Post Season Boo Boos
 

I apologize if this was already posted. The worst was the 2 Yanks standing off 3rd when tagged.

Baseball Video Highlights & Clips | Controversial postseason calls: Who was right? - Video | MLB.com: Multimedia

Yeah, all the boo-boos made the rounds already, right after they happened.

I thought that this post-season's score of blunders and inane explanations would make it markedly more difficult for all of us at umpiring's lower levels to umpire ballgames.

The opposite has been the case. I have been complimented and thanked and praised more then ever. The appreciation of our work has actually been heightened---at least in my area.

Thank you, Tim McClelland! And thank you, C.B. Bucknor!

yea, I just never saw them all together. Usually every post season has one contraversial call, but wow!

there were alot of them, but I still think the safe call on the double play in the Angels /yankee's game was a good call, Eybar never touch the base..

It was the correct call, but was it good? If you've been calling that an out for the last fifty years, and you suddenly not call it, is it good?

And I agree with Kevin, I got nothing but praise for my games after all that nonsense.

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.

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

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

I prefer the "KISS Saves Christmas" episode.

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.

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.

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.

Aybar never made the play effectively enough to grant him the neighborhood out. Layne was effectively and technically right. And I am an Angel fan.

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