What are your thoughts about the Strik Zone?

[Butnud]

I hate it. I liked last years better. Tino had a walk, but the Ump called him out. I don't like it.

[CJM]

That was a strike in any year.

[Butnud]

But that was too far inside....
He had to jack knife out of the way!

[ajc9goyanks]

They can move it where ever they want. It still comes down to consistency. Two umps never call the same pitch a strike twice. That makes it hard to tell what's a strike and what not. It has got to make any hitters job harder.

[CJM]

The reason you see hitters dive out of the way on balls in the strike zone so often now adays is because pitchers are afraid to pitch inside in this day and age and they let the hitters crowd the plate and become too comfortable.

I saw the ball hit the corner.It looked like a strike to me.It was too close to take with 2 strikes at the very least.

[Butnud]

Oh Okay!

It looked to inside to me!

[Sillycon]

It's really hard to tell. The camera angle doesn't really allow you to see if it nipped the plate. It LOOKS inside from the television angle but it could've past the plate. The ump's outside strikezone was ridiculous though. Some of those balls HAD to have been off the plate.

[IrishDancer]

Seems to me that SOME of those umps wouldn't know a ball if it flew up and stuck in their mask!

[OklaYankeeFan]

The "official" definition of a strike was always written, from the letters to the knees. That is the one they should call & umps ought to be graded on how consistently they call it correctly. Each ump having "his" strike zone is a bunch of dooty. I say it is about time! If this is really enforced consistently, Mo is gonna be unhittable. Personally, I say "cheers!"

[madforyanks]

On yesterday's game, which I saw at the Stadium and then went home and double checked what I'd gotten on my VCR. The zone wasn't consistent, period, but the two worst at-bats were Tino in the fourth and Ramiro's strikeout of Manny in the seventh (which should have happened two pitches earlier).

We thought at the time in the Stadium that Tino's "strike 1" was actually ball 4 and that strike 3 was a ball also; my videotape reading brought the same result. "Strike 1" shouldn't have been open to interpretation. "Strike 3" was closer, but still a ball.

When Ramiro's first pitch to Manny was called a ball, we shrieked, like everyone around us except the DeadSox fans, "where was that?" And when I saw what I'd taped, not only was the pitch over the plate at the knees but Bobby Murcer actually called it a strike and when he saw the official call repeated that it was "a ball over the plate." The only ball was the purpose brush-back pitch (and fortunately Manny struck at the final pitch, because that was the only other ball that wasn't in the zone).

[Eddie160]

Originally posted by OklaYankeeFan
The "official" definition of a strike was always written, from the letters to the knees. That is the one they should call & umps ought to be graded on how consistently they call it correctly. Each ump having "his" strike zone is a bunch of dooty. I say it is about time! If this is really enforced consistently, Mo is gonna be unhittable. Personally, I say "cheers!"

I agree with you OYF if they haven't changed the rules why is it a new strike zone?

[JeanC]

Im not crazy about the stretched out of the sockets tip of the bat (outside corner) being called a strike! If they are gonna do that why not rename the game cricket!

Also Its rediculous how low some of these striked are called sometimes I mean ok the knees but then the shins???!!!

Nah!!!! Rediculous!