Phil Cuzzi's Vision

[Kevin Finnerty]

Originally Posted by tballump

So why didn't everyone here go to the umpires school so we could have competent umpires in MLB.

Horsesh!t baseball to get caught at second and tagged before the run scored at the plate earlier in the game, to end the inning and possibly score more runs.
Horsesh!t baseball when you cannot score in that same inning of the call with the bases loaded and 0 outs.
Horsesh!t baseball when the manager in the postgame interview has to ask the press, there were 6 umpires right, because he didn't really know.
Who stranded runners all night?
Who gave up a game tying home run in the bottom of the 9th-How about the walk-off in the 11th?

Wow! That call sure required a lot of excuses! It must have really been a horsesh!t call.

Blind defense of all umpires regardless of anything and everything is not the sign of loyalty that you think it is.

And to come at every critic with that convoluted if-not-for-this-play-or-that-error-or-this-bad-decision-then-the-call-wouldn't-have-mattered approach is an insult to everyone who knows the game. Another insult is that if-you-can-do-better-then-why-aren't-you-out-there nonsense.

This is America; we're allowed to find fault with the big people in this society and the way they run things and then voice it.

Say all you want about everything that happened before the call; it is indefensible. Period. He's in the major leagues for crying out loud! If you want to be a blindly loyal, blissfully accepting follower, that is your right. But you don't have to be so defensive and insulting of people who choose to have their eyes and minds open to what the realities are.