(09-27-2020, 04:20 PM)Phogge Wrote: Unforgivable. You know that the ump is trying to scram and has missed the low calls all day. You can’t take the third strike. It is like surrendering. Needs to become aggressive. Plus Kapler has to fight for his guys. He can manage the game from the tunnel. He should have been out on the field giving the guy hell on the Dubon call.so what if he gets ejected. Just another Surrender Monkee.
Well I’m not gonna blame Slater because the pitches weren’t close – neither of them. From the seventh to the ninth he called for third strikes on 4 pitches that weren’t particularly close. Now the Giants basically choked down the stretch. So they have no one but themselves to blame. But still one would hope in a game that matters you get a home plate umpire that actually calls the game professionally. He did not. If I’m Kapler I send that tape to New York and I ask them to take some disciplinary action on the guy whatever that might be. They need to have some consequences for when they are that bad. And frankly it appear that all that guy wanted to do was get home. At the very least if the guy is scheduled to work the playoffs the league should take that away from him. That’ll hit him in the pocketbook
Agree that it would not have been a bad idea for Kapler to simply go nuts and get tossed.