Thursday, October 18, 2012
Monday, October 15, 2012
Addendum to my previous post:
Joe Girardi might as well shut the hell up as well.
Has he forgotten that there's a digital trail of all of this stuff? I agreed with him at the time, for what it's worth. Baseball is not football. Perhaps it's logical to replay the missed homerun calls and whatnot, but the umpires have always been a part of the game. Unless you want to do away with them entirely, you're just going to have to deal with a bad call from time to time. (We know a thing or two about blown calls here in Detroit, of course.)
So a play that was obviously a double by Joe Mauer, in the 11th inning, of a tie game, wasn't cause to call for replay. Got it? But a flukey play where Omar Infante overran second base and then slipped on his way back, during regulation, in a game that the Tigers were already winning, a game in which the Yankees scored a grand total of zero runs, is cause to call for replay. Got it?
So here's the deal - just shut up.
If you manage to dig your way out of this hole - down 0-2 and sending Phil Hughes out to face Justin Verlander tomorrow - people will be singing your praises for years to come. If you don't, then you'll be on the hot seat just like every other New York coach who fails to finish the job. In neither case will that play at second base have made the difference. Robinson Cano and Alex Rodriguez combining to bat .100 (or whatever it is) will have been the reason you lost. Or [insert hero here] going on a hot streak and beating up Tigers pitching will have been the reason you won.
Has he forgotten that there's a digital trail of all of this stuff? I agreed with him at the time, for what it's worth. Baseball is not football. Perhaps it's logical to replay the missed homerun calls and whatnot, but the umpires have always been a part of the game. Unless you want to do away with them entirely, you're just going to have to deal with a bad call from time to time. (We know a thing or two about blown calls here in Detroit, of course.)
So a play that was obviously a double by Joe Mauer, in the 11th inning, of a tie game, wasn't cause to call for replay. Got it? But a flukey play where Omar Infante overran second base and then slipped on his way back, during regulation, in a game that the Tigers were already winning, a game in which the Yankees scored a grand total of zero runs, is cause to call for replay. Got it?
So here's the deal - just shut up.
If you manage to dig your way out of this hole - down 0-2 and sending Phil Hughes out to face Justin Verlander tomorrow - people will be singing your praises for years to come. If you don't, then you'll be on the hot seat just like every other New York coach who fails to finish the job. In neither case will that play at second base have made the difference. Robinson Cano and Alex Rodriguez combining to bat .100 (or whatever it is) will have been the reason you lost. Or [insert hero here] going on a hot streak and beating up Tigers pitching will have been the reason you won.
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