[teejers1]

Lex on every level you have to protect the plate. This time you had to protect what was left of the season. Slater is a Stanford guy. He's got to know that the ump is bush and wants to make his flight. You simply have to swing and not leave it up to an old fat man.

That was a freaking RIDICULOUS called strike 3 to end the game.  No blame on Slater whatsoever.
Agree with Lex down the line re: that ump and what consequences he should face.  No playoffs (though that may be hard with so many damn games).  That was atrocious; however, if Kaplan had just made one fewer hideous/idiotic decisions in last innings of games this year, then it wouldn't have mattered.

And I don't care if he made a lot of other good/decent/coin flip decisions - managers can't make the obviously WRONG decision.  Kaplan did that at least 3 times this year, all late inning collapses.  BRUTAL!

[teejers1]

Lex on every level you have to protect the plate. This time you had to protect what was left of the season. Slater is a Stanford guy. He's got to know that the ump is bush and wants to make his flight. You simply have to swing and not leave it up to an old fat man.

That was a freaking RIDICULOUS called strike 3 to end the game.  No blame on Slater whatsoever.
Agree with Lex down the line re: that ump and what consequences he should face.  No playoffs (though that may be hard with so many damn games).  That was atrocious; however, if Kaplan had just made one fewer hideous/idiotic decisions in last innings of games this year, then it wouldn't have mattered.

And I don't care if he made a lot of other good/decent/coin flip decisions - managers can't make the obviously WRONG decision.  Kaplan did that at least 3 times this year, all late inning collapses.  BRUTAL!