Beefy's Corner - The Off-Topic Chat Thread

Yep. Hants 250/9.

 

Lunch. Hants are 264/9. That's a fine recovery after being 97/8. Adams 129 not out.

 

You certainly know how to treat a lady !

 

United just confirmed Moyes as manager on their Facebook page. Oopsie.

Someone in their media department is likely to be getting a bollocking right now.

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Ouch !

 

He's joining BT Sport's new commentary team.

 

Glad I don't have that then.

 

Moyes Confirmed as new Manchester United manager 6 year deal !!!

 

Moyes Confirmed as new Manchester United manager 6 year deal !!!

 

That's just a tad judgemental.

 

Redknapp on SSN giving his reaction to today's news. FML, he gets everywhere.

 

He sure does...

 

Hopefully they take Quinn off Sky as well.

 

Here's something chew on regarding the use of instant replay in games:

http://mlb.mlb.com/video/play.jsp?content_id=26965213

 

FAO Gay Bacon Stripes and TSS .

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/formula1/22032240

SIGH .......

 

Gilles Villeneuve simply couldn't exist in modern F1. He'd have (quite logically) been ordered to cede the position and take the points, rather than attempt the seemingly-impossible there.

Couple years ago, I ended up stopping for gas in the town where his museum is located...wish I'd had the chance to visit, but it wasn't open (and I was trying to drive halfway across the country in a day).

 

Just watched it. How on earth did the umpires not call that a homer? They reviewed it and it blatantly hit the fencing above the wall!

 

So she's seen the message I sent her yesterday apparently (thanks Facebook) but no reply. However, she's also not deleted me as a friend yet, so I'll consider that a success. Now I've got to keep my head down lest I end up ruining our friendship. If I haven't already (though I'm hoping I haven't).

 

Because major league umpires are stubborn beyond all logic and comprehension. They called it a double initially, and damned if they're going to pay enough attention to the replay to change their minds.

For your consideration, this was the strikezone of Mike Everitt in a recent game. Red means called strike, green is called ball:

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The fun bit is the graph on the left. He was calling everything away on lefties a strike...but as you can see by the dashed box (which is his typical strike zone, rather than the actual zone), he always calls everything away a strike. For fifteen years, in fact, he has had his own strike zone entirely separate from the dimensions of home plate.

 

I watched a game last week where an umpire was calling everything just outside the strike zone away from the hitter a strike. But he was consistent. That's the one thing you want with home plate umpires.