The Cubs lost Friday and Saturday's games against the Dodgers in part due to horrendous officiating. Well, Saturday wasn't as bad as Friday, but still, we have the means to make these calls correct and we should be using them.
Kosuke was safe by over a foot on Friday night in a play that had it been called correctly would have tied the game. Instead, Darryl Cousins clearly just wasn't paying attention to the play and got the call wrong. There is no other explanation for missing this play, because Kosuke was already past the bag before the ball got there.
The bad call resulted in a huge shift of momentum for the Dodgers.
Saturday, Jeff Kent should have been called out at first, but I'll give you that it was only when we saw it in super slow motion that the correct call became clear.
But since we can do that (look at the plays and make sure they're correct), and do it quickly, shouldn't we?
Yesterday, thankfully, the Cubs regained their spot as BEST TEAM IN BASEBALL and kept the streak alive as the only team in baseball this season not to have lost more then two games in a row.
However, the game was damn near unwatchable thanks to Jon Miller and Joe Morgan.
The worst part was the top of the eighth inning when Joe Morgan asked Jon Miller a "trivia question".
Now, to me, the term "trivia question" signifies that it will be a question that has a verifiable fact for an answer.
Well, judge for yourselves. Here was Joe Morgan's trivia question.
"Who hit hardest line drives consistently throughout their career?"
Is this a question with a verifiable answer? Or is this a question that 20 different people could conceivably come up with 20 different defendable answers?
I'm going with the second part. Jon Miller called him out on it a little bit, but Joe Morgan wouldn't budge and rather then fight the good fight, Jon Miller just decided to agree with him.
I demand better commentators if you're going to be the Leader in Sports ESPN.
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