Bucknor, Cuzzi pay the price

[jkumpire]

Originally Posted by UMP25

Bucknor isn't unfit for just the division series or the World Series, he's unfit for MLB period.

He is truly an awful, awful umpire, and if anyone thinks he got to the majors because he was better than Umpire X in MiLB, I've got a bridge in Brooklyn to sell you. CB is one of the few umpires who should actually be fired.

You may well be right, but you and I are not the ones who put him MLB, nor are we the people who evaluate him every year. He is considered by the people who hire the umpires one of the best in the world, or he wouldn't be there.

Like or not, that's the bottom line, and the other bottom line is that he may well have been on the WS crew until the MLB office got scared (my opinion) of all the bad pub they were getting.

[UMP25]

Originally Posted by jkumpire

He is considered by the people who hire the umpires one of the best in the world, or he wouldn't be there.

If you think he made it to MLB because he was "one of the best in the world," or that he still retains his position because he's "one of the best in the world," you're rather naive, with all due respect.

[SanDiegoSteve]

Originally Posted by UMP25

If you think he made it to MLB because he was "one of the best in the world," or that he still retains his position because he's "one of the best in the world," you're rather naive, with all due respect.

Go ahead, tell him why....go ahead, it's okay.

[UMP25]

Sorry, no can do. I do not wish to be reported to the Obama Administration and hauled away to sensitivity training or re-education camp.

[Kevin Finnerty]

Originally Posted by UMP25

Sorry, no can do. I do not wish to be reported to the Obama Administration and hauled away to sensitivity training or re-education camp.

You were on the right track to giving a fair-minded, realistic and truthful answer until you made an absurdly lame joke about the president.

Whereas having black or brown skin used to all but disqualify a man from the higher levels of the umpiring profession, it is now a characteristic that will vault an umpire hundreds of spots higher on the list if he displays even a modicum of aptitude.

There. I have no racial bias or racial superiority problem. But I know the game and the basic workings of the world around me and that's how I think things are.

[UMP25]

I happen to completely agree with you, as it is sadly accurate.

[SanDiegoSteve]

Originally Posted by Kevin Finnerty

You were on the right track to giving a fair-minded, realistic and truthful answer until you made an absurdly lame joke about the president.

I don't think it was lame at all. If it were up to Obama....well, let's not turn this into a political thing. Ump 25 was merely trying to avoid sounding racist, as anytime somebody tells it like it is about affirmative action, they get that label. I've actually heard it on this forum that if you don't like Obama you must be a racist, which is even more absurdly ridiculous than any joke about the man.

[Kevin Finnerty]

Originally Posted by SanDiegoSteve

I don't think it was lame at all. If it were up to Obama....well, let's not turn this into a political thing. Ump 25 was merely trying to avoid sounding racist, as anytime somebody tells it like it is about affirmative action, they get that label. I've actually heard it on this forum that if you don't like Obama you must be a racist, which is even more absurdly ridiculous than any joke about the man.

This part: "... sensitivity training or re-education camp" is beyond lame. And it is beneath funny. So why make the joke?

Just make the point and avoid sounding racist the best way you can, and if some people react in a juvenile or simplistic way, well, they have to go through life being juvenile or simplistic, so what the hell?

[SanDiegoSteve]

Originally Posted by UMP25

Sorry, no can do. I do not wish to be reported to the Obama Administration and hauled away to sensitivity training or re-education camp.

See, we backward rednecks need to stop being racists!