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Series 32: Royals at Jays

Pretty good example of why MLB should implement the Hawkeye system used in tennis for calling balls and strikes.
I'm sick and tired of some of these arrogant ass umpires, people pay good money to watch the players, not these clowns!

I'm just proud of the guys for overcoming all that and winning the series against the defending A.L. champs!
If they can do the same vs. the Twins it should be enough to slip into the 2nd wildcard spot.
 
Captain Canuck said:
Pretty good example of why MLB should implement the Hawkeye system used in tennis for calling balls and strikes.
I'm sick and tired of some of these arrogant ass umpires, people pay good money to watch the players, not these clowns!
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Today's display was utterly disgraceful. It's getting harder and harder for me to watch baseball with these clowns flexing their massive egos all over the field.

Wolf couldn't wait to ring up Donaldson on that one. You could see it all over his face.



 
Bender said:
L K said:
Wolf is one big gigantic piece of garbage.  Donaldson gets hit in the 1st inning.  He calls a warning on both teams.  Tulowitzski gets hit on the wrist in the 8th and then a pitch gets thrown at Donaldson's head (got away from Madsen).  Gibbons gets thrown out.

Bottom of the 8th, Sanchez throws a pitch down the middle of the plate that Wolf calls a ball.  Next pitch gets away from him and Wolf throws him out.  Absolute bush league.
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I was at that game. That umpire has no idea what he's doing to keep order in the game. He didn't toss one Royal when we had far more players either hit by pitches or almost hit by pitches. He throws out Sanchez on intent, but why was there no intent on the Royals pitchers? Cheap moves by a cheap team with horrible calls by the umpire to match. I booed half the game.
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Couldn't quite believe Sanchez was given the heave-ho, considering the fact that neither Royal Volquez nor Madson was turfed.  Do these umpires hate the Jays?
 
Captain Canuck said:
Pretty good example of why MLB should implement the Hawkeye system used in tennis for calling balls and strikes.
I'm sick and tired of some of these arrogant ass umpires, people pay good money to watch the players, not these clowns!

I'm just proud of the guys for overcoming all that and winning the series against the defending A.L. champs!
If they can do the same vs. the Twins it should be enough to slip into the 2nd wildcard spot.
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I don't know, I feel the opposite. Wolf was horrible, but it made the game that much more entertaining. Of course, the Jays still won so that helped.
 
I guess the Royals are made up of a bunch of gangbangers?

6. Yordano Ventura on the mound, though his performance Sunday afternoon on Twitter was far more impressive than anything he did the day before with his right arm.

Some context: The Royals' reputation as a team that likes to scrap begins with Ventura, and after Kansas City pitchers hit a pair of batters and brushed back Donaldson with fastballs twice Sunday, Sanchez hit Alcides Escobar in the knee and was ejected. After the game, both sides popped off, which prompted Jose Bautista to say on Twitter he lost respect for Yost, which prompted Ventura to fire off three tweets he deleted soon thereafter.

In those tweets, according to two people who read and translated them, Ventura said to Bautista: "We'll meet again later and if you do that with me, you'll see what I'm about. I don't care about anybody. I used to respect you, but you're a nobody. ? You got lucky this time, but MLB doesn't get canceled after this season. Keep running your mouth. ? You need to stop giving signs. You're gonna get it from me for being fresh and you really are a nobody."

So, not only did Ventura call a six-time All-Star a nobody ? twice ? he accused the Blue Jays of tipping pitches to their teammates, which brought back memories of The Man In White. After Ventura wiped the tweets away, he tweeted: "I take responsibility for my words. I'm not scared." And that was that, classic Ventura, audacious and over the top, about as incapable of controlling his emotions as he is his 100-mph fastball, so full of potential but so far from fully grasping it. Sounds a lot like ...
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Source: http://sports.yahoo.com/news/10-degrees--the-mets-are-on-fire-and-trying-to-validate-themselves--like-so-many-others-064151636-mlb.html
 
A few Jays might face suspensions out of this whole side-show too.

Gibbons - Came onto the field after being ejected
Colabello - Came onto the field after being removed from play
Travis - Came onto the field while on the DL
Sanchez - Because he's the only one who hit someone intentionally (lol...Yost).
 
Nothing brings a team together quite like injustice from an oppressive governing body. Cue the conspiracy theories that the league never wants to see the Jays in the playoffs again because no one would watch the Worls
Series.

Devon Travis was also in the mix and he's supposed to be on the DL.
 
It's like how the Orioles can continually throw at Bautista and hit him, but Stroman gets suspended for almost hitting someone. There's enough evidence over the past few years to support the belief that the league has some kind of weird vendetta against the Jays. I mean, this stuff just keeps happening to them.

As far as tipping pitches goes, it's not against the rules and if your signs are that easy to read, maybe you need new ones? Like, heaven forbid the other team actually makes you work...
 
L K said:
A few Jays might face suspensions out of this whole side-show too.

Gibbons - Came onto the field after being ejected
Colabello - Came onto the field after being removed from play
Travis - Came onto the field while on the DL
Sanchez - Because he's the only one who hit someone intentionally (lol...Yost).
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Gibbons will probably get suspended. You're not supposed to leave the clubhouse area if you're ejected. Colabello and Travis probably only get fines. There's no rule against them being on the bench in their situations, and it can't be reasonably expected of them to stay behind when something like that breaks out.
 
Captain Canuck said:
Anyone catch the Gregg Zaun piece on Yordano Ventura? It was highly entertaining.

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Bautista had a more measured (and encouraging) response to Ventura; Ventura cooled down and issued an apology. I was very impressed with the way Jose handled himself (and his teammates) this series.
 
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