These Umpires are Terrible

#1 boopme

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Posted 21 October 2009 - 01:43 PM

This was by far the wordt call i've ever seen in Major League baseball. .
The 3rd Base play was incredible.. The man is blind and I'm a Yankees fan.. see the video here. the Catcher tags both men out who are clearly off the bag.. :thumbsup:

And that was the worst of three in the game.

Umpire Tim McClelland makes the worst call of all time

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Posted 21 October 2009 - 03:16 PM

Instant replay often shows that umpires do not always get it right, since the replay can be slowed down to show, for example, a sweeping tag was made before the runner's foot while sliding gets to a bag.

But, in this case, you don't need to slow down the instant replay - the umpire error is clear even in real time.

A call like this could be the difference in a game. In the playoffs or World Series, there aren't enough games to balance out these mistakes and the umpire errors detract from the game for both the players and the fans.

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Posted 21 October 2009 - 10:40 PM

That game wasn't the only time where such was evident. I remember watching one of the games for the Yankees vs Twins game and one of the foul ball calls was pretty ridiculous. Twins batter Joe Mauer hit a ball to....I think right field.....and the call was ruled as foul ball when, after seeing the replay, it should clearly be a fair ball and ground rule double (I think that's what it's called). And it's obvious too...with an umpire not too far where it is who should've clearly seen that it was fair!

Twins vs Yankees Joe Mauer's hit ruled foul by Umpire

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Posted 22 October 2009 - 10:31 PM

This is honestly one of those times I can say the Umpire needs a new pair of glasses! *LMAO*
That was so obvious it wasn't funny...

The guy who ran back from Home DID brush the base, then moved his foot off. (see 1:28 in the video). I can't remember but wouldn't that count as him tagging the base? I thought it did ... I haven't read the rules in detail so ...

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Posted 23 October 2009 - 02:57 PM

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The guy who ran back from Home DID brush the base, then moved his foot off. (see 1:28 in the video). I can't remember but wouldn't that count as him tagging the base? I thought it did ... I haven't read the rules in detail so ...

That only applies to running to first base so long as you don't round off of it (or something like that). Home is also an exception so long as you're not called out from base tagging (which only applies if you can't go backwards in the first place) or being tagged out. After that, you must ALWAYS have yourself on the base or else you're considered off the base.