Is there any doubt that Angel Hernandez...
 

...is the most pompous (sp) A$$ ever after what he did tonight?

So eject the Dodgers' coach, who is in the first base dugout, while standing near the third base coaches box. Fine.

Be the umpire that has a fuse shorter than a knat's a$$. Fine

Don't wear a tee-shirt under your uniform shirt. Fine.

But my gosh, giving the coach's hat to the fan is just bush league, IMO.

For whatever reason he ejected the coach - that's all well and good. But I think the next time Angel gets shown up in the fashion that he showed up the coach tonight, he ought to let him stay.

Well, he needed to do SOMETHING with the hat!

Why are you crying so much aobout a MLB Umpire?

MLB Umpires are their worst enemies, they have quality umpires in AAA for ten years and keep the not as talented ones in the majors. What other pro sport does that, NONE. The union is too strong for its own good. They should hire the good AAA umpires and fire the MLB that don't have passing grades.

Has anyone read "Verbal Judo"?

From what I saw, Hernandez wasn't out of line.

Come on, they call it "The Show" for a reason.

Angel was very calm compared to Bruce Dreckman in the Padres/Braves game on Sunday! I think the hot weather got to Bruce, 4 ejections in one inning!

Just got back from my four mile morning walk on the beach. Beautiful weather along Monterey Bay this morning. Yesterday we shot down to Big Sur for margaritas at Nepenthe's overlooking the ocean, had great Mexican food at the Whole Enchilada and got back to the beach house in time for our two mile evening walk on the beach at sunset. Today, I think we'll lie in the sun for for a bit while I review the FED Football rule and casebooks, then go for a bike ride. Dinner tonight will be just a couple of rib-eyes barbecued on the deck. It's a lazy do-nothing kind of day. I'm really looking forward to retiring down here. I need to run into Chris Schwartz. Anybody seen him around the internet lately?

Oh, yeah, Angel Hernandez. As is no secret, Angel was promoted to the majors over several higher rated AAA umpires. Some felt it was evident that MLB paid more attention to diversity than quality.

He has consistently been rated near the bottom of all ML umpires and has a very poor reputation for game management. Picking up the first base coach's cap and giving it to a fan was bush. One way or another, he'll pay for it.

He has a rep. for being the worst umpiring in the major leagues...just google his name :D

How? By losing his job? Not getting WS assignments, like he did last year?

And btw, very jealous about Big Sur.

boy, he's been around a few years...

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That nasty umpire ejected a Dodger coach. Probably for nothing at all. By the way, the word is spelled, "gnat", not "knat".

As for giving the cap to a youngster in the stands, I thought that was FANTASTIC. The infantile coach threw his cap at Hernandez. THAT was "bush".

Your bias against umpires, or at least Hernandez is showing.

Bob

Back from the beach. Having a light lunch...salad with a side of calamari...before the bike ride.

Certainly the team will file a complaint. If the discipline comes from MLB or WUA you most likely won't hear about it right away, but word will leak out as it has in the past. The players may also dish out some "discipline". They have ways of making an umpire's job difficult without crossing the ejection line.

Angel's post season assignments, in the words of one former MLB umpire, diminishes what honor reamins in the selection. Another example of EOE?

I'm biased against Hernandez becuase I think he is the worst MLB umpire out there. That's not a bad thing, someone has to be the worst.:D

MY bias? I've been doing this 'umpiring' thing for about 15 years now at the high school and college level. I don't think my 'bias' is against them.

And another thing, before you start throwing 'obvious bias' tags at people, why don't you research their posts to see where their 'biases' really are, Bob.

And your comma should come before your closed quotes. Whatever.

I don't think the word "until" means what you think it does...

Only in America. The rest of the world puts the commas in the proper contextual position.

Yes, I could never understand why we put a ? inside the quotation marks, when we are asking a question about a quotation. Example: Did he really say, "Give me liberty, or give me death?" It makes it look like the original quotation is a question. I'm in favor of putting question marks outside of the quotations.

im more in favor of reading about garth's daily activities than today's bickering.

Where is the book on what is "bush"? I hear this often. I thought handing the hat to a fan was funny as sh*t. After all the coach was out of the dugout and threw the hat at him. Maybe the same book will define "bush" for coaches.

I am not defending Hernandez. I could care less. I just think the "bush" comments are fueled by the announcers, and what do they know?

DG - I'm with you on this, but the "announcers" are more likely that not ex-major leaguers. And while players do not study the rules the way we do it is also a fact the rules committee is NOT overly represented by umpires. SO, it is a fact of life that the majority of MLB fans will buy into just about anyting the retired-player announcers say. If we are to educate the fans we aren't going to do it by imposing the umpires into the game. Both sad and true.
Remember Steve Palermo and the nail file? His subtle look as Niekro tried to toss the nail file away got SO many TV fans saying "HEY! LOOK AT THAT"

Sad, but true, to the fans umpires should be seen and never heard from.

It's 7:20 AM as I write. High tide on Monterey Bay will peak at 7:32 so we have postponed our morning walk. (I call it a walk, my wife, who at 5'3" has fairly short legs, call it a trot. I walk at a 16 minute mile pace so I get my four miles in at just over an hour.)

We prefer to walk at low tide or between tides, so we'll enjoy some cofee for a while, read the paper and talk more about what we need to do to before we retire here. I've always wanted to retire before 60 and it looks like that will be possible. We plan on learning Spanish over the next year. I figure I can probably substitute teach down here, but it would help to be bilingual and Spanish seem to still be the dominant second language in the central coast region. I'm conversant and literate in French, but that doesn't seem to help, except at restaurants.

We're goint to visit Carmel today. That's where our first date was back in collge, before moving to Spokane, before raising two boys, before 32 years of marriage. Back then we bought a bottle of wine, some french bread, salami, and provlone cheese at the Mediterranean Market and ate lunch in the park. The Mediterranean Market is gone now. It closed about three years ago, so we'll have to bring our lunch supplies with us.

We'll walk the beach, visit the mission and maybe a winery or two, stroll the neighborhoods and be amazed at the $150,000 bungalows that sell for a million dollars. Dinner will be at "Portabella's", one of the best restaurants we've discovered in the region. We stop in about three times a year and owner always remembers us and sits down to bring us current on the happenings since our last visit.

We'll watch the sun set over the bay from the city beach beneath Pebble Beach Golf Course and then head for "home".

"Bush", by the way, like beauty, is in the eye of the beholder. I don't rely on former rats for what I consider bush. Picking up a coach's hat and running to the stands and giving it to a fan, is bush.

Hernandez, from his lack of uniformity in his uniform to his showboat handling of situations has always been a "look at me" umpire. That's also bush. But it would be tolerable if his performance was quality. It isn't.

Have a pleasant day.

Like sand from an hourglass, so are the Days Of Our Garth.

I don't think the WS assignments are on merit, they rotate them among the staff when you get a certain amount of years in the league! (Not Positive?):cool:

I don't think that's right....I can give you examples to support my argument if you'd like, but I think they try to base it on "merit".

Angel Hernandez > Better
 

1) Looking than me? Strike 1.

2) Umpire than me? Strike 2.

3) Make more money than me? Strike 3 swinging. I'm out.

I still get to laugh a little, but I'm sure it is not the last laugh.