Bill Hohn: Worst MLB umpire or merely the most glaring?

[LMan]

So, does this mean Doug Eddings is off the hook?

[SanDiegoSteve]

Originally Posted by LMan

So, does this mean Doug Eddings is off the hook?

Wait, I thought it was agreed that Angel Hernandez was the worst!

[mbyron]

Originally Posted by LMan

So, does this mean Doug Eddings is off the hook?

Not for Cards fans.

Anyway, I thought it was C. B. Bucknor.

[jwwashburn]

Wow!

I forgot just how bad this was.

If that fist pump was not an out signal, what was it?

And for Eddings to say he actually KNEW Paul did not catch it is preposterous. there is NO way that the PU could know that. Even from the super slow mo, I do not think anyone could know that.

[Kevin Finnerty]

I don't know how many pitches most people have caught with a catcher's mitt, but I have caught countless thousands, and there are catches you make with the web mashed into the ground and the ball hits the web and bounces up into the pocket of the mitt. That's the kind of catch that Josh Paul made on that Eddings disaster.

[SanDiegoSteve]

Originally Posted by Kevin Finnerty

I don't know how many pitches most people have caught with a catcher's mitt, but I have caught countless thousands, and there are catches you make with the web mashed into the ground and the ball hits the web and bounces up into the pocket of the mitt. That's the kind of catch that Josh Paul made on that Eddings disaster.

I don't want to rehash this, as we thoroughly discussed the play at length, but I watched the Comcast replay close-up over and over, and it looked to me that the ball hit dirt, and kicked up a little dirt as it bounced into the glove. In any case, it is incumbent on a catcher to realize that it may or may not be called a catch, and Josh Paul should have tagged Pierzynski just to be certain. Eddings changed the way we call the play, but it would have been moot if Paul had done his job properly.

[Kevin Finnerty]

Agreed.

And it was the last thing Paul ever did as an Angel.

[bucblue]

What about the safe, out, out, call at first last night in the Braves/Marlins game. Hermida hit a single to left, ball back to SS, who looked and fired a shot to 1B. Hermida was asleep, 1b coach asleep, and Hohn asleep as the tag was applied before Hermida got back. Hohn game a great safe sign, then out, then out again. Double play?