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Mike DiMuro: You should resign.
The Greatest Trick Dewayne Wise Ever Pulled Was Convincing The World He Caught This Ball [UPDATE]
How does the DiMuro not look in the glove? |
That's hil-freakin'-larious!
I so want to play poker with that chump. He will never, ever live that one down. The only thing worse is EJing the player that points out your stupidity. Awesome display. MLB.com Must C | Must C Call: Wise's leaping effort leads to dispute - Video | MLB.com: Multimedia I blame the dopey smock he's wearing. Nothing good, except being mistaken for a barber, can happen in those frocks. |
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That being said I am shocked that the umpire did not ask for some proof he had the ball at the very least. I can see how he might have missed the actual catch, but thing it is inexcusable to not ask a basic question, "Where is the ball?" He did not have to ask the player this, just himself. Peace |
Simple solution: If you make a catch and fall into the stands, it is no catch and a dead ball. If you make a catch and fall into the stands in fair territory, it is a home run.
How do you know, when a player falls into the stands with the ball, that he quickly drops and recovers the ball? You don't of course, that is why the above rule is needed. Why wont it be done? Because it makes too much sense. Keep in mind, for the last ten years, if you make a catch in the dugout, it is no catch. |
Baseball seems to hate any reasonable change of any kind. This would be a good addition, but never going to happen.
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The smock comment is hilarious coming from a guy who has worked a 6-man crew with all six umpires in different color shirts. |
Fired tomorrow !!! Inexcusable.
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Really? One mistake and y'all are ready to run him out on a rail? Glad to know we have so many perfect officials here.
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Smocks are ugly. And you wouldn't wear anything like those around in public, would you?
Actually, it was a seven man crew, on a Little Legaue game. Some of the local LL guys were taking things a bit too seriously, so I decided to loosen them up a bit, and take them out of their comfort zone. Also, one guy was going to Regionals, so we rotated positions every inning, so he could see every spot on the field. (The "out" guy ate dinner, and ordered for the next guy "out"). I actually thought the EJ was funny. He absolutely blows not only the drop right in front of him, but forgets to look for the ball. Then gets a proper earful. Think how much grief that umpire took back in the dressing room from his pals. HA! They're going to prank him for the rest of the season. |
The really funny part is the fan in the red shirt, 10 feet away proudly holding the ball over his head!!!
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Just buy one that fits. Problem solved.
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I would wear the smock if the sleeves ended above my elbow. They don't. I've tried a bunch on. |
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I wonder if there's any video of that fielder coming into his dugout, and showing everyone the empty glove. That would be classic.
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Peace |
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I thought the best part about the whole thing was how Wise just kept his mouth shut and jogged off the field. Here's his quote from the NY Daily News: “(DiMuro) said, ‘Out,’ right away,” Wise said. “So what was I supposed to do? Run back to left field?”
Read more: Yankees and Dewayne Wise benefit from blown call by umpire Mike DiMuro as fans hide ball in stands - NY Daily News |
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I think he got caught up in the moment. Great play - quick call. WAY too quick.
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The Greatest Trick Dewayne Wise Ever Pulled Was Convincing The World He Caught This Ball [UPDATE] |
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The part that sticks in my mind is this--Surely to goodness at least one of the other umpires on that field saw the guy in the red shirt standing there holding that ball high above his head?! And, if they did and kept their mouth shut, they should be held accountable because they hung their partner out to dry in my opinion. The poor guy who blew the call never saw the guy in the red shirt holding the ball proudly above his head. |
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Let's get this outta the way, though. I'm not in the same league with any of those guys. I'm just a local schlub, who teaches kids life lessons through the magic of umpiring. It's just that I use more flubs and miscues at the MLB level, than I have good examples. When we want good examples, I use MiLB guys, or local college fellows. But on something like this, I'd holler at one my 14 year umpires for not knowing the basics of a call. "Jimmy, where was the ball?" |
It is in the umpire manual. If a player or manager says that they went back and looked at replay, they shall be ejected. He didn't make that up, the announcers didn't know what they were talking about...they were partially right, they likely didn't know it's a guideline specifically spelled out in the MLBUM or maybe it is PBUC, I can't remember.
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In a perfect world, Wise would have admitted the no-catch to the umpire, but keeping his mouth shut isn't really cheating. He didn't break any rules. He didn't even try to deceive the umpire. He simply kept his mouth shut when he knew the umpire made the wrong call. The blame here lies entirely on DiMuro, and he admitted his mistake (like he had any other option). |
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I'm sincerely asking this question--where does doing the right thing (like correcting one of your partners when they just humiliated themselves with a rare bad call) become less important than stepping on a co-worker's toes? I'm not talking about coming over and telling your fellow umpire that he missed a close tag at second, or a force-out at first, etc. I'm talking about telling your fellow umpire that he just ruled a catch for an out when a fan is standing 12 feet away holding the ball in his hand for all the world to see? Where is that "line" crossed? Little League, High School, College,.....? |
Well, DiMuro had 2 problems:
All of that said, I love the way amateur umpires take pleasure in berating a professional umpire. Maybe it's because DiMuro made it and you didn't? Or maybe you think that you can do better? Be careful how you answer that because when you look in the mirror, you see an AMATEUR staring back at you..... because that is what you are! Try and remember that! |
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Although we don't see this often in baseball, it's endemic in soccer. At least there we also complain about the divers as well as the referees who fall for the dive. That Wise cheated in no way let's DiMuro off the hook for not having made the correct call. |
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Like I said before, I don't feel that anybody should attack DiMuro for a bad call. We're all human--we all make mistakes, whether we're MLB umpires or a 14 year old kid making minimum wage umpiring a T-ball game. I place blame completely on the other umpires (OR the rules of umpiring) for allowing that man to become a piece of history and the focus of ESPN highlight reels for the next 50 years. |
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One of these days, baseball is going to get dragged out of the dark ages of each umpire is an island, but that doesn't mean we can't call out cheating when it happens (and besides, I'm not an umpire at all anymore, so whatever hypothetical standard you're proposing doesn't apply to me). |
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(BTW, I have never liked the Yankees. I'd love to call Wise a cheater, but that's just not right to say in this case.) |
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(All that said... I think it's VASTLY more common that a simple error in judgement comes from MiLB or NCAA ball vs MLB.) |
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To be fair, not all of us wanted to be pro umpires either. When I had the chance I did not see the value in pursuing such a thing. I am happy for those guys getting there, but do not like what they do when they get there. Or do not like the many that have no fear of reprisal do when they are there. Peace |
Accountability has always been my issue with major league umpires. Even the ones who are consistently rated the worst never lose their jobs. When calls are blatantly blown like some we've seen this season, many of us would no longer be working high school or college ball, much less MLB games. That's why I consistently say that umpires need to go when they make obvious errors that we would not be able to get away with at the amateur level. There are many umpires out there who could do at least as well or better.
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Mike is a good umpire who made a bad call. He doesn't miss many calls, especially this magnitude. I've worked several games with him, as well as his brother Ray. His father Lou was a great MLB umpire until his untimely death. There are worse umpires in MLB than Mike DiMuro, and he certainly doesn't deserve what the OP is suggesting. Jealousy has reared its ugly head, I guess.
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Even worse if the OP is a Cleveland homer. No place in umpiring for homers.
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series. What do they have against him? |
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Both the NFL and NBA gets rid of a portion of their staff every year for their performance. Peace |
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BTW, What is a "lecagy?" |
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No it's not. Guccione and Drake spent that long in AAA. Unless your name is Wendlestedt, ten years is not long at all. |
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I'm not saying you're wrong about ML umpires sticking around when they can't cut it, but claiming nepotism is at play doesn't seem accurate to me. It could simply be that the natural tendencies that made their fathers ML umpires were passed on to the children. |
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Save 'wreak' for what you do with havoc; you want 'reek' here, which is the stinky one. Damn spell checkers. :) |
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?? Your statement was that ten years in the minors is a long time...as if it were unusual. It is not. In fact, with a few exceptions it is the norm of those who move up in recent years, and looling at the line up in AAA, it will remain the norm. Your attempt to change the comparison to those who make it and those who do not is meaningless. There are more who do not make it than do at every stage of MiLB umpiring, regarless of years in service. |
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I was just copying Jeff. I blame Reagan. |
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Agree about Reagan. |
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