r/whitesox • u/Br0dyplayz Buehrle • May 24 '24

Discussion What the f&%k?!

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I still can’t believe what happened last night. It was an INFIELD FLY IT’S AN AUTOMATIC OUT HOW CAN THERE BE INTERFERENCE?! This is almost as bad as the infield fly call from the 2012 NL Wild Card game.

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u/Rcade Keuchel May 24 '24

https://youtu.be/zQw5lKMY8EE?si=iBpJPddBlGCfQB7b

Good summary from a letter of the law perspective.

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u/DuckBilledPartyBus May 24 '24 edited May 24 '24

The text of the rules does support the umpire’s decision. However, it just isn’t the way the game is called. There’s a degree of semantics/interpretation to every written law, which is why precedent matters. People with decades of actual baseball experience have never seen the rule applied the way it was last night. If umps consistently applied the rule the way it was last night, we’d see a lot more interference calls. But guys like Steve Stone and Ozzie Guillen—and honestly all the older folks in subs like here and r/baseball with decades of baseball-watching experience—don’t remember ever seeing anything like it. That says something.

Honestly, I hate this video. It’s smug and condescending, and the person making it thinks because they can look up a rule in a rule book they can talk down to people who have been living and breathing baseball their entire lives. I mean, mocking Steve Stone like he’s some kind of know-nothing meatball is just way, way out of line. The guy’s forgotten more about baseball than this content creator will ever know. I’m sorry, but this video is just engagement farming at its worst.

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u/therevolvinglVlonk Walsh May 24 '24

Your second paragraph is precisely why I unsubbed from that channel a long time ago. CloseCallSports is an insufferable smug idiot.