http://www.hollidaynevertouchedtheplate.com Matt Holliday missed the plate in the Padres vs. Rockies 2007 Wild Card one game playoff Wed, 24 Oct 2007 02:05:00 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en As the Rockies get set to take on the Red Sox in the World Series, the key replay of the play that got Colorado into the post season remains missing. The "reverse angle replay" of the Rockies' Matt Holliday's slide into home vs. the Padres is still missing despite the ... http://www.hollidaynevertouchedtheplate.com/2007/10/23/missing-have-you-seen-this-replay-of-matt-hollidays-slide-vs-the-padres/ Tony Kornheiser did something yesterday that Tim McClelland should have done in the 13th inning the night of Oct 1st. He called Matt Holliday out. While many in the media, including ESPN's own Sportscenter, have described the replays as being "inconclusive," Kornheiser has been adamant from day one that Holliday ... http://www.hollidaynevertouchedtheplate.com/2007/10/20/tony-kornheiser-calls-matt-holliday-out-five-good-minutes-with-matt-holliday/ Just how did the replays of Matt Holliday's slide come to be described as "inconclusive?" On October 2nd, the day after the game, two major media outlets, one in print, and one in video, went with the "inconclusive" description. One of those outlets was ESPN whose coverage changed markedly from ... http://www.hollidaynevertouchedtheplate.com/2007/10/20/how-the-replays-of-hollidays-slide-came-to-be-described-as-being-inconclusive/ In an interview with me today, Jim Evans, the man behind the Jim Evans Academy of Professional Umpiring, discussed the topic of obstruction as it applied to Matt Holliday's slide into home and Michael Barrett's attempt to block the plate in the recent Rockies vs. Padres one game playoff. ... http://www.hollidaynevertouchedtheplate.com/2007/10/18/barrett-did-not-obstruct-holliday-from-the-plate-this-ends-the-debate/ Here is conclusive video proof that Matt Holliday never touched the plate. Using a reverse angle still frame that surfaced on MLB.com it is now possible to show what was happening from the viewpoint of Tim McClelland. Unfortunately the video that the still frame came from has yet to ... http://www.hollidaynevertouchedtheplate.com/2007/10/14/conclusive-video-proof-that-matt-holliday-never-touched-the-plate/ On Friday October 12th, MLB Advanced Media filed multiple copyright infringement complaints with YouTube that brought down the links to three of Holliday Never Touched the Plate's (HNTTP) videos.  The complaints were filed despite the fact that no copyright infringement took place (since the use of the original source media ... http://www.hollidaynevertouchedtheplate.com/2007/10/14/mlb-advanced-media-shuts-down-select-holliday-never-touched-the-platecom-video-links/ Baseball stood by its man as MLB's crew of officials for the NLCS will include Tim McClelland as crew chief. Despite criticism that McClelland blew the final play by calling Matt Holliday safe at the plate during the Padres vs. Rockies one game playoff, MLB has tapped him to head ... http://www.hollidaynevertouchedtheplate.com/2007/10/11/mcclelland-doctrine-set-to-return-to-the-national-league/ Key footage of Matt Holliday's slide has gone missing. The image below is a screen cap from MLB.com's video of Carroll driving in Matt Holliday. ( You can find a link to it on this page under the related links section to the right of the text.) In MLB.com's video ... http://www.hollidaynevertouchedtheplate.com/2007/10/11/have-you-seen-this-video-key-footage-of-hollidays-slide-goes-missing/ ESPN's Sportscenter used at least two different sets of highlights when replaying Colorado's Matt Holliday's slide into home vs. the Padres. On the Sportscenter show that aired following the game the footage used was from the TBS feed. They showed replays from four cameras, one down each foul line, and ... http://www.hollidaynevertouchedtheplate.com/2007/10/08/did-espn-purposely-select-replays-of-hollidays-slide-that-were-less-revealing/ Tim McClelland is a seasoned professional umpire with over 24 years on the job. While there are a few unusual stories in his past in the form of the George Brett pine tar incident and Sammy Sosa's corked bat game, his overall performance has been hailed by some, including Dan ... http://www.hollidaynevertouchedtheplate.com/2007/10/08/mlbs-mcclelland-dillema-will-tim-mcclelland-umpire-this-post-season/