Comments on: World Series Gameday: Yankees at Phillies, Game 3

By: leoabe

leoabe — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 16:29:12 +0000

Yankees will win the final!

By: j reed

j reed — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 08:51:11 +0000

So i guess we just have to beat them….in six cause other than happ who do you go with for a game seven? Happ just doesn’t look to sharp out there, but anyone other than Hair Product Hamels just on principle at this point

By: Brian of CO

Brian of CO — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 07:21:16 +0000

An explanation we will never get, because we are playing the Yankees.

By: j reed

j reed — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 07:10:50 +0000

The issue isn’t blown calls which MLB deludes itself to think all will necesarily average out when all is said and done…[maybe in the regular season when you have an enormous sample size but not necessarily in the post season]. If what Schmidt say is true, then this a rule change not a blown call and that a whole different issue. It definitely desrves an explanation

By: j reed

j reed — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 06:51:46 +0000

Schmidt does make alot of valid points esp. about the pre-game ruling that the camera getting hit is a home run and not have it in any way officially and pubicly acknowledged in some way. This is the WS after all. We have no way to verify if Charlie knew this or not but if there isn’t any record of this ruling being made ultimately makes Charlie’s knowledge or lack of it irrelevant since they can’t prove when the rule change took place let alone if it ever did. Christ, it might techinally not be a valid game. Just some food for thought…

By: Brian of CO

Brian of CO — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 06:22:48 +0000

Maybe this is the pessimist coming out in me, but as long as the Yankees are playing, the game of baseball will NEVER be “fair and balanced”.

By: Mike Schmidt

Mike Schmidt — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 06:18:25 +0000

I’m just more about a fair and balanced game that exactly who wins and who loses. If the Phillies got that call I wouldn’t like it either, because I want to win fair and square.

They are saying it is a HR, not because it would have cleared the fence, but because they supposedly made up a rule before the game and Charlie was not aware of it. That is why Phillies fans should be upset, and that is why it is cheating.

By: Harry Kalas

Harry Kalas — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 06:14:19 +0000

Shameful for the camera to be there in the 1st place. Very arrogant as well. The blown call on the 3-2 pitch didn’t help either. And we just gained an extra hour to mull over it. Thanks Moon!

By: Mike Schmidt

Mike Schmidt — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 06:11:24 +0000

On balls and strikes calls are always questionable. I don’t like it in sports when they make calls like they did tonight on the HR. A-Rod is saying yeah it was a HR because he hit the camera. Since when does hitting a camera mean an automatic HR, the ball has to clear the fence.
Only in games where teams are given secret edges that give umps a chance to throw a game for them. 15 seconds the umps are in and out, that is total cheating.

By: Mike Schmidt

Mike Schmidt — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 06:09:00 +0000

That’s all I’m saying and to me it is not a Yankees win.
Why is the camera in the field of play and over the fence in the first place? Doesn’t make any sense.