I have no skin in the game here but this is insane work

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  1. Hold up. Are you telling me that a guy who has dedicated his career to working in Major League Baseball is an actual fan of a Major League Baseball team? That’s insane! I thought these guys didn’t care about sports at all!

  3. MLB umpires should be held accountable for their mistakes. If I showed up to work and constantly screwed up, I would be fired.

  4. Well, if this is what it looks like, then the next shitty Red Sox Netflix documentary is gonna be a whole lot more interesting than the last one! 

  5. Robo-umps would have no bias. They wouldn’t get offended and “punish” batters or pitchers. They would also be far more accurate. You can even stick a real guy back there who announces the calls, for the vibes.

  11. The worst 10% of umps get relegated to AAA, gives them more incentive to stay in the league for the habitually bottom feeders

  13. Funny part is; every Red Sox fan in the comments is defending him and seem proud of it. I think that speaks volumes. If it were the other way around I’m sure they’d be crying.
    This is just a bad look.

  14. Off-topic, but English is my Dad’s second language and he sometimes mixes words up a bit. Anyway, he calls them vampires.

  16. This is the problem with sports officiating. People can claim to be unbiased all they want but you dont just decide to become a referee or an umpire unless you love the game. Everyone grows up with a favorite team.

  18. He missed 21 calls on Wednesday as home plate umpire, and then made a horrific call at 3rd on Thursday. Umpires that perform this poorly either out of lack of skill or bias against a team need to be investigated and suspended or send down to AAA.

  20. In fairness to him, there’s lots of evidence that he’s a dogshit umpire against other teams as well.

  21. It so happens his redsux lost that day. He didn’t want us to gain a game on them! Shitty ass calls!

  23. I don’t care that the umps don’t have a perfect strike zone, but they should call them consistently the entire game, whether they’re pitcher or batter friendly, all I ask for is consistency, so dudes know what they jeed to be swinging at/can take

  26. I will not miss umpires they don’t add to the game they take away. Still don’t forgive Joyce for ruining the no hitter. The way he was so enthusiastic about the safe call showed he wanted to be part of game so bad. Keep the apology.

  29. Honestly idk why this isn’t automated at this point. They’ve had the tech for years now. They brought in the ability to review calls. MLB has one of the most impressive tech setups I’ve ever seen in sports tbh. Just fucking automate it

  30. I watched this game and the calls were terrible. But that seems to be the norm these days when framing is everything. Just get rid of the umpires for balls and strikes already. Tennis did it years ago and now no one really talks about it anymore.

  31. I don’t understand why MLB doesn’t use the threat of robo umps to leverage some power back from the Umpire Union. The power these guys have is ridiculous, they’re basically untouchable

  32. Imo if he’s missing calls because he’s incompetent that’s unacceptable.

    But if he’s doing it to intentionally screw the yankees then that’s based.

  33. An umpire can just be bad at his job, just because he has a favorite team doesn’t mean it’s some conspiracy.

  35. In soccer they plainly wouldn’t let him referee a yankee game at all….. why isn’t this stance made here ?

  40. Umpiring is a very tough job, and MLB umps are amazingly accurate. I’m amazed when you watch replays in super-slo mo and can just discern safe or out, at how many times the ump is right.

    It doesn’t bother me that umps miss a call once in a while.

    BUT … you knew there was a but coming … I have a problem with umps who have thin skin – that’s one quality umps have to have. Earlier this year Jazz Chisholm got tossed from a game against Texas. He was really upset about a strike 3 call (and for good reason!) for the final out of the inning, and went out to 3B to warm up. He was talking to himself, still pissed about the call, and video later shower that ex-Yankees C Jose Trevino got the HP umpire’s attention and pointed out Jazz was still fuming about the call (no way Jose!). The ump glared at Jazz from the 1B line. Jazz noticed the ump and asked him a couple of times “Why are you looking at me?” and moved slowly in the umpire’s direction. After Jazz added an adverb to his question, the umpire threw him out – Jazz was still 40-50 feet away from him.

    Totally unnecessary. Bad umpiring. How does he look at the tape, see what a terrible call it was, and not feel like a total scum bunny?

    Yankees mgr Aaron Boone got tossed for saying something to the HP umpire about his strike zone incompetence. Except Boone didn’t say anything. Literally anything at all. On tape you can see him looking at a piece of paper in his hand and when the umpire threw him out, he looked up shocked, then glanced behind him, then back to the ump “Who? Me??” It was actually somebody in the crowd behind him – why can’t this be rectified??

    Umpires have to figure out how to be congenial and fair and stay good. They need to self-critique and get rid of the bad umpires – they have to do this! If they don’t, they will be another group of people replaced by technology.

  42. Wow – no friggin wonder he makes bad calls and defends himself so vigorously! What a scum bucket – he needs to be canned. Was this your dream job? Too bad you suck at it so badly. Have fun finding another job a-hole!!

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