Bryce Harper GOES OFF on Angel Hernandez after bad call, a breakdown 

He’ll say people are racist against him cause he’s Cuban

@@kevsan7482racial card vs horrible calls that are proven to be wrong. What a great trial

Yall really still think he's just bad and isn't doing exactly what the MLB want.

I couldn't imagine being a gambler betting on his games.

The MLB actually once testified in court when Angel filed suit against them for racial discrimination against, and they basically said before the court “We’re not discriminating. Angel just sucks.” The MLB won

Union job. Enough said

It's borderline criminal. He's literally cost players and coaches money with his bad calls. How many times has he heard players, coaches, fans, broadcasters, etc... Say "Angel... It's just YOU making calls like these. Just you."

Bill Miller protecting him. Miller's the union prez.

Union jobs protect bad employees as well as good employees

Can't wait til people point to Angel Hernandez and lump all unionized labor in with him and call it all bad cause they don't know anything

Agreed! Plus, RU-vid is filled with "how awful is Angel Hernandez" videos explaining in fine detail all the ways he is a horrible ump. There's definitely general consensus, and his "racial discrimination" threat against MLB was just as low as you can get, rather than admitting you just plain suck.

Him and west were bad for so damn long

@@SaberFateJoe?

Lol right? I don't even watch baseball and I could tell someone if they asked me who the worst ump in baseball is.

Shit, I’m not even a baseball fan and I know who Angel Hernandez is. I haven’t watched a game in 20 years.

agreed. It's every year...every single year.

Unless he openly admits to making up a call like Tim Peel in the NHL. The Unions will always just chalk it up to "mistake in the moment"

He plays the race card

That's why unions are garbage.

you'll see you'll see!!!

500IQ move there

Kid's goin places haha

It's Philly. I'm surprised an adult in the crowd didn't put on a kid's voice saying "F the kid!"

when i was going to see baseball game i was always spotting kids around(thats sounds weird) so if i catch a baseball i could give to them cause for adults it only means a baseball but for kids its way more exciting and they might become huge baseball fans in the future

​@@ikigai47You know nothing

So he cursed out Angel Hernandez while signing a helmet for a kid on the same night. Bryce Harper = man of the people.

Wow, what a great addendum - thank you for that - that's awesome!

@@mikayoccthere’s a interview with the kid as well. Love this team.

@@philly_sports1558 he truly is the perfect man for Philly baseball

@@_D_E_N_N_I_S_ Really? Where can I find it?

He’s been consistently bad since ‘96. I remember him getting 2 bad calls - one was Jim Eisenreich and the other one may have been Mickey Morandini.

MLB hates him.

That's what I'm thinking.

Vegas

He's doing it for shits and giggles

Jim Joyce was amazingly sincere in admitting he blew the call that cost Galarraga a perfect game in a post game interview. But yeah a lot of umpire believe they're untouchable and act like they make no mistakes.

the elite? bro not even MLB likes him

Ok, ok, hear me out: Put him on second.

@@sfmc98 He'll probably call a infield fly rule on a ball that went 300 feet or say that a ball that bounced twice was actually a catch

@@sfmc98 He would get every stolen base wrong.

Maybe they can just pay him not to ump

You'd have to go through unions and stuff but they could probably make up some kind of consulting position where he takes a pay cut but effectively has no responsibilities, not really the most ethical solution but it's better than having one of the worst umpires still officiating

Angel is a man of many talents lol

Right!!😂😂

Even worse at first base

Really shows his range

rofl

Sometimes you gotta make a tough business call. A little drama keeps things interesting.

Well it's not MLB, remember? It's the UU (Umpire Union) that's let's him stay. I believe there was even a Court Case whefe Angel tried suing MLB for "discriminant reasons" & MLB showed the judge "no, he sucks & we have A LOT of proof".

@@texpelt8858 Heh. "In July 2017, Hernández filed an ultimately unsuccessful federal lawsuit against MLB, alleging that racial discrimination kept him from being promoted to crew chief and from umpiring World Series games.[1] He has not umpired in a World Series since the 2002 and 2005 championships. Hernandez has been involved in several controversial incidents and has been criticized by players, coaches, and fans throughout his career. "

West was pretty bad too, flip a coin for who was worse.

​@@SaberFateI feel like Joe was just naturally bad, didn't have a good understanding of the zone, and went big ego in close calls that you could write off as a mistake for most. Angel imo is on a different level, intentionally changing the outcomes of games that are important and loving every minute of it. He calls games like he gets payed per minute of airtime.

⁠​⁠@@SaberFatejoe had a ego problem and just didn’t know the zone properly angel is actually bad no excuses he is a terrible ump like the comment says there are court documents that state he is a terrible ump by the mlb

“stupid racists, i’m a good umpire, everyone else is just racist”

He s only going to play it back if it has descriptions for the visually impaired!

What a dork. Angel Hernandez is the only Ump that will actually be remembered in the annals of Baseball history, and for all the wrong reasons

😂

Country Joe West is up there too. Thank God he's gone. @@binkle76

Best comment 😂

It's a catch 22 for the rest of us😂😂😂🤣🤣🤣

Yeah I was gonna say; to play devils advocate, sometimes it’s fun to see your favourite player blow up at an idiot umpire and get himself tossed.

If he was a ball boy you know he would grab a fair ball and through it to the fans....

Fact!!

That's exactly what they said on the Philly broadcast. That no matter if he's behind the plate or in the field he's causing issues.

Ironically I think he'd be good as a permanent replay ump. His rapid on-field performance is utterly horrendous but his knowledge of the rules of the game are pretty impressive, I've heard from a few people around the game. If he had the job of clearly looking at a play on video in slow motion and applying the rules, he'd probably be good at it.

He could sit on a stool catching foul balls, but he'd still manage to fuck that up.

No professional sport is real. Its all bullshit "entertainment" with hedged bets

The best thing you can say about an umpire is nothing, you barely notice him. We all know Angel’s name. That’s not a good thing.

the bettors deserve better lol

Fans should boycott the games he works. If they keep watching them they deserve them. He's been this way for 10 years

@@billverge7822 oh I couldn’t agree more; we certainly do.

If everyone stopped watching there'd be no umpire union.

@@cmdrfunk only way the union goes away is if they strike and people continue watching in spite of the strike (with replacements). Replacements are probably better than AH at this point.

The only way to reduce to power of the umpires union would be for the players union to strike. Refuse to play until people like Hernandez are removed. If the games are not being played, there will be change.

If he's umpiring in one of the Wild Card games, the first round will be crazy.

Unions exist to protect unemployable losers who would be constantly fired if held to a real standard. We have criminally bad teachers, auto workers, and umpires because of this.

Major Angel and Schwarber combo erasure (kidding). Next time the whole Phillies team should just do a face-off with Angel

@@veronicaschungdude seems to have it out for the Phillies in general

That yankees manager Boone is pretty damn amazing confronting umps.

Long overdue getting a player risking his career over this useless umpire. I'm waiting for someone to deck him. It's going to happen eventually.

@@veronicaschung I can see the headline now! ”Benches clear due to bad ump” 😂😂😂

Unless you’re White. Then you gotta actually be good

@@n_a8917 🙄

@@n_a8917Or your daddy’s the boss lmao. Some people are just raised to take advantage of things they don’t deserve.

🤣🤣🔥

@@n_a8917good thing, because there’s enough privilege as-is.

He doesn't think he messed up though. There's no point. Any other job in the world you fuck up three times and you're out. Anything with a union you're protected even if you kill someone. It's fucking atrocious. My brother shut down the port of Vancouver for a day like 15 years by being an idiot and cost the city about a billion dollars. But because he's a longshoreman he gets fired for the day and just comes back the next day like he's not dangerously incompetent. Just a fucking joke.

The sad thing about that is that for all we know there very well may be legit discrimination against minority umps in MLB but by Angel making himself the face of the issue no one will ever take it seriously, because no one on planet earth thinks he should even have his job let alone be crew chief or working playoff games.

@@hezekiaB And as far as most MLB fans go, we don't care if he's Angel Hernandez or Ted Johnson or Samir Patel or Junichiro Yamazaki or whatever... we just can't stand him because he is Just. So. Horrible. At. His. Job.

It's kinda incredible

Hes the single biggest reason why I can't bring myself to get back into baseball.

man if an umpire is stopping you from getting into baseball idk what to even tell you @@daveweisbrich1769

Public accountability How about any accountability He’s awful

every human took accountability before Hernandez was born

I remember that

Gotta watch what you wish for, Like my grandmother use to tell me, “Sometimes wishes come true, so don’t waste any”.

In fairness, he still can’t do nearly as much damage from third. Dude shouldn’t be umping mlb games, but if he is, anywhere but home plate is preferable to having him call balls and strikes.

He's got that Homer Simpson job security.

​@@andrewcomments5812 I was thinking the exact same thing

@@andrewcomments5812 Or a gummumint job.

Kathleen Kennedy job security

He definitely helped his boss bury a body.

CB Buckner tries his hardest to be just as terrible.

@@SvanMagic as a casual fan, I will admit that I haven't heard that name in a long while. But you ain't wrong

Joe West is up there too.

How the fuck ain't nobody put a hit out on the dude is beyond me. I don't even watch baseball but I know he's hated for the right reasons.

@@ryanzeid146-- Country Joe West is retired though!

That's dedication!

Gotta hedge the bets somehow

It really does take skill to ruin the game as a 3rd baseline umpire

Seriously. I just wish I could do that bad at my job and still keep it.

i get your point but he's so bad because he's inconsistent. if he was bad at calling certain strikes inconsistently, the players would actually accept that.

Consistently bad! 😂

Consistently inconsistent

That's exactly what Bryce said in his postgame interview too. Something along the lines of "It's always Angel. Every year, it's the same thing over and over again and nothing is done"

well... yes... but... but it doesn't--

Well, he's not the only one who does that lol. Welcome to 2023

@@sawmill035 It was really like welcome to 2008 We should be past that shit at this point but some people refuse not to be professional victims

It's racist you'd ever consider otherwise. : )

Considering all the bad calls, I wonder what race he says he is. Maybe he got that wrong, as well.

@@sawmill035 Grow up.

Did you miss the news a few years ago that he signed a $330 million contract? Good for him for speaking his mind, however, it's comical to think he would be "afraid" of a $10k fine if it is even that much when he is making nearly $28 million a season from his MLB contract alone. He made over $50,000 per plate appearance this year. He's going to be ok financially after the fine.

​@@Pariah9 you need a tissue?

ROFL@@boodee_

He's not getting fined for saying what's right. He's getting fined for acting like a 2-year old. You can actually do 2 things at once - say what's right AND be mature while doing it. Clowns like Harper, Aaron Boone, and David Bell are an embarrassment to adults everywhere.

@@Pariah9 it’s not the fine amount, I never said that would hurt him financially I’m fully aware of how much he makes. It’s way more so the principal of how the MLB handles things like this. They fine players for calling out blatantly bad and consistently bad umpires and instead of doing anything to change games being altered incorrectly they just fine the players for being angry that the MLB doesn’t do anything about it

Hernandez has one job. To make all the other umpires look good, by comparison. He is very good at his job.

I hate to say it but I did actually feel a little sorry for Angel while Bryce was up in his face.. Unbelievable he hasn’t just retired himself at this point.

@@pandabear1341 I feel no compassion for someone that does so bad and thinks it's good.

Umps CBA expires either after this season or next, I forget. But they better be ready to make sweeping changes.

@@MassBoosthe’s the walking running Krueger in an umpire mask.

he signed his helmet before he threw it?

@@jp-sn6siAfterwards, in the middle of the game. They kept showing the kid, and even interviewed him. I’m sure Bryce was watching the broadcast in the clubhouse, and offered to sign it. The guy loves his fans!

@@InitialDrifterZ you're saying you know he signed it or that you're guessing he signed it?

@@jp-sn6si Yes, they televised that too. lol He wrote it nice and proper in metallic sharpie.

@@jp-sn6siyeah that’s what he meant🙄🙄🙄

he went back and signed it too

insane W@@Akrna47

Just as awesome is that the fans gave the helmet to a kid - so nice.

One of the positives to yet another Angel Hernandez clown show.

Bryce Harper: - puts up great numbers and gives great highlights every year - curses out known waste of oxygen Angel Hernandez - throws a helmet into a crowd as a souvenir and signs it for a kid - ABSOLUTE CHAD

So true.

Angel correcting the plate umpire's mistake is a boss move. Trying to show that he should be a crew chief.

HAHAHA So true!!!! I was so expecting him to call that a strike.

absolutely

I did!

@@A_Final_Hit do I really need to mention /s when it’s blatantly obvious lol AND I wasn’t even talking about Harper.

@@A_Final_Hit Right over your head...

@@joshuahill1246 ...and into the kid's hands

Cool it's still morning and I've already read the dumbest comment on the internet today. Congrats!@@A_Final_Hit

Maybe the dumbest for this debacle but there's more. Lot's more@@10DollarProductions

With how terrible he is he would spend more time doing that than officiating games.

For giving Jomboy a fat bank account!

Smart kid

Savage.

Wait. Did that actually happen? Did they actually show the receipts in court when he tried to sue them?

@@frank4871 Yeah, it was an official statement by the League saying the reason why Hernandez is never chosen for playoff games is because he is bad at his job. He can't lose his job, though, because Bill Miller protects the worst umpires, like Joe West before him.

​@@frank4871 shit gets real af in court. There's no more beating around the bush and playing dumb. He literally asked to be roasted by suing and the MLB obliged.

Agreed!

Then Angel Hernandez actually appealed it, and lost on appeal. I want to see the case accepted by the US Supreme Court so that they can tell the country: Angel Hernandez sucks!

What lol

u can relax angel hernandez will never be behind the pate in a game 7 world series game - i wouldnt even let him being umpire for the all stars game

They also asked the kid on the broadcast if Angel was his favorite ump, because without him he doesn't get the helmet. The kid still said no 😂

He once admitted that he often guesses.

He was napping.

sometimes I get the feeling he makes the wrong call on purpose just for attention and to stick it to MLB

I think he just flips a coin in his head lol

He’s consciously incompetent.

He swung

@@joselimon2082 I can tell how much of the video you watched and it's none of it.

The fact he’s so smug and confidently incorrect every single time makes it even worse. I feel no sympathy at all for how everyone treats him.

​@@jaketravis6670I think we found Angel's RU-vid account.

Exactly

Accurate except for when the customer complains, the barista throws them out of the building.

@@FutureNaught “security! This guy recognized my mistake and is trying to make me admit it!”

@@FutureNaught Then accuse the customer of being a racist.

He is the perfect example to the bad side of being union.

Umpire fans rejoice as they grow with more young fans

A signed autographed helmet? Couldve left out one or the other signed/ autographed

Good catch, first and formost I like to be correct with the wording in my comments!@@bamsuchanan

Yeah if you work in a union

You can also be a doctor

anybody can be an mlb umpire

If you're in a union, yea. Impossible to fire terrible people.

And sadly dude should keep either

I would appeal down to third if he's there every time. Same if CB is over there

They always do that

The third base ump always takes a lefty check swing call.

Considering the 1st base umpire has almost no view to make a call on a left hand check its not surprising you go to 3rd......same for righty, go to first.

@@googleaccountname6768 that podcast would have infinite episodes lmao

Harper really doesn’t argue that often, he only averages 2 games being tossed a year. It’s just when he does he’s extremely animated because he almost always right at least with his time in Philly(theres been one or two I disagreed with him) and a call like that is truly bad for the league. Hell when you have Kyle schwarber (I literally just blanked on the spelling lol) have a meltdown you know you did something bad

You can’t really cherry pick any player for getting ejected or arguing a call especially one as silly as this. How many ejections have there been this year? Umpires can’t get the basic calls right now we have all these new rules.. are you kidding? Guys like Hernandez are still umpiring along with Bucknor Lol! These guys among others are terrible so of course there’s going to be arguing.

No, Harper only challenges the calls he is actually right about

Bryce was right as usual

While he was recovering from surgery, he worked in AAA games. He was horrendous there, too.

Gotta love how MLB basically dismissed his claims of racism, and told him he sucked. There's too much money involved for him to go screw up a World Series.

He needs fired, but the union won't allow it.

His job is to make calls so the teams of choosing make it to the series. His job is done by that time

I mean you’re right ultimately there isn’t. The union protects them. Unfortunately the standards that they set are too low. So Angel still makes slightly above or at minimum every season. The only thing they can really do it withhold good post season assignments from him. Which they have done mostly. He’s a terrible umpire and they know it. I’ve even heard he’s not great to be on a crew with. A lot of other umpires refused to have him on their crews and it was usually the most sr crew chief getting him to keep him in line but to no avail. Sure he’ll get told he was wrong by his supervisors but that’s about it. Listen I’ve met him personally and he’s a really nice guy but he’s a terrible umpire and the only reason he was really even given a job was because of quotas they had to fill.

They do answer I’m sure within the Union, I’m sure they have ratings and supervisors, but for stuff like this it’s always a discretion thing. Make that call 100 times as an ump at any level and I’m sure you’ll get some folks who aren’t happy with you as well.

Angel and other umpires like him aren't allowed to officiate championship games, so that hurts their paychecks. That's about the only comeuppance they receive

The solution is to just ignore the MLB. Your continued patronage is approval.

@@cmdrfunk I mean to be realistic if you actually enjoy sports I don’t think anyones gona give up watching them the rest of their life because of bad umpiring. That will never actually happen nor would I want to do that. Just saying umpiring is ridiculous sometimes lol it’s not ruining my entire experience or enjoyment of sports still…..?

It was the “You swung.” *pause video* HAHAHAHA! that got me

He's always been bad but he's been worse since he sued MLB for not giving him world series games and they proved in court the reasoning behind their decision was his terrible umpiring. At this point I'm starting to think he's doing it on purpose to spite the league because he knows he can't be fired

I think it's important to note here that check swings are judgement calls. It's up to the umpire to determine whether it was a full swing or not with no real criteria that can be looked at in slow motion other than judging intent. With that said, consistency is all players ask for and the inconsistent calls on what looks like identical swings in the same at-bat is the issue. His lack of consistency along with egregious strike zones are what makes him terrible, we had better strike zones and consistency in high school baseball 10 years ago. If you want more data on how bad he is, google umpire scorecards and go through the data on that website. The website does show that he's in fact consistent in one way, being terrible. It doesn't answer the why, but it does show just how terrible he always is.

My guess, as a former umpire is that it is a combination of not seeing it correct and maybe more importantly, not going with the gut feeling, or not knowing how to tap into that feeling. A lot of calls happen super fast, and I was umpiring teenagers 😅

​@@FarmerFigshe can't be fired?!?

@rorycolgan nope. They couldn't fire him if they wanted to. They had to go to court just to make sure he didn't umpire playoff games. Trust me they'd dump him if it was in the cards

Actually, narcissists are addicted to chaos. 😀

😂

cops too

Oh he isn't single handedly doing it. He has a few partners in crime. I'd say if anything he's a strong case for unions lol. However, MLB needs to sack up and take that fight to the union and balance it out. There has to be accountability to counter labor rights when incompetence becomes common place.

Good umps get credit from managers, game commentators, and even players quite often. As in any sport, the better the officiating - he more invisible the officials are. We just remember the bad ones names. Your comment confirms you are a casual baseball fan. And you also have the amazing ability to judge competence based on ethnicity. If it weren't for that gift, your remark could also be misunderstood as racist.