The Biggest Irritant in your history of umpiring

[SanDiegoSteve]

Originally Posted by zm1283

This doesn't have anything to do with MY umpiring, but I saw it the other day and it really irritated me....

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Is that Dick Enberg as the PBP guy? What a douche. He claims that Drake "incited" Gonzalez by putting a finger up. (Which really looked like a final warning before dumping him) I'm pretty sure Gonzalez had already incited the situation by turning around and then pointing at the plate. Then the moron color guy praises Bud Black (head rat) for "mixing it up with the home plate umpire", which really means arguing balls and strikes and getting tossed.

Idiot announcers are my biggest irritant.

Yes, it's Dick Enberg...OH MY!

Yeah, and on the radio, Ted Leitner (who is a stupid a$$ to start with) said that Drake overreacted to Gonzalez, who only said, "that's not a strike." What a crock of crap. Drake isn't my favorite umpire by a long shot, but nobody throws out a ballplayer for just saying that. Gonzalez obviously said, "YOU......" something or other to get kicked out for the first time in his career.

The moron color guy is Mark Grant, ex MLB rat (pitched for the Padres and the Giants), who is actually a pretty nice guy, and I discuss the broadcasters' lack of rule expertise with him whenever I run in to him (he hangs out at a 7-11 near my house). You can't expect rats (once a rat, always a rat) who are wannabe umpires to think like an umpire. It's their nature to think like rats.