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Saturday, May 18, 2013

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

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posted 11 hours ago by Repoz to nats | 6 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. boteman posted on September 24, 2012 at 02:00 PM # hit 0 | hit 0

Well, he did make a really good brisket sandwich, so there's that legacy.

2. Joey B. has ignited his October #Natitude posted on September 24, 2012 at 03:24 PM # hit 0 | hit 0

Here you had the Dodgers, one of baseball's marquis franchises

Jason Marquis or the Marquis de Sade?

3. TerpNats posted on September 24, 2012 at 04:30 PM # hit 0 | hit 0

Under the McCourts, the Marquis Chimps.

4. Joey B. has ignited his October #Natitude posted on September 24, 2012 at 04:36 PM # hit 0 | hit 0

Natties clobber the Brewers, dropping our magic number down to 5 with just 9 games left in the season!

5. jingoist posted on September 24, 2012 at 06:09 PM # hit 0 | hit 0

"Ain't the beer cold!"

6. fra paolo posted on September 24, 2012 at 07:57 PM # hit 0 | hit 0

Here is the 2006 thread about the Nationals hiring Rizzo. There were but three comments, taking a favourable tone.

7. Walt Davis posted on September 24, 2012 at 09:03 PM # hit 0 | hit 0

They should toast Kasten as well

Why? Was it his idea to shut down Strasburg? Cuz that was clearly the key to the Nats' success.

:-)

8. ...and Toronto selects: Troy Tulowitzki posted on September 25, 2012 at 04:34 AM # hit 0 | hit 0

Here is the 2006 thread about the Nationals hiring Rizzo. There were but three comments, taking a favourable tone.

Is this a surprise? At that time, I recall there being 3 Diamondback Primer fans, and zero National fans.

9. Joey B. has ignited his October #Natitude posted on September 25, 2012 at 11:32 AM # hit 0 | hit 0

Manny Acta should get his share of the credit as well for being such a totally horrendous manager and helping to put us in position to draft Strasburg and Harper.

10. AROM posted on September 25, 2012 at 12:23 PM # hit 0 | hit 0

Manny Acta should get his share of the credit as well for being such a totally horrendous manager and helping to put us in position to draft Strasburg and Harper.

Jim Bowden did more to get those two picks than anyone else.

11. AROM posted on September 25, 2012 at 12:28 PM # hit 0 | hit 0

Looking at those 3 comments from 2006, 2 are from the perspective of Met's fans, wondering if this hire will threaten their reign atop the NL East. My, how quickly things can change. It was a different world in Mets land, a few months before Adam Wainwright released that curveball to Carlos Beltran.

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