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Originally Posted by brian1975
Did you see the play where they got albert at home plate after that ground out. the announcers are what is making these series terrible. tim and joe were going on and on about how saying the houston 3rd basemen was trying to call time out, but cleary he was signalling to the umpire that albert had ran inside the base path. which was clear that he should have been out anyway without the throw coming home. good heads up play by walker though.
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No doubt. Between Bob Brenly and Steve Lyon, I just don't know how they have time to call the game between all subdued Cardinal bashing. I think Ol' Steve might have messed himself the other day when Roger Clemens came in to pitch. It's just nauseating.
The officiating in all the playoff series so far has just been so bad. Not just the really big plays like the Angels-ChiSox incident, but just the normal everyday stuff like an inconsistent strike zone.
Here's my opinion on the whole ejection thing. How many times have we seen La Russa come out to argue balls and strikes? How many times has he been ejected this year? I could be wrong, but not too many as far as I know, which says something very important to me. How bad or inconsistent does your ball calling have to be to get Tony La Russa to say something about it on the field?
The Edmonds thing was a joke. It's the playoffs, it was such an obviously blown call, it's no wonder Edmonds is going to get a little upset. He voiced his opinion. He wasn't kicking shit at the ump, he wasn't in his face yelling. Seemed to me like a very casual conversation that lasted only a minute. In fact, Edmonds was reaching for his bat when Cuzzi threw him out.
I pray that the Cardinals at least make this a decent series. I'd like them to win, but that's a long shot. I just hope they give the Astros a helluva time trying to win four. I hope that when Saturday rolls around, the Astros are so fucking tired the ChiSox just stomp all over them.