controversial call?

[hungry]

Girardi was just on tv talking about the call on Infante and he made reference to a controversial call in game 1. What was that about?

Someone should bring up the strike zone calls, but no one would ever do that with the great Girardi and the Yankees. I mean, that's just part of being the Yankees, right?

 

[kalinecountry]

Someone should ask him about jeffrey maier, and see what orioles, twins, fans and players think about this 'one' call going against the yankees.

 

[tomdalton22]

Ball and strike calls impact both teams throughout the game. I don't remember the controversial call from game 1....we were watching the Buckeyes game at the same time as the Tigers. Could someone fill me in on what happened?

 

[gotime909]

I'm assuming Cano being called out at first.

 

[hungry]

I'm assuming Cano being called out at first.

That might be it, but now that you talk about it, I think there may have been a tiger that should've been called out at first, but was called safe. I seem to remember something from the game thread about getting a "jim joyce" call. I don't remember the play on Cano as being shown definitively wrong by replay.

Either way, Girardi looks pretty dumb to complain about calls when his team can't score runs.

 

[johnny2x2x]

Game one was the Cano groundout with the bases loaded. It looked like a tie to me on the play at 1st base. It was a close call, but you see that called out as often as you see it called safe even if a tie is supposed to go to the runner.

The Infante call was terrible, but it's not like it would have helped the Yankees score any runs. I hope a call goes against them tomorrow night and Verlander shuts them out. The complaining is good if it keeps them from making any adjustments that might help them score a single run off a Tiger pitcher not named Valaverde.

This series wont go 6 games.

 

[@Stakesarehigh]

fucking pathetic.

I'll give the tigers credit because they've refrained from joining in on this crap. Yea the call at first was close but the umps aren't the reason the yankees have been awful at the plate.

The strike zone in game one was laughable once you go back and look at it and I didn't see Tiger players (aside from valverde) shaking their heads and acting like asses.

 

[tomdalton22]

I'm assuming Cano being called out at first.

OK...I do remember that play. I think he was safe but it was a very close play. Shit like that happens every game.

 

[hungry]

Girardi looks stupid saying nothing all season and then after 169 games, he's crying for replay, because his team just lost 2 at home and is down 0-2. He wouldn't have been saying a thing if the Yankees had won both games and they still had those calls in them.

 

[jmakula87]

I understand players not being able to hold their tongues with bad calls, but the manager doing it is pitiful. While Leyland clearly has his flaws, at least he isn't a little bitch about stuff like that. He takes it as it is and points out that the reason the team lost was because of things that the team did poorly.

And the umps have been inconsistent both ways both games, I felt.

But I don't think the manager complaining is going to get a team going in the post season. JV just needs to shut them down and help put these bums out of their misery.

 

[@Stakesarehigh]

Girardi looks stupid saying nothing all season and then after 169 games, he's crying for replay, because his team just lost 2 at home and is down 0-2. He wouldn't have been saying a thing if the Yankees had won both games and they still had those calls in them.

looks even worse given his flip flopping on the subject and his stance changing solely becuase of the outcome of the call in question.

 

[tigermud]

Hey Girardi, your team didn't score any runs and your fans leave playoff games well before the 9th inning when your only down by 4 with a lineup loaded with lefties in a bandbox, you could have heard a pin drop yesterday in your own park only down 1-0, your fans are the biggest bunch of spoiled rotten twits I've ever seen. Do you really think it would have made any difference? New York fans deserve nothing. I hope those spoiled rotten babies never win another championship in any sport for the remainder of earths exsistance They think they've got it so hard. makes me sick..

 

[@Stakesarehigh]

I gotta admit...I'm enjoying the yankees fans on ESPN conversation and their meltdowns over replay.

 

[hellifino]

we caught a lucky break, deal with it. we didn't make the rules.

 

[thehippo73]

I am glad that the Yankees got screwed. No faster way to get expanded replay into baseball than have the Yankees get screwed.

Maybe after expanded replay is in, the Yankees fans will understand a lot of the breaks they have benefited.

 

[Mitchrapp]

I'm glad it worked out that way but Girardi gets a pass from me, he just lost his father.

 

[af1991]

'nuff said

http://espn.go.com/mlb/playoffs/2012/story/_/id/8506169/new-york-yankees-need-stop-complaining

 

[sggatecl]

Post game of Joe Mauer getting screwed vs the Yankees:

"Nothing is perfect in this game," Yankees manager Joe Girardi said. "And does the situation change? They have first and third and we're still going to play the infield in. Cuddyer gets a hit, it may change the game. But there's always that element of human error in the game, and we got a little break."

 

[manchild98]

Well I'm in favor of anything that expands replay and I agree with Girardi completely. He shouldn't be in the media discussing it but it's relevant. Close plays at first like the Cano play happen often...that one is not that big a deal, but the Omar play is ridiculous and that should never happen. Everyone in the entire free world saw that he was out by 6 miles. It would take 1 minute tops to get that call correctly called. I just don't agree with the oh well it happened philosophy when the technology is already being used during the game. That makes no sense. This is the playoffs...we'd be going absolutely nuts if the Omar play happened to us. People went nuts here about that fair or foul homerun call in KC.

And it does change the game being down 1-0 rather than 3-0. It's a completely different mindset for someone like Coke to go out there and know he can make 1 or 2 mistakes rather than if he went out there knowing he can't even make 1 mistake. Now that doesn't excuse the Yankees for not being able to score runs over the past 5 games, but it's valid. Not expanding replay in any sport is stupid. It would be faster to look at a replay and get the call correct rather than have to have a manager run out of the dugout and argue.

 

[Mitchrapp]

Post game of Joe Mauer getting screwed vs the Yankees:

"Nothing is perfect in this game," Yankees manager Joe Girardi said. "And does the situation change? They have first and third and we're still going to play the infield in. Cuddyer gets a hit, it may change the game. But there's always that element of human error in the game, and we got a little break."

That's a pretty sweet article.

'nuff said

http://espn.go.com/mlb/playoffs/2012/story/_/id/8506169/new-york-yankees-need-stop-complaining

That's a pretty sweet article.