{"id":78,"date":"2009-10-27T18:48:33","date_gmt":"2009-10-28T00:48:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.zukland.com\/?p=78"},"modified":"2009-10-27T18:48:33","modified_gmt":"2009-10-28T00:48:33","slug":"and-speaking-of-baseball","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zukland.com\/?p=78","title":{"rendered":"And speaking of baseball&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Doesn&#8217;t it seem odd that last year, while the debate about adding instant replay was going on, suddenly the Umps start blowing home run calls, one for the Mets, one for the Yankees, and one for the Phillies.  Baseball adds instant replay for home runs to the 2008 playoffs.<\/p>\n<p>Now, with a push to expand instant replay, all of the sudden all the Umps in the 2009 playoffs are deaf, blind, and dumb.  I&#8217;ve never seen umpiring this bad.  The bizarre thing is, in the past and without instant replay, the umps would almost always get even the closest plays right &#8212; calls that, before I saw a replay in slow-mo, I was sure they&#8217;d gotten wrong.<\/p>\n<p>Maybe it&#8217;s just a coincidence&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Doesn&#8217;t it seem odd that last year, while the debate about adding instant replay was going on, suddenly the Umps start blowing home run calls, one for the Mets, one for the Yankees, and one for the Phillies. Baseball adds instant replay for home runs to the 2008 playoffs. Now, with a push to expand [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-78","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zukland.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zukland.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zukland.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zukland.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zukland.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=78"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.zukland.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zukland.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=78"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zukland.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=78"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zukland.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=78"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}