With all the b!tchin'

[Kevin Finnerty]

Originally Posted by MrUmpire

The worst umpire at the WS this year is better than anyone on this board. Disagree if you'd lile, if that gets you through the night.

You honestly think that criticizing umpiring is an unspoken statement that we think we're better than they are?

This statement says a lot. So if you are not better than the guy in question, then you can't criticize him. Wow.

What country is this again?

[johnnyg08]

With that logic, the observers/evaluators must be the best umpires in the world because in order to evaluate and to see flaws/areas for growth, you have to be an expert.

The worst umpire at the WS this year is better than anyone on this board. Disagree if you'd lile, if that gets you through the night.

That statement's logic just doesn't hold up.

[MrUmpire]

Originally Posted by Kevin Finnerty

You honestly think that criticizing umpiring is an unspoken statement that we think we're better than they are?

This statement says a lot. So if you are not better than the guy in question, then you can't criticize him. Wow.

What country is this again?

For Kevin and other reading-impaired posters:

I was addressing Pete's missive. I rearely read anything Kevin writes these days.

I said mistakes were made. I believe criticism can be valid. I don't, however, believe that, as in Pete's post, those facts must keep us from appreciating a spectacular effort, whether by an athlete or umpire.

We applaud a player who may have been the goat in one inning, when he jacks a homer in the next. Yet, according to Pete, when an umpies makes near heroic effort to get a play right...it's just his job. That's a shame.

If you need any additional help in reading comprehension, let me know.

[Emperor Ump]

Originally Posted by MrUmpire

I've never said MLB umpires are perfect, nor have I said that some mistakes haven't been made in the WS. It seems however that the current fad of dumping on the umpires has obscured reality.

I couldn't agree more with these lines.

[SethPDX]

Originally Posted by MrUmpire

I've never said MLB umpires are perfect, nor have I said that some mistakes haven't been made in the WS. It seems however that the current fad of dumping on the umpires has obscured reality....

The worst umpire at the WS this year is better than anyone on this board....

Great thoughts. I am going to keep these in mind the rest of the Series and in the future. I think some of the posters, myself included, forget this at times.

[SethPDX]

Originally Posted by MrUmpire

about the WS umpires, Jeff Kellog's great call at first tonight goes unnoticed.

Jeff Kellogg, on the plate for the completion of Game 5, made a great call at the plate.

Nice position on 3BLX for the swipe tag, and good timing to wait until he saw Ruiz holding onto the ball after a diving tag.

I hope I wasn't the only one who noticed.

[Roscoe46]

I too noticed. It was as you stated. (Excellent Position and Excellent Timing)

[kylejt]

I wouldn't say "great" or "excellent". I'd say proper. He used proper technique and timing, and made the correct call. There was nothing special, nor heroic, about this call. It's a routine call, and one any second year umpire should make.

Now, with all the miscues, and faux pas in this post season, a proper call makes one take notice. That's a shame.

[MrUmpire]

The evil that men do lives after them;
The good is oft interred with their bones.

That's a shame.

[Ump153]

Originally Posted by kylejt

I wouldn't say "great" or "excellent". I'd say proper. He used proper technique and timing, and made the correct call. There was nothing special, nor heroic, about this call. It's a routine call, and one any second year umpire should make.

Now, with all the miscues, and faux pas in this post season, a proper call makes one take notice. That's a shame.

You're a "glass half empty" kind of guy, aren't you?

[kylejt]

Originally Posted by Ump153

You're a "glass half empty" kind of guy, aren't you?

I haven't got giddy about an umpires call since Ron Luciano gunned down a runner at first.

I take that back. When a LL umpire employs rule 7.13, and can either make a run dissapear, or three runners return to their bases, then I give the standing O. Now that's a great call.