Who Is Keeping Score of the Scorekeepers

I believe I've already mentioned my love of postseason baseball. I believe I mentioned it in this very space, oh, a few hours ago. Well, I'm gonna talk about it again. At least that's one thing my detractors can't accuse me of lying about (not that it would stop them). Thanks to the wonder of Tivo and the 30-second-skip Easter egg, I don't usually watch a baseball game pitch-by-pitch unless the Giants are involved. That rule goes out the window in the postseason. Because of that, I saw the ball that Akinori Iwamura hit and Dustin Pedroia bobbled in the ninth inning. That was one of the more ridiculous scoring calls I've seen recently. One, there was no bad hop. It sounded like Buck Martinez tried to imply as much when he pointed out it hit the seam between the dirt and carpet. That simply wasn't the case. It was coming hard and did it the seam so Pedroia was probably half-expecting it to kick (I would have been), but it was a true hop. Incidentally, why does TBS run a nightmare like ... (link)