Comments on: World Series Gameday: Yankees at Phillies, Game 3

By: leoabe

leoabe — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 16:29:12 +0000

Yankees will win the final!

By: j reed

j reed — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 08:51:11 +0000

So i guess we just have to beat them….in six cause other than happ who do you go with for a game seven? Happ just doesn’t look to sharp out there, but anyone other than Hair Product Hamels just on principle at this point

By: Brian of CO

Brian of CO — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 07:21:16 +0000

An explanation we will never get, because we are playing the Yankees.

By: j reed

j reed — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 07:10:50 +0000

The issue isn’t blown calls which MLB deludes itself to think all will necesarily average out when all is said and done…[maybe in the regular season when you have an enormous sample size but not necessarily in the post season]. If what Schmidt say is true, then this a rule change not a blown call and that a whole different issue. It definitely desrves an explanation

By: j reed

j reed — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 06:51:46 +0000

Schmidt does make alot of valid points esp. about the pre-game ruling that the camera getting hit is a home run and not have it in any way officially and pubicly acknowledged in some way. This is the WS after all. We have no way to verify if Charlie knew this or not but if there isn’t any record of this ruling being made ultimately makes Charlie’s knowledge or lack of it irrelevant since they can’t prove when the rule change took place let alone if it ever did. Christ, it might techinally not be a valid game. Just some food for thought…

By: Brian of CO

Brian of CO — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 06:22:48 +0000

Maybe this is the pessimist coming out in me, but as long as the Yankees are playing, the game of baseball will NEVER be “fair and balanced”.

By: Mike Schmidt

Mike Schmidt — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 06:18:25 +0000

I’m just more about a fair and balanced game that exactly who wins and who loses. If the Phillies got that call I wouldn’t like it either, because I want to win fair and square.

They are saying it is a HR, not because it would have cleared the fence, but because they supposedly made up a rule before the game and Charlie was not aware of it. That is why Phillies fans should be upset, and that is why it is cheating.

By: Harry Kalas

Harry Kalas — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 06:14:19 +0000

Shameful for the camera to be there in the 1st place. Very arrogant as well. The blown call on the 3-2 pitch didn’t help either. And we just gained an extra hour to mull over it. Thanks Moon!

By: Mike Schmidt

Mike Schmidt — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 06:11:24 +0000

On balls and strikes calls are always questionable. I don’t like it in sports when they make calls like they did tonight on the HR. A-Rod is saying yeah it was a HR because he hit the camera. Since when does hitting a camera mean an automatic HR, the ball has to clear the fence.
Only in games where teams are given secret edges that give umps a chance to throw a game for them. 15 seconds the umps are in and out, that is total cheating.

By: Mike Schmidt

Mike Schmidt — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 06:09:00 +0000

That’s all I’m saying and to me it is not a Yankees win.
Why is the camera in the field of play and over the fence in the first place? Doesn’t make any sense.

By: Harry Kalas

Harry Kalas — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 06:07:39 +0000

I’ll give you the Twin’s blown call. But the Phils got some very favorable calls in big spots throughout their current playoff run. Bleep happens. But it’s how you deal with it if a blown call doesn’t end the game that determines your character. I agree Cole had good stuff tonite. But he was not intelligent in his approach. It’s sad because if he had ditched than junk curve or used it in better spots the tone of this bpard would be completely different rigtht now. We just have to find a way to win Game 4 some how. Charlie has to go all out and use his Bp more often and in better spots. Because most likely Lee goes the distance in Game 5 regardless. It won’t be easy, but a win tomm and we can still win this series in 6 games.

By: Mike Schmidt

Mike Schmidt — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 06:07:27 +0000

I am very grateful for this Philies team and I love the Phillies, listened to almost every game on WCAU in the 1980′s. The thing is, it is not over. Because there is cheating going on in sports and if you don’t do something about it, it will continue to happen.
This is what I think happened and why it was cheating.
The umps and ground crew decided to put cameras over the outfield fences and in play. If not, then why are the cameras over the outfield fence? Kruk got very mad about this. The camera should not have been there. Now, they made up a rule before the game that Charlie didn’t know about. What I’m saying is that if a Phillie hit a camera, the umps could have come out and said they made up a rule before the game that if a ball hit an outfield camera it would be in play, and nobody would know anything about it, because Charlie didn’t know.

So I think they put the cameras over the outfield fence on purpose to give the Yankees an edge. It a Yankee hits it, its an automatic HR, if a Phillie hits it, it is a double because that is the rule they made up before the game. No matter what rule they made before the game Charlie didn’t know about, so they put the cameras over the outfield fence to give the Yankees an extra edge becuase if a ball hits it they will call it however they want to.

By: Brian of CO

Brian of CO — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 06:06:24 +0000

Again, I agree with what you are saying. The ONLY thing I HATE about the Yankees if the absolute love affair with that team regardless of what happens. IF the same happened to ANY other team in MLB, it would have been a double.

By: Brian of CO

Brian of CO — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 06:03:13 +0000

Its the Yankees, they are ALWAYS favored. PERIOD. MLB ALWAYS wants the Yankees to win. In MLB’s eyes, the only reason professional baseball lasted this long is because of the Yankees.

By: Mike Schmidt

Mike Schmidt — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 06:01:34 +0000

What I am saying is that the umps didn’t rule it a HR because they checked the replay and figured by the trajectory that it was going out. They called it a HR, because supposedly the umps made a rule that if a ball hit a camera in the outfield it would be a HR, but Charlie didn’t know about it. It is straight up cheating anyway you look at it.

By: j reed

j reed — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 06:00:32 +0000

mets88 – i am a very greatful fan….We have endured plenty of heartbreak over the years. I am still happy about last year….I suppose playing the Yankees puts aliitle more sting into the loss. But keep in mind that this team was built from scratch with a few extra personnel added in this year. It had alot of growing pains it went thru and all of us fans went thru it with them. My dad died just before getting see the our WS victory. For years he always said this team would go on to to great things and each year for long awhile they came up short. He died the year before we made it back to the play-offs in ’07. It was another 1 or 2 games short scenario…I remember breaking the news to him in the hospital that they came up short again. He was in the terminal phase of his lung cancer. I ‘ll never forgot watching the fight drain from his eyes with that news. It was heart wrenching…so believe me I am grateful for all this. It doesn’t mean that I don’t grumble about things. I am a fan after all and that’s what fans do. Doesn’t mean that I think they didn’t deserve to lose tonight…they did put up 5 runs and that’s at least a respectable loss.

By: Brian of CO

Brian of CO — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 05:59:44 +0000

Well I dont “hate” the Yankees, but definately do NOT like A-Roid. LOL. He was caught and even after he was caught, and his cousin dimed him out he still lied about it. Oh well. Lets just hope the Phillies have a short memory. Harry Kalas had the point dead on. “Cole had a bad inning aided heavily by a blown call. Then he implodes the following inning”. TRUE it was a blown call, but lets move on, and hope the Phillies have moved on. I dont disagree with you about it, but its over. its in the past. No point in getting an ulcer and living in the past. thats my point. My point is NOT that your frustration is not warranted, or not that I disagree, my point it lets look forward to what is still seriously home field advantage. Game 2 and game 3 were both MUST WINS for the Yankees, now, 4 and 5 are must wins for the Phillies.

By: Mike Schmidt

Mike Schmidt — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 05:59:34 +0000

If you don’t say anything about it or protest calls like this will happen forever and they have been doing it sports for a while now. They favor certain teams. If you just say ‘Oh well” bad call move on, that is one thing, but not on a call like this.
We got a break in Game 2 when the ball bounced into Howards glove and they said he caught it on the fly, but that was a very tough call to make. Here they are saying that it is a HR by what they umps decided before the game withouth Charlie’s knowledge, not by the trajectory of whether it would have cleared the fence or not, that is why I do not like the play.

By: Mike Schmidt

Mike Schmidt — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 05:57:36 +0000

You can say it is over and this and that, but in this day and age they way they went about the call is wrong. When they came out that quick and said HR, I knew something was wrong. It is not the call itself, it is the way they went about it, and it was total nonsense. I am not losing a game like that, have the Yankees win without that call and I am happy. Either way I am happy. But it is the same thing in the Twins Yankees game, Mauer’s ball was way in, and they called it out, and I was rooting for the Yankees. I don’t like when umps or refs do that.

By: Mike Schmidt

Mike Schmidt — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 05:55:07 +0000

Its not that the call is wrong, it is how they went about it. All 6 umps called it a double. All umps are on the field at 1:25 before the play is reviewed, they are out at 1:45 signaling home run in a game where we are at home and leading 3-0, and they give it to A-Rod and the Yankees that quickly, that is what I do not like. If it happened to Feliz, or Swisher or Cano they wouldn’t have been out in 20 seconds. Because it is A-Rod and the Yankees they give them the call in less than 20 seconds.