Not even talking about the call being changed. How the hell can a major league ump miss that call when you consider how he was positioned?
accepted the catch and was just looking at the bag.
Glad it was correctly reversed.
blown ump calls have cost teams World Series-eg. The infamous Don Denkinger in 85-The more replay the better, IMHO-yet there are 'purists' who say bad calls are part of the game..to which I say 'balderdash,' horse feathers', and 'bullspit'! Getting it right is the priority-the game should be determined by the players, not some overpaid official who doesn't get it done-some incompetent calls such as last night's are mindboggling-and it was great that it was reversed-
Another pet peeve is the umpire who ''has his own strike zone'' When an ump calls a pitch 4-6 inches outside a strike and does so consistently, he should be run out of the game-
There, I feel better....
1rob....in a venting mood...out
The worst job of having a "personal strike zone" was in the 1997 NLCS between Atlanta and Florida. Livan Hernandez struck out 15 Braves in Game 5, mostly because of Eric Gregg's over-generous strike zone. It solidified Gregg's reputation as one of the worst umpires ever.
of the umpires who thought the crowd was there to see him as well as the players-Thankfully, that lard ass POS was fired, but sadly not before he screwed up a lot of outcomes-good riddance to one of the absolute worst-If there's ever a ump's 'Hall of Shame'', EG should be in it.......
JK! What a fucking stupid call lol
Last night's pick off, what was he thinking? Down 2 and picked off, don't quit your day job Wong or is it Wrong?.