College strike zone, Sheeeesh

[_MIA_]

Bama has on of the hardest infields in the SEC - Michele Smith three times in two days

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Well, do they? Maybe everybody didn’t have a chance to watch every inning two days in a row..

 

[Westwind]

Bama has on of the hardest infields in the SEC - Michele Smith three times in two days

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She has a set of general comments she wrote on slips of paper and pulls out of a fish bowl. She just says whatever is on the slip of paper, they are all statements like a fortune teller would say, they fit most situations.

Shes talking about some pitcher from the 1800’s right now.

 

[marriard]

I've watched a lot of college softball out of the gate this year D1 and some D2...am I crazy, or is the strike zone embarrassingly wide. Like holy shirt calling strikes on the inside chalk wide. It's ridiculous, on top of drop pitches almost in the dirt called strikes. STOP helping the pitchers, if the scores averages are up, so be it...call the zone properly. CRIPES

Sunday rant over

Yep, you crazy.

Seen a lot of games, called quite a few. No D1, but some D2
A lot of the same people calling the same zones they always do.
Good curve ball strike on the outside edge will be caught in opposite batter box by the catcher. That's a strike. They WANT us to call that.
If you are in the crowd, it doesn't matter where you are, you don't have the view the umpire has - even if you regularly umpire.
If you are watching on TV, you absolutely can't tell - the angles are so deceiving.

I am the opposite to you - still seeing way too many "I am calling college, strike zone is going to be smaller" umpires - hate that. They have been telling the umpires for several years to stop doing that, but some people are just stubborn and as long as they continue to get games they are not going to change.

 

[Westwind]

Well, do they? Maybe everybody didn’t have a chance to watch every inning two days in a row..

Underperformers, lol

 

[_MIA_]

Underperformers, lol

Yeah..some of us don’t buy our boxers from the Official Undergarment Store of the SEC

 

[Gtrips07]

She has a set of general comments she wrote on slips of paper and pulls out of a fish bowl. She just says whatever is on the slip of paper, they are all statements like a fortune teller would say, they fit most situations.

Shes talking about some pitcher from the 1800’s right now.

Agreed, it is like a comic with no new material. Same comments every week every year.

Just like pattar.

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[_MIA_]

Agreed, it is like a comic with no new material. Same comments every week every year.

Just like pattar.

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When you have material that works for its intended purpose you stick with it.

 

[Tango]

I haven’t seen a drop ball called a strike that the catcher caught below the knees this year.

 

[Rolling Hard]

My worse complaint is umps that want to make the game even so they shrink the zone for the stud pitcher and widen the zone for the weaker pitcher/team.

 

[mmeece]

I've watched a lot of college softball out of the gate this year D1 and some D2...am I crazy, or is the strike zone embarrassingly wide. Like holy shirt calling strikes on the inside chalk wide. It's ridiculous, on top of drop pitches almost in the dirt called strikes. STOP helping the pitchers, if the scores averages are up, so be it...call the zone properly. CRIPES

Sunday rant over

I've watched quite a few games and I haven't seen a single game in which the zone was too big, but many where I thought the zone was MUCH too small. In many of the games I've watched It seemed like the umpire wanted the entire ball on the plate to call a strike.