The Terrible Umpires Thread

[Regular Show]

[Derwood]

To be fair, those two calls weren't egregious. I'd prefer an automated zone, but we've seen hundreds of worse calls than those

[Regular Show]

To be fair, those two calls weren't egregious. I'd prefer an automated zone, but we've seen hundreds of worse calls than those

Sure. I've seen worse calls too, but they were pretty bad and also context matters. The fastball was clearly outside on Robles.

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Awesome shirt.

[Cubfanintheknow]

The call was bad. The reason why is infuriating.

https://www.yahoo.com/sports/umpire-lance-barksdale-blamed-catcher-133113341.html

[Ding Dong Johnson]

[TMan92]

Nothing on the nonsense tonight?

[Regular Show]

https://theathletic.com/1348067/2019/11 ... ast-booth/

Robot umpires might not be the only officials invading major league baseball in the future. Viewers soon could be seeing umpires in a baseball broadcast booth, similar to how the NFL, NBA, and other sports have integrated former officials as part of the broadcast.

In an interview last Friday with The Athletic, Fox Sports executive producer Brad Zager said his network has given serious consideration to having a former umpire in the booth for Fox/FS1’s postseason coverage.

Terrible idea -- nobody wants a horsefeathering ump in the broadcast booth.

The interference ruling on Trea Turner in the WS was asinine. Someone trying to explain it and/or justify it only makes it worse.

[Derwood]

https://apnews.com/d8760e52b8ced5b8436c ... SocialFlow

*itshappeninggif*

[Cubswin11]

[Regular Show]

Pretty entertaining series of tweets... last one is really good lol:

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[Ding Dong Johnson]

[bukie]

I mean, if ever there were a season to go to automated strike calls...

[Regular Show]

This is so infuriating...

I can't wait for the automated strike zone to be implemented in MLB. I sincerely hope they're working on the technology behind-the-scenes, but I don't think it's a priority for Rob Manfred.


Also:

[The Logan]

To be fair, the catcher didn't do him any favors with that one. Reminds me of the Gary Sanchez one from a few years back that was almost exactly like this one.

[JudasIscariotTheBird]

To be fair, the catcher didn't do him any favors with that one. Reminds me of the Gary Sanchez one from a few years back that was almost exactly like this one.

Well sure. The catcher was clearly expecting a slider and got a two-seamer instead. There was a man on 2nd so I'm going to guess it was the pitcher who didn't pick up the new signs correctly.

[woodchip2153]

To be fair, the catcher didn't do him any favors with that one. Reminds me of the Gary Sanchez one from a few years back that was almost exactly like this one.

To be fair

[Ding Dong Johnson]

To be fair, the catcher didn't do him any favors with that one. Reminds me of the Gary Sanchez one from a few years back that was almost exactly like this one.

To be fair

To be faaaaaaaaiiiiiiir.

[Omar]

Kepler didn't swing at a single pitch during this AB

[Derwood]

Look where the ump sets up for that last pitch. Terrible

[NonProfitCow]

[Omar]

Look where the ump sets up for that last pitch. Terrible

I can understand missing calls north and south sometimes, hitter's height changes.

but east and west... when you can use the homeplate as a literally look and see "did the ball cross on top of the plate?" ... how do you miss the call that badly?

[Omar]

Other umpire gems recently

[NonProfitCow]

I don't know how you keep from getting tossed there.

[JudasIscariotTheBird]

I don't know how you keep from getting tossed there.

I really enjoy that pause the catcher gives, not just when he catches the pitch, but when he's still waiting for a late strike call, and not quite throwing the ball back to the pitcher, which is then permenantly frozen by the video ending. Perfect editing.

[Derwood]

Are the umps THIS much worse this year, or are the handful of bad calls just especially bad?