1 day ago by Phil Birnbaum

In a post on the economic incentives facing would-be umpires, J.C. Bradbury has an interesting study on how older umpires are more likely to have a larger or smaller strike zone. Bradbury ran a regression, to predict an umpire's season strikeout-to-walk ratio based on his age and who he is. He found ...

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4 days ago by Lexiphane

The New York Yankees win their 27th World Series with a Game 6 victory over the Philadelphia Phillies. Congratulations to the New York Yankees on winning the organization’s 27th World Championship last night with a 4 games to 3 victory over the defending champion Philadelphia Phillies. There’s not a ...

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4 days ago by Charlie Pratt

The New York Yankees just won the World Series. This isn’t exactly a new phrase I’m uttering. It’s been uttered twenty-six times before. Well, it’s been uttered a lot more than that. Let’s be honest, there’s been a lot of utterin’ in New York. I’m a huge fan of baseball. I’m an Atlanta Braves fan sp ...

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4 days ago by functional hermit

To the umpires of this year’s World Series, could you please call balls and strikes consistently? Please? Really, I’m not kidding. You’re messing with the basic foundation of the game.

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5 days ago by Brenden

Game four of the World Series gave the Yankees a 3-1 lead in the series. It may have also changed the way the game is played. The game came to a standstill in both the first and fifth innings as the Jorge Posada met with CC Sabathia multiple times. Fourteen times to be exact. Posada and Sabathia wor ...

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6 days ago by markf

Baseball has a problem and it needs to be addressed immediately. I know among baseball people this is unpopular, but I don’t care about baseball people right now. I know human error has and always will be apart of the game, but sometimes, humans really screw up. Even with the limited use of instant ...

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6 days ago by Sreelata

This may not be a revenge series per se. But Smith is not in a forgiving mood and he believes, neither are the South African crowds. Graeme Smith, the South African captain, has thrown the gauntlet to Andrew Strauss, the England captain, to handle the last bit of unpleasantness he left behind from t ...

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7 days ago by functional hermit

In my opinion, the umpires are really messing with this year’s baseball playoffs. Many of the mistakes have been well publicized so there’s no real reason to rehash them all here. But my biggest problem with all this is the inconsistency with which they call balls and strikes. The exact same pitch w ...

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8 days ago by Steve Scott

Calls for instant replay in baseball continue. Numerous instances of bad calls in the playoffs are highlighted with greater fervor and scrutinized with greater technology. I'm not going to address instant replay here, but rather focus on the quality of umpiring. I'm not as concerned with bang-bang c ...

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8 days ago by maxwell

FILADELFIA, EU.- (Informador)Ayudados con el video en un jonrón de Alex Rodríguez y otra apertura eficaz de Andy Pettite, los Yankees de Nueva York vinieron de atrás para vencer el sábado 8-5 a los Filis de Filadelfia para quedar a mitad de camino en su empeño de conquistar su primera Serie Mundial ...

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