Blue Jays GDT: 2021 v11 | Next: Mon Sept 20| @ TB| 7:00pm ET/4:00pm PT | Ray vs Baz

[The Big Swede13]

The f***ing ump hasnt called a high strike all night

 

[Emerica]

wow

 

[Brock Boeser Laser Show]

The f***ing ump hasnt called a high strike all night

He didn't call a single one of those for Pearson

 

[The Nemesis]

Rays deserved to win this game because Baz pitched well and the Rays offence churned out the hits, but damn that ump wasn't doing the Jays any favors with his BS zone.

 

[Del Preston]

...

 

[Rysto]

Terrible strike 2 call, should have been a walk, but how do you look at that strike 3? His breaking ball would go towards the plate!

 

[canucksfan]

How the MLB continues to allow call balls/strikes is outstanding. It ruins the game.

 

[lebdafor norris]

robo umps needs to happen very soon, screw with the traditions.

 

[The Nemesis]

He didn't call a single one of those for Pearson

What's worse is that this wasn't a 'shifted' zone where you get the low strikes but not the high ones because the ump has set the zone the same size but lower. Nope, instead he just added like 6 vertical inches to it because why not.

 

[TopChedder]

What a f***ING TERRIBLE UMP!

A damn embarrassing display and the league should throw his ass out of the game for an early retirement.

 

[Brock Boeser Laser Show]

How the MLB continues to allow call balls/strikes is outstanding. It ruins the game.

Robot umps can't come soon enough.

Tired of these old farts that can't see

 

[TopChedder]

He didn't call a single one of those for Pearson

f***ing disgusting

 

[The Nemesis]

What a f***ING TERRIBLE UMP!

A damn embarrassing display and the league should throw his ass out of the game for an early retirement.

The worst part of all of this is that they can't. the Umpires' union has basically set it up that the only power MLB has over its officials is the naming of crews for the playoffs. They can't fine, suspend, or press an umpire into retirement because the union won't allow it.

 

[canucksfan]

This huge problem with this game, the Jays weren't getting the calls the Rays were. The last inning was brutal.

 

[Marshy]

What a f***ing emrassment homeplate ump.

 

[Suntouchable13]

What was Jake Lamb gonna do anyway.

 

[The Nemesis]

I also gotta say that although we tend to bitch about the umps a lot, this was particularly bad. There was like a half-dozen pitches in that last half-inning alone that were utter nonsense.

 

[canucksfan]

The worst part of all of this is that they can't. the Umpires' union has basically set it up that the only power MLB has over its officials is the naming of crews for the playoffs. They can't fine, suspend, or press an umpire into retirement because the union won't allow it.

Get rid of them. Hire new umpires. Computers have basically taken over a good portion of their job.

 

[TopChedder]

The Trop was built on the remains of a desecrated church which was built on the site of a grisly mass murder which occurred on land that was once an ancient burial ground where many centuries before it was a temple of the dark arts because deep below the earth rests a portal to the blackest hell dimension.

I wouldn't even doubt this! Lol

 

[The Nemesis]

Get rid of them. Hire new umpires. Computers have basically taken over a good portion of their job.

The union would likely rain hellfire down on MLB, dragging them into court demanding that they can't replace everyone because not everyone sucks, but if they try to replace some umps but not all of them it violates the union's mandate.

MLB pretty much allowed themselves to get into this position, though they kind of had to because officials have to remain distanced, unhindered, and impartial with respect to the league in order to protect that impartiality.

 

[TopChedder]

The worst part of all of this is that they can't. the Umpires' union has basically set it up that the only power MLB has over its officials is the naming of crews for the playoffs. They can't fine, suspend, or press an umpire into retirement because the union won't allow it.

Too bad, they are absolutely disgraceful.

 

[Man Bear Pig]

This kind of umpiring needs to make the front page of sites, newspapers and sportscenter. He changed the entire game. It's not like it was one pitch, it was almost every pitch when the game was on the line. And before that, wasnt giving Ray any calls or Pearson. The league needs to be embarrassed by this crap.

 

[canucksfan]

The union would likely rain hellfire down on MLB, dragging them into court demanding that they can't replace everyone because not everyone sucks, but if they try to replace some umps but not all of them it violates the union's mandate.

MLB pretty much allowed themselves to get into this position, though they kind of had to because officials have to remain distanced, unhindered, and impartial with respect to the league in order to protect that impartiality.

Yikes.

 

[Discoverer]

What was Jake Lamb gonna do anyway.

Probably not much, but we should have been allowed to find out.

 

[Man Bear Pig]

The union would likely rain hellfire down on MLB, dragging them into court demanding that they can't replace everyone because not everyone sucks, but if they try to replace some umps but not all of them it violates the union's mandate.

MLB pretty much allowed themselves to get into this position, though they kind of had to because officials have to remain distanced, unhindered, and impartial with respect to the league in order to protect that impartiality.

The umpires union is exactly what's wrong with unions, and I'm pro-union. The protection of useless employees who are an anchor but are as untouchable as a made man in the mafia.