Attention: Doug Eddings

[The God of Runs]

Why do you hate us?

[CaliAngel]

East Coast bias

[full circle]

Boom!

[CaliAngel]

Dic**d again by Eddings.

 

Ridiculous.

[Bruce Nye]

He's a weird guy.  I believe that he knows he is not liked Anaheim and thus it goes.  

[CaliAngel]

BTW this is why I have no problem with computer generated balls and strikes.

 

Imagine this was a playoff game. Ridiculous.

[bloodbrother]

Doug Eddings, in all his glory

 

[tdawg87]

That is the worst strike call I have ever seen.

 

What's sad is nothing will come of it.

[m0nkey]

Remember when people were saying that pitch to nick punto in Seattle wasn't that off? Same thing.

[CaliAngel]

Eddings should go play in traffic with Hamilton and Freese.

[JoJo26]

Doug Eddings, in all his glory

 

This is why I'm considering going to Saturday's game. Just to sneek down to the 3rd base  seats - and yell at the turd bucket. Dougie Eddings is one of the worst umpires/officials/referees EVER in any sport. EVER!

[Turd Ferguson]

What a piece of shit. I don't understand how someone who is so bad at his job continues to keep it.

[wopphil]

What a piece of shit. I don't understand how someone who is so bad at his job continues to keep it.

Union.

[Ludwig Von Mises]

Two called strikes nowhere near the strikezone on that one at-bat.

.Eddings can FO&D

 

[bloodbrother]

Lol, 2 strikes called that were out of the zone, a ball called that was in the zone. Dude sucks

[CaliAngel]

Shocking unpredictable post by HaloMagic.

[HaloMagic]

I'll jump in here before Troll Daddy does. I don't think the call was as bad as everyone is making it out to be. Wrong? Probably. But it was a left-hander throwing a curveball down and in to a right-handed batter with the camera over the pitcher's right shoulder. That made it look much worse. I don't think it missed by that much. Certainly the catcher caught it out of the zone. But it came close to hitting the bottom of it. This wouldn't even crack my top 100 worst strike calls list.

[HaloMagic]

Shocking unpredictable post by HaloMagic.

Look at the data. It missed by less than half a baseball. People are making it seem like the thing was on the dirt.

Edited July 26, 2014 by HaloMagic

[Ohtaniland]

[Vegas Halo Fan]

Becoming an MLB umpire is essentially like being appointed to the US Supreme Court. You have a job for life once you make it to the majors, no matter how much you may suck at it. IMO MLB needs a relegation system like the English Premier League has, in which the three worst-rated umpires from MLB are relegated to AAA while the three best from AAA are promoted to MLB (or whatever number is decided upon).

Edited July 26, 2014 by Vegas Halo Fan

[tdawg87]

Look at the data. It missed by less than half a baseball. People are making it seem like the thing was on the dirt.

 

The catcher did a good job of making it seem like it was in the dirt. He made zero effort to frame it because he knew it was out of the zone. Yet it was called a strike.

[HaloMagic]

Right. I won't argue that it was called right. And on first glance it looked way out of the zone. But even after the gif and zone plot were posted people still made it seem like it was an all time blown call. He missed the first pitch in the at bat even worse. I didn't hear anything about that one.

As far as the catcher framing it, I don't think he had a chance. It was a curveball that crossed the plate just below the zone. Its path was downward. There is no way to frame that. You just have to hope the umpire didn't give up on it.

Edited July 26, 2014 by HaloMagic

[ABC]

Two called strikes nowhere near the strikezone on that one at-bat.

.Eddings can FO&D

 

 

Is this more accurate than the one that tracks on TV. Because on TV it was a strike.

[HaloMagic]

So depending on the tracker, it was either a strike or just barely out of a square that started 1.7 feet above the ground that may or may not have coincided with Eddings established strike zone.

This is ****ing outrageous!

[bloodbrother]

It was a ball, made to look worse because of how the catcher caught it, but in the end it was still clearly a ball. People correctly got upset at Eddings for blowing the call, which would have been ball 4. What's the issue?

Edited July 26, 2014 by bloodbrother