Might as well pull Framber.
He’s done his job. Over 100 pitches, second week of the season, up 8 to 2. Get him out of there.
Wow, that was a great play by Framber
Wow. Now throw the double play pitch.
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Everything about that play screams six week injury. The Astros were lucky to get the out and that nobody got hurt.
I’ll allow it
Good call.
Dubon has found his stroke.
He’s had a really nice game, with the bat and the glove.
Man, this ump is a testament to Robo umps.
Good win tonight.
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Love these East Coast games…made dinner, did the dishes, watched the Astros win, and hit the sack before 8:30.
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It’s a whole new world when I say “this game is still going?” at the 2:40 mark
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My good buddy here in Austin (a fair weather arlington mouth-breathers backer, like they mostly are), serendipitously met his now wife one night while we were out in Austin in ‘12. She’s from Pittsburgh, a huge Pittsburgh sports fan, bless her heart, and their wedding was in downtown Pittsburgh as well as up on Mount Washington. It was one of the best weddings I’ve ever been in or attended and we all even attended a Steelers game that weekend (I gladly wore my Houston Oilers hat to it- fuck the Steelers and Mike Renfro will always be inbounds).
Having flown in and out of Pittsburgh countless times in my airline career, I can say they have a superb aeropuerto and a very, very fun city, despite there being so many fucking Steelers fans there.
Can’t wait to see a game at PNC some time.
Fantastic MLB park for a AAA team.
Solid win, Astros.
Pittsburgh was a stop on the ballparks trip my friend and I take. As many have said, the ballpark and its setting are great, and the view toward the outfield from the stands at sundown is beautiful. The area walkable from the ballpark and our hotel (thanks to Gordon’s rec, our hotel was adjacent to the water just across the street from the bridge to the ballpark) was fun. We went to craft beer places a local friend of a friend steered us to, and there was good food in that area also. I liked the part of Pittsburgh I was in a lot, and the ballpark is right up there with Camden Yards for me.
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The challenge system sounds nice until you realize that tho will be 30 challenges a game with fucksticks like this.
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From what I’ve seen in the minors, when a team elects to challenge a strike call it’s usually at the insistence of the batter who knows he just got jobbed, the batter appeals to the bench and someone on the bench signals to the umpire that they want to challenge, the umpire signals upstairs for the challenge and the decision (almost invariably a correction) is delivered nearly instantly. This might seem like a laborious process, but it takes seconds, and I think this would be a tremendous improvement to what we have now which is home plate umpires can do whatever the hell they want with zero consequences and zero possibility of correcting egregious mistakes, of which most every game features more than a few.
I think these sorts of challenges should be liberally allocated to teams, and that teams should keep however many they have until they lose a challenge and then they have one fewer than the, say, five they started with. You get some fuckwit behind the plate who keeps getting his idiotic calls overturned by both teams for all the world to see and to get posted on Twitter every night, that’s about as close to accounability as we’re going to get with these thugs. It’s either that or roboumps, and I’m OK with that, too.
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And there absolutely needs to be some type of accountability for umpires.
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The idea is that each team will have a severely limited number of challenges.
I think it’s a really good idea, FWIW.