It’s the Kielbasa Kid…

…and maybe its the home-plate umpires fault for the Pirates 8 game losing streak because a new study says that baseball home plate umpires are wrong 20% of the time some wonder if they should get tech assistance.That’s an average of 14 bad calls per game – or 1.6 bad calls per inning. Even worse, 55 bad called strikes were third strikes in the ninth inning that ended the game. I feel bad for the guy who had to watch every single pitch of every single inning of every single game of a baseball season? That doesn’t sound like heaven to quote a line from Field of Dreams. Even tennis uses technology to make sure calls are right. But I can hear the purists now ”Its its part of the game, Don’t mess with it an ‘nat. I’m sorry I’m on the other side of the Isle who want them to get it right 100% of the time and think they should use every tool available.I even like the strike zone box on TV, not sure how accurate it is but I like it and just as much as I like instant replay, if it gets the call right then use it and to hell with people complaining about how long it will make the game. I paid my money I might as well get as much bang for my buck as possible in fact lets play two. And besides its baseball, you knew what you were signing up for before you bought the ticket. It’s like what George Carlon once said…”football is rigidly timed and will end even if we have to go to sudden death while in baseball there is no time limit, we don’t know when it’s going to end.”