Marlins @ Mets - 7:10

[MiamiHomer]

Wow...safe by a MILE.

I would not say it was a mile but he got under the tag.

[Valid]

I would not say it was a mile but he got under the tag.

Well, safe enough where the ump should have clearly seen it.

[Swifty]

Eh, you slide into a foot, you're not going to get the call.

[FishFF]

is that a rule?

[Valid]

Yeah I know, but I hate that. If the throw beats you there, you might as well just walk back to the dugout.

[Madman81]

What's the "eh" for? Tacit approval of a bad call?

[Swifty]

No it's more a situation where if there's a bang-bang play and it's ambiguous about when the tag was down but also when the runner actually touched the base, i can understand going against the runner.

If Hanley made a better slide, thereby making the call on the umpire, then fine, I'd be upset with the call, but I think it was incredibly close and it was just as tough to say when Hanley touched the plate as it is to say when he was tagged.
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is that a rule?

Yes, it is a rule that you have to touch the base to be called safe.

[FishFF]

He did touch the base.

[kylekash]

The throw beat Uggla the other day when he made that riduculous slide and missed home, yet he was called safe. It was a close play, he may have got his foot in there but 9 times out of 10 that's an out. Barajas did a decent job of blocking the plate and Hanley slide right into his leg.

[Swifty]

Flat stuff catching up to Anibal today.

[kylekash]

Sanchez is getting knocked around a bit today.. not looking too good.

[MiamiHomer]

He did touch the base.

Don't question the human element of the game!

[dgriot]

Come back soon, Bake
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Damn you, ground rule double
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*phew*
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well, shit

[Nick]

uh oh, Sanchez sucks again.

[Valid]

Gotta be effing kidding me.