Dodgers babblebots go!
Listen to this dimwit babbling about umpires:
"You cannot work two World Series in consecutive years, so what’s the incentive for umpires to be great?"
Money? Money’s good. Also continuing to umpire at the Major League level is an incentive, yeah? Oh, and not having this article written about you. That would motivate me.
You know who I can name off the top of my head? Doug Eddings. He’s probably the most famous umpire in baseball. Why? Because he legendarily fucked up two important calls. Every time I see an umpire fuck something up I check to see if it was Doug Eddings. You don’t want to be Doug Eddings.
"The guys who will work the World Series — they will have been sitting around for three weeks."
Well, sure. Umpiring is not exactly like pitching. It’s not a tremendous physical exertion that has to be quick, precise, and repeated over and over again.
To his credit, the other announcer just stammered and stuttered his way through a kind-of response to the first statement, and ignored the second one altogether.
That Posada/Cano play at third was like a Three Stooges routine. Watching it live, I could almost hear the thoughts of Napoli as he got to third base. “There are two Yankees here… and… what the hell? Neither of them are touching third? TAG TAG!” It’s like he can’t believe his silly luck!
Posada and Cano were just standing around like they were hanging out together down at the bowling alley or something. Cano didn’t even seem to realize he was in the middle of a baseball game. He didn’t even move to touch third until about a second AFTER Napoli touched him with the ball.
I don’t know if it was the worst call in history, but it’s surely right up there. From where the ump is standing, I don’t know how he missed the fact that Cano was three feet off the bag when he got tagged.
Comment by Dave | 22 October 2009
I love how Napoli just kind of pauses and looks side-to-side, and then jumps forward and starts tagging dudes. And then he’s pumping his fist like "yeah! I’m the outs master!"
And then the fucking ump calls Cano safe for no reason at all.
Comment by Darien | 22 October 2009