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    Phil Wood: It’s time for baseball to use technology to make sure umps get it right

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    posted 19 hours ago by Repoz to nats  |  8 comment(s)

    Phil Wood’s still honking…who knew?

    This brings us back to balls and strikes, and the case of minor league ump—and big league fill-in—John Tumpane.

    Tumpane was behind the plate May 12 when the Nationals played the Cubs.

    Tumpane is a Triple-A guy who’s called up when a regular ump has a day off. He started getting major league assignments in 2010 when he was only 27 and apparently believes that close enough is good enough.

    When a pitch is so far off the plate that the catcher makes no ...

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    1. Flynn posted on July 01, 2012 at 10:02 AM #  hit 0 | hit 0

    Sounds to me like the San Diego kid got taught an unpleasant lesson in how vital it is to stay hydrated in humid weather. Bet we see him with a water bottle in the dugout a lot more this summer.
    2. Steve Parris, Je t'aime posted on July 01, 2012 at 10:30 AM #  hit 0 | hit 0

    This Strasburg fellow sounds like a weird wuss.
    3. MC Skat Kat, Weltmeister in Schach Und Boxen posted on July 01, 2012 at 10:41 AM #  hit 0 | hit 0

    It's not Strasburg's fault Atlanta isn't fit for human habitation for several months a year.
    4. gef the talking mongoose posted on July 01, 2012 at 11:14 AM #  hit 0 | hit 0

    Obviously, he should've gone with a sundress.
    5. Randy Jones  posted on July 01, 2012 at 11:24 AM #  hit 0 | hit 0

    Has anyone asked Dusty Baker for his opinion on this?
    6. Dan Szymborski  posted on July 01, 2012 at 12:07 PM #  hit 0 | hit 0

    The use of succumb made me think Strasburg died, which I would think would be a bigger story.
    7. boteman posted on July 01, 2012 at 12:22 PM #  hit 0 | hit 0

    Having spent 3 miserable months in San Diego, I learned that the weather is the opposite of the paradise portrayed by its Chamber of Horrors Commerce. It's cool, dank, gloomy, windy, and generally the opposite of Atlanta in the dead of Summer.

    Besides, it's not Strasburg's fault that they're treating him like noted delicate flower John Patterson. They're just protecting their investment. And keeping his insurance premiums low. That's Allstate's stand, what's yours, Jobu?
    8. Tom Nawrocki posted on July 01, 2012 at 12:25 PM #  hit 0 | hit 0

    It's been at least 100 degrees in Denver every day for a week now, but you haven't seen any of the Rockies pitchers have to come out of the game after three innings.... OK, lots of them have come out after three innings, but not because of the heat.
    9. Esoteric throws a 'hard slider' posted on July 01, 2012 at 12:55 PM #  hit 0 | hit 0

    It's been at least 100 degrees in Denver every day for a week now, but you haven't seen any of the Rockies pitchers have to come out of the game after three innings.... OK, lots of them have come out after three innings, but not because of the heat.
    Statements like this make me think that you don't comprehend the difference between 100 degree heat in the Rocky Mountains versus 100 degree heat in Atlanta or Washington, DC. The latter-named are two of the three most inhospitable major cities in America during the summer -- the other one is Houston -- and it's because it doesn't just get HOT, it gets insanely humid as well. It's difference between feeling like you've walked into an oven when you step outside (i.e. hot, but a dry heat) and feeling like you're being waterboarded with soaking wet 104 degree towels. Until you've lived through a DC summer, you simply don't know what you're talking about. This whole region (from NoVA all the way up to Baltimore) used to be one massive Everglades-sized swamp before we drained it and developed it -- and it still retains those weather characteristics to this day.

    But maybe I'm just grumpy because I have no power at home (Montgomery County, MD suburbs of DC) and now it's looking like I might not for AN ENTIRE WEEK. IN THE MIDDLE OF A RECORD HEAT WAVE.
    10. Rickey Fredonia Fudge Duckery Precious Twiddle posted on July 01, 2012 at 12:59 PM #  hit 0 | hit 0

    All ######## aside, I've been working outside on some projects yesterday and today and it is *brutal* out there. Just ungodly hot. It's not even really humid by Atlanta standards, but the heat is extreme even for us. I'm shocked that MLB and/or the Braves didn't move today's 12:35 game to 7:35 or 8:00.
    11. Rickey Fredonia Fudge Duckery Precious Twiddle posted on July 01, 2012 at 01:04 PM #  hit 0 | hit 0

    To Esoteric's point, I was washing down the outside of my house today, and I sprayed cold water from the hose up to the metal awning, it dripped back down *the temp of hot shower water.*
    12. Tom Nawrocki posted on July 01, 2012 at 01:13 PM #  hit 0 | hit 0

    Until you've lived through a DC summer, you simply don't know what you're talking about.


    I lived in Louisiana for five summers, so I think I know what I'm talking about. But if I ever want to talk about the weather in Colorado again, I'll be sure to check with you first.
    13. gef the talking mongoose posted on July 01, 2012 at 01:18 PM #  hit 0 | hit 0

    I've lived in Phoenix & I've lived in New Orleans (well, across Pontchartrain), & where I am now -- Montgomery, Ala. -- is very comparable to Atlanta. Humidity definitely adds its own special hellishness, but at a certain point -- 100 or so -- hot is hot, pretty much.
    14. Esoteric throws a 'hard slider' posted on July 01, 2012 at 01:18 PM #  hit 0 | hit 0

    I lived in Louisiana for five summers, so I think I know what I'm talking about. But if I ever want to talk about the weather in Colorado again, I'll be sure to check with you first.
    Louisiana summers are bad, but not quite as hot and humid as Atlanta and DC. And I have experience with all three, as well as Colorado summers (where it rarely gets to 100 degrees in Denver at any time throughout the year.)
    15. Justin T is expanding the aperture of awareness posted on July 01, 2012 at 01:29 PM #  hit 0 | hit 0

    Shut up you assclown.
    16. Esoteric throws a 'hard slider' posted on July 01, 2012 at 01:42 PM #  hit 0 | hit 0

    Shut up you assclown.
    WTF is this about? It's hot. I have no power. Maybe for a week. All the hotels are booked. All the gas is sold out. I'm in a crappy mood, but I'm not calling people names.
    17. Joe Bivens, Minor Genius posted on July 01, 2012 at 01:43 PM #  hit 0 | hit 0

    What kind of imbecile doesn't know enough to pound the ice water when it's hot and humid? Where's the team trainer? Whether he would have lasted a couple more innings or not, he has to either take precautions or be told to take precautions.
    18. The District Attorney posted on July 01, 2012 at 01:45 PM #  hit 0 | hit 0

    WTF is this about?
    That's an assclown question, bro.
    19. Joe Bivens, Minor Genius posted on July 01, 2012 at 01:46 PM #  hit 0 | hit 0

    Some baseball book (maybe "Ball Four") talked about enduring heat and humidity while playing in the minors. They'd strip the bed down to the sheet, soak the topsheet in cold water, and cover themselves with it and have a fan blowing on them. (Not a groupie, an electric fan, ASSCLOWNS.)
    20. bunyon posted on July 01, 2012 at 01:53 PM #  hit 0 | hit 0

    Dad tells stories of the old metal spikes with little padding wear they'd take the shoes off between innings because the spikes got hot enough to burn their feet.

    The flip side of Eso's warning is that lots of easterners go west and suffer heat stroke because they don't FEEL hot. The fact that sweat evaporates and they aren't a sweaty mess makes them think it isn't that hot, so why go inside.

    But I will second Rickey (why in hell is Sam calling himself Rickey?); it feels terrible out there. I worked in the yard for a couple of hours, not at peak heat and felt awful.


    And also to second Joe. How does that happen? You can only get dehydrated with the resources at his command by being an idiot.
    21. Swedish Chef posted on July 01, 2012 at 01:53 PM #  hit 0 | hit 0

    (Not a groupie, an electric fan, ASSCLOWNS.)

    So there's one point where their plan could be improved on.
    22. gef the talking mongoose posted on July 01, 2012 at 02:00 PM #  hit 0 | hit 0

    What kind of imbecile doesn't know enough to pound the ice water when it's hot and humid? Where's the team trainer? Whether he would have lasted a couple more innings or not, he has to either take precautions or be told to take precautions.


    Thirding this. I mean, Little Miss Strasburg plays in D.C. to begin with (which I'm assured from this thread is pretty much the absolute pit of hell in the summertime), not ####### Nome, Alaska.
    23. Crispix Attacks 2: Swag Airlines posted on July 01, 2012 at 02:00 PM #  hit 0 | hit 0

    I lived in Louisiana for five summers, so I think I know what I'm talking about. But if I ever want to talk about the weather in Colorado again, I'll be sure to check with you first.

    Check with the possibility of other factors than simple temperature, at least.
    24. Rickey Fredonia Fudge Duckery Precious Twiddle posted on July 01, 2012 at 02:02 PM #  hit 0 | hit 0

    (why in hell is Sam calling himself Rickey?)


    This is Rickey calling on behalf of Rickey. Rickey want's to play baseball.
    25. Swedish Chef posted on July 01, 2012 at 02:07 PM #  hit 0 | hit 0

    Meanwhile, summer in Sweden has been a total bust so far (but I think the temperature actually dared to inch its way above 20 C today) and I have a cold.
    26. Fernigal McGunnigle has become a merry hat posted on July 01, 2012 at 02:18 PM #  hit 0 | hit 0

    I don't know if this is in the TFA, but yesterday's 106 was the highest temperature ever recorded in Atlanta. Not the highest June 30 temperature, the highest temp of any day in a place that's generally hot and miserable.
    27. The Clarence Thomas of BBTF (scott) posted on July 01, 2012 at 02:29 PM #  hit 0 | hit 0

    I'd say this is more the team trainers fault than anything else, given that this is Strasburg's first summer in DC and he grew up in ParadiseSan Diego. And having been to both Arizona and DC during heat waves, there really is something to be said for both Esoteric's and Bunyon's comments. It is ####### painful to be in old government buildings without airconditioning in a suit. I can't imagine being outside doing something athletic in it.

    eta: It's over 100 in Pierre, SD? Geez. We need to let more Canadian air immigrate.
    28. Esoteric throws a 'hard slider' posted on July 01, 2012 at 02:34 PM #  hit 0 | hit 0

    eta: It's over 100 in Pierre, SD? Geez. We need to let more Canadian air immigrate.
    We tried, but unfortunately the BREEZE Act has been stalled in the Senate since 2010. The powerful Humidity Lobby has friends on both sides of the aisle due to its longstanding institutional presence in Washington as a regional powerbroker.
    29. James Newburg is in awe of Cespedes' CORE STRENGTH posted on July 01, 2012 at 02:41 PM #  hit 0 | hit 0

    Big Humidity is always screwing things up.
    30. yb125 posted on July 01, 2012 at 04:00 PM #  hit 0 | hit 0

    I'd say this is more the team trainers fault than anything else, given that this is Strasburg's first summer in DC and he grew up in ParadiseSan Diego.


    If this was really just an issue of not drinking enough fluids it's really weird, I've lived in San Diego all my life and while our heat is dry and not that high (depending on what part of SD) every athlete knows to pound the fluids, especially while in the sun. I assume he has been to other places outside San Diego county, traveling for games,camping in Anza Borrego or Joshua Tree? Even if not you'd think that trainers remind them constantly to take in fluids.
    31. Srul Itza At Home posted on July 01, 2012 at 04:21 PM #  hit 0 | hit 0

    So you're saying it gets really hot on the Mainland in the summer, after being really cold in the Winter?

    That just doesn't seem fair.

    EDIT: And San Diego is not Paradise. That's a couple thousand miles (and change) WSW.
    32. AJM posted on July 01, 2012 at 04:29 PM #  hit 0 | hit 0

    I learned that the weather is the opposite of the paradise portrayed by its Chamber of Horrors Commerce. It's cool, dank, gloomy, windy, and generally the opposite of Atlanta in the dead of Summer.

    Sounds perfect to me.
    33. Fenderbelly is a leaf on the wind posted on July 01, 2012 at 04:33 PM #  hit 0 | hit 0

    Having spent 3 miserable months in San Diego, I learned that the weather is the opposite of the paradise portrayed by its Chamber of Horrors Commerce. It's cool, dank, gloomy, windy, and generally the opposite of Atlanta in the dead of Summer.


    Ha! June gloomed! It's always amusing to see the beaches crowded in early June as people come to San Diego on summer vacation... Nooooooooooope. 68 and foggy, #######. Try again in September. (Also, the ocean is freezing cold in June. Again - try September.)

    As to the southern heat and humidity... I lived in Houston for a while. The difference between that heat and (for example) Arizona is that you can not go outside without sweating. Literally not possible. You can step outside your door and immediately sit in a chair in the shade (with a cooling beverage) - you will still sweat your ass off.

    edit - i want to declare my support for Rickey being constitutional as ####.
    34. Joey B. has ignited his October #Natitude posted on July 01, 2012 at 05:12 PM #  hit 0 | hit 0

    On the plus side, we shoved another giant foam rubber tomahawk up Atlanta's ass today, and now lead the season series 6-2, with six of the eight games having been played in Atlanta.
    35. Poster Nutbag posted on July 01, 2012 at 05:15 PM #  hit 0 | hit 0

    And San Diego is not Paradise. That's a couple thousand miles (and change) WSW.


    Nope. Paradise, Ca is exactly 588.34 miles away, heading mostly N. ;-)
    36. DA Baracus is gritty and hits with RISP posted on July 01, 2012 at 05:25 PM #  hit 0 | hit 0

    Statements like this make me think that you don't comprehend the difference between 100 degree heat in the Rocky Mountains versus 100 degree heat in Atlanta or Washington, DC. The latter-named are two of the three most inhospitable major cities in America during the summer -- the other one is Houston -- and it's because it doesn't just get HOT, it gets insanely humid as well.


    Yeah but it hasn't been humid this weekend. It's been southwest hot, not southeast hot.
    37. The Clarence Thomas of BBTF (scott) posted on July 01, 2012 at 05:33 PM #  hit 0 | hit 0

    So you're saying it gets really hot on the Mainland in the summer, after being really cold in the Winter?


    Well, record breaking heat is, by definition, hotter than ever before. And IIRC this winter was pretty warm, at least here in the northeast.
    38. Rafael Bellylard: Built like a Fielder posted on July 01, 2012 at 05:45 PM #  hit 0 | hit 0

    Nope. Paradise, Ca is exactly 588.34 miles away, heading mostly N. ;-)


    And the people who live there will tell you it's aptly named. Constantly and without interruption.
    39. The Clarence Thomas of BBTF (scott) posted on July 01, 2012 at 05:52 PM #  hit 0 | hit 0

    Actually, to correct myself before someone else does. Record breaking heat is hotter than ever RECORDED before.
    40. gef the talking mongoose posted on July 01, 2012 at 07:40 PM #  hit 0 | hit 0

    Actually, to correct myself before someone else does. Record breaking heat is hotter than ever RECORDED before.


    Steroids!
    41. Yeaarrgghhhh posted on July 01, 2012 at 07:46 PM #  hit 0 | hit 0

    The heat in DC is freakish. I've never seen weather like this. But I just got my power back!
    42. Monty posted on July 01, 2012 at 08:00 PM #  hit 0 | hit 0

    Record breaking heat is hotter than ever RECORDED before.


    Homer: Oh Lisa! There's no record of a hurricane ever hitting Springfield.

    Lisa: Yes, but the records only go back to 1978 when the Hall of Records was mysteriously blown away!
    43. Kurt posted on July 01, 2012 at 08:04 PM #  hit 0 | hit 0

    An article in Saturday's Washington Post claimed that one of the golfers at Congressional needed medical attention during Friday's round, despite drinking twenty five bottles of water.
    44. The Clarence Thomas of BBTF (scott) posted on July 01, 2012 at 08:09 PM #  hit 0 | hit 0

    An article in Saturday's Washington Post claimed that one of the golfers at Congressional needed medical attention during Friday's round, despite drinking twenty five bottles of water.


    For water intoxication?
    45. Misirlou is bad, he's nationwide posted on July 01, 2012 at 08:11 PM #  hit 0 | hit 0

    An article in Saturday's Washington Post claimed that one of the golfers at Congressional needed medical attention during Friday's round, despite drinking twenty five bottles of water.


    Well, that would do it.
    46. Kurt posted on July 01, 2012 at 08:18 PM #  hit 0 | hit 0

    For water intoxication?

    Possibly. "Despite" was the article's characterization, not mine.
    47. Tom Nawrocki posted on July 01, 2012 at 08:46 PM #  hit 0 | hit 0

    And I have experience with all three, as well as Colorado summers (where it rarely gets to 100 degrees in Denver at any time throughout the year.)


    Hey, that's great to know. I guess it wasn't really 100 degrees five straight days last week.
    48. zack posted on July 01, 2012 at 08:46 PM #  hit 0 | hit 0

    To anyone calling Strasburg a wuss, he was about to walk onto the field when the trainer blocked his path, and you could clearly see him mouth "what the ####?". So I don't think it was his decision. The Nats are babying him.
    49. bunyon posted on July 01, 2012 at 09:02 PM #  hit 0 | hit 0

    Zack, that does change things. If you're going to put him on a season innings limit, a freakishly hot afternoon when he clearly doesn't have his A game is probably a good time to pull him.
    50. The Clarence Thomas of BBTF (scott) posted on July 01, 2012 at 09:04 PM #  hit 0 | hit 0

    47: From your link, the new record average temperature for June in Denver is now 74.8 degrees. The normal average temperature for DC is higher than that. That's not saying Denver isn't really hot right now and having a serious heat wave, but even that record breaking June would have lowered the average in DC. And that's ignoring the humidity.

    eta: there were 9 days above 90 in Denver in June, that's a touch above your average June in Washington.

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