I heard someone suggest on the radio today that it seems like umpires are making more bad calls than ever lately... but maybe that aren't really. Maybe the HD technology and more and more cameras to show multiple angles are making it easier for fans to see the play on TV. So it only seems like they are getting calls wrong more often when before the two or three camera angles wouldn't catch it and fans didn't have a chance to get riled up over it.

HD or not, if they're getting calls wrong, they're getting calls wrong. And it DOES seem more often lately than ever, and it shouldn't matter that WE didn't notice before. These "trained professionals", however, are also human. Not one of us could do that job any better in real-time without video review. But in playoff games and WS games and other games that really matter, they really seem to screw up A LOT -- and in those cases I wouldn't mind reviews. But then the 5-hour games would become 6-hour games.

The 4 best sports teams in the world.

BASEBALL

Go Yankees!

BASKETBALL

Go Warriors!

FOOTBALL

Go Niners!

HOCKEY

Go Sharks!

Niners?????

And what's Hockey? Who cares.

And most importantly... what's this BS have to do with the World Series, the topic you posted to?

Just postin' my fav sport teams, which one is the yanks who are kicking butt.

Woohoo! Series 2-1 Yanks

I can't believe at exactly 12:30AM -- in the 9th inning -- all of a sudden the game shuts off cuz the TV thought another show was on and my brother's parental controls were blocking it!!!

Another game that I ended up falling asleep from. I guess it makes a big difference when your favorite team isn't in the Series. D'uhhh.

From what I saw, it looks like the Yanks are unbeatable (sorry, klyd).

I was glad to see that the Replay was used (for ARod's home run) so successfully.

Go Yankees! 9 down, 2 to go!!

Yanks up 2 that's good with CC today.

Fox really has to do something about its announcing team of Joe Vuck and Tim Early-Stages of Alzheimers-McCarvery. Vuck doesn't shut up with innane opinions and McC gets everything wrong. For instance, 0-2 on Feliz. McC says, Pedro likes the ball inside, so look for this pitch to be away. Then you see Posada set up inside, the pitch is down and in, strike 3....oops Timmy, wrong again. Vuck mentions setting your clock back and Timmy says, yeah, you don't want to be late for the game. Duh, if you don't set your clock back, you'll be EARLY.

And another thing. If A-Rods homer hit the camera, why don't they have the video from that camera? That would have been a great shot. They didn't even mention the possibility. Maybe it was a Japanese TV crew, but they could have mentioned it.

They showed the replay from THAT camera as well. It was VERY hard to see the ball hit the lens (because of the focus ~ the ball wasn't in contact with the lens long enough for the camera to autofocus).

Lidge...

reminds me of gregg...fucking gregg

This is a weird feeling rooting for the Yankees for the first time in my life.

Ohhh, Lidge.

One shot they showed of him in the dugout gave me a surprising feeling of sadness for him. I used to be really bitter about his screw-ups, but now I just feel bad.

I don't feel bad

And JL, what's your beef with Philly??

Go Yankees! 10 down, 1 to go!!!

Well, our backs are against the wall, but I haven't given up hope. I'm hoping Lee on full rest can hold down the yankees, and Burnett on short rest can turn back into Mr. Hyde. I figure that with the yankees on short rest the rest of the series, the middle relief may be more of a factor. The way to look at it is you don't have to win three in a row - just win the next one.

It was a good game last night. Hats off to Damon for hanging in there to get the ninth inning hit.

A friend of mine went to the Eagle game across the parking lot, and hung out in a nearby sports bar with his brother, went to Citizen's Bank Park and picked up tickets from a scalper for $150 each. They stood at the end of the first level, between home and third, and no sooner did they get there that A-Rod was plunked. This, he called to tell me, started an argument between fans that led to a thrown bottle (plastic), which led to early ejections from the park for a couple of fans. My friend and his brother were first to pounce on the vacated seats.

Damon has been fantastic. He's made some great plays at very critical times. I know that ARod's having his first great postseason, and I'm not trying to put him down, but he's young and I think he has lots of postseason games ahead of him. I'd like to see Damon get the series MVP if the Yankees win. I don't think it will ever happen, but it would be nice.

Rooting for Philly would be like you rooting for the Red Sox. And most, but not all, Philly fans are assholes.

I can understand Lou's hatred of the Phillies. If you took your girlfriend out to dinner every week, and some guy would eat your dinner, take your girl and leave you holding the bill, you'd hate him too.

Let's not get carried away. The Phillies have only won 2 Championships in 100+ years. Not exactly the league's most successful franchise.

Would somebody wake up the Phillies!

It may help them tonight, oli, with Lee going, but I'm afraid your rallying cry is to little, too late.

hey! i take offence to that, and im not even a phillies fan

There's really not much to take offense to since it is the truth.

No offense taken. The 10,000 losses don't bother me. It could be a lot worse...like looking at the future as a Met fan.

I'm not worried about the future of the Mets. As long as they willing to open their wallets, they will never be bad. This year was a fluke, where every single star on the team was hurt for extended periods of time.

so if this year was a fluke then what happend last year, and the year before...and the year before that?

It's just like the Cubs, BAM. A hundred years of flukes.

Well, hope lives another day. I think the Yankees' chances to win is better with Pettitte in 6 than CC in 7. Andy is a big game pitcher, but it will be interesting to see if he can bring the same stuff deep into the game that he used to. He hasn't gone on three days' rest for a few years, and at 37 there is a possibility that the tank will run out sooner. Burnett had very poor command, and the short rest was certainly a factor.

Some thoughts so far:

Johnny Damon is the toughest out in the Yankee lineup. He is as much reactive as he is proactive. He works the count and is as good with 2 strikes as he is with none.

There's no secret about how to beat the Yanks. It's preventing situations that allow Rivera to enter the game. The turning point of the series is the 9th inning of Game 4 when Damon started the rally. Had he gotten out, the Phillies would have faced someone other than Rivera with a tie score in the bottom of the ninth.

Chase Utley is the best player on the field...for either team. He has a realistic possibility of retiring from the game some day as the greatest secondbaseman ever.

The series always invites overanalysis by the media. If you don't get a hit in a couple of games, it's a slump and there's a major problem. I have the same faith in Howard and Teixeira (who was unfairly maligned by the Daily News cover today) as I did before the series started.

Eric Hinske has now played in his third consecutive world series for three different teams (Red Sox '07, Rays '08, and Yankees '09). The onl other player to do this was Don Baylor (Red Sox '86, Twins '87 and A's '88).

Something to keep in mind when they talk about recent postseason records is that new records only bear relevance to baseball history from 1995-present since that is the period where two rounds of playoffs began. Also, keep in mind that there were never any playoffs for players until 1969, and if you want to get technical, league championship series were best of 5 until 1985 when Kansas City inmmediately benefited by falling down 3-2 in the LCS before winning the last two games.

If Victorino can't go because of the injured finger, it would have multiple consequences. The Phillies, who do not have a DH, can make do by inserting Francisco in left and DHing Ibanez. Without Victorino Francisco has to play center, Ibanez plays in left and they'd have to use either a lefty or insert a weak hitting righthanded batter.

With Cabrera's injured hamstring keeping him out of the rest of the series, it probably wasn't advisable to be jumping around all over the dugout with a few teammates before the game.