10-21-2009, 02:29 AM
I say this as a Twins fan, who now, faced with cheering for NY or LA, favors NY. Maybe it's just a bad night, but what's with the umps tonight? That NY player was _clearly_ picked off second in the fouth, and the LA catcher catcher _clearly_ tagged both NY players standing around third in the fifth for a double play.
I suppose the subsequent missed call on the NY player who "left third base early" in the fourth might have been an effort to even things up. And it turned out that the miss of the double play at third didn't ultimately have an effect on the score. But geez!
Actually, what really flummoxed me most of all was the way the Fox announcers went on and on and on about the bad "left base too early call" in the fourth, when they'd given short shrift to the missed second-base pickoff call, on the same player just a few minutes before! He shoulda been out then, the refs made up for it by missing the call the other way. But to the announcers, the first call was a miss - oh well - while the second was a crime against humanity.
Maybe I'm perceiving bias inappropriately, but even as someone pulling (somewhat) for NY, it seems like these announcers are there to sing the praises of the Yanks as they go about inevitably beating that other team out there.
I suppose the subsequent missed call on the NY player who "left third base early" in the fourth might have been an effort to even things up. And it turned out that the miss of the double play at third didn't ultimately have an effect on the score. But geez!
Actually, what really flummoxed me most of all was the way the Fox announcers went on and on and on about the bad "left base too early call" in the fourth, when they'd given short shrift to the missed second-base pickoff call, on the same player just a few minutes before! He shoulda been out then, the refs made up for it by missing the call the other way. But to the announcers, the first call was a miss - oh well - while the second was a crime against humanity.
Maybe I'm perceiving bias inappropriately, but even as someone pulling (somewhat) for NY, it seems like these announcers are there to sing the praises of the Yanks as they go about inevitably beating that other team out there.
