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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 6 days 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. JE (Jason Epstein)

posted on February 09, 2013 at 01:05 PM # hit 0 | hit 0

DeRosa took several teammates under his wing, kept things loose with his karaoke machine and sharp wit and even helped inspire the Nationals to victory in Game 4 of the NLDS after reading a passage from Teddy Roosevelt’s “The Man in the Arena” speech.

Gee, I wonder what he read before Game 5?

2. McCoy Wilfong for Money posted on February 09, 2013 at 01:29 PM # hit 0 | hit 0

A Secret Garden.

3. Walt Davis posted on February 09, 2013 at 05:14 PM # hit 0 | hit 0

Ich bin ein Berliner

4. OsunaSakata posted on February 09, 2013 at 06:07 PM # hit 0 | hit 0

Fifty Shades of Grey.

5. Double-Spin Mechanic posted on February 09, 2013 at 06:38 PM # hit 0 | hit 0

"Tales of tanking a season by limiting your star pitcher's innings in the least intelligent way possible."

Big hit in Washington, I hear.

6. Dan posted on February 10, 2013 at 05:45 PM # hit 0 | hit 0

"Tales of tanking a season by limiting your star pitcher's innings in the least intelligent way possible."

If winning 98 games constitutes "tanking a season", then I'm guessing 29 other clubs in baseball will be looking to tank their seasons in 2013.

7. McCoy Wilfong for Money posted on February 10, 2013 at 06:15 PM # hit 0 | hit 0

If winning 98 games constitutes "tanking a season", then I'm guessing 29 other clubs in baseball will be looking to tank their seasons in 2013.

How many games did the 1919 White Sox win? Were a lot of teams looking do the same thing in 1920? Well, besides the White Sox that is.

8. BourbonSamurai, vassal of the Harpsburg Empire posted on February 10, 2013 at 07:15 PM # hit 0 | hit 0

How many games did the 1919 White Sox win? Were a lot of teams looking do the same thing in 1920? Well, besides the White Sox that is.

I dunno. How much do you think Mike Rizzo got from the Russian mob?

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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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