The Tigers delayed the inevitable, and the Cards-Brewers series is tied. That's pretty much the wrap up from last night. In personal news, my DVR is threatening my marital harmony. My idea the entire day was to watch a few innings of the NL game, then watch X Factor with Kristine, and then catch the end of the game after that's done. The idea of watching X Factor in the middle was so it had some time to record and we could skip most, if not all, the commercials. For some reason, for the second time in a row, it did not record. Of course, it recorded Wednesday, when the show was bumped thanks to a rain delay in Detroit. Now I've got an upset wife who is pretty resentful towards baseball, just about in time for the World Series to roll around. I'm pretty sure that's going to put a damper on the start of the hockey season. But, sacrifices must be made. With the home front in this state, it's kind of hard to come up with good, creative blog posts. Especially centering around baseball. I feel kind of guilty writing about it when she's upset about me watching it so much. I think I need to get a job as a sportswriter so I have a good excuse to watch the games. As it stands, though, I'll just leave on this note. To the announcers (mostly because I'm not positive who was saying it): don't continue to argue a point when the blatant proof against you is staring you right in the face. Here is the video in question. I haven't heard the audio on this particular clip, so I'm not sure if this is exactly the same point in the game that I'm complaining about, but somebody keeps on and keeps on arguing that time wasn't given before the third base umpire disallowed a pitch because Octavio Dotel never came out of the stretch. When it was pretty clear here that the three umpires we can see on this clip all signaled for time. That was what was on the screen while one of the announcers (I think Darling, but I'm not 100%) kept insisting no time was called. At that point, it's time to concede that, awkward or not, the umpires might have gotten that one right. Comments are closed.
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