Quote Originally Posted by Todd4State View Post
All I'm going to say about the umpires is college baseball needs ABS badly. And I'm speaking in general here across the board. The fact of the matter is umpires are too much of a factor in game play when that was never supposed to be their role. The game now moves too fast for them. It moves too fast for MLB umpires too so that's not a criticism.

Regardless I want the outcomes of the game decided by the players on the field as much as possible. Our series is just one small example. Georgia's catcher is moving his mitt about 6 inches on balls in the dirt and he yanks it up and they called it a strike every time. Kudos to him. But that's not right. And as far as hitting that thing absolutely 100% affects your approach as a hitter. It changes the count if nothing else. But even worse to me is bad strike zones make you more likely to chase as a hitter because if they're going to call a pitch out of the strike zone a strike you have swing at pitches that aren't strikes. And fans can say "well the hitters have to adjust" but without knowing it they're basically saying that the players have to hit pitches that aren't strikes. Even MLB players can't do that.

Now I'm not saying that the umpire was the whole problem but it definitely contributed.
Good post and I agree. The inconsistency on balls and strikes must get fixed and if absolutely affects the game, the batter approach, etc.

Why I said too the horrible pitching vs Grambling trained our hitters to try and swing at junk too. No one thinks about the impact of playing some of these bad mid week games in that perspective.