Pitcher thinks runner has his signs so tells him to shut the f up, a breakdown 7:29
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Note: https://seatgeek.com/ is promoted in the video and is likely paying Jomboy to encourage people to attend MLB games.
WARNING: this youtube.com video will make your teeth hurt, it's so boring. What's pathetic is that "Jomboy" drones on with his scintillating interpretation of the finger signs being given by the catcher to the pitcher who has increasing difficulty understanding, magnified by the pitcher's paranoia that the base runner at second base is understanding the signs and communicating that information to the batter, all of which is within the rules.
Jomboy mutilates the Giant batter-runner so badly that you're not sure who he is. Finally, all those letters gives us a big hint: the grandson of almost 82 year old Hall of Famer Carl Yastrzemski: almost 30 year old Mike Yastrzemski, a member of the San Francisco Giants. If Jomboy mentions when the game was played, I didn't get it but it may be this, in which Mike Yaz hits a double:
The pitcher appears to be Johan Oviedo, number 59, the starting pitcher. Oviedo goes 4 innings and is the losing pitcher bringing his record to 0-5, ERA 5.09, which may account for his ill temper, none of which is addressed by Jomboy. That would make the Cardinal catcher 26 year old Andrew Knizner, not 39 year old 18 year veteran starting catcher Yadier Molina. Jomboy mentions none of this.
In the bottom of the second with the score tied 1-1 and two out Mike Yaz doubled in a run. That brought up the number three Giant batter, Wilmer Flores. Wilmer Flores, batting third? Wilmer Flores is the Met who cried at Shea Stadium, or whatever the Met ballpark is called, when he thought that he had been traded in 2018. Whatever.
Jomboy tries to interpret the finger wiggling ad nauseam. Jomboy can't show off his knowledge enough. But here's the thing: who gives a rat's ass? It's grown men communicating with their fingers. And Jomboy is celebrating this. He uses this as an example of why you should attend games. Nobody at the ballpark can even see that catcher wiggling his fingers, much less know what the signals mean. Anybody with any sense just wants the dopey pitcher to stop jerking around and throw the damn ball.
And this is the heart of the Houston Astros scandal of recent years. The initial solution envisioned by MLB commissioner Rob Manfred, the A-Rod Slayer: less technology. Ah, but wait:
MLB to test electronic device for catchers to give signals to pitchers July 23, 2021
Alden Gonzalez, ESPN Staff Writer
Major League Baseball will begin testing new technology that allows catchers to electronically communicate signs to pitchers at one of the lower minor league levels within the next couple of weeks, a system designed to both quicken the pace of play and suppress illegal sign-stealing methods...
Low-A West ... begin testing on Aug. 3 a pitcher-catcher communication device developed by a company called PitchCom...
The system, which passed safety tests conducted at the UMass Lowell Baseball Research Center, consists of a transmitter that is worn on a catcher's wristband and two receivers that fit within the sweatband of a pitcher's cap and the padding of a catcher's helmet. The transmitter includes nine buttons to signal desired pitch and location and comes preprogrammed with English and Spanish audio tracks, though teams can also record their own. Information is passed from the transmitter to both receivers using an encrypted communication channel and played with bone-conduction technology, the memo stated...
Using the device ... is optional but strongly encouraged ...
The system from PitchCom was presented to MLB officials in October and was introduced to a handful of Cactus League teams in the ensuing spring training...
only the active catcher, and no other players or coaches, is allowed to use the transmitter ...
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"bone-conduction technology"? What the heck? I think teams want to control as much as possible and would want the pitching coach to call every pitch, not the catcher. That would be a BIG help to the catcher.
I've maintained for many years that the catching position should never have existed. It's barbaric and unnecessary. It contributes to the existence of the ridiculous imaginary strike zone. You know, the one hovering over home plate with no physical boundaries and morphing with each batter. That one? And you expect the plate umpire to call balls and strikes? After being pounded in the head for the umpteenth time?
Move both the catcher and umpire out of harm's way, maybe behind the pitcher, and put a simple bull's eye type target behind the plate; hitting it is a strike. Ball boys/girls can gather loose balls. Base runners may not leave the base until the ball is batted into play. All of this would speed up the game a lot and not require any technology.
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