How annoying are broadcasters. I was watching the Cards last night on ESPN, so you would think they would be somewhat neutral. I guess they were for the most part, but what they were saying just didn’t make sense. The Dodgers had some knuckle ball pitcher pitching his first start. Everything he threw was about 6 inches above the strike zone. The problem was, the umpire was calling them strikes. The Cards were looking at these high strikes and getting behind in counts and so they had to swing at these high knuckleballs. So the brilliant commentators were questioning why the Cards kept swinging at these high balls but never commenting on why the high balls were being called strikes.

He threw 7 innings and only gave up 3 runs on 2 homeruns, but I would be interested to see what happens in his next game. If the ump does not call a high strike and he has to put it in the middle of the plate, that is when Cards were hitting it and go their 2 homers. Carp pitched well after getting out of a base loaded 1 out jam in the 1st by only giving up one run. Cubs lose again so Cards are up 6 games.

MILK