DaveC
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well i guess he didn't tag him if you call a glove containing a ball to the knee a foot off the plate...
StlElevation said:he was safe as safe gets
StlElevation said:this is why defense is so important...
Hewson said:...we'll see tonight with Schilling vs. Morris if the scoring can be held down a bit.
To start our story, go to the tape of tonight's game and watch Woody Williams' first two innings of work. Watch him try to establish the low strike. Watch him try to throw around the knees- inside, outside, and center. And watch Montague call a ball every single time.
Watch Williams try to establish the outside strike- that's the left side of the plate, for right-hand hitters. Watch Montague consistently call balls.
For some crazy reason, Williams isn't able to get strikes. He keeps pitching down the middle and the BoSox keep getting contact. Wonder why.
Now, fast forward your tape to the top of the fifth. Jim Edmonds is at the plate. Arroyo throws a low strike. Amazingly, Montague actually calls it a strike.
The Fox cameras happen to be right on Edmonds' face. He starts talking to the ump while he prepares for the next pitch. I can't read lips very well, but he seems to say something like "How was that a strike? You haven't been calling that pitch all night".
Mr. Edmonds strikes out.
Now, fast forward to the eighth inning, Jim at the plate, bases loaded. Two pitches that were obviously inside (both two or three inches further in than Williams' pitches in the first inning). Oour friend Jim is called out looking.
Coinkey-dinkey? I think not. Why is Montague officiating the World Series?
The scary thing is the weather last night was pitchers' weather, in the 40's and dropping, and the wind was blowing in from left and across, which should knock fly balls down, and they still put 20 total runs on the board. Of course you had a journetman 3rd starte in Williams going against a never know what you're gonna get knuckleballer in Wakefiled, so that explains some of it, combined with 5 errors.pub crawler said:
Eh, I doubt the scoring can be held down. We're talking Fenway, after all, which is more like a pinball machine than an actual ballpark (poke the ball somewhere, anywhere and it's likely to bounce off a wall).
Hewson said:Sox 8, Cards 4.
speedracer said:
One word: Moneyball.
Headache in a Suitcase said:
how many championships does billy beane have? scratch that... how many times have billy beane teams gotten out of the first round? moneyball can suck my moneyballs.
StlElevation said:ugh, i dont know how many of my sox fan friends have called me to brag that the series is over...
youd think that the alcs taught them its never over till its over?