speaking of MLB umpires

[David B]

Took my son to the Astros/Red Sox Friday night - he's a huge Red Sox fan.

First time Red Sox are ever at Minute Maid Park and its a sellout and pretty good game.

Didn't know all of the umpires, Crawford I recognized at U1 but they did a great job.

Super hustle by U2 on every fly ball as well as U3 moving into the infield.

Ball down the line, U1 goes out and PU fills behind. On the way back U1 and U2 communicating about how well it was covered etc,

PU had a small zone but was very consistent, not much complaint.

But as much bad press as they get, these guys had everything covered.

Thanks
David

[bobbybanaduck]

the 2b umpire was mike muchlinski, a AAA guy filling in. your PU for the night was tom hallion. he was one of the guys caught up in the havoc of the 99 thing. he had to (kinda) go back through the MiLB ranks and was just hired back a couple years ago.

[SanDiegoSteve]

And not to give the appearance of jock sniffing, but I have always really liked Tommy Hallion. He is a really good umpire with a great strike call. He is very well respect by those who know the game. He also does have a very consistent strike zone. He's fun to watch work the plate.

[David B]

Originally Posted by SanDiegoSteve

And not to give the appearance of jock sniffing, but I have always really liked Tommy Hallion. He is a really good umpire with a great strike call. He is very well respect by those who know the game. He also does have a very consistent strike zone. He's fun to watch work the plate.

He makes it look almost effortless. Smooth and flowing.

He did get one big strike out.

Thanks
David

[ericgreggsghost]

hallion is excellent, has a short fuse and doesn't take crap from anyone ... he and bobby cox used to have some rip snorters back in the day, pure fireworks. hallion got a raw deal but when they cleaned house (hendry, kosc, johnson, gregg, kaiser) why didn't they include bob "balk" davidson? a horseh*t umpire if i've ever seen one.

[mattmets]

Originally Posted by ericgreggsghost

hallion is excellent, has a short fuse and doesn't take crap from anyone ... he and bobby cox used to have some rip snorters back in the day, pure fireworks. hallion got a raw deal but when they cleaned house (hendry, kosc, johnson, gregg, kaiser) why didn't they include bob "balk" davidson? a horseh*t umpire if i've ever seen one.

Your opinion aside, they did.

[SanDiegoSteve]

Originally Posted by ericgreggsghost

...why didn't they include bob "balk" davidson? a horseh*t umpire if i've ever seen one.

I'll just edit the whole thing, since it no longer makes any sense.