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MLB Umpiring Continues to be a Joke and ESPN Was All Over it

Gerry Davis had an inconsistent night calling the balls and strikes in KC - photo credit to zimbio.com

Gerry Davis had an inconsistent night calling the balls and strikes in KC – photo credit to zimbio.com

The Major League Baseball season started Sunday, April 3 (cringe traditional fans who pine for Tuesday at 1 PM in Cincinnati), and once again, umpiring was in the spotlight.

It was particularly in the spotlight as the New York Mets took on the Kansas City Royals in a World Series rematch on ESPN’s Sunday Night Baseball.

ESPN unveiled a new toy, a strike zone box that lit up a baseball-icon with a ‘k’ each time a ball passed through the strike zone.

What followed, was baseballs lighting up with k’s which home-plate umpire Gerry Davis called balls, and others that didn’t light up (indicating that it missed the”k-zone”) called strikes.

Of course, that wasn’t true on every pitch, but enough to be commented upon on both social media, and the ESPN broadcast.

Could you imagine an NFL referee who had a different concept of what constituted a touchdown?  Eh, he is almost in the end zone, give him the 6 points!

An NBA official who thought that the three-point line was just a bit too wide?  If the guy has a foot on the line, we will call it 3!

I know, it’s a judgment call right?  That’s the argument for umpires except it isn’t, the strike zone is a hard and fast rule that has been ignored for the better part of 100 years and it ought to be followed

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