what is with mlb umpires? the last two nights i watched home plate umpires that were borderline incompetent. alfonso marquez is not an mlb quality umpire. neither was the guy at home plate in the series opener against the yanks. the whole deal with inconsistent strike zones has become ridiculous to the point of being unwatchable. both weaver and richards had the intensity to win squeezed out of them by these two- if the only time your going to get a strike call is by throwing a meatball down the middle to the greatest hitters in the world, well the results will be obvious.
are these umps just homer biased or are they, as i suspect, just more weak sisters in the long running tradition of joe west and doug eddings ?
watching the home plate umps in those two games makes me wonder if the outcomes weren't predetermined.