Angel Hernandez Sued MLB For Racism. This is How It Went. 

Imagine suing your employer only for the judge to tell you that you’re the one who’s wrong because you suck at your job

MLB fans should file a class action lawsuit against Hernandez for gross incompetence.

You mean to tell me Angel Hernandez called racism, and a replay review overturned him? I find that hard to believe, given his track record.

Get yourself a union that defends you like the umpires union defends Angel Hernandez

Accusing MLB of being racist might be one of the stupidest things I've ever heard, fitting, for him, I guess.

Angel Hernandez: The one-man argument for robo-umps

I was at a game in Oakland several years ago, and Angel was announced as the home plate umpire. The ENTIRE Coliseum booed him for several seconds.

RU-vid essay voice is strong with this one

I don't understand why MLB keeps putting him behind home plate. OK, they can't sack him because the union is strong. That's fine. Why not just put him at third base? My theory is the MLB are either trying to performance manage Angel out of the game, by giving him multiple opportunities to show he's really no good so they can sack him - or just building a strong enough case for roboumps. Get the public on their side to make the call and then do it.

I’m not a Phillies fan, but one of my favorite MLB moments of all time was when Kyle Schwarber absolutely flipped on Hernandez after being called out on strikes. That plate calling was egregious.

Chipper Jones said we should boycott games Hernandez calls

Why is every sentence a question?

Being raised in a dual team family and living my whole life between the Yankees and Dodgers, I would buy a round at the bar for the entire rosters of the Boston Red Sox, San Francisco Giants, and the 2017 Astros before I ever said something positive about Angel Hernandez. Craziest part though is still working while the lawsuit was active. At my job, with one of the strongest unions in the country, we can NOT continue working for the company while having an open lawsuit against them.

Good info in here, just want to recommend that you slow down a little bit and listen to your cadence when you’re speaking. It’s like a roller coaster of up and down, repeating over and over, kinda hard to listen to. No shade though, good job and just listen back and you’ll do great!

Jim Joyce is the perfect example of an umpire. He was incredibly fair. He called things extremely well and was consistent. It’s sad his legacy has been defined by 1 bad call, but I think it’s pretty clear that he was one of the best umpires to ever grace a baseball field. His reaction to missing the call makes me feel for him, you can tell he felt genuinely bad.

Why is every statement you make have the inflection of a question on the end?

8:55 you have to think the crew in New York was like “goddamnit Angel, how’d you miss that?”

one thing everyone AGREES. still going to stress the END of every SENTENCE

"32 years of bad umpiring" THIS MAN HAS BEEN SHIT AT HIS JOB FOR 32 YEARS?!?! FIRE HIM!!

Why do you raise your intonation, at the end of every sentence?

"this is racism!" ... "Actually, you just suck."

Got about 5 minutes end and couldn’t handle the upspeak any more. Absolutely brutal!

Why do you emphasize the last word of every SENTENCE? It's incredibly DISTRACTING? It's a very unusual and unnatural way of SPEAKING.

Umpire Union is similar to the Police Union. 😂

are you trying out to be the new voice of AI or something? why does every sentence end with an upward inflection? lol (once you hear it once you hear it every time) lol

It's odd that you have an upward infection of your voice at the end syllable of every sentence. You otherwise have a decent voice and cadence and good content.

Love the hat! Sorry they're doing so bad lol. Great vid- anytime we can get anti-Angel vids I'm happy lol.

The Angel Hernandez lawsuit against MLB was designed to throw people off the scent….that Angel’s horrible umpiring is exactly what MLB wants from him: To influence games and swing outcomes. It’s why he umpired in an ALCS - to make sure MLB’s preferred team advanced. The team that MLB felt would deliver more media interest and TV ratings. Toss a manager here, toss a player there, miss a strike, etc. can determine the outcome just as MLB wants.

How about to decide the playoff and WS crews MLB just ranks all the umpires based on accuracy through the regular season and picks the best? Crazy thought.

Imagine, just imagine, getting fed up, and cracking him with the bat and telling him to retire from injury 😅

Oh baby yea been waiting for this one

I’ve been saying this for awhile now they need to put fines in place for umpires and even refs in basketball and other sports that fines them a percentage if they make a bad call and it changes based on the severity of the call and the outcome, like missing a game winning call in game 7 of the World Series would be huge and a larger percentage, holds everyone accountable and will make umpires think before they make a call based on emotion or just a crap call to begin with.. and I get it will be hard to make those calls but they need to put together a group of people who would vote on it or find another way, but I think that’s more than fair especially since the players get fined. But I’m tired of seeing players and coaches get thrown out over nothing and nothing is ever said to an umpire, I can understand throwing someone out after something bad but I’ve seen a lot of bad ejections and that really can effect an outcome of a game. I’d like to know the percentage points of how much a call from an umpire can effect a game. That would be interesting to see and I bet it would be surprising and would show we need to do something about it

Good video overall! I wish you had spent the time digging into/ explaining some of these details though

2:34 LMAO even the batter looked at him like "....what?"

The only thing worse than hernandez is MLB management. Wake up !

You can sue your workplace without any repercussions. If you think they did you wrong, get a lawsuit and according to the law, your workplace can't fire you nor get mad or punish you.

This is like teachers failing kids even though they got straight A’s and never broke any rules. That tenure. Damn. One hell of a union.

Diversity hire.

He's singlehandedly making me think robo umps are the way

The MLB needs to sue Angel Hernandez for imitating an MLB umpire.

At about 7:25 with the Adam Rosales "double" you said Angel went back and looked at the play himself. I know since the rule was introduced replay has changed a lot, and today they have the replay center in NYC. I thought they were using the replay center at the time. Were they not?

How is the stroke zone different in each stadium?

Can you do a video breakdown of the history of all the MLB Umpire Unions?

Hernandez's only good attribute is that he's *very* good at spotting balks. One of the best in the biz, actually. The segment around 6:00 really didn't need to be there. He's a very good balk caller.

I genuinely believe he decides the call in his head a few seconds before the play actually happens. He may have an intuition about how a play will likely occur, but when his record is only slightly better than guessing he needs to actually base his call on what he sees when the play occurs.

1:15 I would argue that there is a difference between a wrong call and a bad call but there is overlap. Like all bad calls are wrong, but not all wrong calls are bad. If the you make the wrong call by 3 milimeters, can you call that bad?

MLB should file a countersuit for gross incompetence.

He certainly didn’t let us down his first game back last year, that’s for sure. I’m pretty sure it was in Milwaukee, and as usual, just blowing calls left and right.

Hernandez either needs glasses or maybe he bets on games. Nobody is that bad.

The nine most terrifying words in baseball are: World Series game seven Home plate umpire Angel Hernandez

0:28 _That was the most ridiculous caption placement I've ever seen_

So in a way, Angel is now legally a terrible umpire

The ultimate irony of the MLB having to explain to why one of their umps sucks horrifically at his job to a court, but then they have to defend keeping him to fans and teams.

Between the umpires union and police unions, i'm slowly becoming anti-union. Nobody who sucks at their job should get to continue to work there.

I don't care what you look like, what your skin color is etc...If you are qualified and prove that you can do the job. You get the job. If you don't and are given it based on how you look or identify....then that isn't equality. Plain and simple.

Legend has it when asked why he defected from Cuba early in his umpiring career, Angel responded "I couldn't be this bad there."

Accountability, where is it at?!

"Hernandez ranked 31st out of 35 umpires"... WHAT!! There were four guys WORSE???

Where can you find these umpire stats? I know there's umpire scorecards on Twitter, but the numbers you have show entire seasons.

You don't have to end every sentence on an up-down inflection.

I never heard anyone pronounce Hialeah like that. Hai-uh-lee-uh

He knows how bad he is, the best call he ever made was to sue MLB so they couldn’t fire him.

Angel Hernandez is the largest single reason that MLB will end up using robots behind the plate.

Angel Hernandez is the worst umpire in the history of baseball, there’s not even a debate!!!!

In 2000 MLB purged 22 umps and kept a guy who ranked 31 out of 36. We all know why they kept him, and that decision would come back to haunt them as they'll probably never be able to get rid of him. Had your chance MLB

Made The Cut confirmed effected by the money makes you more attractive. Grats pal you made it!

Have always been astonished he keeps getting PAID. Especially since he's been declared legally INCOMPETENT. Great video overall and well presented with one minor EXCEPTION. Mix up your emphasis cadence every once in a WHILE. It will make it feel more DYNAMIC. Once I noticed the pattern I could hardly hear anything ELSE :)

MLB should sue Angel Hernandez first impersonating a major league umpire.

Worse umpire ever.

A great baseball video, not about a baseball player. Magic.

My question and many others have asked the same thing. “Everyone knows how bad he is, so why does the MLB continue to renew his contract?” Just like pro players each umpire has a contract. Why do they continue to sign him to contract after contract after contract. I played for the Indianapolis Indians a minor league affiliate for the Pittsburgh Pirates and as a catcher, I ended up dealing with Hernandez a few times and it was horrible. Pure trash. MLB needs to give him his papers and move the hell on

He should be sued for impersonating an umpire…..

Skin color should never ever dictate who you should hire or promote.

I don't care if an umpire is from Mars, Angei just flat out sucks

Angel Horrendez has the best manners and behavior, he doesn’t make a fool of himself by arguing

I wish MLB would publish the names of the officiating crew 3 days before a game so I may choose whether or not to attend.

Strike zones do not vary from stadium to stadium. They vary with the height of the batter.

"Even players from other sports can't stomach watching Angel Hernandez call MLB games." Just another example of how BAD he is at his job and how LITTLE MLB has done about it over the years.

7:09 I sometimes feel that Hernández is unfairly censored here. He made the wrong call in initially calling it a double, but in the replay room, there were other umpires who reviewed the same play and arrived at the same conclusion (somehow)

If Angel was a meteorologist and made the calls he does, he would be fired and ran out of the business.

My conspieracy theory is, MLB keeps Hernandez employed, so that some Fans can say „I can do it better than him“ and compell them to sign up for an umpire course

Accusing the MLB of discrimination against Cubans is like accusing the NBA of discrimination against tall people

Damn crooked union protected him..

He should have sued for discrimination against the blind. Easy case!

Angel did this to prevent himself from being fired. PoS pulled the race card.

If anything other umps should sue MLB for showing Hernandez favoritism for not firing his ass years ago. If I was as bad at my job as he is I’d be in the unemployment line

Angel Hernandez is heavily invested in Hawk-Eye.

Even the most bitterest of rivals can agree on this one topic: Angel Hernandez absolutely sucks at his job.

MLB could just stop assigning Hernandez games

Some umpires have wide strikezones. Other umpires have tall strikezones. Angel Hernandez's strikezone is shaped like a donut.

Worst umpire in MLB history

They have YEARS of evidence and he still tried it 😂

Any game Angel Hernandez is assigned to ump, in any capacity, should be boycotted by both teams until he takes the hint.

I can't believe that MLB is incapable of firing this guy. Or better yet, send him down to the minors.

HOW did this guy have a job in Baseball for this long....?

I don’t really blame Angel Hernandez at this point. The blame was pointed out in this video. The Union. It doesn’t matter if officials like Angel Hernandez provides fuel to those who would love to see automation in game officiating. Union will rant and rage at any attempt to fire Hernandez. There’s a reason why organized crime & unions worked so well together. Both operate similarly.

Why are you over emphasizing the last word of each SENTENCE!

Hernandez is the best advert around for showing why absolutely everybody in the world should be in a union Also, auto strikes and balls, shold that ever become a reality, is a terrible idea regardless of Hernandez or anybody else missing calls. Challenges is the only way it can work without sanitizing the game beyond recognition

Someone pissed him off. I bet he was making bank on the side. I barely watch baseball until the playoffs and there is no way he kept his job and nobody else was involved.

I’ve never seen anyone want their jobs replaced by AI more than umpires