Eric Gregg's strike zone in game 5 of the NLCS made a mockery of the LCS 
record for strike outs, and the game of baseball in general.
Said Gregg, "My strike zone has been consistant on both sides for 20 years."
Translation:  "I've been a bad umpire by ignoring the strike zone, as defined 
in the rule book, for 20 years."
MY strike zone?  Since when do umpires think it's okay to have their OWN 
strike zone?  What's next, calling a batter out after two strikes?  After 
all, "as long as he's consistant for both teams..."
And I don't buy that argument that any strike zone is okay, as long as it's 
consistant.  That's bull.  By giving pitchers more than a foot off the plate, 
you're asking hitters to do something completely unnatural and against their 
entire training.  The fact that it's the same for both teams does not make it 
fair.  Maybe the better hitters are not able to do something so unnatural as 
to hit a baseball 12-18 inches off the outside edge of the plate.
I also don't buy into the argument that it's up to the hitters to adjust.  
How do you adjust for a pitch that far out of the strike zone?  By moving 
right up against the plate?  Then what do you do with a pitch inside?  A 
pitch right on the handle would be a strike.  How would you adjust then?  
Answer:  There's NO way to adjust for that wide of a strike zone.
The most amazing thing about Gregg's horrible called strikes is that so many 
of them came on lefthanded batters, where the left-centerfield camera makes 
them actually look CLOSER to the plate than they really are.  So as bad as 
they looked on TV, in fact, they were even WORSE. 
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