He also doesn’t think the people who supervise umpires have anything to do with the pitch f/x data, and that he didn’t think there were any supervisory umpires in Arizona for this series. So it doesn’t seem like there was the close scrutiny that would probably be needed to quickly pull the data off line for nefarious reasons, but you never know.

I agree 100% with you. You can’t blame the umpire for losing the game. There will be bad calls and that’s just part of the game. However, the fact remains the Tigers lost this particular game due to a bad call. I’ll say it again: bad calls are a part of the game as much as home runs from an opponent (I’m obviously not drawing a proportional relationship, just pointing out the bad call is something you have to play around and still win).

This team disperately needs some kind of momentum to build on, and this team disperately needs breaks to start going their way to jump start the momentum, so every thrown opportunity compounds the frustration.

Umpires should also be held accountable when they develop a history of making horrible calls. What that barometer is, I don’t know.

I’ll post again if I hear anything back, or if Jason puts a reply on his blog.

It would seem that MLB is trying to protect its own. For all I know, it might be a deal they have with the umpires’ union, who might be perturbed that everyone can now prove when they make a mistake. It’s like opening Questec to the public.

And his poor 1st base play has been the cause of the retarded infield switch between him and Caberra. This probably contributed to Caberra’s slump as it coincided the switch. And what is so frustrating is that the infield defense did not get any better because we just took a terrible 1st baseman and then made him into a terrible 3rd baseman.

He is now the player I most hate on this roster.

Good point. I am reluctant to bring religion into it, but as you know the gods can be quite fickle.