So for us non-legal types…what is the significance of a default judgement?
It means the defendant never showed up in response to being sued. Essentially a win by forfeit for West.
I understand what a default judgement is, was just wondering if there was some significance, implied or otherwise, to that, and if there is anything different legally because it was by default.
Ah. Default judgments are suspect because nobody mounted a defense and the court has to take what the plaintiff alleged as true.
I guess where I’m going with this is projecting to other areas. You can guess where. Kind of…if you don’t defend yourself against the Kraken now, does it somehow impair your ability to argue against it in another case later on? That kind of thing.
I know you won’t change you mind no matter what, but Jomboy used the same video feeds that the MLB uses/has access to, and showed it was absolutely the wrong call to call him safe.
The point is that replay took 100 percent proof of one thing and then took a shit all over the results.
Again, I’m not arguing they got the call correct. I’m arguing that replay will not eliminate all close and controversial calls, and that them occasionally missing a call like this one is not reason enough to eliminate replay. You’re right about that.
And again, you’re not reading what I wrote. It wasn’t close. The synched 3 shots the MLB had showed, IRRIFUTABLY he missed the plate by 3-4 inches. Not controversial, never might’ve touched it, never could’ve touched it. He whiffed and was out. Full stop.
I don’t want to remove replay, but they have to get the calls they should get right right or it’s not a useful tool.
I read what you wrote. I understand. I get that you don’t like the call.
Dude. It has nothing to do with not liking it.
It was the WRONG call.
God damn, dude.
I get that. I’m not arguing otherwise.
So I read where West argued that the story cannot possibly be true, as he never called a game in which Wagner pitched against the Phillies in 2006 or 2007, the two years Lo Duca was with the Mets. A cursory search through baseball-reference corroborates West’s claim. So it seemed to be pretty easy to verify that part of the story was not true. Could Lo Duca have claimed maybe he misremembered it being against the Phillies, but the rest of the story is true? Don’t know. But given how he didn’t attempt to defend the suit, seems pretty telling.
Yeah – I WANT to believe that West is on the take, just because he is such a horrible umpire in every other respect. That does not make it so, though.
What was the substance of Lo Duca’s claim? I’d never heard about this.
The defendant does not file an answer by the required time. He does nothing and allows the judgment to happen.
Lo Duca was the defendant. West sued him for defamation for LD’s telling a story which said West was bribed to cheat on the strike zone in favor of Billy Wagner.
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In short…Lo Duca claimed that West agreed to widen the strike zone for Wagner in exchange for using Wagner’s classic car when he was in NYC. Lo Duca claims he was told of the deal by Wagner himself. Don’t know if Wagner was part of any of this suit in any way. Has he weighed in on this at all? I haven’t seen it anywhere if he has.
Sounds like Wagner isn’t helping LoDuca out:
In the judge’s ruling, he noted Wagner provided an affidavit in December “in which he essentially denied that the conversation described by Lo Duca had ever occurred.”
They’re the arlington mouth-breathers for a reason…
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