He really did say it

[SanDiegoSteve]

Originally Posted by rei

Holy cow! I have not read this much malarkey in years!

The depths of hypocrisy here is astounding!

There is NOT ONE OF YOU who haven't done this very thing. There are two types of umpires in this world: Those who have called a "safe" out because of a blowout; and those that lie and say they haven't!

Not me, pal. Not even once.

I've had many opportunities to end crap ballgames and get to my air conditioning and martini, but I never intentionally got a call wrong to do it. I've had borderline pitches that would have walked home the winning run in deep extra innings, and never wavered in my correct strike 3 call.

I call it integrity on the baseball field. People can and have called me "one flaky SOB," along with other not-so-nice remarks over my umpiring "career," but nobody has ever been able to accuse me of any improprieties such as you describe.

[TussAgee11]

Originally Posted by SanDiegoSteve

Not me, pal. Not even once.

I've had many opportunities to end crap ballgames and get to my air conditioning and martini, but I never intentionally got a call wrong to do it. I've had borderline pitches that would have walked home the winning run in deep extra innings, and never wavered in my correct strike 3 call.

I call it integrity on the baseball field. People can and have called me "one flaky SOB," along with other not-so-nice remarks over my umpiring "career," but nobody has ever been able to accuse me of any improprieties such as you describe.

Yes yes yes.

If you want to say there is a subconcious bias in the 11th inning of what has become a 20-11 ball game with 2 outs, that's fine.

But don't accuse me of actively fixing a game.