MLB Rule 2.00
MLB Rule 2.00 is the infield fly rule. (which is currently posted on the Atlanta Braves website…. without comment.)
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The rule states that an infield fly is a fair fly ball (not including a line drive nor an attempted bunt) which can be caught by an infielder with ordinary effort. To give the umpires some benefit of the doubt, with all the errors Atlanta made tonight, they might have been confused about this “ordinary effort” stuff.
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Women baseball fans are still especially stunned by that so-called infield fly tonight in Atlanta that ended up well into the outfield – normally when men misjudge length they don’t err on the low side.
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Chipper Jones has to be thinking, for his last MLB game, maybe he should have loaned the umps his reading glasses?
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Even the replacement refs who saw that play are saying – “What were they thinking?
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This just in, Al Gore blamed that infield fly call in the Cardinals-Braves game on the altitude.
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Dear Gawd, and Bud Selig thought the worst thing that could happen with this ridiculous one-game playoff idea is that the NY Yankees might end up out of the post-season by the weekend.
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If there’s a karmic silver lining in tonight’s Cardinals-Braves game, is Don Denkinger finally off the hook?
(for non-baseball fans, Don Denkinger was the umpire whose blown call at first base cost the St. Louis Cardinals the World Series against the Kansas City Royals in 1985.)
Listening to an aging Jack Welch rant today that the unemployment numbers “don’t smell right.” Uh, a potential one word answer on that smell issue – “Depends?”
Another post-debate thought. If Mitt Romney is determined to cut PBS why didn’t he reference a perceived elitist show like “Masterpiece Theater,” instead of “Big Bird,” – one of the most beloved characters on one of the beloved shows in America?
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Ohio State backup QB Cardale Jones tweeted today “Why should we have to go to class if we came here to play FOOTBALL, we ain’t come to play SCHOOL classes are POINTLESS.” And SEC players responded “What are classes?”
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Jim Lehrer said today that the “The likelihood of my doing another debate in 2016 is, on a scale of one to 10, a minus one.” Hillary Clinton is bummed, she was counting on Lehrer making her look young and vigorous.
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The jobless rate fell to below 8% today. Which the GOP immediately said was bad news for job seekers – specifically Romney and Ryan.
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Amazing that some conservatives who think Obama is the most incompetent President ever still think he has the power to orchestrate a massive conspiracy on the unemployment rate.
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From T.C. “I just flew home on American Airlines and sat in rows 15, 14, 11 & 8.
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Left Coast Sports Babe 
October 6, 2012 at 4:49 am
Well Mitt Romney has flipped flopped again. Now says that if elected he won’t can Big Bird but will even give him a government job as head of the Federal Aviation Administration.
October 6, 2012 at 4:59 am
Janice, here is my take on the infield fly controversy. hope it makes some sense:
When i first saw the play i thought it was the worst call ever. and i still think the umps screwed up, but after hearing MLB explain the rule, the call its a bit more defensible.
According to MLB, a fly ball can still be an infield fly even if caught in the outfield by an infielder with “ordinary effort.” But at what point does this make sense? Let’s say the Red Sox have runners on first and second (yeah this is a real hypothetical) and Cano is playing in short right field with Big Papi up. If Papi hits a lazy fly ball to right, i could argue that RC could catch the ball “with ordinary effort” almost near the warning track. but is this an infield fly? would the nyy really be able to turn a double play if the ball dropped? So in the question is, would the Cards have been able to turn the DP, assuming the SS had been camped under the ball and let it drop. I would say no, but its not so clear cut. I do know one thing: if the SS had been under the ball and let it drop and the IFR had not been called and the Braves got doubled up, their fans would have gone ballistic.
So now lets assume that StL could have turned the DP. A lot of people are complaining that the ump waited too long to signal IFR. This is a red herring. In the normal, no brainer, infield fly situation, the offense wants the ump to call infield fly and shouldnt care how long the ump waits, with one exception: if the ump waits too long and the runners are lured into running when they dont have to and get doubled off. in yesterday’s game that didnt happen.
So did the ump blow it? Again, I think so b/c the ball was too far out for StL to have easily made the DP, and b/c the SS was never camped under the ball. But its not as open and shut as everyone is saying.
October 6, 2012 at 11:36 am
“Women baseball fans are still especially stunned by that so-called infield fly tonight in Atlanta that ended up well into the outfield – normally when men misjudge length they don’t err on the low side.”
Most women baseball fans still think a squeeze play and a hit and run is something they get after a date. It must be confusing for them that a man would let a ball drop intentionally.