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Message: [QUOTE="Zelda Zonk, post: 5735238, member: 966"] I have never been more incensed by umpiring in my life, and I routinely watch 130+ Sox games each year. Most of that may have been Bucknor’s profound incompetence, but part of it is how the challenge system exacerbates the problem and forces a different level of focus on it. Especially when challenges have been exhausted and there is no recourse for 90% of the mistakes we are easily observing. The other matter is that the rules now prevent the broadcast crews from seeing the strike zone overlay! That’s just nuts. Not sure how that can be justified. It’s essentially obscuring truth so that they can’t be critical. I don’t k ow what is to prevent those guys from having their own iPads or whatever the teams use for feed/reviews. Hw would that rule be enforced? MLB has security agents inspecting the booth a few times during the games? Ridic. [/QUOTE]