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The Terrible Umpires Thread

TruffleShuffle

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Derwood GOAT

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Ok. I know umps are terrible and they do miss calls down the pipe every once in a while over the whole 162 games season, but is it me or it's on a new whole level this year?

 

Are the umps THIS much worse this year, or are the handful of bad calls just especially bad?
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there should be someone in the stadium that is watching the strike zone and can immediately overturn completely egregious calls like these.

 

as a step between the crap now and full electronic zone

Derwood GOAT

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I think that the umps are more affected by the empty stadiums than the players are. Half of these umps get off on fan reactions
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Rizzo, West said, had been yelling at umpires from his suite, saying things like “you’re brutal.” Because of the COVID-19 pandemic and the lack of fans in the stadium, everything can be heard down on the field.

 

“I wouldn’t take that from a player. I wouldn’t take that from a manager,” West said, via the Associated Press. “If it was Donald Trump, I’d eject him, too. But I’d still vote for him.”

 

Sounds like he was ejected for heckling.

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the tweet embedded in that article says "Country Joe" can be combative. But he's a good umpire." which is just objectively wrong, since he's consistently rated as below average (if not among the worst) on balls and strikes. he's a shitty umpire who's been around forever because MLB has zero accountability for bad umpires.

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I can't wait for the Robo-umps to come and take over behind the plate. Joe West and his ilk can politely horsefeathers off and lose that responsibility (and I still think they'll horsefeathers up MLB games on other bizarre rulings/calls, unfortunately).

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