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I told her to keep her mouth closed T… Russell Wilson and wife spent the day with sports reporter Hannah Storm in Seattle yesterday. It starts to get weird when Hannah Storm looks better then Russell’s wife, the same wife that did this on draft day. C’mon Russell, you’re better then that.-TO Russell Wilson and Wife Fan Friendly Russell Wilson and His Wife at the NFL Honors

Blown calls have plagued Major League umpires this year, but this one from Friday night’s Rangers-Mariners tilt is so bad that if it’s not the worst of the season, it’s definitely top 3 material. In the bottom of the 2nd inning Seattle catcher Jesus Sucre hit into what appeared to be a fairly routine 3-6-3 double play, except that instead of first baseman Mitch Moreland receiving the throw from shortstop Elvis Andrus, pitcher Justin Grimm inexplicably sticks his glove in front of Moreland’s to steal Andrus’ throw, thus negating the double play. Only the umps, for reasons unexplained, didn’t see Grimm make the catch, assumed Moreland did, and called Sucre out. Seattle manager Eric Wedge came out to dispute the call, but only because he either thought a) Sucre was safe on the close play, or b) Moreland got pulled off the bag by the throw. Apparently Wedge missed the fact that Grimm caught the ball as well, which isn’t as big a deal seeing that his vantage point from the Mariners dugout, as compared to the first base umpire’s view, wasn’t as favorable. Here’s video of the bizarre double play that wasn’t a double play (via MLB.com)… And in GIF form, because that’s what all the cool kids are doing these days (via Eye on Baseball)… The AL West leading Rangers went on to defeat the Mariners 9-5, with Grimm picking up his fourth win of the season. How much this blown call by the first base umpire played into the victory is debatable, but still, a call this terrible—in a season full of terrible calls—is downright inexcusable. The post Rangers pull off double play against Mariners that clearly wasn’t a double play (GIF, Video) appeared first on Last Angry Fan.

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Did you know that White Sox attendance is actually ahead of 2012? Through 21 home dates last year, 425,695 fans paid to enter U.S. Cellular Field. There have been 21 home dates this year, attracting 440,463 fans. So far, attendance has outpaced 2012 by a comfortable margin. In fact, attendance could have been way ahead of last year, if not for two games that were postponed due to weather. That's a remarkable accomplishment, especially since the White Sox marketing department has been running into some fairly significant headwinds. In addition to being bad (until very recently), the White Sox have not been very fun to watch. The offense can't find the big hit. The defense has a hard time catching the ball. Pitching has been the only fun part of the White Sox game. The weather has been terrible. April of 2013 was the wettest April in Chicago since 1947. April was also cloudier (59 percent cloud cover compared to 48 percent), and cooler. All three should have conspired to push attendance way down. What's the deal? Is it a hangover from last year? Are the White Sox finally getting the attendance bump they should have received while they were in first place last summer? Maybe. But a good performance doesn't necessarily mean increased box office the following year. The White Sox won the AL Central in dramatic fashion in 2008, but fewer fans went to the ballpark in 2009 (the Great Recession is partially to blame). The 2010 White Sox won 88 games, which was a nine-game improvement over the previous year. The good result, combined with the "All In" marketing campaign, should have inflated the numbers for 2011. It didn't happen. So this is a legit attendance bump. People are interested in White Sox baseball, despite the weather and the results. Let's start with the most obvious difference between 2013 and 2012: Family Sundays. The Sox cut the cost of tickets and parking; children can run the bases after the game; fans can get autographs from current and former players; the team also wears the uniforms from 1983. So far, there have been three "Family Sundays." I will also include the weather conditions, because they do play a role in whether people actually show up. April 7: Cloudy, 52 degrees. 18,708 April 21: Cloudy, 53 degrees. 19,587 April 28: Cloudy, 64 degrees. 22,677 May 12: Cloudy, 52 degrees. 22,088 Compare that to Sunday dates from this time last year: April 15: Sunny, 73 degrees. 25,143 April 29: Cloudy, 47 degrees. 22,811 May 13: Sunny, 58 degrees. 22,636 May 27: Sunny, 93 degrees. 22,182 Sundays have been fairly consistent. In 2012, the April 15 game was part of the home opener series against Detroit. The April 29 game was against Boston, and Red Sox Nation tends to travel well. But Sunday attendance leveled off at 22,000 - where it would remain until the Sox hosted the Brewers in late June. The first two Sundays of 2013 were played under different conditions. The April 7 game against Seattle was the final game of the opening homestand. April 21 was more of the same, with the added fact that the team had won just three of their last 11. But attendance bounced back to 22K with the games against the Rays and Angels. The White Sox pulled out all the stops on Sundays, but the added perks aren't driving the bump in attendance. There are two theories: No. 1: Between the sub-par product and lousy weather, the lower prices actually boosted attendance. The numbers could have been much lower, if the White Sox charged prices from 2012. No. 2: There is a baseline level of White Sox fans. The Sox attract around 2 million fans, give or take a hundred thousand fans. No matter what the White Sox do to move the needle, there is a fixed amount of people who will always show up. In 2012, the White Sox posted their best attendance numbers in July, after the winning streak that put them into first place, but before Bears season (the Bears opener on Sept. 9 was one of the worst wa

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Your browser does not support iframes. Weird baseball reached a whole new level on Friday night in Seattle. To be completely honest with you, I'd like to say what happened was worthy of consideration for the worst call we'll see all season. As you know, that would be s saying a lot when you consider the botched home run call in Cleveland (that Hernandez himself admitted was blown), among other inexplicable rulings and misapplications. But I think the call itself might be offset by just how plain strange the entire play was. Here's the set up: Rangers lead the Mariners 2-1 in the second inning. Seattle has runners at first and second with nobody out when rookie Jesus Sucre raps one on the ground to Rangers first baseman Mitch Moreland. Moreland then throws to Elvis Andrus to get the middle runner. There's one out. Andrus returns fire in the direction of the first base bag where Moreland and pitcher Justin Grimm are converging to receive the throw. Typically, when two defenders arrive at a base simultaneously the result is somewhere between comical and disastrous. In this case, though, we end up in a whole different category thanks to first base umpire Jeff Nelson. Moreland was actually back at the base and in position to receive the throw. However, Grimm, who was not on the bag and never did get to the bag, stuck his glove in front to intercept it. At this point, Sucre is a good step and a half short of the base, making it an easy out call if Moreland catches it. But again, the ball is picked off by Grimm, so Sucre beats it out easily. At least that's what most of us either saw or thought we saw. Nelson, though, missed that most important detail and instead ruled Sucre OUT. He then missed Grimm fiddling with the ball in his glove immediately after the call — or thought some type of optical illusion had taken place before him — so he continued back into position without so much as considering changing his call. Needless to say, the result drew an immediate argument from Seattle manager Eric Wedge. But here's the funny thing. I assumed throughout the rest of the game that Wedge had known of Grimm's interception and based his argument around that. According to his comments after the game — courtesy of MLB.com's Doug Miller — it turns out Wedge had just as little clue as Nelson did. "Everybody's just focused on the bag," Wedge said. "I thought he came off the bag. That's what I was out there arguing. And then I come to find out later, with the replay, that he didn't even catch the ball. ... It would have been a much bigger argument if I had known that at the time, no doubt about it." I thought for sure we were in for more discussion about replay and umpire accountability, but instead Nelson comes off as somewhat sympathetic when the arguing manager admits he didn't fully understand what his argument should have been. It all makes more sense now, too, because when the umpires huddled briefly, there was no movement to overturn it. All they were asked to determine is whether or not Moreland's foot had come off the bag on the play. It didn't, so even if they wanted to overturn the call, they couldn't based on what they were asked to reconsider. Maybe those rules need to be tweaked. Maybe they don't. But regardless of rules, the human element and all of those considerations, this was simply a bizarre play that we might not see duplicated for a long time. Oh, and yes, there's a decent chance it cost Seattle a run. Brendan Ryan followed with an RBI double that could have been the opening to a huge inning. Instead, Seattle settles for one, and then eventually falls 9-5. Looking for more baseball chatter? Follow @bigleaguestew, @Townie813, @AnswerDave and @MikeOz on Twitter Also, check out the BLS Facebook Page

Oh, wait, no it’s not. But it was called that way. Also, Jeff Nelson, the umpire at fault, shouldn’t be confused with the former Yankees and Mariners pitcher who, coincidentally, happens to call Seattle home these days. In other news, the Mariners lost (again), which renders a blunder like this essentially meaningless. [Twitter] Article found on: Next Impulse Sports