Midsummer Classic Assignments
 

HP: Jerry Crawford (30 yrs. experience - 2nd ASG, plus 4 DS, 11 LCS, and 5 WS)
1B: Randy Marsh (25 yrs. experience - 4th ASG, tied with Ed Montague for most ASG assignments among active umpires)
2B: Fieldin Culbreth (10 yrs. experience - 1st ASG)
3B: Jeff Nelson (9 yrs. experience - 1st ASG)
LF: Mike Everitt (8 yrs. experience - 1st ASG)
RF: Alfonso Marquez (7 yrs. experience - 1st ASG)

Source: MLB.com Press Releases @ 14:31 and 16:00 ET (Wednesday, June 21st, 2006)

FWIW, have to say I agree with MLB this year....not a bad ump in that crew.

could you please list the bad MLB umpires then?

Would you really like me to?

yes
this is just to fulfill the 10 character limit. ignore it.

I would list the ones I think aren't as good as they could be, but then a certain someone would jump all over me again.

We know you hate Joe West.

I don't hate anybody. I didn't care for Joe West's lawsuit against Riddell, but he's okay in my book otherwise. He does have a very lazy looking punch-out strike 3 call, however.

Angel Hernandez....................enough said.



Tim.

I only hope that Jerry Crawford has sufficently recovered from his back injury sustained (presumably) during his rather "unusual mechanics" in making the call at 2B in the Cubs vs. Cleveland game the other night to officiate at the All Star game.

JM

It should be fun, however, watching his belt buckle slowly migrate from where it should be to his hip by the seventh inning.:D

Color me confused. Can you explain?

Crawford was U2. He was standing about at the edge of the grass and 15' or so toward third. During some play, the ball was throw to third, then to second. He had to dive to get out of the way and made the call at second (on a close play) while on the ground.

is there a video of this floating around? I'd love to see it

joe

Here's what the players say according to most recent edition of Sports Illustrated

Q: Who is the worst umpire in the Major Leagues?

CB Bucknor.....21%
Bruce Froemming.....15%
Angel Hernandez.....12%
Joe West.....6%
Doug Eddings.....5%
Joe Brinkman.....4%
Chuck Meriwether.....3%
Larry Young.....3%
Greg Gibson,.....2%
Gary Darling.....2%

Here's the link:
http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/200...620/index.html