As a Brewer fan, here's how I feel about the Brewers facing the Cubs in a 4 game series in July:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qdFLPn30dvQ

I like Counsell alot but this one wouldnt have come down to this situation if he wouldnt have fouled off 2 bunt attempts at pitches way out of the strike zone and then whiffed. Then he missed the ball at 2B although it was a tough play. This game had the feel of a Brewer loss the whole way thru.

radio silence:

and the offense was shut down by the Cubs.

wisblue:

As a Brewer fan, here's how I feel about the Brewers facing the Cubs in a 4 game series in July:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qdFLPn30dvQ

stix:

geddymd72:

bobby12many:

geddymd72:

 See above. It is not that clear cut. Pitch #9 just isn't the perfect strike you think it is.

 

 

News flash!

 

Umps use their eyes in real life, not a graphic representation of the call.

 

Stop trying argue about the call, as you wont change anyone's mind about it.

 

Fine, check out the real life view:

 

It sure isn't right down the center.

God, you really are a miserable pile of s***, aren't you?

As my last post for awhile, I would just like to say that you are a cantankerous rat who shouldn't be allowed to be employed, married, have children or allowed to mingle with human society.

Yes, I'm negative, but I want the Brewers to win. Not only do you trash the Brewers (which I do, too, when I'm frustrated), but you LOVE when they lose, because you can tell everyone "I told you so." You're a stinking front-runner, the most pathetic species of human being on earth. You'd be back in England during the Bubonic Plague and say, "That's OK, personally I've always rooted for the rats."

You ARE a Cubs fan, jacka***. You're HAPPY that DiFelice and the Brewers got screwed. Anyone in their right mind knows that was a strike, but you have to sit here and defend it like you're Jake Fox himself. What a pathetic f***er you are.

Yeah, I may be negative, I may say things in the heat of the moment, but I'm NEVER happy when the Brewers lose like you are. I was livid over that call, just like I would expect all fellow Brewers fans to be. But you're not one.

You're a pathetic, stinking, front-running rat. F*** yourself.

oh the irony is just killing me, stix stand in front of the mirror and read this to yourself, my goodness.

shipitdear:

stix:

radio silence:

shipitdear:

(I see it as a ball btw).

How?

I mean, I get that the Crew lost the game in other ways, too, but that was a strike.

No kidding.

I like you, shipit, but what are you watching that that's a ball? That was, without any question whatsoever, a strike.

I disagree.   Put it in context, they're at Wrigley, DiFelice can't find the plate consistently, Fox has just fouled off off 4 pitches, he's in a crouch and Kendall looks like he's catching the ball up in the zone.  It's a borderline call.  If he gets rung up on that pitch he goes crazy and Pinella probably gets tossed and every Cubs' board is posting about how they got jobbed on that call.  That is the definition of borderline.  The Brewers should 100% own this loss, they earned it and it had nothing to do w/ the umpiring.

Are you kidding?  I've seen so many angles of that call all over the internet and if he would have been rung up, no one would have complained besides the Cubs fans, and they would just be booing Fox for taking another strike 3 call.  I was curious to see some reactions to the call, so I decided to check out some Cubs forums, and I was surprised how many of the fans thought it was strike 3.

Just check out this thread from some Cubs fans on the ESPN forum: http://boards.espn.go.com/boards/mb/mb?sport=mlb&id=general&tid=4996010&lid=5

Also, I find it funny that if you listen to the postgame interview with Jake Fox (http://mlb.mlb.com/media/video.jsp?content_id=5386433&c_id=mlb), you can tell that he's trying desperately to convince himself and all the reporters that it was a ball.  It's okay Jake, you can admit that you were guessing, you got fooled, and got rewarded for it.  You're not fooling anyone.
 

alffan:

Geddy has some points. The Brewers continue to make the same dumb mistakes - regardless of who's managing - and nothing gets done about it.

One thing Macha needs to do is start to hold guys accountable and he hasn't. That inning with bases loaded no one out was a joke.

i dislike geddy,(but only becuase of his hatred of me) more than any here but find many of his points on this valid.

Rorsch:

 

Also, I find it funny that if you listen to the postgame interview with Jake Fox (http://mlb.mlb.com/media/video.jsp?content_id=5386433&c_id=mlb),

lol only cubs fans would have been upset? true but the way it is now only brewer fans are upset, so i dont see your point.

Rorsch:

Are you kidding?  I've seen so many angles of that call all over the internet and if he would have been rung up, no one would have complained besides the Cubs fans, and they would just be booing Fox for taking another strike 3 call.  I was curious to see some reactions to the call, so I decided to check out some Cubs forums, and I was surprised how many of the fans thought it was strike 3.

Just check out this thread from some Cubs fans on the ESPN forum: http://boards.espn.go.com/boards/mb/mb?sport=mlb&id=general&tid=4996010&lid=5

Also, I find it funny that if you listen to the postgame interview with Jake Fox (http://mlb.mlb.com/media/video.jsp?content_id=5386433&c_id=mlb), you can tell that he's trying desperately to convince himself and all the reporters that it was a ball.  It's okay Jake, you can admit that you were guessing, you got fooled, and got rewarded for it.  You're not fooling anyone.

geddymd72:

bobby12many:

geddymd72:

 See above. It is not that clear cut. Pitch #9 just isn't the perfect strike you think it is.

 

 

News flash!

 

Umps use their eyes in real life, not a graphic representation of the call.

 

Stop trying argue about the call, as you wont change anyone's mind about it.

 

Fine, check out the real life view:

 

It sure isn't right down the center.

Were you guys watching the right game?  Isn't that a cardinal on the mound?

Not that I'd know or really care, but doesn't the camera angle make a pitch look lower than it actually is?  Not quite sure how I got here from the Packers board.

quicksdraw:

Rorsch:

 

Also, I find it funny that if you listen to the postgame interview with Jake Fox (http://mlb.mlb.com/media/video.jsp?content_id=5386433&c_id=mlb),

lol only cubs fans would have been upset? true but the way it is now only brewer fans are upset, so i dont see your point.

Did you bother to read his link? Cubs fans said it was a "disgrace" to baseball. I think they were as upset, if not more about the call. Not to mention he said that the cubs fans would be upset with Fox not the call itself. Seems like you just totally disregarded the post and went your own way.

1.  The pitch is over the inside half of the plate.  Due to the angle of the camera, that pitch looks more inside than it really is.

2. A strikezone does not shrink when a batter squats down.  Jeff Bagwell seemed to have conviced umpires back then that it does, but that's false.

The interpretation of the the strikezone (and almost every rule in baseball) is what hurts the game so much.  

I think once people realize that the team lost the game because if couldn't score runs, the easier this specific pitch will be able to be handled.

UWWhitewaterGrad:

Due to the angle of the camera, that pitch looks more inside than it really is.

Actually I'm pretty sure since the camera is over his right shoulder.  The pitch doesn't look as inside as it really is.  You have it backwards.

Steves Stoners:

UWWhitewaterGrad:

Due to the angle of the camera, that pitch looks more inside than it really is.

 

Actually I'm pretty sure since the camera is over his right shoulder.  The pitch doesn't look as inside as it really is.  You have it backwards.

That's totally irrelevant because the umpire said the pitch was high, not inside (at least that's what he told Kendall and DiFelice). So, the only question is whether the ump was correct in calling it high. I think the answer to that is clearly "no".

BigBrew/PackFan:

When the Brewers hit they can't pitch--when they pitch they can't hit--today was nothing but frustration--Cubs tried to give the game away and Brewers apparently didn't want it so the umpire said enough and gave it to the Cubs!

Again the Brewers cannot advance the runners and can't score runs

I have just one question, and I apologize if it has been covered, but why didn't Macha pinch run for Soupan in the 7th Inning, that ends the game after Nine w/the Brewers weinning 2-1.