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Old 05-31-2006, 08:39 PM   #1
FalcWP
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Join Date: May 2006
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Getting a lot of strange play-by-play calls

I'm getting a lot of very odd play-by-play calls, such as:

With a fairly slow (7 out of 20) runner on second, and another guy on third: "fastball popped up... on the infield... base hit for Carl Findley... Sonoda scores on the play... Urbina takes third... around third and on his way home is Urbina... no chance to get Urbina, so Moreiras does not risk a throw... he scores." No chance to throw out a slow runner going from second, on a pop up to short?!

Another one... "A big hack by the batter... Samson is fooled... tries to check his swing..." How can you have a big hack *and* a check swing?

This one was strange for two reasons: "Davis camps under the ball... he reaches up and puts it away... two down... the runner is too far off second base... he fires the ball to second base... Crause is called out!" First, why would someone be too far off the base if the fielder could camp under the ball? And second... there was nobody named Davis (first name or last) on the field.

At another point, one player homered. Next player struck out. Third guy up homered... and the play-by-play said that they went deep back-to-back.

Here's one with an obscenely slow runner (2/20) on second, with nobody out. "Someone should be able to get to this... Samson has it in his glove... he drops it! That was a playable ball, but he couldn't come up with it. He commits his 1st error of the season at Second Base... Sells heads to third base... Sells crosses the plate." Scoring from second on a booted ball by the second baseman, when you aren't running on contact? Jose Reyes would have trouble pulling that off.

Things like this don't ruin the game or anything, but it really kills the atmosphere when completely illogical things happen in the play-by-play.

Last edited by FalcWP; 05-31-2006 at 09:30 PM.
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