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Tag: MLB
Sips from the Haterade Cooler – All About Egos
This week’s Haterade theme is all about egos. Athletes have them, and that comes as no surprise. These grown men are paid millions of dollars to catch, dunk and hit balls all day long. Fans rave over them, request autographs, buy jerseys, and feed their need for attention and fame with every breath. So it comes as no surprise when these highly paid, Prima Donna’s start getting their egos hurt.
Instant Replay in Baseball Would Not Have Saved this Perfect Game
Yeah, that’s right, you heard me correctly. Instant replay would not have saved Armando Galarraga’s Perfect Game! Umpires are human, they all make mistakes, every single game balls are called strikes and vice versa. Phantom tags are recorded as outs and yes, even perfectly clear force outs sometimes go unnoticed.
I Stand By It – Roy Halladay’s Perfect Game Update
Throwing a perfect game still depends on too many external factors, no matter how great of a pitcher you are.
Learn to Keep Score at a Baseball Game
There is a lot that one could keep track of during the course of a baseball game, but hopefully these basics can get you started on accurately keeping a baseball scorebook. As you get more experience, you can come up with your own twists and easy ways to keep track of the game’s events. Eventually you will be able to look at a baseball scorebook and know exactly what happened during the course of the game. You can visualize every hit, every strikeout and every putout – just like you were there.
Are Pitchers Who Throw Perfect Games Really That Much Better?
The question I researched is whether throwing a perfect game is really more likely for what are generally regarded as “good pitchers” people like Roy Halladay, Cole Hamels, and Tim Lincecum or if it is just as likely that an average pitcher could toss his way into the history books by obtaining perfection.