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00:00It's a high towering drive. It is out of here. And this game is tied.
00:14Wait a minute. Wait, we're reviewing some things apparently? Hold up.
00:23After review, the call on the field is overturned.
00:27Now, back to Dillard and Wibs on 95.7 The Game.
00:42I hate it. I've always hated it. And you know this, Mark. You know this about me.
00:47We're gonna get the calls right. No, you don't. No, you don't. No, you don't. I hate it.
00:54I'm so mad at baseball. I don't like being mad.
00:58I'm mad at replay.
01:00I just don't, but all of it. I'm mad at Brandon, I'm mad at his index finger twirling in the air.
01:09I'm mad at umpires who waddle over to put headsets on. I'm mad at NFL officials who peer into monitors.
01:18I'm mad at all of it. Yeah, I hear you.
01:20I hear you. Because you don't get it right.
01:22And yesterday was just like, we keep thinking about how many different ways the Giants can lose games.
01:28And this one was, I mean, yes, it was their fault because then they imploded as they have of late.
01:34But that's a home run.
01:36Of course, it's a home run.
01:37It's a home run.
01:39Of course, it's a home run.
01:41The one thing it's not is an out.
01:43I just...
01:44Freaking idiots.
01:45It's also not a double.
01:47But it's...
01:48It's not a double.
01:49Like, of the three outcomes...
01:50It's the first double in the history of ever that a fan caught the ball on the fly on the other side of the fence
01:58and somebody went, that's double.
02:01That's never happened...
02:02Somebody explain to me when that's ever happened in the history of the game ever.
02:05I came out of this thing mad at five different things.
02:10Literally.
02:11Replay is one of them.
02:14Secondly, why do you have a situation where fans can reach onto the field?
02:22Why is that a thing?
02:23Right.
02:24Why is that a thing?
02:26That shouldn't be a thing.
02:29That should not...
02:31Like, there's no other sport in the world where they're like, alright, buy a ticket and you too can be a part of the game.
02:39Just come on the field.
02:41Like, let's start reaching for pucks in hockey.
02:46Or, let's start tripping players in the NBA.
02:50Like, what on earth...
02:51I mean, Pods actually is part of WNBA games.
02:54But, anyway, why is that a thing?
02:58Why, baseball umpires, are we not allowed to talk to you?
03:03When you keep messing up...
03:07Like, I'm walking to work on a daily basis with nothing but advertisements with pictures of fake people who apparently are going to replace all of the jobs in the next 10 to 20 years.
03:20And people are, like, terrified of this.
03:23But we won't replace umpires.
03:25Or we won't even question them.
03:27We won't even talk to them.
03:29We have all the technology in the world and seemingly cannot figure out how to utilize it.
03:35Somewhere along the road, every time there's a baseball game, I end up mad at baseball.
03:42And that also does not give a waiver to the Giants who somehow allowed them to come out of the replay situation, announce this thing as you just heard Grandy play.
03:54And the camera immediately goes to Bob Melvin, and Melvin's like, alright.
03:59Alright, Koss is at second.
04:01We need a pinch runner.
04:02Right.
04:03Koss is at second.
04:04We need a pinch runner because he got hurt before he got into his trot.
04:09Almost out of the box.
04:10Out of the box.
04:11Yeah.
04:12Out of the box.
04:13He's hurt.
04:14And it's like, the fact that I am heartbroken over the loss of Christian Koss, no disrespect to him, but he had become their most surefire hitter.
04:24Not the guy making nine figures.
04:27Not the other guy making nine figures.
04:30Not the guy you gave a six-year deal to in center field who was supposed to be a better hitter.
04:36Chris Koss has made me heartbroken.
04:39He's made me slump, slump, because he's going to be out.
04:43So that feeling in and of itself, Mark, had me like, so Koss needs to get pinch run for.
04:49And you could tell right away, oh, that's going to probably cost him a week.
04:52Yeah.
04:53Or more.
04:54And now he's on the 10-day.
04:55He's on the IL.
04:56And I'm thinking, they're going to be without Koss?
04:58And I heard myself say that to myself, and I'm like, listen to what you're saying inside your own head.
05:02You're devastated that Christian Koss is going to be out?
05:05Is that where we are as an offense?
05:07In a week and a half ago, I was begging them to send him back down.
05:10Yep.
05:11And now...
05:12All he does is hit line drives and home runs that are doubles.
05:14And he's the only person in the world who can play third base, apparently.
05:17Well...
05:18He's playing third base.
05:19And oh, by the way, Buster Posey did just get...
05:22He's talking to the media in Arizona.
05:24He was just quoted and said, yes, Rafi Devers is now an option.
05:27We're going to have to have Rafi Devers as an option to play third base.
05:31Because I didn't even think about this.
05:33If they're playing Wilmer at third base tonight, they're not playing him there two nights in a row.
05:36They won't do that.
05:37They get a day game on Thursday.
05:39They're not doing that.
05:40They're not putting Wilmer over there to play every night.
05:43He has no knees.
05:45They're going to have to play Rafi Devers over there.
05:47Which completely interrupts all the work he's been trying to do to get ready to go play first base.
05:52Now he's going to go back to playing third base.
05:55The Giants now will flip-flop back and forth between two guys who have played third base before, but aren't really very good at it.
06:02And so that's what we got until Chapman gets back, which is probably only a week.
06:06So like, in theory, this will go away quickly.
06:09But yeah, that's what we got.
06:12I mean, it's just...
06:14It's unbelievable right now.
06:16The Giants game starts, and it's not like...
06:19I know the thing you keep saying, oh, we've got to find new ways to lose.
06:24Ah, that's not it.
06:26It's find new ways to tick the fans off on a nightly basis.
06:32Well, no, it's not just the losses.
06:34It's the way they're happening.
06:36And then the things that are also happening around them.
06:39I don't want this to sound like complaining about umps because the Giants get breaks that go their direction, too.
06:45It happened in the Red Sox series.
06:47I'm not complaining that the umps have taken something from the Giants.
06:50I just can't stand the umps.
06:52No matter what the hell they're calling.
06:55The league seems to consistently have this ability to not be in touch with its fans.
07:02To not connect with its fans.
07:04To not understand what the hell's going on around it.
07:07And it's literally what's causing this slow death of the league.
07:12You can't do stuff like this.
07:14And then, by the way, we didn't even mention that video seems to be showing that this dude just has seats out there in the front row of the left field.
07:23And he does this twice a year.
07:25There's video of him.
07:27He took a home run from Joey Bart a couple years ago.
07:30No.
07:31Yes.
07:32Yes.
07:33As a pirate or as a giant?
07:34As a giant.
07:35Oh, no.
07:36The same guy.
07:37It's the same guy.
07:39Like five times.
07:40And it has consistently led to...
07:42Antioch train.
07:43Antioch train.
07:44Ground rule doubles and confusion.
07:46And he gets kicked out every time.
07:48But he's back tomorrow.
07:50He'll probably be there tonight.
07:52Yeah.
07:53I mean...
07:54What are you all doing?
07:57What are we doing?
07:59That's right.
08:00What are we doing?
08:01We are...
08:02Good lord.
08:03We've created in almost every ballpark and almost every outfield home run fence, we have this exact same thing.
08:09I know it's not every park.
08:11And I'm thinking about Wrigley, where you've got the beautiful ivy.
08:14You've got about a two foot chain link fence.
08:16Yep.
08:17And then you've got a little bit of a buffer.
08:19If you're a fan and you really want to get out and up and over, that's going to be a stretch.
08:24You're going to have to have somebody hold your feet.
08:26Yeah, you can't.
08:27It's a long way for you to go.
08:28Oh, dude, you'll get so hurt.
08:29Yeah.
08:30Right.
08:31And even like at the Monsta, if you have seats on top of the green monster, like...
08:35That's terrifying.
08:36Yeah, go ahead.
08:37Good luck.
08:38That's death.
08:39That is death.
08:40So every park has its own nuance and the whole yellow line becomes so nebulous.
08:43Last night, even beyond the umps huddling and calling it out, I'm watching the game with my wife.
08:50We had just put the baby down, and I'm like, the one thing that's not isn't out.
08:55And I'm starting to rant and rave, and she's looking up from her phone like, what's wrong with you?
08:59Because she's into the Giants, but less and less so now with each passing day.
09:03She watches it with me, and she's like...
09:05Yeah.
09:06She's saying things like...
09:07Good for her.
09:08She's mad.
09:09She doesn't want to be stressed out every night.
09:10They stink, this is disgusting, and the rest of it, and so I'm like, the one thing that
09:14is not is an out.
09:16Like, if you want to call it a double, you're wrong.
09:18But I could see you calling it a double, you're wrong.
09:21The one thing you can't say is that's an out.
09:24Literally, he didn't catch the ball.
09:26I mean...
09:27Like, so I'm with you.
09:29It's replay, it's the damn yellow line instead of a real home run fence, and I can't help
09:35but think about our company softball game where Guru hit a home run, and there was
09:40a fence, but the fence was not like, hey, it's over the fence, and it's down the street.
09:45It was over the fence, but I could see an umpire saying, oh, that snuck under the fence.
09:50Shut up!
09:51I know.
09:52Quite frankly, how the hell, if you're all old enough to remember the Steve Bartman situation
09:57in Chicago with Moise Alou, you know what I'm talking about, right, Grandy?
10:02Oh, of course.
10:03He does, but I don't think he's old enough to have watched it.
10:06Or whatever.
10:07I don't remember watching it live.
10:08As long as you know what happened there, how the hell did that not become the last day
10:14ever that a fan can reach onto the field?
10:18That should have been the last time in the history of baseball that that can ever happen.
10:24Like, and everybody just went, oh, that's a cute story there.
10:28Now this guy, like the Cubs are going to get knocked out of the playoffs, and this guy
10:32can never leave his house for the rest of his life.
10:34I think he lives in, I don't know, like Kentucky or something now, or hell, maybe in Europe.
10:41I mean, maybe he's in Turkey.
10:42Like, literally, the guy could not leave his house.
10:45They actually brought him back a couple years ago.
10:47Yeah, because it's finally calmed down.
10:49Right.
10:50After a decade and a half.
10:51The other one is the Jeffrey Mayer incident.
10:53Yes, in New York.
10:54In 1996, Jeter hits a ball, and this 12-year-old fan blatantly reaches over.
11:00And again, the umpires, that's a home run.
11:02No, it's not.
11:03The kid is, like, literally stretched out over Tony Tarasco, and it's a home run.
11:08So, yes, like, I don't know why it is so hard to fix.
11:12It's really not.
11:13Just go ahead and move people back.
11:15You still will have a great seat.
11:17Well, and the bottom line is, is you'll never convince me that baseball, like, managers, how are they?
11:24They're sitting on the field level and off to the side.
11:27So, the fact that, for instance, Bob Melvin comes out, and I want to talk to this about everybody, because there is some developing news with regard to not just the fact that his option was picked up, but why.
11:38Buster Posey has explained himself, because your thought on timing and my thought on timing were kind of proven right by what Buster just said.
11:50We'll let you know here in a second.
11:52But Bob Melvin comes out and gets thrown out while all of us are at commercial because Elliot Ramos is called out on strikes on a ball that was clearly two inches outside.
12:03Okay, fine.
12:04It's two inches outside.
12:06That happens eight times a game, first and foremost.
12:10That happens every night.
12:11Yep.
12:12So, why did you go get thrown out?
12:13And how is it that you, sitting in a dugout, off to the side, are so flippin' confident that that ball wasn't in the strike zone?
12:21How do you know that?
12:22Well, that's because there's analytics people.
12:24That's because there are cameras.
12:26That's because there is information being passed along to the coaches on the spot.
12:32And therefore, I am of the belief that they're being told.
12:35That was outside.
12:36We saw it in the box.
12:38It's outside.
12:39So now Melvin goes out to protect his guy and scream and yell about that.
12:44Well, too late.
12:45Too late.
12:46Too late.
12:47That's something that is going to happen in every baseball game until we have robo-umps and until balls and strikes in the box are reviewable.
12:56But the fact that you sat there so calmly when a game-tying home run in the eighth inning was ruled as a concocted double is wild to me.
13:10That is your opportunity to make that play a story.
13:14It's your opportunity to make it fixable.
13:17To get everybody in the nation talking about that play.
13:21It's almost your obligation.
13:23You have got to get out on the field and lose your mind.
13:28And it's not to flip the spread and inspire your team.
13:32It's to show baseball and the umpires up for stuff that just flat out can't happen anymore.
13:37We cannot have balls getting hit out into the stands, having fans catching them on the fly, and then having umpires decide that that's a double in a one-run game in the eighth inning.
13:48We can't do this.
13:50This is a no from me dog.
13:53You cannot have that be a part of your game.
13:56It's embarrassing.
13:57It's embarrassing.
13:59You're in New York staring at angles trying to figure out what a ball would have done if Bob in Section 317 didn't get in the way.
14:08Are you kidding me?
14:10There's way too much on the line for this.
14:13We can't.
14:14You can't do this.
14:15Especially when you're in this spot in this situation where you are desperate for a victory.
14:20You're coming off a one in five stretch against two of the worst teams in baseball.
14:24And now here you are division rival.
14:27And if Arizona sweeps you, you are now in fourth in the West where, you know, three weeks ago, you were right behind the Dodgers.
14:34You were knocking on their door and they probably wouldn't have answered your knock, but at least you were threatening.
14:39And now you go to Arizona and you have this happen.
14:43And I'm looking at the umpire scorecard for the game.
14:46I don't know if you follow, uh, ump scorecards on Twitter.
14:50Oh, it's a great account.
14:51And what they do is they give you the accuracy of an umpire and the real good metric is the overall favor.
14:59And in this game, Arizona got a 0.94 runs favored their way, which is a pretty big number.
15:06Now the accuracy is plus it's also inaccurate.
15:08They got a 1.94 runs favor because this is just the strike zone.
15:12I know exactly.
15:13Well, I'd like to add in the home run.
15:15They took away.
15:16They highlight the three most impactful missed calls in the strike zone.
15:20And the most impactful was the Militar Ramos, uh, strike three.
15:24The one that Melvin got thrown out.
15:26That was about two inches inside according to this graphic.
15:29But it's a good follow on X if you're interested in just seeing, like if you feel like your team got screwed or your team got a favorable strike zone, this is a good way to look at it and you get a good idea.
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