Post Season Boo Boos

[dash_riprock]

There was bad umpiring that didn't make the highlight video too.

One of my favorites was in game 4 when Jeter walked on a 3-1 pitch way outside and in the dirt. The bat never left Jeter's shoulder. Mike Everitt pointed him to 1st base with his left hand, and Dana DeMuth promptly gave the safe sign indicating "no swing." A junior high ump would get dinged for doing that.

[SanDiegoSteve]

Originally Posted by dash_riprock

Mike Everitt pointed him to 1st base with his left hand, and Dana DeMuth promptly gave the safe sign indicating "no swing." A junior high ump would get dinged for doing that.

I'm surprised Everitt didn't accompany the point with "Ball four, take your base!"

[Ump153]

I liked the one where Stewie and Brian went back in time to Poland just prior to the Nazi invasion.

[SanDiegoSteve]

I prefer the "KISS Saves Christmas" episode.

[yawetag]

I tried to make a YouTube video of all the close calls the umpires got right, but it went over their 10-minute max length, and I wasn't even close to finished.

[Kevin Finnerty]

That's very clever.

Umpires at the major league level are paid quite well to make the right call 99.something percent of the time. They are supposed to make the right call hundreds and hundreds of times between blown calls. They are expected to blow a call like McClelland's, Cuzzi's or Bucknor's (all easy calls for any umpire) zero percent of the time.

The outcry over this year's post-season umpiring is more than justified.

[GA Umpire]

The pickoff play at 2B is the one which falls under the .something percent missed b/c it is quick in real time and Aybar didn't make it look good either. I can even see the 1st play of the clip being missed trying to watch everything in the play with the high throw and as close as the 1Bman was to being pulled off by the throw.

Those are the only 2 which I can understand missing b/c we have all missed those calls for 1 reason or another and the speed at which the opportunity goes by. The rest should have been done better.

And, I still agree with Layne not giving that DP to Aybar. He was just being lazy.

[Cobra]

Originally Posted by Kevin Finnerty

They are expected to blow a call like McClelland's, Cuzzi's or Bucknor's (all easy calls for any umpire) zero percent of the time.

Good thing we have such a smart guy like you here to let us know which calls are difficult enough to be missed.