Framing -- An Ethical Dilemma
Okay you ethicists out there, I've got a dilemma and need your help solving it. When a catcher frames a pitch (makes it look like it's a strike when it's really a ball) is he lying? I'm watching Javi Lopez, a veteran catcher for the O's, and he's framing pitches like he's building a house.
So what's the deal, is he - and other catchers - lying by framing pitches?
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Speaking of baseball, is anyone surprised that the Yanks took over first place in the AL East with tonight's win and Boston's loss?
C'mon, Yankee haters you gotta love this race!
So what's the deal, is he - and other catchers - lying by framing pitches?
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Speaking of baseball, is anyone surprised that the Yanks took over first place in the AL East with tonight's win and Boston's loss?
C'mon, Yankee haters you gotta love this race!
posted by jch at
7:27 PM
7 Comments:
That depends if you consider baseball more of a sport, or entertainment. If it's sport, then he's cheating. If it's entertainment, then he's acting. Same goes for fake injuries in football to get a T.O.
hmm...tough question..its a lot like when take a charge in basketball.....or when the kicker fakes being hit on a punt in football...or the yankees paying for a championship...technically its all legal, but slightly unfair and can be considered cheating. But I think as long as theres no rule against it, its all part of the game. So its not cheating.
Personally, I'm just tired of the whole Red Sox - Yankees fiasco. All of us that live outside the 50 square miles of the northeast are seriously just tired of those two teams.
But am I surprised??? well, no, but I will be surprised if they make it past the first round.
No Blood, No foul. End of story.
The baseball playoffs is by far the greatest time of the sports year. Why? 1. It has been going on since 1903 2. You'd think after 163 games they had enough, but they want more 3. Unlike the Super Bowl, it's played in hot or freezing New England weather.
As a fan of baseball it would bring me no greater joy than to see the Yankees sitting in their million dollar condos watching the all of the playoffs on TV. Like when the Marlins beat the Yankees proves, a big payroll means nothing in october, you've got to have heart.
CJE, National League for life.
PS- Although... A-Rod is the best player in the last 30 yrs, and if he stays healthy will make a case for best of all time. I just hope he doesn't go into the hall of fame in a Yankees jersey.
I don't think framing pitches is cheating...at least not any more than Umpires being blind and calling obvious balls strikes is cheating.
Eric Gregg, anyone? 1997 NLCS, Marlins v. Braves, anyone? Worst strike-zone ever, anyone?
If that guy didn't get the electric chair for cheating, than Javy framing pitches isn't cheating.
Hey Ann C,
E-mail me at joechays@yahoo.com. We haven't had anything sent to us at the hospital so I'm not sure how that works. Our home address is 116 Hoyt St. #2, Brooklyn, NY 11217.
Joe
So the modern umpire says:
"If it's a ball, I call it a ball; if it's a strike, I call it a strike."
To which the late-modern-but-painfully-aware-of-the-new-pluralistic-situation umpire replies:
"If I think it's a ball, I call it a ball; if I think it's a strike, call it a strike."
To which the post-modern umpire responds with a smirk:
"It ain't nothin' 'til I calls it."
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