Joe Garagiola and Questec

Joe Mama

Moderator
Supporting Member
Joined
May 14, 2002
Posts
9,501
Reaction score
964
Location
Gilbert, AZ
Did anyone else get tired of Joe Garagiola blaming every bad call on Questec Friday and Sunday? I mean how can you blame Questec when the umpire calls what should be a ball a strike? It doesn't make sense. I think at one point he said there was a Questec camera on a grassy knoll.

I love Curt Schilling's pitching, but I was getting tired of watching pitchers like him and especially Glavine gets strikes that were so outside the batter couldn't reach them. I mean Tom Glavine will be a first ballot Hall of Famer in large part because he consistently got strikes 6-8" off the plate.

The only complaint I have about narrowing the strike zone is that these umpires also need to give the pitchers the high strike if they are going to take away the wide strike zone. I mean those umpires over the weekend essentially made the strike zone a batter's wet dream (it made it even more frustrating when the Diamondbacks couldn't hit against Schmidt or Williams).

Anyhow, my intention of this post was not to praise Questec. I just wanted to see if anyone else was annoyed with Joe Garagiola's constant complaints about it.

Joe Mama
 

Ryanwb

ASFN IDOL
BANNED BY MODERATORS
Joined
May 13, 2002
Posts
35,576
Reaction score
6
Location
Mesa
I was going to comment that I enjoyed Mike Krukow as the color man during the Giants series, his voice was very calming and he didn't sound like a jerk like Traber
 

sly fly

Devil Me This
Joined
Jun 12, 2002
Posts
2,469
Reaction score
0
Location
N. Phx
Joe's old school. He used to walk to the ole' ballyard in 20 foot snow drifts, you know?

Actually, I get tired of all the complaining. From players, managers, commentators, etc. It does no good. And, it all evens out.

Questec should be something that is debated in the off-season meetings. How are the umps supposed to call anything different from what they are taught?

Umpiring is one "thankless" job.
 

Forum statistics

Threads
556,112
Posts
5,433,382
Members
6,329
Latest member
cardinals2025
Top