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Be a heck of a challenge to score the game between Milwaukee and San Diego this afternoon. It’s Jackie Robinson day and all players on both teams are wearing number 42. No names are on any jerseys either.

Thompson wrote: ↑April 15th, 2023, 3:38 pm Be a heck of a challenge to score the game between Milwaukee and San Diego this afternoon. It’s Jackie Robinson day and all players on both teams are wearing number 42. No names are on any jerseys either.

I don't think they score the games today. Instead they look at photos of Jackie with admiration.*

Everybody on every team is number 42. It’s going to be a nightmare for the scorekeepers today.

The games have to be scored. You can’t win any money in fantasy baseball if the games aren’t scored, Laffite.

Myra would always say What difference does it make, it’s just a game.
Well, Myra, it makes a difference, trust me.

We had in my city an enormously popular sportscaster and hosted a sports segment on the News who liked to say ad infinitum with a supercilious look on face, "It's only a game, it's only a game." Well it's game to you, but what about the players and everyone else who benefits for a winning team. He loved making fun of hockey spending valuable moments of air time by repeatedly showing over and over the scuffles that ensued on ice. Sorry, stupid, there is a reason why that is tolerated. He was also rather funny at making fun of tennis by moving his bad to side to side following the ball. He also was hired by the Padres to announce their games on radio and he wasn't very good IMO. For all I know he might still be doing it. He was homer and described things that happen on the field in idiotic ways. He can be sometime be funny but was certainly not a fave of mine. As a sports guy he was a decidedly an un-serious man despite have cream jobs throughout his career.

Where sports and movies intersect:

https://www.mlb.com/news/pitcher-jopher ... a-stuntman

laffite wrote: ↑April 15th, 2023, 4:06 pm

Thompson wrote: ↑April 15th, 2023, 3:38 pm Be a heck of a challenge to score the game between Milwaukee and San Diego this afternoon. It’s Jackie Robinson day and all players on both teams are wearing number 42. No names are on any jerseys either.

I don't think they score the games today. Instead they look at photos of Jackie with admiration.*

Who are "they"?

The scorekeepers at the game. Of course it was a joke, lame as it may be.

One of the main jobs of the manager is to hand over to the umpire the lineup card. Everybody has a number in the lineup, both defensively and offensively, e.g. on the defense side pitcher #1, catcher #2, 1st base #3, 2nd base #4, 3rd base #5, shortstop #6, LF CF RF - 789. On the offense the players are scored by their number in the batting order. Before the DH, #1 on defense usually was #9 on offense. To anybody who chicken scratches box scores multiple substitutions will get confusing, pinch hitters and players switching defensive positions and batting order positions. So without a number on the uniform it will be tough to keep everything straight.

The San Francisco Giants And Detroit Tigers are still in “rain delay.”
Been delayed almost 5 hours. To think football is played in the snow.

Thompson wrote: ↑April 16th, 2023, 4:27 pm One of the main jobs of the manager is to hand over to the umpire the lineup card. Everybody has a number in the lineup, both defensively and offensively, e.g. on the defense side pitcher #1, catcher #2, 1st base #3, 2nd base #4, 3rd base #5, shortstop #6, LF CF RF - 789. On the offense the players are scored by their number in the batting order. Before the DH, #1 on defense usually was #9 on offense. To anybody who chicken scratches box scores multiple substitutions will get confusing, pinch hitters and players switching defensive positions and batting order positions. So without a number on the uniform it will be tough to keep everything straight.

Handing over to the lineup to the umpire is probably a piece of cake in comparison to making decisions with what happens during the course of the game in progress.

The official scorekeepers know the players. What positions they are playing and by facial recognition. Piece of Cake. Fans in the stands a different story, probably.

There is a theory of thought that a baseball manager has nothing much else to do but make up the lineup card. There are hardly any decisions to be made during the course of the game, just lean on the rail and chew a toothpick. The pitching coach is gonna tell him who to bring in. The base coaches are in charge of the signs and stolen bases. All the manager does is chew something and looks all enthralled with everything, but he never really does anything.

The Manager oversees all of those others and he overrules them all. He has the final word.

Of what? Who’s up next? He handed in his lineup card. #3 is batting in the third spot.

And I beg to differ about the final word, the umpire has that baby.