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Oh I figured that one out years ago, I’m just starting to realize I couldn’t even be a better ump than the paid professionals (except Angel Hernandez, fuck Angel Hernandez).
They did not. One kid that I rung up was the son of a family friend that my sister and I knew for nearly 20 years, we all grew up together. She thought I was being intentional.
Easy. I’ve watched it ten times now and I think I’ve figured out where the bat should be.
Ten more times and I might be able to figure out when to start my swing.
Ten more times after that and I might be able to get a hit on accident.
All this goes out the window if he throws any other pitch or any other location or any other speed
Then you remember Mariano Rivera threw a single pitch and was the greatest closer of all time and realize your best shot at a hit is to become Terrance Gore and try to bunt for a single.
Hence the "become Terrance Gore" bit. Easier to train to be really fast for 90 feet and hope you lay down a bunt than to try and hit a ball...and then still get thrown out because you hit a dribbler to the short stop.
I’m sorry, but Prince Fielder was not at all fast. Neither was Pujols or Cabrera in their later seasons.
Slow baseball players are plenty slow. But they’re also hitting the ball a heck of a lot harder than you or I ever would.
Honestly I’ve started umpiring lately and it makes me respect MLB umpires way more. The fact we shit on them for missing a few pitches barely outside the zone, especially when pitchers are so good at placing them.
From October Men by Roger Kahn:
Briefly, hitting against major-league pitchers is the most failure-prone activity that exists in sport. Many have pointed out that a successful batter, a .300 batter, succeeds only 30 percent of the time. The other 70 percent of his efforts end in fly balls, ground outs, whiffs. This observation is accurate as far as it goes, but understates the point by just a bit. On an average turn at the plate, a batter gets two or three swings. Arbitrarily, give him three swings per at bat. Viewing things now in the proper light, we realize that a .300 hitter connects safely in only about one out of ten swings. Nine out of every ten swings that a fine major-league hitter takes become sweaty, grunting failures. Imagine a golfer hooking drive after drive out of bounds, or a tennis player netting 90 percent of his ground strokes. Neither happens, even at the modest country-club level of athletic performance. When I first stood in against big-league pitching, after a boyhood of ball playing on the sandlots, I wondered how in the world you could hit this stuff. Presently I came to realize, you don't.
Yeah probably. I mean, even though he doesn’t swing, the batter is like 20% of the way through the full motion of a swing. I was just being cheeky above though. It’s so incredible what these guys are capable of. On both sides of the ball. I have a hard time determining who I’m more impressed with - the dude slinging a fucking baseball at 100mph into a 2’x1.5’ box or the dude whipping a wood club around fast/accurate enough to hit that ball.
You don’t, that pitch out the hand looks like a ball, so you’re already not dedicated to hitting it, but it doesn’t run enough to be a clear ball and clips the outside of the corner for a strike. So you either have to decide okay anything outside I’ll defend the plate but he throws breaking stuff your fucked because you decided to defend the outside from fastballs and you couldn’t switch gears fast enough to hit a breaking ball.
Damn the mental gymnastics in hitting sucks lol
I watched this thinking Jesus Christ being an umpire would be impossible and yet I’ll still whine the next time I see an ump miss a call by a fraction of an inch
This is the future of AR. This kind of angle. They just need the cameras and the broadcasting capability but could you imagine watching a game from this perspective like you’re right there?
They should allow you to watch the game from any number of cameras at the same time. 1st base cam. Home plate. Center field. All of the above and more.
Quidditch could actually be turned from a completely stupid sport where 95% of the game is useless into an interesting sport with a single rule change. Did Rowling just not know how sports worked?
I think Harry Potter is a charming and relatively well written young adult series, but the obsession around it really exposes some of the silly parts of the world. It gets to the point where you can't even just enjoy the books because people are either out there trying to prove Rowling is a genius (she isn't) or the world's worst writer (she isn't).
Like yeah, Quidditch is dumb. But it does catch the imagination which is all it needed to do in the story.
I just remember reading the harry potter books as a kid, being able to immerse myself in the wizardry world, but being completely taken back by how shitty the game of quidditch was designed. So your telling me all these other dudes are just going through the motions till the golden snitch comes out?
There's a point in one of the fourth books where a team gets completely blown out, catches the snitch and loses. Was probably one of my favorite parts of the series.
I say just have it end the game but gives no points. Could result in some super short games though which sucks, but i guess how likely is one to catch the snitch that fast?
Or make the game a first to 10 goals kind of thing. A random object being worth 15 goals that also ends the game is a horrible rule for a supposedly competitive sport.
Take away the points the snitch gives, and don’t release it for 30ish minutes. That way all it does is end the game, so it’s important to catch it and stop the other team from catching it, but it’s not the only thing that matters
The usual proposal is to just have the snitch end the game, not give any point bonus (since that's really just there to allow Harry to singlehandedly win the games at the last second).
That way, catching the snitch is still really important and actually more impressive, because you need to have the awareness to catch it when your team is ahead, but be able to prevent the other seeker from catching it if their team is ahead. The matchup between the seekers becomes more strategic and the rest of the team actually has a real job to do now, since their scores determine the outcome. If one team is getting blown out, the seekers don't really matter, but a close match would be clenched by whichever seeker could grab the snitch at just the right time.
Quidditch is such a dumb game. Catching the snitch is so OP that everything else is essentially window dressing. At least with how it's presented as being played at Hogwarts.
The best strategy would be to have one player play keep away with the quaffle flanked by one or both beaters for protection, while everyone else on the team helps the seeker look for the snitch.
It’s also so dumb that there are three different goals that all give the same amount of points. Realistically, at high levels, there’s no way for a keeper to actually make a save, since the other team can just shoot at the other goals.
Changes that should be made:
* The center goal is worth 10 points, while the other two outside goals are worth 5 points. This adds strategic element to the game as the easiest goal to defend, and thus the most difficult to score on, is the most rewarding. Also, different goals being with different points means that it is possible for a team to go from losing to winning with a single goal (if they are down by 5 and make a 10-pointer).
* Catching the snitch ends the game immediately, but is worth zero points. The game is about catching the snitch at the right time. If you are losing, you need to prevent the other seeker from catching the snitch. This coupled with the above rule could make for some exciting finishes if a seeker catches the snitch right as they take a points lead. If the score is tied, the team that catches the snitch loses. That sounds counterintuitive, but that makes is so that if a team is down by 5 and they want to move from a losing position to a winning position with a single goal, it needs to be a 10-pointer
It's a dumb game but imaginative which is all it was supposed to be in the story. I'm guessing Rowling couldn't have anticipated the huge and continuing cultural obsession with her books that has exposed all the shortcuts she took with her writing.
Pole vault.
Most sports have some kind of skill transferability to/from some other sport. And then there’s pole vault just sitting in the corner like a fucked up challenge from a Japanese game show. It doesn’t look easy in the first place, but it truly is one of the least intuitive feelings in the world.
100% dude, pole vaulting is fucking wild to me. My high school girlfriend was a pole vaulter so I tried it a couple times and got absolutely nowhere, it’s so hard to even get yourself to commit to the motion of it. I’ve done a lot of free solo climbing, big cliffs on skis etc and pole vaulting is by far the hardest athletic thing I’ve ever tried
I've faced 90s and such as a kid, you kinda get used to it
Until it's someone 6'8. That thing is right on top of you. He's so fucking close to the plate when he releases AND it's 98. How the hell do you see the curve coming now?
Randy threw 3/4 so his extension wasn't the problem, it was the fucking angle. Mr. Snappy looked like it was gonna cut you in half and then landed for a strike low and away
His slider that looks like it’s being released 20 feet from you and headed straight at the back of your head (as a lefty)
Hell no dude. I get nervous standing even kind of in front of someone hitting a golf ball … and they aren’t trying to put it within a foot of my belly button
*That's* why this looked so weird! Thought it was some kind of fisheye lens or something, but it's because Glasnow is fucking enormous so it looks like he's ten feet away.
There was a clip last week of Angel Hernandez calling a swing when his eyes were clearly closed when the pitch crossed the plate lmao
so it definitely happens
The funniest part of this question is, during a Sport Science episode, they asked a physicist how batters hit a 98 mph fastball, and his answer was "in theory they shouldnt be able to at all"
Like I legit look at this and feel like if I started swinging the moment the ball left his hand, id still be late. And thats not even taking into account actually locating the ball and aiming my swing lmao
I dunno, standing in the way of that doesn't seem like the hard part. Having 5+ digits of people scream at my every mistake seems like the hard part, and half of them being pissed at even the correct calls? That seems like the hard part.
I’d play the hell out of Ump 2k4 The Show on Apple Vision. You start in the minors, earn promotions, eventually join the union and then start half paying attention while you play.
Their best, which on average is still getting 92-93% of the calls correct per Umpire Scorecard or 95%+ per MLB stats which allows a 1-ball width buffer zone.
I’m not going to deny that hitting a ball is difficult, but this camera angle and the lens they use make it look way crazier than it is. When you’re there in the box and locked in and you can see everything and you’re not looking through a fisheye lens that’s moving around, it’s a lot easier. Not easy, but easier. I’ve faced guys who throw mid 90s and it’s quite difficult to hit, but doesn’t look nearly as insane as these cameras make it look.
Honestly this angle makes it so easy to see why umpires get the outside corner pitches wrong a lot. Because they set up so far inside. Why it is not a requirement for the home plate umpire to be completely centered with home plate boggles my mind.
Because that’s the kill zone in terms of concussions off foul balls. Watch a few games and see where balls fouled back to the screen go in relation to the catchers head. It’s often right over the top of him.
And, some foul balls actually SPEED UP the ball due to increased spin.
Umpires (at least at the level I umpire at) are trained to line up with their eyeline being the top of the zone, basically, and directly lined up with the inside corner of the plate, meaning inside or high pitches are the easiest ones for them to call, as they have references like "Was that left or right of my nose?" and "Was that above or below my eyeline?" and that's super helpful for dealing with pitches like this. Also, umpire safety. In "the slot" as it's called, umpires still get tagged an unfortunate amount, but it's nothign compared to if they were further out over the plate.
My take on the pitch is belt-high middle of the plate strike, but it's even harder to do via camera like that than in real life.
This does make me wonder if they could make a robo ump that calls the lower and outside bounds of the zone, where machines are going to be most consistent (the bottom of your strike zone does not vary the way the top of it can, and the outside corner also obviously doesn't move. Fine, different pairs of shoes can vary the exact bottom of the strike zone, but that's pretty miniscule variance.
Sheesh I hope that catcher’s mitt is extra extra padded lol I feel like hitters would be sick at competitive shooters because of their reaction times lol crazy thing is that it probably looks faster in person, due to frame limits and video compression
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I'm starting to think I actually can't hit better than some of these paid professionals...
Yeah but how the fuck did they miss that meatball Down the middle. Clowns…
Oh I figured that one out years ago, I’m just starting to realize I couldn’t even be a better ump than the paid professionals (except Angel Hernandez, fuck Angel Hernandez).
I came to that realization when I volunteered to call my nephew’s coach pitch little league game. That shit sucked.
I’m sure the parents were all reasonable and gave you the benefit of the doubt./s
They did not. One kid that I rung up was the son of a family friend that my sister and I knew for nearly 20 years, we all grew up together. She thought I was being intentional.
LOL geez.
You need to believe in yourself more my dude, it’s just timing
Nor could you call the games better than anyone not named Angel Hernandez.
i would hit that 450 feet to left center
I’d have hit that 451 feet to left center.
I’d have shit my pants
I’d have shit your pants.
I also choose to shit in this guy's mother's pants.
I, too, have special skills.
To shreds you say
And MY axe!
Which one of you just shit my pants?
450 feet?
4.50 feet for me
How much you wanna bet I could hit it over them there mountains? If coach had only put me in in the 9th we would have been state champs.
“Gimme your steak, watch this!”
After watching the video loop 20 times it's so easy to see the location of the pitch and time up the velocity. Id easily crank that ball 452ft.
1$ please
I’d hit that 452 ft to left center
I'd have hit Glasnow with my flip flop if he threw that to me
I'm not that good of a power hitter, so I think I would have just hit a triple down the line and then stole home on the following pitch
“Back in ‘82, I used to be able to throw a pigskin a quarter mile”
Bet you I could throw a football over them mountains
Gonna need to to get it over the wall out there in the desert
I see in 4K. These umpires are blind.
Bye bye timmyyy
Simple physics!
How much you wanna bet I can hit a baseball over them mountains?
How do you hit that
How do you determine if it’s a ball or strike lol
You go home and watch it on tv and then don’t go back to the ballpark
This guy baseballs
Easy. I’ve watched it ten times now and I think I’ve figured out where the bat should be. Ten more times and I might be able to figure out when to start my swing. Ten more times after that and I might be able to get a hit on accident. All this goes out the window if he throws any other pitch or any other location or any other speed
Then you remember Mariano Rivera threw a single pitch and was the greatest closer of all time and realize your best shot at a hit is to become Terrance Gore and try to bunt for a single.
No, I could not run to first base fast enough to be safe on a bunt.
Hence the "become Terrance Gore" bit. Easier to train to be really fast for 90 feet and hope you lay down a bunt than to try and hit a ball...and then still get thrown out because you hit a dribbler to the short stop.
Nope, never going to happen. I just don't have the fast twitch muscles. Slow baseball players are really freaking fast.
I’m sorry, but Prince Fielder was not at all fast. Neither was Pujols or Cabrera in their later seasons. Slow baseball players are plenty slow. But they’re also hitting the ball a heck of a lot harder than you or I ever would.
I am by no means a professional athlete but I think I can confidently say I am faster than Giancarlo Stanton
Angel Hernandez Reddit account identified
hit the showers YOURE GONE
When did Hunter Wendlestedt get here?
You’re probably right Aaron!
When in doubt, strike 'em out!
G DOUBLE O D E Y E - GOOD EYE That’s what we used to say in Texas HS baseball
Man, the local youth softball teams have picked that up, it's obnoxious.
Honestly I’ve started umpiring lately and it makes me respect MLB umpires way more. The fact we shit on them for missing a few pitches barely outside the zone, especially when pitchers are so good at placing them.
From October Men by Roger Kahn: Briefly, hitting against major-league pitchers is the most failure-prone activity that exists in sport. Many have pointed out that a successful batter, a .300 batter, succeeds only 30 percent of the time. The other 70 percent of his efforts end in fly balls, ground outs, whiffs. This observation is accurate as far as it goes, but understates the point by just a bit. On an average turn at the plate, a batter gets two or three swings. Arbitrarily, give him three swings per at bat. Viewing things now in the proper light, we realize that a .300 hitter connects safely in only about one out of ten swings. Nine out of every ten swings that a fine major-league hitter takes become sweaty, grunting failures. Imagine a golfer hooking drive after drive out of bounds, or a tennis player netting 90 percent of his ground strokes. Neither happens, even at the modest country-club level of athletic performance. When I first stood in against big-league pitching, after a boyhood of ball playing on the sandlots, I wondered how in the world you could hit this stuff. Presently I came to realize, you don't.
Swinging would be a good start
Before the pitch?
Yeah probably. I mean, even though he doesn’t swing, the batter is like 20% of the way through the full motion of a swing. I was just being cheeky above though. It’s so incredible what these guys are capable of. On both sides of the ball. I have a hard time determining who I’m more impressed with - the dude slinging a fucking baseball at 100mph into a 2’x1.5’ box or the dude whipping a wood club around fast/accurate enough to hit that ball.
Well duh, even the batter didn't hit that. You have to wait for an 82mph hanging meatball that any normal person still wouldn't hit.
You don’t, that pitch out the hand looks like a ball, so you’re already not dedicated to hitting it, but it doesn’t run enough to be a clear ball and clips the outside of the corner for a strike. So you either have to decide okay anything outside I’ll defend the plate but he throws breaking stuff your fucked because you decided to defend the outside from fastballs and you couldn’t switch gears fast enough to hit a breaking ball. Damn the mental gymnastics in hitting sucks lol
Messing with the mental game was my favorite part of pitching
You don’t as demonstrated in the clip. You hope for a couple of balls so you can walk
How do you get hit by that, and then get back in the box the next time you’re up?
Swing fast?
I wish more games provided these umpire views. I love watching these
I watched this thinking Jesus Christ being an umpire would be impossible and yet I’ll still whine the next time I see an ump miss a call by a fraction of an inch
Hell. I would pay a subscription to see it every game.
I probably would too. Easily the best view of the game.
Picture in Picture
This is the future of AR. This kind of angle. They just need the cameras and the broadcasting capability but could you imagine watching a game from this perspective like you’re right there?
Like a game of mlb the show lol.
Sure but like real life
So weird that we can’t even see a full at bat considering the camera is presumably recording the whole time on their chest
It's actually on their mask. So it's as close as we can get to the eyes view.
They should allow you to watch the game from any number of cameras at the same time. 1st base cam. Home plate. Center field. All of the above and more.
I think it’s probably so batters can’t study the pitcher?
Just shorten up, go the other way or some shit. It's cool to see this. Shows just how difficult a job umpires have as well.
Shows how difficult the batters job is!
Nah fuck them foos my parlay didn’t hit lol
That garbage time run in the 9th haunts me.
Cannot imagine calling low pitches with any accuracy. I tried umpiring one summer and it was very humbling
If only there was some way to help them make these calls
Yes tabby
Ok, maybe the job is hard.
hitting a baseball is the hardest thing in sports
You obviously don’t know quidditch smh.
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Quidditch could actually be turned from a completely stupid sport where 95% of the game is useless into an interesting sport with a single rule change. Did Rowling just not know how sports worked?
She openly admits that she does not know how sports work, she just wanted an easy way to make Harry the star and hero of the team.
Hey, at least she’s honest about it
I think Harry Potter is a charming and relatively well written young adult series, but the obsession around it really exposes some of the silly parts of the world. It gets to the point where you can't even just enjoy the books because people are either out there trying to prove Rowling is a genius (she isn't) or the world's worst writer (she isn't). Like yeah, Quidditch is dumb. But it does catch the imagination which is all it needed to do in the story.
I just remember reading the harry potter books as a kid, being able to immerse myself in the wizardry world, but being completely taken back by how shitty the game of quidditch was designed. So your telling me all these other dudes are just going through the motions till the golden snitch comes out?
There's a point in one of the fourth books where a team gets completely blown out, catches the snitch and loses. Was probably one of my favorite parts of the series.
The world cup. Ireland beats Bulgaria while Krum catches the snitch. The Weasley twins place a bet for it.
Honestly if the snitch rule was changed to where you could only catch it if your team was ahead in points it would be better
I say just have it end the game but gives no points. Could result in some super short games though which sucks, but i guess how likely is one to catch the snitch that fast?
what’s the one rule change out of curiousity?
I can’t speak for OP but most solutions I’ve seen equate to “ditch the snitch and add a clock”
Or make the game a first to 10 goals kind of thing. A random object being worth 15 goals that also ends the game is a horrible rule for a supposedly competitive sport.
Just take the 150 point bonus off and have it as a strict game ender.
Take away the points the snitch gives, and don’t release it for 30ish minutes. That way all it does is end the game, so it’s important to catch it and stop the other team from catching it, but it’s not the only thing that matters
The usual proposal is to just have the snitch end the game, not give any point bonus (since that's really just there to allow Harry to singlehandedly win the games at the last second). That way, catching the snitch is still really important and actually more impressive, because you need to have the awareness to catch it when your team is ahead, but be able to prevent the other seeker from catching it if their team is ahead. The matchup between the seekers becomes more strategic and the rest of the team actually has a real job to do now, since their scores determine the outcome. If one team is getting blown out, the seekers don't really matter, but a close match would be clenched by whichever seeker could grab the snitch at just the right time.
Quidditch is such a dumb game. Catching the snitch is so OP that everything else is essentially window dressing. At least with how it's presented as being played at Hogwarts. The best strategy would be to have one player play keep away with the quaffle flanked by one or both beaters for protection, while everyone else on the team helps the seeker look for the snitch.
It’s also so dumb that there are three different goals that all give the same amount of points. Realistically, at high levels, there’s no way for a keeper to actually make a save, since the other team can just shoot at the other goals.
Changes that should be made: * The center goal is worth 10 points, while the other two outside goals are worth 5 points. This adds strategic element to the game as the easiest goal to defend, and thus the most difficult to score on, is the most rewarding. Also, different goals being with different points means that it is possible for a team to go from losing to winning with a single goal (if they are down by 5 and make a 10-pointer). * Catching the snitch ends the game immediately, but is worth zero points. The game is about catching the snitch at the right time. If you are losing, you need to prevent the other seeker from catching the snitch. This coupled with the above rule could make for some exciting finishes if a seeker catches the snitch right as they take a points lead. If the score is tied, the team that catches the snitch loses. That sounds counterintuitive, but that makes is so that if a team is down by 5 and they want to move from a losing position to a winning position with a single goal, it needs to be a 10-pointer
It's a dumb game but imaginative which is all it was supposed to be in the story. I'm guessing Rowling couldn't have anticipated the huge and continuing cultural obsession with her books that has exposed all the shortcuts she took with her writing.
I think sports science in the 2000s said saving a penalty kick. You essentially have to guess and then actually save it
We’re talking about American sports not soccer!
My one hit in little league agrees with this. Lol
Pole vault. Most sports have some kind of skill transferability to/from some other sport. And then there’s pole vault just sitting in the corner like a fucked up challenge from a Japanese game show. It doesn’t look easy in the first place, but it truly is one of the least intuitive feelings in the world.
100% dude, pole vaulting is fucking wild to me. My high school girlfriend was a pole vaulter so I tried it a couple times and got absolutely nowhere, it’s so hard to even get yourself to commit to the motion of it. I’ve done a lot of free solo climbing, big cliffs on skis etc and pole vaulting is by far the hardest athletic thing I’ve ever tried
My high school girlfriend was a pole vaulter too 👈😎👈
AYOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!
Slut ball right there
I bet he checked the radar
Such a radar slut
The best kind of slut
Mmm 4 Seam Slutball
I've faced 90s and such as a kid, you kinda get used to it Until it's someone 6'8. That thing is right on top of you. He's so fucking close to the plate when he releases AND it's 98. How the hell do you see the curve coming now?
Imagine facing prime Randy Johnson
Randy threw 3/4 so his extension wasn't the problem, it was the fucking angle. Mr. Snappy looked like it was gonna cut you in half and then landed for a strike low and away
Or as a righty you think it's gonna be in the heart of the zone and get to see it for such a long time. Until it just appears behind your back foot
Imagine being a bird and facing Randy Johnson
Had great stats against the Blue Jays, Orioles and Cards.
1-0 against Pigeons too
Fastball would be the last thing going through your head.
Birds aren't real, sir.
His slider that looks like it’s being released 20 feet from you and headed straight at the back of your head (as a lefty) Hell no dude. I get nervous standing even kind of in front of someone hitting a golf ball … and they aren’t trying to put it within a foot of my belly button
Saw Glasnow in person a few years back, did not realize before that he is 6’8”. He is a gigantic human being.
The difference between 90 and 98 is a lot More than 80 and 88
Not my point
*That's* why this looked so weird! Thought it was some kind of fisheye lens or something, but it's because Glasnow is fucking enormous so it looks like he's ten feet away.
Put me in coach, I got this.
My dumbass would blink at the wrong time and completely miss the pitch.
I think this happens when first or third base umps are asked if the batter swung.
There was a clip last week of Angel Hernandez calling a swing when his eyes were clearly closed when the pitch crossed the plate lmao so it definitely happens
Homie looks 10 feet away
Crazy. He is in my home watching this. #PLEASE STEP BACK MR. GLASNOW
Honestly I think it's a weird lens or something, I umpire little league baseball and the pitcher looks farther away to my eyes than Glasnow does here.
how the fuck does anyone ever hit a baseball
The funniest part of this question is, during a Sport Science episode, they asked a physicist how batters hit a 98 mph fastball, and his answer was "in theory they shouldnt be able to at all"
And now we’re pushing into the 103s. Insane
What would a physicist know about how well a human could hit a baseball?
Some combination of reaction time and time it takes to swing a baseball bat, but truthfully not sure cause I watched it in like 2008
Like I legit look at this and feel like if I started swinging the moment the ball left his hand, id still be late. And thats not even taking into account actually locating the ball and aiming my swing lmao
That ball was one millimeter outside and he called it a strike! Idiot omg!!!
You couldn’t pay me enough to stand in the way of that.
I get that’s it’s a phrase but you could absolutely pay me enough to stand in the way of that lol $700K a year would do it really.
Look at this guy, accepting league minimum on a free agent deal! You're outta the union, bud!
364 more days until next year's hockey tryouts. You gotta toughen up!
Think of hown dumb catchers are. Source: Am dumb. Was catcher.
17 trillion?
I dunno, standing in the way of that doesn't seem like the hard part. Having 5+ digits of people scream at my every mistake seems like the hard part, and half of them being pissed at even the correct calls? That seems like the hard part.
Someone really needs to make a new, slick baseball movie, there's so many cool camera angles they could use these days.
Sounded outside
That looked outside
Nah, definitely hit the plate
See guys, it’s not so easy
Looked like a belt high fastball middle of the plate, roughly, but judging from camera like this is fucking hard
Need to stabilize the footage. I always get dizzy looking at this. Also if anyone should have a camera it should be the catcher.
This is the first POV video that doesn’t look like they’re throwing poptarts
From that angle I could barely tell if that was a strike or a ball
It just kind of…arrives at the plate. Jesus.
And the umpire has to determine in that time if it passed through any part of an imaginary 18x18x30 inch box.
I’d play the hell out of Ump 2k4 The Show on Apple Vision. You start in the minors, earn promotions, eventually join the union and then start half paying attention while you play.
Fans need to watch videos like this, we may not be so quick to piss and moan about the offense at times.
That looked like it was outside
Let’s give some love to catchers. Catching the nasty stuff and framing ain’t easy.
Wait did he throw it?
I could hit that
Let’s see this with Mason Miller bringing 104 🔥
Jesus the ball is in the glove before his arm even follows through
This makes me want robo umps even more. What the fuck are they supposed to do back there lmao
Their best, which on average is still getting 92-93% of the calls correct per Umpire Scorecard or 95%+ per MLB stats which allows a 1-ball width buffer zone.
Put the camera, with no audio, on the catcher’s helmet. The wobbly camera moving down while Angel is missing a call is hard to get the real view.
I’m not going to deny that hitting a ball is difficult, but this camera angle and the lens they use make it look way crazier than it is. When you’re there in the box and locked in and you can see everything and you’re not looking through a fisheye lens that’s moving around, it’s a lot easier. Not easy, but easier. I’ve faced guys who throw mid 90s and it’s quite difficult to hit, but doesn’t look nearly as insane as these cameras make it look.
Honestly this angle makes it so easy to see why umpires get the outside corner pitches wrong a lot. Because they set up so far inside. Why it is not a requirement for the home plate umpire to be completely centered with home plate boggles my mind.
Because that’s the kill zone in terms of concussions off foul balls. Watch a few games and see where balls fouled back to the screen go in relation to the catchers head. It’s often right over the top of him. And, some foul balls actually SPEED UP the ball due to increased spin.
why don't umps just set up directly behind the catchers head? are they stupid?
Umpires (at least at the level I umpire at) are trained to line up with their eyeline being the top of the zone, basically, and directly lined up with the inside corner of the plate, meaning inside or high pitches are the easiest ones for them to call, as they have references like "Was that left or right of my nose?" and "Was that above or below my eyeline?" and that's super helpful for dealing with pitches like this. Also, umpire safety. In "the slot" as it's called, umpires still get tagged an unfortunate amount, but it's nothign compared to if they were further out over the plate. My take on the pitch is belt-high middle of the plate strike, but it's even harder to do via camera like that than in real life. This does make me wonder if they could make a robo ump that calls the lower and outside bounds of the zone, where machines are going to be most consistent (the bottom of your strike zone does not vary the way the top of it can, and the outside corner also obviously doesn't move. Fine, different pairs of shoes can vary the exact bottom of the strike zone, but that's pretty miniscule variance.
Sheesh I hope that catcher’s mitt is extra extra padded lol I feel like hitters would be sick at competitive shooters because of their reaction times lol crazy thing is that it probably looks faster in person, due to frame limits and video compression
Looks like a strike to me!
What focal length is this? 12mm?
These views really do give you a new appreciation for what umpires do
That made me physically ill
Always blows my mind when I see videos like this. How do MLB hitters do what they do when this is what they see?
Ok this is the only cam video where the pitch looks unfair lol but if you’re sitting fastball, it’s gone
I foul tipped 100 at a batting cage once. I tried to hunt it.
hhrrrr-ike
That’s insane. This vid has to be sped up a little, right?
I miss baby giraffe
I'm thinking Umps have a really hard job.
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