beyondtheboxscore.com - 7/4/2009
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Today, I am not very happy. I'm not happy because my team, the Milwaukee Brewers , lost a game to the Chicago Cubs , our hated rivals, on a walk-off walk. I'm not happy, because my team lost on this pitch, ball 4 to Jake Fox .
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thefriendlyblogfines.com - 7/3/2009
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thefriendlyblogfines.com —
Live blogging the Cubs-Brewers game today. Carlos Zambrano
vs. Jeff Suppan at Wrigley Field. Cubs are 2.5
games behind the Brewers in the NL Central.
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Live Blog: Cubs vs. Brewers 7/3/09
i94sports.com - 7/2/2009
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i94sports.com —
The Milwaukee Brewers and Chicago Cubs will begin
a four game set tonight at Wrigley Field with
the Cubs will looking to gain some ground on the division leading Brewers and Milwaukee trying to push Chicago further back in the standings. Currently the Cubs sit 3.5 games behind in the Central, ...
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NL Central’s wild first half finish starts with Cubs-Brewers
i94sports.com - 7/6/2009
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i94sports.com —
The Cubs entered Sunday with a chance to
take three of four games from the once first
place Milwaukee Brewers, and with Ted Lilly taking the mound, there was good reason to be optimistic. If that wasn’t enough for Cubs fans, they only needed to look to Lilly’s opponent, Mike Burns. ...
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Cubs-Brewers aftermath
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The Walk off Walk that Wasn’t
baseballmusings.com —
Beyond the Boxscore examines the PitchFX data for the Brewers/Cubs game and finds the final pitch was not a ball. I was listening to the game on my phone as I drove home and Brewers catcher was very upset with the call.
The author calls for PitchFX to take over behind the plate:
This is objectivity. The cameras that PitchFX uses don’t blink. They don’t get crossed up by a curveball. They don’t open up the zone on 3-0. They don’t give the outside pitch against left handed batters when they won’t give the same ...
Baseball Before Bedtime: Crazy Rhythms
Walkoff Walk —
... , but Jake Fox' two run homer had pop enough to support Ted Lilly's Kwality Start© and send the Cubs to a three-games-to-one series win. Speaking of that walkoff walk, some Brewers fans want to take the umpires' ball-and-strike calling ability away and replace them with magical robots; some used Jake Fox' questionable walk as evidence. I'd be fully in support of any technology that increased the number of walkoff walks because (a) shrimp are delicious and (b) it would increase brand recognition for Walkoff Walk©. ...
Monday's Frosty Mug
Brew Crew Ball —
... Would any of us have been that upset about this weekend's series if the Brewers had found a way to win Friday? Over at Beyond the Box Score, jhmoore looks at the call that ended the game in the tenth inning, and uses it as a launching pad for a discussion on umpire inconsistency and the alternatives. The Brewers backed themselves onto the ledge on Friday, walking Milton Bradley and Geovany Soto to load the bases, but that doesn't excuse the fact that the umpires shoved them off of it. ...
What the umpire saw
River Avenue Blues —
... While I see the merits in Beyond the Boxscore’s call to use pitch f/x to call the games, I don’t want to see the human element completely removed from the field of play. There is something to be said for having people and not computerized cameras call the game. Still, what happened on Monday and the subsequent explanations are not acceptable. Foster should have to face the press, and no team should have to put up with the explanation he gave Derek Jeter at third base today. ...
Measuring the umpire’s affect on the game
The Hardball Times —
We all know umpires make mistakes, especially when calling balls and strikes. While some people will argue that those mistakes are part of the game, there are few who are able to make a convincing argument to support that. On the other hand, the blogosphere is littered with arguments against umpires and for a computerized zone.
I'm not here to take sides (I'm actually firmly in the camp for human umpires), instead, I wanted to take a look at how much of an impact umpires actually have. First, I wanted to see how accurate ...
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