Too many of these games are essentially predetermined by umps anyways. Some are probably getting paid better than a lot of players I bet (for obvious reasons). Additionally, the prevalence of cheating amongst players (especially pitchers) makes the game difficult to watch to begin with
Philip Heleba don’t know how he sued for racial discrimination tbh he’s white as fuck lmao. he might be from cuba but that’s a nationality not relevant to his race
That stare of 'what are you waiting for aren't you going to call that a strike' on a pitch 2 feet outside was hilarious. I wonder what the strike zone was like in that game.
kinsler knew what he was doing...he said something with it...like.."you gonna call that also"? any respectable official at any level would get rid of someone for that b.s
AARON-CESAR AGUÍLAR I don’t have an issue with him even after the Armando Gallaraga call bc he’s a good umpire and when he makes a bad call, he owns up to it unlike these umpires on my list
problem is the union contract umpires have with mlb...the restructuring and getting rid of NL AND AL presidents has led to the crappy baseball we see today. plus we need a commissioner with no allegiance to any team to take umpires union and players union and tell them this is how its gonna be. you know youre in trouble when you cant fire or disipline because of unions protecting bad people. i dont know how these contracts are negotiated and the right to fire bad people go out the fucking window... theres more to it, but thays a start
Look up Joe West calls. The worst ones are typically in the 9th inning of a close game. It's not like there is an easy explanation for why he would behave that way or anything
I have been watching baseball long enough to have seen Warren Spahn and Stan Musial play. Angel Hernandez is far and away the worst umpire I have ever seen. He is horrendously incompetent.
Lol, the rest of the Mets didn't give Anthony Recker the memo about "we haven't forgotten Angel screwing us out of the playoffs in 1998, and Angel knows it", I guess. OTOH, it's good to see he finally learned the rule about how you have to TRY to avoid a pitch. (In the famous 1998 "I've got a plane to catch" game, Angel gives Eddie Perez 1st base when Eddie leans INTO one. Calling Michael Tucker safe at home when Piazza was practically bored from how long he was waiting with the ball was the punchline, but the bogus HPB was the set up.)
Angel Hernandez is not just a horrible umpire for an umpire. He's a bad umpire for a human being. He's the worst umpire in the universe. That's quite an accomplishment there, Angel. But I'm sure that you'll be able to live up to it.
Saw a game a few years ago Joe West, Angel Hernandez, and CB Buckner were on a crew together. Both managers and three players were ejected. Anyone surprised by that?
I completely understand and accept that umpiring a baseball game is difficult. You have to deal with pitches going up to roughly 100 MPH and determine the position is often difficult and making call at the base you’re at can be difficult as well with how fast the runner and balls go as well as dealing with each team and their fans constantly arguing with you for every call. It’s understandable that you’re going to get some calls wrong. No one is perfect but you can’t be as consistently bad as Angel is and expect him people not to complain.
I don't know how much they get fined for pushing an ump to the ground, but they have incredible patience cause I'd go crazy if an ump was consistently this big of an idiot
Correct and Gonzalez once again shows he is an idiot for arguing this absolutely correct call. Also note that in the first clip the call of strike is also correct. Watch the side view and you can see the pitch is in the zone at the bottom of the knee, yet the idiot announcers, who have no clue to the strike zone start crying. All they see is where the catcher catches it. The balk call at the 2:00 minute mark was also correct. We don't get a look at why the balk was called on the last clip, so there is some doubt there. Steve Stone would not know a balk if it came up and bit him in the ass. We know it's popular to bash Hernandez, and he deserves some of it but apparently "Sporting Videos" really doesn't know baseball.
Mis respetos para Ángel Hernández, no hay árbitro más mencionado dé todos los tiempos que Ángel Hernández mis respetos para tú famosísimo árbitro dé las grandes ligas 👍
I have to wonder... Hernandez must live in a compound in the middle of nowhere or his neighbors do not watch baseball because there's no other way he would feel safe at home.
The difference between Angel Hernandez and a pro wrestling referee: One intentionally screws people over and the other watches men in tights pretend to fight.
According to Wikipedia, in 1999, (eight years after he began his career) Angel Hernández was ranked 31st out of 36 umpires in a Major League Baseball Association survey. The following year, 13 umpires were fired; but not Hernández. In 2006 and 2011 he was listed as the third worst umpire by a SI player survey. Sidelined with a back injury one game into the 2023 season, Hernández worked only 10 games and MISSED 161 calls and finished the season as the lowest rated umpire. 2024 has gotten off to an even more dismal umpiring performance. Thanks Wikipedia! His career-long incompetence (making egregiously bad calls and/or ejecting yet another player/manager/coach) is unconscionable; but so is baseballs’ impotence to remove him. Who knows, maybe Hernández is hoping MLB will fire him and he can file another lawsuit!
I think he blew a call against Derek Jeter at the very last game at the old Yankee Stadium with the bases left loaded at the bottom of the 6th but nobody got thrown out
This video is 4 years old (as of this posting) and he’s STILL in the Majors. Why is MLB and the umpires union looking the other way while this incompetent fool embarrasses the game? I thought umpires had a rating system to keep them on their toes. One of these days, somebody’s going to knock Hernandez on his ass for the way he smirks after ejecting somebody.
Worst ump in MLB history. In a sane world (ie: one where unions didn't have so much power), Angel would be working at McDonalds. And there is not doubt he fuck that up too.
