Despite the help the phantom strike zone has given Glavine and Maddux, I have long wished for something/anything to prod the umpires into calling strikes as defined in the rules. Now that it’s here the only problem I’ve got is, why isn’t it in ALL the ballparks? I can deal with park effects like thin air and foul territory size, but this is a little ridiculous.
bledsoe
on June 20, 2003 at 12:00 am
I don’t know the answer to that, except maybe expense. I think one of Schilling’s complaints was that when the umps know Questec is looking over their shoulder, they call a much different strike zone that they did a week earlier at a different park. That’s probably true. But his solution to this inconsistency is to go back to his old zone.
Despite the help the phantom strike zone has given Glavine and Maddux, I have long wished for something/anything to prod the umpires into calling strikes as defined in the rules. Now that it’s here the only problem I’ve got is, why isn’t it in ALL the ballparks? I can deal with park effects like thin air and foul territory size, but this is a little ridiculous.
I don’t know the answer to that, except maybe expense. I think one of Schilling’s complaints was that when the umps know Questec is looking over their shoulder, they call a much different strike zone that they did a week earlier at a different park. That’s probably true. But his solution to this inconsistency is to go back to his old zone.