think they should be taking a hard look at umpires before they start shaking down players. there’s no world a lot of them aren’t dirty, it just looks too shitty for the league to catch any vs some rando pitcher.
there are live bet pros that gain their edge with weird, weird shit sometimes by being physically present at the games and sniping down bets on things the books were a few seconds slow to catch. doubt that specifically was happening here, but i know those guys that make a living doing that are absolutely crazy. theres a section at dodgers stadium i like to sit in that’s full of them
It’s very difficult for an umpire to directly and single-handedly determine the outcome of a prop.
Porter literally walked off the court. That’s definitive. So is Ortiz bouncing a pitch 55 feet (a bit less so, but pretty good chance nobody is swinging at that).
Eh, I’ll give a very recent example I’m convinced was something fishy.
Will try to drag up the clip if I remember and am near a computer. Yamamoto was 1 pitch away from an immaculate inning and the ump called a literal middle/middle fastball a ball. I cannot stress enough how it was down the heart of the plate, not exaggerating here. I’ve seen a few other instances of stuff like this but that particularly was one of the most “wtf was that, that has to be corruption” calls Ive ever seen in sports let alone recent baseball. something reeks.
His brain always gravitates toward something underhanded whenever anything happens. Usually it’s just someone being stupid (ie remember when that 28 out perfect game on a ridic blown call, turned out he just blew it somehow).
show me how many blown middle middle fastballs have been called ball there. lots of umps have extremely high accuracy 99% so i dont buy the argument he just sucks. what is happening there then? he calls a questionable low inside sinker/change a strike. he tired? what’s the anti conspiracy here? the call is unexplainable
like we just seem to be implying i’m not understanding something i should via something wrong with my brain, and via being the owner of my brain, would very much like to understand why? Did you watch the clip I posted, as I said I would? or are you here to do boring mlb trolling? because this is like the trainstation conductor in the matrix on this topic. i follow this shit way closer than i should
a live bettor in between the ton of time between 2nd and third batters immaculate inning prop bet wants to make a big move on a ball. bet is placed. they were swinging at every ball that inning and he went out of his way to call around the zone earlier in the inning.
he realizes that the line is huge on one side, calls ball. you dont even need live comms for something like this. what do these guys make?
what is the alternative explanation to how an umpire can miss this call on an immaculate inning, which is rare enough it makes most sports news? It’s literally middle middle. it’s an unmissable call. he’s that bad? actually?
my main position is why do we hear about weird explainable pitches from the position of sports book auditors, but we’re not looking at shit like that? like, what did the book stand to lose vs gain on props like this? whos auditing that? what if some umpires on a payroll know to never call an immaculate inning there? it’s really trivial for people in a corrupt league to take advantage of shit like this. even if its for paltry sums. im
sorry ive just had to hear about ohtani gambling nonstory for too long to buy the league actually gives a shit.
Because there’s zero explanation as to how the missed call is a result of betting shenanigans, which was just demonstrated above with your bizarre story about some hypothetical bettor (does the ump know this bettor? Do they discuss pregame the scenario of what happens if a pitcher is 8/9 of the way to an immaculate inning? Or is this bettor in the crowd and yells out to the umpire that he’s got a big bet down? Oh wait, no comms, so the ump just has a hunch that there’s some hypothetical bettor out there. And the umpire also magically knows if the batter is going to be swinging or not, apparently.)
I’m truly sorry Yamamoto didnt get his immaculate inning. I hope you get the space to heal.
you asked me yourself to provide a scenario in which this could benefit someone and i did. even provided video. do you have an explanation for this call? that’s all I’m asking for. It is one example. I have a lack of other explanations and we’re seeing weird investigations on players for paltry sums on shit we just have to take books’ word for. nothing I’m saying is particularly spicy. I’d never bet in this space, though.
Aside from the fact that umpires blow calls all the time, a simple, further explanation as to why he might have missed THAT pitch was because the catcher set up high, even getting up out of his crouch a bit. The pitcher hit the target and the catcher even framed the ball up slightly, all of which fooled the ump into thinking it was too high.
every fuvkin year around all star break, and no particular team’s fans are guilty of this (although dodgers and NY fans are pretty bad) people will go into conniptions trying to make predictions for how the postseason will go when trade deadline hasnt even hit and there are 70 games left. it’s super common for teams to slump at this point before they pick up whatever pieces they can get from trades, but participating in or moderating sports message boards it is completely exhausting dealing with “omg the sky is falling” kind of posters that cant understand the length of a season and how much things can change from july to october, or people coming in to gloat about “haw haw my team is 1st place now!” like anything right now other than cal raleigh’s incredible HR pace is predictive of anything at all.
it’s a really random game, just irks the shit out of me. had to step back from a forum because of the last few weeks. its not even the dodgers, lots of big teams are slumping, lots of sleeper teams are doing good right now. it’s the mlb. the fucking mets fans histrionics are the worst. like dude you’re the mets you never had a chance. or astros fans in general.
