Do we think these umps are watching tonight?

They are watching but not the plays that count.

How can they make so many bad calls in this level of game?

I have no idea! Swisher out by a mile at 2b with the umpire looking right at the tag and calling him safe. Now we have both players clearly off the bag and both clearly tagged with the umpire standing right there. Left the bag early? Not even close. What the h ell are these guys doing tonight?

And what about the plate umpire telling Scioscia that the catcher is blocking him.

Yeah. Maybe that fat roll around his waist is what is blocking him?

The thirdbase umpire, who has blown two calls, is the crew chief!

I guess the good news is that none of the calls have changed the game much. But sheesh.

They have officially embarrassed themselves. I have seen High School crews do a better job.

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Originally posted by Rob Kremer:
I guess the good news is that none of the calls have changed the game much. But sheesh.

Will have to see if the extra run for the Yankees has an effect.

Like I said before...I smell fish.

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Will have to see if the extra run for the Yankees has an effect.

Yeah, but Swisher should have been out already, so that is one of the calls that offset the earlier bad call. Which is what I mean by the calls not changing the game much.

The problem is they have all been easy calls. No doubters. How can you miss a tag when the glove is laying on the hand and the hand is 6 inches from the bag? How do you miss that? Then you call a guy out for leaving early that clearly did not leave early. You only make that call when its obvious the guy left early. Then two guys are clearly standing off the bag. He tags them both right in front of you and you say play on?

You guys want to meet up in the chat room? I'll open it up.

Left early call = makeup call.

Crew chief covers for his buddy, to prevent his blown call from costing a run and maybe leading to an even bigger inning.

Some ump will probably come on here and say that would never happen. Don't believe it for a minute.

Midlo that was the first thing I said when he called him out for leaving early. It was a classic make up call without a doubt.

He covered it up well by not even looking at the runner @ third.

Question still remains- How in the world do you miss those other two.

Honestly it looked like he was focused on the lead runner and never considered the trailer...

They only have about 19 umpires out there. The lead runner steps off the bag and is tagged. The trail runner then steps off the bag clearly and takes a step towards 2nd base. Napoli then tags the trail runner right in front of him.

Of course on the call at 2B with Swisher the glove is laying on the arm. The hand is clearly at least 6 inches from the bag. He calls him safe. Now someone has to explain to me how a professional umpire can blow that call? Heck a rec league umpire would be expected to get that one right.

Then on the left early call you can see the umpire staring down the runner on the catch. The runner clearly did not leave early. And he rings him. The fact is it was a make up call. And if it was it is the only decent call of the night for this crew.

One thing I did notice was they kept showing the replays and the fans were getting more upset with every showing.

I thought it was an unwritten (or written) rule that you did not show "close call" replays. Reason being, showing up the umpire.