Detroit vs Toronto

[JRutledge]

Originally Posted by jicecone

And if you were to follow what Rut is advocating, you wouldn't have been around for the secomd time.

There are more than enough officials around that believe the pedestal they sit on is much higher than it really is. It is good to see once in while that they wipe their butts just like us Rut.

Do not try to mis-characterize what I said on this issue. It is clear that this was a bad miss. If you cannot get that play right often enough you should not be at that level. And always falling back on getting help in my opinion is hurting umpiring at that level. If an NBA official cannot get the job done and constantly missing plays, they get rid of you. In the NFL if you cannot get plays right enough or even get out of shape, they get rid of you. In MLB, you can be out of shape, have the right last name and they will not get rid of you. And in that process they hold back other guys that could do the job better and the mantra is to hold onto this "Get it right" philosophy no matter how bad it makes them look. This was just one play that they made the right call, but there have been many others that have been wrong or very questionable over the last few years (like a first base umpire overruling a play a 3rd base on a tag/no tag play at 3rd last year). At least Jim Joyce's miss was forgivable as it was very close, but this play was not that close.

Peace