Have you watched a major league baseball game lately? Have you seen a player make an error? Was it scored an error?
Time and time again (not just this season obviously) I see major league players in the field botch plays – balls of their glove, missed side swipes (god forbid they get in front of a ball to knock it down), or they’re just plain too lazy to get close enough to make a play. And time and time again the official scorer’s ruling: hit. Hit? What? These are major leaguers for crying out loud!
Last season there an especially bad bad play by an infielder that was scored a hit. It was controversial enough that the official scorer was asked about it and the response from the official scorer as to why it was a hit and not an error….”It was a really hard play”
NO SHIT! It’s major league baseball – of course it’s a hard play! They’re supposed to make the damn play! If they don’t – it’s an error! That’s why it’s called an error!
No wonder ERAs are getting so high – there are no errors anymore, everythings a hit and there’s no unearned runs anymore.
I had a coach in little league a lot of years ago who was always yelling at us – “If you get your glove on it you should catch it!”
Not a bad point.
April 30th, 2009 -
Thinking about baseball reminds me of the running argument that I had with my brother about Yankees versus Mets.