Hey, Chase – GO F*CK YOURSELF!
July 15, 2008There were kids watching this, dumbass.
Besides, WTF did you expect? The game is in NYC…did you think there would not be Mets fans in attendance?
Idiot.
written by: Outfield
Monthly Archive
July 2008
MLB Umpires Don’t Know the Rules
July 8, 2008From the Yahoo! Sports recap of last night’s game…
http://sports.yahoo.com/mlb/recap?gid=280707122
| Howard hit a two-run homer to right in the seventh off Tony Armas, which was initially called a ground-rule double because a fan reached over the right-field wall and touched the ball. The four umpires convened and ruled the ball would have left the park had the fan not interfered. Television replays were inconclusive. |
Two things…
1) Were they watching the same replays I was? INCONCLUSIVE? The guy was leaning a good 2-3 feet over the fence when the ball hit his arms…you could tell by the way when he dropped his arms they were CLEARLY in front of the railing.
How the hell is that inconclusive?
2) That being said – how the hell does it matter whether the ball would’ve been a HR or not if the fan interfered? Once the fan touched the ball, and was over the wall (which he clearly was), the ball is dead…
Rule 2.00, INTERFERENCE, (d):
(d) Spectator interference occurs when a spectator reaches out of the stands, or goes on the playing field, and touches a live ball.
On any interference the ball is dead.
IF that explanation by the umpires is accurate, it seems to me this would’ve been a case where the Mets should have protested the game at that point, and it could have been one of the rare cases where you see a protest upheld. This is CLEARLY a misinterpretation of the rules (the only reason a game can be protested is in the case of an umpire misinterpreting the rules), if that is in fact the logic they used.
In the end, it’s nice to see that the umpires don’t know the rules.
written by: Outfield