laagamer

Therapy

Give less at bats to Trout and Pujols and give more at bats to Trumbo and Hamilton.

Brilliant.

Yup. Pretty much in a nutshell. 

I'm going to blow your minds right now.

Angels Skip = Darin Erstad 

What have you done for me lately? 

Minimizing Trout's PA's seems like a bad thing...

This umpire is? He's in the top group of umpires in the world, Mathis et al are/were in the top group of players. What's the difference?

lol, this is just getting sad.

Sigh

Whatever man, if you dont want to debate then dont. I just feel sorry for the guy.

Become an umpire, blow some calls (inevitable), then see how you feel when people treat you like garbage.

Shows peoples true character.

Is there any stupider thing to say about anything than that? Jeff Mathis is a much better major league hitter than I am. Vernon Wells is too. Hell, Bobby Abreu and Juan Rivera even man corner OF spots better than I could. Does that mean I was wrong to criticize them when they were Angels?

That's ridiculous. 

Were they the best in the world at their profession? 

- I shouldn't criticize 'all' umpires for call failures, I umpired 14 years at the HS, College, and Indy level and made some bad calls

Thank you. ^^This^^

lol...just when i thought the thread might lose steam...

Nope, ain't giving this one up yet. Bring it. 

youre offended over a comment directed at another umpire?

wow..pretty sensitive.

Pretty narrow-minded in here. Just trying to give umps some support.

If calling someone a jerk when they make a bonehead comment is "sensitive", then yes I am. 

I'd like to see any of you do better. 

If I screwed up that badly on an account I managed at work, I WOULD BE FIRED. 

 

You're super sensitive if you find what I posted offensive. 

 

Very mature of you. What a nice guy. 

And I'm glad you equate blowing 1 strike call with job terminating failure. 

Because he doesn't have 250+ opportunities to make the same mistake. 

Either way, why don't you keep your day job man. I don't think you have the gull to be an umpire. 

Ok, LAA, was it a strike? What is your professional opinion? Face it everybody the only reason we care about this is because it helps the Rangers. If this call went against the Rangers and the Rays had one, we would be laughing it off. I don't want electronic strike zone, I wouldn't mind expanded replays, but not to the extent of ruining the tradition or flow of a game.

Oh and to answer your question, it was a ball no doubt. I just think that the people screaming and crying about it or calling for his head don't actually realize how good these people are at their job. 

If you guys want to start arguing for K-Zone and what not, fine. Just don't go throwing hate out there for umpires that are doing a damn better job than you ever would. 

I'm speaking to the hate mongers of course. 

Easy now.  I think "hate monger" is a little bit over the top. 

 

For years umpires have been the necessary evil in the game of baseball. Technology has advanced enough that their role can be lessened.... and should be.

 

At the very least, dolts like Marty Foster, Doug Eddings, Joe West, et al should be held accountable for their deplorable actions. If MLB or the Umpires Union can't do it, then expect the fans to do it, in a verbal way.

"deplorable actions"? You mean "calls you don't agree with"? 

Once again, have you ever umpired any kind of real baseball in your life? 

EDIT: Also, read the post I responded to above & quite a few others in this thread. "Hate mongers" beats any other obscenity that I would be justified in calling them. 

I can say for a fact that none of the people posting hate for umpires in this thread has even attempted their job in any fashion, let alone upper-level baseball.

You people couldn't even umpire a decent Pinto game.

Hate mongers. 

Up yours ump! 

 

What a terrible call. Ump just wanted to go home after working 3 hours. He needs to be fired. 

I'm an umpire & I find that offensive. 

Nobody's perfect and you want him fired over 1 blown strike call?

The correct answer is Dane De La Rosa

Walks too many batters.

Either horrible timing or a cover up. Don't really know which. Either way, dammit. 

Nice job & thanks.

Good to keep updated. 

Sucks about Calhoun though.

cause

cause Sosh doesn't think he bunts well enough

Why do people put their best reliever in the closer role? Jepsen needs to pitch with runners on-base, when we need him most. 

Why the hell isn't Callaspo batting 2nd...

Great curveball.

R.I.P

Thought this thread would have garnered more attention. 

Is it sad this makes me feel better?

1-3? Miami fire sale time!

I was more excited about this kid than anyone else we got this offseason.

Great start and can't wait to see more.

EDIT: Besides Hamilton I mean...

With a swing like that it's almost like he's trying to throw the game.

I guess the Rangers have his scouting report.