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With the major league baseball season just past the midway point, what's the take on WOYK and its airing of Orioles' baseball? Has there been any concerns at all about their lack of a strong signal? Also, WSBA dumped the Orioles after several years in favor of the York Revolution. How about those broadcasts and the play-by-play team? ???
 
My take: weak team, weak signal, weak numbers...but getting the Orioles lent some credibility to WOYK--at the least, there are a few billboards up around York letting people know that, yes, there is really a station at the 1350 position. Quite honestly, anything would have been an improvement over the constant ESPN Radio. And the Phillies.

WSBA dropped the Orioles (I assume) because the addition of the York Revolution allowed its sales staff to polish the turd, if you will. "Look, Client X, here's a new dirt-cheap local opportunity for your advertising that's ever-so-slightly more entertaining than our CNN Headline News television audio feed!" That, and the Baltimore Orioles have given baseball fans very little reason to listen since Opening Day 1998. But listening to a first-year independent league team, when nobody knows who any of the players are (or their opponents), doesn't carry much attraction for me. Even if Gary Sutton has ample opportunity to unleash his half-baked Andy Rooney-esque "wit" on baseball and all that has to do with it.

"Do they call it a ground-rule double because it hits the ground first?"

Oh, my flippin' sides.
 
;) Actually, the term "ground rule double" has become almost an accepted mis-use of terminology in baseball lingo. Under MLB rules 6.09(e) and more, it is indeed a ground rule double if the ball hits in fair territory and goes out of play or even out of the park.

Yet, the same rules comes into play if a batted ball becomes lodged in, or rolls under, the outfield fence. These hits are also called ground rule doubles.. They're not really a "ground rule," but have become accepted as such.

So, I guess Gary Sutton is a comedian after all?
 
The "ground-rule double" has less to do with the actual ground (earth, floor, etc.) than it does the quirks of various ballparks which impact on-field rulings on the part of the umpire. Before each ballgame, the umpires and managers review the "ground rules" of the playing field. Por ejemplo, a batted ball striking the catwalk above the playing surface at Tropicana Field leaves the ball in play. However, a batted ball which strikes the left-center field fence above a designated yellow line at Minute Maid Park results in a home run.

Of course, even parks not named after orange juice companies have ground rules.
 
Hardcore, that was the intent of the post previous to yours. As stated there, the "ground rule double" doesn't necessarily involve the ground. Read rule 6.09(e) and following and you'll learn what the Blues Man meant. Yes, Tropicana Field has its special rules, as does Minute Maid Park, Camden Yards, and many others. Each park has an entire set of "ground rules." ;)
 
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