WTF Just Happened at 3rd NY vs LAA

[Kevin Finnerty]

Originally Posted by LDUB

All of you guys have also said it all before many times. Worst call ever, inexcusable...it goes on and on every time there is a missed call. Are the calls actually getting worse? It is sort of odd how the "worst call ever" always seems to be the latest missed call.

Yep, he obviously got the play wrong. One can see how he could have missed that R3 was not on the base. We all know that missed calls happen. What makes one missed call excusable and another inexcusable?

This is the worst call I have ever seen in a high-profile game for sure. Again, that's my opinion based on what is soon to become 45 years of following major league baseball. The worst.

What makes it inexcusable? Laziness and disinterest in a job that pays $400,000 per year with three months off and he can't put out. That's what makes it inexcusable.

It's pathetic. These games are important. And this profession is too dignified to have it be represented this way at what is supposed to be its highest level.

[LDUB]

Talking about the 2 players being tagged at third...

Originally Posted by Kevin Finnerty

let's instead try to come up with a worse call that we've ever seen.

Originally Posted by LDUB

Are the calls actually getting worse? It is sort of odd how the "worst call ever" always seems to be the latest missed call.

I found the answer in the other thread. In discussing the appeal play at third it was said that it was...

Originally Posted by Kevin Finnerty

perhaps the worst call we have ever seen in a high-profile game.

What are the odds that two of the worst calls ever would be made my the same guy during the same game? The odds are so low that I bet people just use the phrase "worst call ever" when they don't actually mean it.

[vcblue]

Just asking because as the resident ump my family always comes to me. I tell them I know nothing about BB, but they don't understand that there is a difference.