Michigan gets screwed… yet again
In what is no surprise to most of us Michigan fans, Michigan gets screwed in the bottom of the 8th. With Michigan up by 2 a Louisville runner slides into second and was tagged in the hand and called safe. A video replay, which was evident and stated by both announcers as the runner being out, was left as the runner being safe. This lead to a 4 run 8th inning, and while Michigan still has bats at the top of the 9th, all but cost Michigan the game.
So yet again, thanks NCAA for screwing us
Fingers flying up as they reach the base is a common thing.
Along with gloves flying backwards at the same moment...
The replay at second was tough, and probably should have been an out.
But... the ref getting butthurt that the pitcher walked off the mound too quickly, and calling a delayed ball, on the pitch before the HR, is exactly why they need to get rid of umps behind the plate. They have too big of egos and think everyone is showing them up.
This exactly. At least the replay is out of the on field umps hands. The control center should have overturned the call at second. But in all the Louisville games the home plate umps seemed to be consistently calling strikes for Louisville pitchers on the close stuff.
For those of us that could not see the game.
The "ref (the ump) gets butt hurt" is when our pitcher walked off the mound too early (from what he thought was an apparent strike) so the ump calls a ball instead the apparent strike and next pitch batter blasts a home run.
If the case that's bush league.
Yes, he really did do that.
This is definitely how it looked to me. It was a really late ball call and seemed like it didn't happen until our pitcher took a few quick steps off the mound.
THE LOUISVILLE BATTER WAS WALKING TO THE DUGOUT. EVEN HE KNEW HE WAS OUT.
Funny -- that's kind of exactly what I thought happened. Either that, or the ump lost focus during the pitch, and then, when he realized, "damn, based on the way everyone's acting, that was obviously strike three," he thought it would make him look bad if he called it so late, and he decided to choose his ego over the right call.
I know calls go both ways. That interference call against Nebraska in the football game we played there last year was insane, and there are obviously tons of close calls that have gone our way as well. But ... in THESE circumstances? Two calls in a row? As the underdog trying to pull of a massive upset in the 8th inning of a regionals championship game?
That's an impressive amount of bad luck Michigan had today.
Maybe I am reading too much into it, but it even looks like the batter's body language is like FUUUUUUCK that was my chance, and then the ump bailed him out.
That man is FROZEN waiting for the strike 3 call. If anyone has the out at 2nd to share - please post for review. (que dong punch video)
I wanna see the video of all the 2 strike ABs in this inning. I think Weston struck out 2 if not 3 of them along with the runner being thrown out at 2nd.
in what fucking world is that a ball. fuck that ump too.
Is it me, or is that home plate umpire's positioning terrible? He's WAY off center, way off to the left fo the plate. No wonder he can't judge the outside corner.
They have too big of egos and think everyone is showing them up.
I've thought this for as many years as I've been playing baseball/softball. For every decent ump, there's another puffed-up little prick in blue who's going to make the call against you just show that he's in charge.
The umps totally let the crowd get to them.
The strike zone in the 8th and 9th for each team was completely different.
ESPN showed a replay of the 2 gloves touching on the out. Not sure what is more definitive than that.
Was different all game long. Watching live in person right behind home you can easily tell.
Brutal. Just brutal.
Officiating is as bad at all levels of competition in many sports as it has ever been. From middle school and high school to colleges and the professional ranks, some calls are mind blowing and flat out void of explanation.
I do not see this getting any better and the B1G is noted for terrible officiating around the country.
I can live with bad. At least some of those bad calls will go in your favor. The bad only goes one direction with Michigan.
This is factually untrue. You just remember the bad calls because they sting. Trust me, plenty of VT fans are still upset about not getting a touchdown in the sugar bowl.
Your counter-factual is from 10 years ago. That basically proves his point.
Didn’t even have to check the username - more contrarian bs
It was close, but frame-by-frame showed the position of the ball shifted in the VT receiver's grasp after it hit the ground, so incomplete pass was the right call. The game officials' call could have been justified either way, if they didn't have frame-by-frame review.
Actually, I assume it's better than ever. But there are so many cameras, from so many angles, with such high resolution, we're more aware of mistakes than ever before. Trust me: From Mike Lantry's missed field goal to Charles White's phantom touchdown, Michigan has a long history of terrible calls going against us in the biggest possible moments.
Officiating is as bad at all levels of competition in many sports as it has ever been.
Yep.
And why do you think that is?
I'll tell ya, the pipeline is dry.
A lot of people have got out of officiating at the youth level -- where you gain experience before moving up, because of parents and coaches treating them like shit.
Screwing Michigan sports is intentional.
Once is a coincidence. Twice is a coincidence. Three times is a coincidence.
But 52,379 times in a row is intentional.
Still waiting for Michigan to be on the right side of a controversial replay review. Just once. In any sport.
I can't recall a single controversial replay review that has gone in our favor in a meaningful game.
Ever.
The sugar bowl against vtech, the fumble call against nebraska this year, michigan winning a basketball championship on a non-existent foul. Can keep going because it happens all the time in every sport because people are fallible and refs get calls wrong constantly and you just happen to remember the bad ones against your team.
Ha ha. We found Taylor Martinez! He’s the ONLY one who thought that wasn’t a fumble. Deep down he probably knows it was but is too ashamed to admit it.
Please don't blaspheme the 1989 championship team. If anything Terry Mills got robbed of being the hero of an open 12ft jumper. It was a disadvantage putting our worst FT shooter on the line and I'm sure PJ would have made that bet. Besides, there was no replay at the time.
correct. our worst FT shooter in a one and one situation.
When it happened at the time, I was upset at the call. Putting Rumeal at the line to win the game is NOT what we wanted. He was in the exact same situation during the regular season and it did not go well.
It was Mark Hughes with the ball not Mills.
VaTech was a decade ago. The bball championship was over 30 fucking years ago. Martinez was clearly moving forward. You are an insufferable contrarian
That was an absolute horseshit call and it should be called out as such. But trying to act like there is out here trying to screw Michigan due to some grand conspiracy makes everyone look stupid. NCAA refs and umps are incompetent, that is why everyone has stories of how their team got completely fucked.
Yeah, we also forget all the calls that go our way (because those are obviously correct, we think), while the ones that go against us sting forever. I actually think we were lucky as f**k to win that Nebraska game last year, not only based on that phantom interference call, but the referees could have ruled their QB down on that fumble at the end.
"But he wasn't down," we say -- and God knows, I agree. But I bet Nebraska fans don't agree. We just forget the calls we get, and focus on the ones we don't.
But yeah -- today sucked, 100%.
(All that being said ... damn I would hold Michigan's history of gut-punches against any other school's. I don't think it's a conspiracy, I think it's pure bad luck. But ... wow.)
O.K. But Nebraska's first touchdown should not have counted because it was out of an illegal formation. And the Huskers were offsides on the Cade interception. No flag was thrown and they got a touchdown on the very next play. So that was 14 gift points Nebraska received because of incompetance by the officials.
So Fuck Nebraska fans if they bitch about that game because they don't have a leg to stand on.
You could say we were lucky as fuck to win that game. But Nebraska was even luckier they were in the game at all.
Oh fine. My point is, fans from pretty every school can cite calls that go against them. I had a friend at the University of Virginia in grad school who had been there as an undergrad who told me, as a fact, that "everyone knows ACC refs hate Virginia." It was difficult not to laugh out loud.
It feels so good to be the victim. But in fact I've never seen any evidence that anybody (except our opponents on the field) is trying to hurt Michigan. Truth is, fans of pretty much every team are sure that they have the worst luck at all. That's part of what being a fan means.
(The difference is, of course, in our case it's true). :-)
Click the link to see the horrible strike 3 non-call and the game winning homer.
Angel Hernandez and Joe West are somewhere cackling with glee right now.
I hate to blame the loss on one call (didn’t see the missed strike 3’s) in a 9 inning game but that replay decision is the worst I’ve seen in baseball. All the team will get is “our bad” like so many times before
I think it's the worst game deciding baseball call I've seen since the runner was called out in the World Series when the catcher clearly tagged him with his glove, except that the ball was in his other hand.
They have robotic umps that are better than humans. Replace the people with robots.
Maryland got screwed too.