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If you think that’s bad go watch the video of Jim Joyce ruining a perfect game with one of the worst safe calls you’ll ever see at first base with 2 outs in the 9th.
The first 4 minutes shows you just how important the challenge capability is and I’m so glad they added it. Imagine all of the games lost in this last century due to shitty umpiring like that. World Series games, regular season games, no-hitters, hitting streaks, etc.
Rob Johnson Very well it. That means that they have become a part of the game, which should never happen. I don’t know the names of probably 90% of the umpires in the game. That means they are doing their jobs.
@@Le_Fenixyeah if he had slid in and the catcher got injured then they'd have been saying he shouldn't have slid, it was reckless, he should have known he was gonna be out and just accepted it
I like the one where they made the correct call as a strike out, then called a foul ball for a ball he clearly never even touched after seeing a replay.
Does The Angel of Death...ever get a call RIGHT? Hernandez should have been fired 20 years ago. Stuck w him now. There are "bad umpires" and then there is "Angel Hernandez". That idiot sits in a class (or lack thereof) all his own. Worst of the worst is Angel
@@claycoey6526 I did see him make the right call on batter's interference once on a stolen base attempt. His problem is that he thinks he's a better umpire than he really is and makes up for bad calls with a quick trigger finger.
@@artheriford I saw him call out sick for work once. So I suppose it is possible that he could make a "good call" every once in a blue moon. Every other color of moon? However? He sucks. Worst umpire of all time. At least Joe West can be a cool jagoff once in a while. Angel? Is simply a pompous ass. Jagoff should have been fired 2 decades ago
After blowing five calls in the same game, I'm honestly surprised Angel didn't get kicked out and replaced with someone else for the remainder of the game.
When players lose their ability, they get sent to the Minors. There should be a similar routine for Umps that mess up. The players in the Minors wouldn't like that!
Given the speed that Angel makes his calls, it seems like he determines what he's going to call it about a second or two before the actual event and just goes with it.
Angel Hernandez: Sues MLB for not allowing him to officiate a World Series, claiming racism Also Angel Hernandez: *Can’t even officiate a divisional playoff game*
.... divisional playoff!?! That makes it sound like he CAN coach a pickup game in the park, let alone little league or dare I say a regular season game. Divisional playoff game lmao
@@pidayrocks2235 He isn't a coach. he is an umpire. The word you are looking for is "officiating". And he shouldn't be officiating a pick up game in the park, little league, or anything else. The man is obviously blind.
Ron Darling, who was a commentator for that game is a Mets announcer full time among the most impartial in the game. Even he was getting annoyed at Angel. And that says something.
I like how in the Reds/Marlins game the announcer kept saying he didn't even slide. Where was Cozart supposed to slide. Mathis was setup in the baseline to catch the ball. If he slide feet first he could have been hurt or even spiked Mathis, if he slide head first then there could have more of a major injury to Cozart. The rule was the Catcher couldn't be in the baseline unless he has the ball. He didn't get the ball until Cozart was about 3 steps from home plate, which meant there was no where for Cozart to slide unless he slide outside the baseline no where close to the plate. The announcer sounded so stupid.
The announcer was an old score announcer. The rule is much better and prevents intentional injuries. Anyone who supports a runner blasting a catcher or vice versa is just old school and doesn’t care about a persons health
I remember that Marlins-Reds game. My dad was absolutely livid with the reversal of the call. Can’t say I was too thrilled about it either. It was talked about on the local news for nearly a week.
I mean he was blocking the plate before he had the ball. If he slid like the old announcer said it would have had a good chance at causing injury, which is what the rule was put in place to prevent . I do not have any bias towards either team but it looked like the right call to me idk.
Living in Tampa, I get the. Marlins games as well as the Rays. The guy is one of the worst and most biased announcers I have ever heard. He’s awful. The Rays announcers, though I’m not a fan of the Rays, are very much fairer and give credit where it’s due, for BOTH teams.
"That's gotta be the sickest feeling in the world for an umpire". I like the idea that Hernandez is losing a single second of sleep over these calls. He couldn't care less.
The first angel call is extremely close, and especially in a loud stadium it’s hard to hear the pop of the glove and the sound of the foot on the bag. The second one is also close but not as defendable. The ones after that are just awful though. If he just got the first two wrong, that’s not great but at least it’s understandable. The calls after that however should be enough to get you banned from umpiring playoff games at the very least.
@@Das_Beachy I agree to a certain extent. When calls are blown to the extent that Angel's are then they have no business being an MLB umpire let alone umping a World Series as he claims racism. Angel should be a high school ump, not MLB.
@@conradmurphy4239 I don't disagree with you. I can't stand Angel Hernandez and I think he is getting worse. However, using a play that is physically impossible to see in real time to bash him is dishonest. Had another ump made this same call and have it overturned there wouldn't be dozens of videos using it to show what a horrible ump they are. I fully agree Hernandez needs to be run out of the game but this play ain't an example of why.
@@Das_Beachy completely agree that we shouldn't base things on a single bang- bang play. It's a human making a judgement and it would be unrealistic to expect someone to get 100% of their calls right. I'm looking at Angel's entire career of blowing calls, especially him getting 3 calls overturned by replay in a single game
@@conradmurphy4239 high school? That’s too competitive and fast moving for Angel. He should be umping beer league games for guys telling people they were potential major league prospects who just caught bad breaks. 70mph fastballs and the lack of bang-bang plays would be more fitting to Angel’s staggering inability to call close plays correctly.
Miguel was jogging casually around old Shea stadium pre game and I was field level . And I quietly said “what’s up migual” and he ran passed me and turned his neck and said hello back. I’ll never forget that.
Because MLB wants to have the whole umpire pride thing and it would be seen as weak if they fired him and people would think they could get any bad umpire fired (COUGHFIREWESTTHATPROVOKINGDUMBASSBITCHCOUGH)
Even as a cubs fan 6:42 dude was clear as day safe. Something similar happened in the 2017 nlcs. Willson Contreras tagged the runner out clear as the sky is blue. Runner never touched home and they called him safe. How is a runner safe when he never touches the plate and the catcher has the ball well before the runner gets there.
The best part about the Angel Hernandez clips is how the sportcasting has to go along with all the rollercoaster calls and overturning with their usual vigor, up until the end where they're just tired of it. "Oh, he's CLEARLY safe."
I’m a Cubs fan but listening to Hawk commentary during Sox games was hilarious. Whenever the white Sox where loosing or committing a lot of errors he would just stay quiet
I'm so glad that the ability to review a call without a limit of challenges came into the playoffs but I really haven't seen alot of challenges in the regular season tho
The first one is hardly awful. It's a bang bang play. You can barely tell in super slow motion. Used to be tie goes to the runner...to the naked eye, that's a tie.
@@EXE-Edits Fair enough, and I was gonna say even with the 2nd one, it's not so bad. Umps have their off nights too, and in the end they were corrected. But that 3rd one's pretty bad though, that ball's like 2 feet from the glove when the runner hits the base. Must have really been a bad night.
@@ExoticRocketsExoticRockets I stand corrected. I had always heard that since little league but never looked it up. Turns out a tie is an out. Huh. Learn something every day.
I love how the first four minutes and one second are all Angel Hernandez in the same game making terrible calls. Then the one with the Marlins and the White Sox. Angel is a dumb ump Edit: Brewers-Phillies 😐
@@yessir2873 True but considering he is a professional at the highest level, we expect him to get more of these right. The last one would have been overturned without electronic replay. The 3rd base umpire could have called that one.
@@russellcurtis2501 there was a study in cricket umpires, not identical but close enough, that said for tough decisions they were right about 50% of the time. Sure, you could expect pros to be a little better, but at the end of the day humans are only capable of reacting so fast.
Some other terrible displays of umpiring are Justin Turner getting tossed for waving at an umpire and Rios being thrown out for hittin JT with an 82 MPH slider that even the dodgers argued
@James D except it was plain and simple. Which is why everyone in the stadium could see they were shitty calls. No ones pretending to be all knowing. Literally the casters have lost count of how many times hes made a bad call.
I love at 4:28 it looks like a really honest exchange. I cant read lips at all, but it looks something like "did you get me?" and then "Nah I definitely didnt get you" lmao. The respect is really nice.
The Phantom 2018 it has nothing to do with the fact that he didn’t slide. If you go back and look you can see that he clearly did not even touch the plate
@@williamwatkins1996 The catcher gave him a pretty clear lane to run. Either way, that's where the catcher needed to be in order to make the play. Also, by the time the runner had reached him, he already had the ball so he wasn't really blocking the lane, he was simply making the play.
@@williamwatkins1996 That's horseshit. They literally explained the rule to your dumbass in the video. He had possession of the ball well before the runner was even close to the plate. It's not blocking the lane if he has the ball. Learn the rules or shut the fuck up.
That first one was so extremely close I can give Angel Hernande slack. However, he was blind on so many others when any basic review would have easily fixed them.
That clip of the Cubs and Rockies still makes me happy to watch cos it shows the respect and true understanding of the game that every player on the field has by refusing to leave
@13:10 - I absolutely hate announcers who overlook obvious things... yes, the catcher had the ball when he made the tag, but he also BLOCKED THE BASEPATH *BEFORE* he had the ball!
Right; A baseball catcher who's blocking the path towards home before having the ball isn't something that he can do while the base runner is running towards the home plate. Otherwise, the base runner will be called safe.
It's really just old people who have a bias towards a team lol. He will make any excuse to say the catcher did nothing wrong, but if the dude ACTUALLY slid/went straight through the catcher (like you know, the reason they put the rule in place) and the catcher would have gotten hurt, they would have blamed the runner for being so reckless.
In the rockies one where the lady keeps saying "long as his foot isn't hovering" doesn't matter if it is. He clearly made initial contact with it. Means he is safe and is no longer a force out. They'd have to tag while his foots up.
i don’t get how myself, who’s played baseball for only 11 years and has never umpired a day in my life could probably do a better job than angel hernandez for absolutely free
One guy I know who went to an umpiring camp bc he’s a youth ump. Angel was there and ripped him for being left handed. I woulda told angel “at least I get 90% of my calls right”
That first segment was just fantastic. Angel Hernandez getting some very public comeuppance. Remember though, he believes that he was passed over for promotion because MLB is "racist", not because he is incredibly incompetent, and he tried to sue MLB for racial discrimination, before his lawsuit was thrown out. Another very public comeuppance.
Zach VanGundy The good ones will. As long as the player shows respect. Go find the videos with the mic’d up umps. The conversations, in many cases are not as hostile as they seem. The umps actually do a good job at trying to defuse the situation.
With the Marlins-Reds play at the plate, I actually agree with the umps on that one, BECAUSE the catcher moved in front of the plate BEFORE the ball had entered his glove. Also, if you see the last slo-mo replay, it looks like the runner was about to slide, but couldn't, because he didn't want to jam his whole freaking leg into the catcher. Good call, tbh.
MLB needs to realize two very important factors. 1) Fans do not buy tickets so they can see umpires. They buy tickets to watch players. 2) I am not the only fan that MLB has lost forever because of the clear incompetence of umpires and this will continue until the problem is resolved. Lasty, I pose a question to MLB. Why has baseballs popularity fallen to the 3rd most popular sport in America behind Football and Basketball?
The runner should've been called safe, the catcher was clearly blocking the lane at the moment a slide would've been initiated. The ball got there right after that point.
I love Javy's reaction. He tells Rizzo they got the out call but gives him the "ehhhh" with his hands. Run asks "Did you get me right there?" And Javy says "No idea" it's bad in a win or go home playoff game that even the players are like, yeah that's bad.
Umps are taught to watch first base to see if/when players step on it, amd listen for the sound of the catch. I think the Voices in Angel's head make it hard to hear the ball though.
@@mochiyeosang1908 The first two were VERY close and the third was still kind of close. It's tough to make bang bang calls in real time and the umps are human. The point was that after review, the correct call was made each time. To me, that's what counts in the end.
He's protected by the umpires union. MLB can't get rid of him, but I'm sure they want to. MLB has actually said, in court, that he's bad at his job which is why he doesn't get to be crew chief or World Series assignments. That's about all they can do when they're stuck with a guy who's bad at his job but who they can't fire.
He is very good at playing the race card to make himself a victim and it works because there ARE umpires who are white, worse than Hernandez AND become crew chiefs and playoff umps.
They were both umpires in the 2005 World Series. White Sox swept the Astros but all four games were decided by two or one runs. Kinda wonder if better umpiring could have changed something.
@Jonny Moon I believe Curt Shillings said “Joe West is a good umpire, a mean one, but a good one” or something similar to that. And I agree, he is technically great at making calls, I think his problem is he knows this and he can’t accept that he could possibly make a wrong call. Example: 2018 ALCS Altuve hit a ball that bounced out of Betts glove and was ruled as fan interference by Joe West, doesn’t matter rather you agree with the call or not, when they reviewed it there was not enough evidence for or against the call so the ruling on the field stood, but Joe told reporters after that the review guys told him he made the right call, but we know this isn’t true because they had no good camera angle on it.
@Jonny Moon He is not a good Ump. He instigates confrontations. Ill say that again He instigates confrontations. AN Ump can NEVER do that. To me that is a bit of corruption of the game. So, he is bad.
I think at the highest levels of the game, baseball and technology has evolved enough render most umpires obsolete, especially with instant replay in super high definition and super slow motion capture, there’s too much room for human and human emotion to get the better of them
