…
If it wasn’t alcohol… then what was it?
Do you think there’s more to this story we’re not being told? ⬇️ 🇺🇸
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@ArthurBoreman There is no "required 2%". That's just a Fox News masturbation fantasy you are having.
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To be clear, this is the first time Canada has hit its required 2% in about 3 or 4 DECADES.
Mark Carney@MarkJCarney
Canada has hit its 2% NATO defence spending target. We made a promise to transform our defence — and we’re getting it done.
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@Deconn @StephenPunwasi Actually, it wouldn't be devastating, since you're talking about uranium, which has very very low levels of radioactivity. Please go back and repeat high-school science. You clearly weren't paying attention the first time.
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@StephenPunwasi Of course he's not talking about a nuclear explosion, you dope. Attaching highly enriched radioactive material to a vest with conventional explosives would be devastating. Would you put it past them?
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FYI a nuclear suicide vest isn’t feasible due to basic physics.
Nuclear explosions require critical mass, which means slamming the particles together. It needs space, so containers are large & heavy.
This isn’t limited by tech. It’s limited by physics and reality.
Gerhardt vd Merwe@realgerhardtvdm
🚨🇺🇸🇮🇷 NEWEST WAR PROPAGANDA TO TRY AND SELL THIS ILLEGAL WAR RO THE AMERICAN TAXPAYER: JD Vance says: "Iran was about to use NUCLEAR SUICIDE VESTS in supermarkets." "NUCLEAR SUICIDE VESTS" 😂🤣😂 (This is nothing but Hollywood fiction)
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@CBLoveMyPups @RepChipRoy Do not ever forget how well this was staged! Fight! Fight for the Nazi Party and all that is right and good for your fellow honkies!
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Rep. Roy: "It is absolutely offensive to the people that we represent that the Senate would send over a bill that doesn't fund Border Patrol and the core components of ICE.
Could the Senate be any more lazy than to send to us a bill that doesn't do the job and then leave town? So we're going to stand up and say NO to that. We're going to send back a bill that's responsible to the American people."
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