I know he’s not dead, hence the “would.”
Then again, he is working with the Rangers. Given their injury woes this season, he may not be better off in Arlington.
Hey, I have a small change.
Could teams maybe stop celebrating EVERY regular season walk-off win like they just won the goddamn World Series?
Totally agree. You’re supposed to act like you’ve done it before, fellas.
This just links to hundreds of images, some of Gregg. Where is the definition of his strike zone?
That right there is a question for the ages.
From what I read about Gregg, it wouldn’t have been a surprise if he called a strike on a pickoff throw to first.
Gregg retired well before Pitch F/X came along, but if you want a general idea, check out this post for a number of .gifs of baseballs a foot-plus off the plate being called strikes. We know these days that the zone for left-handed batters is shifted off the plate vs. for right-handed batters (and vs. the rulebook zone), but Gregg exceeded even that by a decent bit.
Retired as in he was one of the umpires who Bud Segal refused to rehire after the Umpires strike. Turned to be kind of a sad case, although he was a horrible balls and strikes umpire.
During one game when he was behind the plate and a left handed hitter up, supposedly an exchange too place like this
(Pitch clearly outside, called a strike)
Hitter: Strike? That was in the right hand batters box
Gregg: yes it was
Hitter: so is that now the strike zone?
Gregg: it must be, because that was a strike.
No idea if this really took place, but I kinda hope it did.