re: I am fricking embarrassed and Pissed - ATL Braves Edition - WTF??????????????????

I'm not a big baseball fan so this may be a stupid question but how in the hell did that official think that was anywhere near the infield? That ball landed at least 25 feet into the outfield. If my understanding of the rules is correct, than I can see why the fans were so pissed

The call looked bad...but that call didn't cost you the game. You already had one out and were 3 runs down. It may have screwed the momentum, but odds are the Cards would have got out of that inning ahead anyhow.

I think it was a bad call. But some analysts on ESPN who know a lot more about the rule than I do (or most baseball fans) said that the call could have legitimately went either way.

It's not the Cardinals' fault. Yet those fricking white trash Braves fans threw trash at Cards players. What a disgrace.

Now the Cards will win the World Series again, 12 in 12, just to make this game that more significant...and pathetic.

Well, many of us don't have an issue with the infield fly rule occurring in the outfield because the rule says it can occur in the outfield. Judgement call.

You make the same point that analysts have made...this call was no one's fault. The rule, which dates back to the late 1800s, never has been amended and it is a very grey rule.

They need to amend the rule to make it more clear -more black and white so there's less confusion.

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The call looked bad...but that call didn't cost you the game. You already had one out and were 3 runs down. It may have screwed the momentum, but odds are the Cards would have got out of that inning ahead anyhow.

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I never said it cost us the game, I agree that it didn't. Errors and just overall bad baseball cost us the game however that call certainly did not help our chances at a comeback. My main problem with the call is the tardiness of it. If he called it immediately off the bat I would get it. Yet he waited until the ball was almost catchable, at that point he should have realized that it was deep enough that the base runners had no need for protection. As long as he waited he had plenty of time to correctly judge the safety of the best runners (that is the sole reason that the rule is even in place after all ). He fricked up plain and simple.

However if the braves wouldn't have had multiple frick ups earlier in the game they wouldn't have been in that situation to begin with.

atlanta sucks

Fans shouldn't have thrown stuff but the immediate telling of this story from articles I've read seems to be spinning it as yeah it was a horrible call but the fans behavior after means we are ok with it.

The story in the morning should be like 60% this horrible call 10% the fans behavior and 30% how even without blown call Braves still probably lose that game.

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I didn't throw anything, but I was glad people did. That deserved far more than a few boos. After about 15 minutes they were threatening forfeit, would have loved to have seen them try that.

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My EXACT thoughts. It's about damn time Atlanta fans got their dander up about something. I was in section 215 and protected under the terrace but an older lady got her head bustead open by a bottle which pretty much let us know that 'ok the fun is over'..
We were all 'daring' the umps to call a forfeit...it possibly would've gotten truly bad.
But, not gonna lie, even though I didn't throw a damn thing (nor would I ever..unless someone insulted islam ) it felt great to get out 20+ years of frustration as a Braves fan, even if only verbally.
Plus I truly expected the choke..so I bought the tickets specifically to see chipper's last game.

THe double standard is quite funny though.
We do nothing: ermagerd brerves fanz are totes lame and non passionate
We show some true emotion: ermagerd brerves fernz are totes trashzzzzz

Bottles on the field is wasnt that bad IMO. Wonder what would've happen had they made that call at a Phillies or a Yankees home game. Riots? Fires in the streets? There's no telling.