*** Official Kansas City Royals @ Houston Astros Game Thread (4/17) ***

[alnorth]

Final	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	R	H	E
KC (7-7)	1	1	0	2	1	0	0	0	0	5	9	0
HOU (5-11)	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	1	5	1

Win, (1-2) James Shields 8IP 1R 1ER 2BB 12K
Wade Davis 1IP 0R 0ER 0BB 1K

VS.



Loss, (2-1) Scott Feldman 6IP 5R 4ER 1BB 2K
Anthony Bass 3IP 0R 0ER 0BB 1K

Home Runs

none

AL Central

Final: CLE 5, DET 7
Final (game 1): TOR 0, MIN 7
Final (game 2): TOR 5, MIN 9
Final: BOS 3, CWS 1

Starting Lineups

KC

1. Norichika Aoki, RF
2. Omar Infante, 2B
3. Eric Hosmer, 1B
4. Salvador Perez, C
5. Alex Gordon, LF
6. Billy Butler, DH
7. Mike Moustakas, 3B
8. Alcides Escobar, SS
9. Jarrod Dyson, CF

HOU

1. Dexter Fowler, CF
2. George Springer, RF
3. Jason Castro, C
4. Jose Altuve, 2B
5. Marc Krauss, 1B
6. Chris Carter, DH
7. Matt Dominguez, 3B
8. Alex Presley, LF
9. Jonathan Villar, SS

[Nightfyre]

He was out by a full step. Jesus.

[alnorth]

Top 3rd

Aoki grounds out to third
Infante grounds out to third
Hosmer grounds out to first 3-1

0 runs, 0 hits

Bottom 3rd

Villar grounds out to shortstop
Fowler flies out to right
Springer strikes out (swinging)

0 runs, 0 hits

[stonedstooge]

Originally Posted by C3HIEF3S

How so?

The manager runs out, stands by the umpire, waits until he gets a signal from the dugout, challenges it or walks off. It completely disrupts the flow of a ballgame. Nothing like delaying when a team gets hot 5 minutes while a dude in New York runs the tape over and over until he makes a decision. And get off my lawn

[alnorth]

One good thing that comes out of replay that the umpires probably like, no more long screaming arguments. The manager just strolls out, looks at his dugout, and he either makes the challenge or says never mind and jogs back.

[alnorth]

Originally Posted by stonedstooge

The manager runs out, stands by the umpire, waits until he gets a signal from the dugout, challenges it or walks off. It completely disrupts the flow of a ballgame. Nothing like delaying when a team gets hot 5 minutes while a dude in New York runs the tape over and over until he makes a decision

Without replay, Ned is still yelling at the ump.

Replay makes the game faster, not slower.

[Pablo]

Originally Posted by alnorth

Without replay, Ned is still yelling at the ump.

Replay makes the game faster, not slower.

No shit. They aren't an inconvenience.

[stonedstooge]

Originally Posted by alnorth

Without replay, Ned is still yelling at the ump.

Replay makes the game faster, not slower.

Ned wouldn't have even run out and challenged it.

[C3HIEF3S]

Originally Posted by stonedstooge

The manager runs out, stands by the umpire, waits until he gets a signal from the dugout, challenges it or walks off. It completely disrupts the flow of a ballgame. Nothing like delaying when a team gets hot 5 minutes while a dude in New York runs the tape over and over until he makes a decision

That is fair, I mean lets face it, baseball isn't a fast game to begin with. But, in my opinion, I will trade that in order to get the call right. There have already been calls overturned that have affected outcomes of games, and I believe that that's how it should be.

There have also been cases this year where the replay showed an obvious overturn, but the umps said the video "wasn't conclusive"

[alnorth]

Originally Posted by stonedstooge

Ned wouldn't have even run out and challenged it.

ok, a hypothetical manager who likes to argue bad calls would still be out there.

[C3HIEF3S]

I would like to see Hosmer crush one sometime soon

[stonedstooge]

Originally Posted by alnorth

ok, a hypothetical manager who likes to argue bad calls would still be out there.

That was one thing special about baseball was managers who would go out and put on a show. I'll miss that

[Mr. Laz]

Hopefully pretty soon they will have guys watching every call and correcting them without a big hassle.

[alnorth]

The Royals might get back to .500 and Shields may get his first win of the year.

More importantly, I might get my first win of the year.

[Simplicity]

Originally Posted by Mr. Laz

Hopefully pretty soon they will have guys watching every call and correcting them without a big hassle.

It's not much of a hassle now. It does take away some of the manager/ump arguing.

[gblowfish]

These new Sprint commercials are the absolute worst. None of the people in them are likeable. Gor-Don needs to have somebody bitch slap his goth pussy face, or take that hamster out of his hamster ball and let Gor-Don do some felching.

I hate Sprint.

They embarrass KC.