Red Sox/MLB 2024 Regular Season 2: Ángel Hernández to retire: Much-maligned MLB umpire calling it quits
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Laz Diaz and CB Bucknor are pissed right now.
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I keep trying to ask Ángel for a comment, to no avail.
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I heard that Hernandez is telling people that his dream is now to become an NHL referee. 
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Is it true in Scooby Doo fashion when they went to see who Angel really was under the mask it turned out to be Kelly Sutherland?
'ol Laz isn't very good. That is true. But I'll always have a soft spot in my heart for that guy after he took down that drunken White Sox fan at first base back in 2003.
Bucknor on the other hand, is just atrocious.
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I firmly believe Laz cost the Red Sox the 2021 AL pennant.
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I was there and had to use the bathroom, urgently.
As soon as Eovaldi threw that pitch, I got up to use the bathroom and lo and behold, that idiot called it a ball…..and the rest is history.
He 100% did. I was watching a compilation of his terrible calls in that series not too long ago.
Just atrocious
Negro Leagues statistics to be officially integrated into MLB historical record
The move comes more than three years after Major League Baseball announced it would be elevating the Negro Leagues to major-league status.
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"Negro Leagues legend Josh Gibson now MLB single-season record holder in AVG, SLG and OPS"
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I know they're doing this for altruistic reasons but I just think it's muddying up the record books. I don't mind if they hold up the Negro League stats as being on par with MLB ones but putting them all under one umbrella and claiming that Josh Gibson's 1937 OPS is the major league record is misleading.
Negro Leagues statistics to be officially integrated into MLB historical record
The move comes more than three years after Major League Baseball announced it would be elevating the Negro Leagues to major-league status.
"Negro Leagues legend Josh Gibson now MLB single-season record holder in AVG, SLG and OPS"
Between competition levels, schedule formats, and lack of documentation of many games and stats, comparing Gibson with even a contemporary like Joe DiMaggio is apples and oranges and doesn't paint an accurate picture of baseball history IMO.
Yep, that was a nice catch. Another player I don't think I've heard of before.
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Most baseball historians consider Josh Gibson every bit the superstar that satchel Paige was.
Babe Ruth aka the White Josh Gibson
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