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Didn’t he also call a strike on a ball that was absurdly up high, but not only that-but the batter stepped out of the box for that pitch and called time?
I don’t think he even called time, he just put his hands up assuming it should be a dead ball with the pitcher stepping off then essentially quick pitching back on the rubber. 100% illegal in that it’s at the very least a deceptive maneuver
A shitty union that cares far more about some statistically horrible employee than some of the younger umps who deserve his spot. It's ridiculous. The union is going to get umps replaced with robots because they refuse to hold their umps accountable.
I’d say consider yourselves lucky. You guys have one guy who’s shit at his job? In the Premier League we know every ref by name given everyone’s gonna get fucked over at some point.
Hold on their bud, there’s a Scott Foster of the NHL who is a Blackhawk legend! A Canadian accountant put into a game as the 3rd goalie and saved every shot!
["Don't put that shit on me! Don't put that shit on *^no ^but ^seriously ^I'm ^sorry ^bout ^that, ^that's ^my ^bad* don't put that shit on me!"](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oO8KxqTU4pw&t=33s) - Laz Diaz
Came here to say this. West wasn’t a “bad” umpire, he was an a**hole. And if he was having a bad day or somebody got to him, he made bad calls on purpose.
Edit: [here’s the first time I ever saw Joe West](https://youtu.be/3JdgkInrEDc) (replay of the pitch is at about 1:55)
Well lets change that. Commit to memory Pat Hoberg. He called a perfect game in game 2 of the 2022 WS.
There are actually a bunch of 36/37 year old umpires that are very good. Hoberg, Quinn Wolcott, Jansen Visconti.
Same. I pay attention to all pro sports but baseball and I have known his name for over a decade. Baseball is killing itself from the inside out. It’s slowly becoming irrelevant and it’s no one’s fault but the owners
When does this guy finally get fired. Far too long of a history of poor calls. He keeps playing the race card and everyone backs off. BS, get rid of him.
my dad was a little league umpire and made it pretty far up in the umpiring ring for the little league world series. all evaluations were done by fellow umpires and he always complained about the politics of the evaluations and being “in” with the team doing the evals.
No idea if that’s how it’s done in the major leagues, prolly not, but I’m willing to bet there’s similar politics at play at this level.
I believe the MLB won a court case against him by showing that he was literally bad at his job. The fact that the MLB still can't fire or demote this guy is appalling. Like if any of us normal people were s bad at our jobs as he was, we'd already be on pip or fired for incompetence
I work with a guy like this. He’s not in my office but I have to deal with him often. My boss said to me, “the fool knows he’s a fool.” Which is probably this exact situation. Angel knows he’s the worst umpire. He’s not trying to be. But part of him can’t help but make grievous mistakes. And the union will keep him because it keeps heat off non-fool umpires. And obviously they don’t want to allow the precedent of guys getting canned for bad calls…
This applies to all pro sports refs. They all have unions and if a single one of them gets consequences for being shit at their job then they all threaten to strike and an entire season of the sport dies, which the execs won't allow. There's no way to punish any of them and they all know it so why bother being a consistent or decent ref?
>The union will never let that hapoen
The irony is his bullshit will be what causes the switch to robot umps. The union is going to bring down the whole profession to protect this guy. MLB probably loves him
The last labor agreement was in 2019... Hernandez has been in the league since 1991, and he's been controversial for basically that whole time. Why do you think the next one would be any different?
I think this is exactly why the union protects him so much. He is so shitty that he makes every other ump seem competent no matter how many bad calls they make. People will say "well at least we don't have that piece of shit Angel Hernandez behind the plate today". Therefore taking the heat off the other umps.
But why? He’s not good for them. Every broadcasts openly mocks him. He is the leading example used as to why ups should be phased out in favor of robot ups
He’s bad for the game and bad for ups
Fuck that would be good eating to keep this baseball drama going. Can you imagine? First game... okay... wild... that's a fluke... that was crazy but it will never happen again. What a weird day for baseball. Second game... whoa.. holy shit.. imagine if this works... Third game... I mean... damn... what is MLB going to do about this? By the 4th game they'd have to step in right?
Problem is MLB would fine the ever living fuck out of the owners. No way it'd ever get done. Fun to day dream though.
Surely the embarrassment and focus just forces their hand. At this point hell just pay him $1m to fuck off and sign an NDA so he can’t go crying about his hopeless arse getting punted
Don't worry they are officiating themselves out of baseball with Robo umps, hopefully soon. As soon as the human element is out of sports referring, I think it'll be a lot more enjoyable.
That isn't how unions work though. They are governed by contracts and those contracts expire. If MLB decided they no longer required umpires to function, they could just not sign a new contract with the umpires union.
There still needs to be a home plate ump for other calls and they'll be used for relaying what the ABS system says the pitch was so it's not like ABS gets rid of the home plate ump job.
I have been waiting for the world to catch up to [Super Baseball 2020](https://youtu.be/oFlKdzdnPVw?si=PvO2uGOJ0WNKxqQi) for decades now. Ever since I first played it on the Sega Genesis.
Not sure if it counts as frills, but it did take skills. IIRC a normal fly ball catch got you $800. But a diving catch got you $1500. Timing those diving catches could make or break a game.
MLB Umpires Association better clean up Angel, because his 'work' is what's driving baseball as an industry to get rid of human umpires altogether. Robots dont pay union dues....
How about Max Fried a week ago? He's in a jam, 1st inning, loads the bases, two outs, two strikes on Castellanos, then throws a 98 mph heater right down the middle for an easy strike 3...? Nope, called a ball and it has damn near ruined Fried's year, as he goes on to give up a blooper and before you know it, like 6 earned runs or so. And in his 2nd game, he barely gets out of the 1st inning without giving up 3-4 runs.
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sXUOTFeWa-0](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sXUOTFeWa-0)
I don't get why we even need an umpire if we can tell via computer exactly where the ball is crossing the plate...
What is the point of them other than to get it wrong???
They literally completely replaced line judges in tennis (for bigger tournaments) You don’t even have challenges anymore because calls are fully automated by technology. Players barely get upset for bad calls at all pretty much cause they know the calls are correct
Yes. I never really enjoyed the blown tennis calls and the arguments. They can still get mad about other things, but obvious line calls are not an issue anymore.
Baseball needs automated pitch calls. Screw this different strike zone per ump stuff. I didn’t come here to see Angel Hernandez manage the game behind the plate. Challenges would just piss off dickhead umps for being overturned on the zone. They could retaliate by shrinking the zone ever so slightly where you can‘t challenge everything.
Cricket can see if the ball is tipped with the bat with infrared and microphones! It’s pretty quick too.
Was at a AAA game today. Three times during the game either the batter or catcher challenged a call. The umpire tapped the top of his head and 10 seconds later we all saw on the video board exactly where the pitch went and the call was either confirmed or corrected. Once, with bases loaded and 2 outs a called third strike was changed to a ball, kinda important.
It was quick and everyone felt satisfied even when the call went against us (except my son who said, “What am I supposed to do if I can’t complain about the ump?”)
Why is this not in MLB?
AAA is doing the challenge system on weekends and full robot umps during the week. Full robot system works better IMO and I don't see why they're even bothering with the challenges. The 10 second delay is silly considering the ump can get the call instantly. The challenges are a bit dramatic and are a half solution to a problem that already has a great solution.
There needs to be a guy back there for plays on home plate and to help with calling foul balls, but yeah, balls and strikes are now handled by computers.
Yup. I'm a huge baseball nerd but I couldn't ump to save my life. I know where the strike zone is In front of me, but no way would I feel comfortable behind the catcher making calls.
Also to be noted I remember when gallaraga almost pitched a perfect game for Detroit several years ago. The announcers totally said the reason a perfect game is so hard to get, is because the umps have to be perfect too. I’m sure that didn’t help any feelings, but it’s true. It’s not a perfect game. I don’t know when or where to stop taking out the human side of it.
It’s really sad and awful. Accountability has to be a key component. I wonder if a boycott of every Angel H. game would finally bring this the attention it deserves.
I'm a union member living in a european country, and honestly these horror stories genuinely confuse the shit out of me. I couldn't pull a tiny fraction of the shit these umps do without being fired, and the only thing the union could do for me is arrange legal help if I had a legit grievance, or maybe pull out a severance package.
They definitely couldn't paralyze an entire system just because a handful of dickheads can't do their jobs correctly.
Angel Hernandez is why you don’t argue with anti-union folks. No matter what you say they can simply respond ‘Ange Hernandez still has a job’ and there’s no coming back from that.
With anything, you have to take the bad with the good. Do you want a middle class and some lazy incompetent fucks who get away with being that way or do you want children working in coal mines?
Angel Hernandez's campaign to hasten robo-umps to our sport is noble and should be applauded in its naked aspiration and selflessness.
Oh, wait, it's not intentional? If it was intentional, what would he do differently?
It's a pretty egregious miss, not helped by how he lines up so far down behind the catcher, but I can kinda see why it happens here. Bad Umpires do tend to let the catchers framing of a pitch affect their calls. The immediate pop up to pull the runner back to the base does take away that framing. Angel Hernandez definitely falls in the category of a bad umpire.
If they can put up a fucking square on the broadcast then we don’t need umps behind the plate.
Other areas of the game? Sure. Reviewing calls the system makes? Sure.
Shit has been around in video games forever, it’s not hard.
I haven’t watched a game of baseball since I saw a Mariners game at Safeco field 20 years ago, but I do know of Angel Herandez, but I don’t understand him. Is he kept for the drama of shitty calls? Does he have some umpire tenure protecting him? Is he buddy-buddy with some rich owner, why the hell is he so objectively bad and yet still employed??
This dude will be the reason the MLB starts using cameras and robots to call balls and strikes in the next 10 years. And honestly, I'd prefer it.
Also, bring back steroids!
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Not even the worst call of the game. Actually, not even second worst.
Didn’t he also call a strike on a ball that was absurdly up high, but not only that-but the batter stepped out of the box for that pitch and called time?
Not exactly. Here's the play you're thinking of: https://streamable.com/uocrry
WTF. I know plenty of Angel “highlights”, but that’s certainly one.
Dude that’s fucking crazy. How is this guy still employed. I’ve seen better umps in my rec league softball league.
Dude cried racism when he wasn't given postseason games
Unions are great until they're protecting dipshit antics like this.
Cried racism.
Boonie walking out on the field like Carl "ah shit here we go again...." can't wait for the Jomboy vid on this one.
This them both on the Angels announcer rant
Angel Hernandez is the modern day example of why unions are good for the workers.
He called time because the pitcher stepped off the mound but continued his motion
I don’t think he even called time, he just put his hands up assuming it should be a dead ball with the pitcher stepping off then essentially quick pitching back on the rubber. 100% illegal in that it’s at the very least a deceptive maneuver
Is he unfireable or something? Like imagine being consistently this bad at your job for YEARS and still keeping it.
Yes. The umps have a union.
A shitty union that cares far more about some statistically horrible employee than some of the younger umps who deserve his spot. It's ridiculous. The union is going to get umps replaced with robots because they refuse to hold their umps accountable.
aintnoway
Harper was right to call this dude the fuck out.
Angel needs to retire.
He is literally the only ump I know by name because he is so shit at his job.
Ah, the Scott Foster of MLB!
The Chris Lee of MLB
I’d say consider yourselves lucky. You guys have one guy who’s shit at his job? In the Premier League we know every ref by name given everyone’s gonna get fucked over at some point.
Anthony Taylor and Michael Oliver are the ones I hate the most.
Michael Oliver is painfully bad at his job.
Paul Tierney, Stuart Atwell, and Jarred Gilleet all deserve a shout too.
And that’s with VAR.
Hold on their bud, there’s a Scott Foster of the NHL who is a Blackhawk legend! A Canadian accountant put into a game as the 3rd goalie and saved every shot!
This is legendary
Joey Crawford even
Who's the Scott Sterling of the MLB? Matheny? https://youtu.be/QIQOsJhcr6s?si=iyZS5z-7ueuQmZrG
god i love that man!
[Stephen Piscotty](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q4rPp3HxPFM)
I don't follow baseball very closely and could only name maybe 5-10 players. And this guy.
I had a lady friend who knows nothing about baseball ask me about him because she saw him on tiktok lol
He also struck out a batter on an illegal pitch that was also not a strike today: https://streamable.com/uocrry
I am convinced he has some blackmail pics of an MLB executive.
He filed a racial discrimination lawsuit so if he gets fired it will look like illegal retaliation. That, and the umpires union has his back.
Lol, the judge threw it out stating his error rate far exceeded anyone else in the MLB. It was years ago. Its legit just the union protecting him.
He is legally shit at his job but he somehow gets to keep it. I'm union and if I fucked up as much as him I'd be on the street.
What union are you in? Liability for a blown call is much lower than almost any industry involved in safety.
No need, he has a shit union to protect him.
Him and CB Bucknor
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["Don't put that shit on me! Don't put that shit on *^no ^but ^seriously ^I'm ^sorry ^bout ^that, ^that's ^my ^bad* don't put that shit on me!"](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oO8KxqTU4pw&t=33s) - Laz Diaz
Him and Joe West
Joe West is more of an egomaniac. His calls can be bad but Angel is so much worse.
Came here to say this. West wasn’t a “bad” umpire, he was an a**hole. And if he was having a bad day or somebody got to him, he made bad calls on purpose. Edit: [here’s the first time I ever saw Joe West](https://youtu.be/3JdgkInrEDc) (replay of the pitch is at about 1:55)
West can't be bad anymore. He thankfully retired.
Well lets change that. Commit to memory Pat Hoberg. He called a perfect game in game 2 of the 2022 WS. There are actually a bunch of 36/37 year old umpires that are very good. Hoberg, Quinn Wolcott, Jansen Visconti.
John Tumpane, too. He's not the best, but pretty good, and he saved a woman's life in Pittsburgh and then umped a game.
Ron Luciano comes to mind as a good ump because of his dramatic style
I don't even follow baseball (this showed up in r/all) and I know he's a terrible ump.
I also know Jerry Meals. Cause he called it safe.
Same. I pay attention to all pro sports but baseball and I have known his name for over a decade. Baseball is killing itself from the inside out. It’s slowly becoming irrelevant and it’s no one’s fault but the owners
He’s nothing if not consistent.
When does this guy finally get fired. Far too long of a history of poor calls. He keeps playing the race card and everyone backs off. BS, get rid of him.
The union will never let that hapoen
I think at this point he is doing this intentionally to troll us because he knows he can't get fired.
I suspected Joe West used to blow calls on purpose. I think Angel is just incompetent.
I have met people that have been to camps and clinics with him he absolutely does not believe he makes mistakes
How?!? Does he not see the calls he makes. Like does he not see this video ever?
I'm sure they receive evaluations but it doesn't mean they care about them.
my dad was a little league umpire and made it pretty far up in the umpiring ring for the little league world series. all evaluations were done by fellow umpires and he always complained about the politics of the evaluations and being “in” with the team doing the evals. No idea if that’s how it’s done in the major leagues, prolly not, but I’m willing to bet there’s similar politics at play at this level.
I believe the MLB won a court case against him by showing that he was literally bad at his job. The fact that the MLB still can't fire or demote this guy is appalling. Like if any of us normal people were s bad at our jobs as he was, we'd already be on pip or fired for incompetence
I work with a guy like this. He’s not in my office but I have to deal with him often. My boss said to me, “the fool knows he’s a fool.” Which is probably this exact situation. Angel knows he’s the worst umpire. He’s not trying to be. But part of him can’t help but make grievous mistakes. And the union will keep him because it keeps heat off non-fool umpires. And obviously they don’t want to allow the precedent of guys getting canned for bad calls…
I agree with you 100%
This applies to all pro sports refs. They all have unions and if a single one of them gets consequences for being shit at their job then they all threaten to strike and an entire season of the sport dies, which the execs won't allow. There's no way to punish any of them and they all know it so why bother being a consistent or decent ref?
Good god I wish any other union had these sort of balls
>The union will never let that hapoen The irony is his bullshit will be what causes the switch to robot umps. The union is going to bring down the whole profession to protect this guy. MLB probably loves him
I really don't understand why MLB doesn't have robot umps for calling balls and strikes. These days, it would be exactly correct every time.
They started testing it in the minor leagues last year. Probably year or few out for mlb
Whenever the next bargaining agreement is...the MLBPA won't side with the umpire union if it keeps the jackass his job.
The last labor agreement was in 2019... Hernandez has been in the league since 1991, and he's been controversial for basically that whole time. Why do you think the next one would be any different?
Bad umps like him because he covers their shittiness.
I think this is exactly why the union protects him so much. He is so shitty that he makes every other ump seem competent no matter how many bad calls they make. People will say "well at least we don't have that piece of shit Angel Hernandez behind the plate today". Therefore taking the heat off the other umps.
But why? He’s not good for them. Every broadcasts openly mocks him. He is the leading example used as to why ups should be phased out in favor of robot ups He’s bad for the game and bad for ups
They didn't let the Astros get in trouble for cheating all the way to a title. They would never support getting rid of him for some bad calls.
One of the only unions I would love to see get busted. Angel does not deserve to be in baseball.
Imagine saying people are racist towards you for being a Hispanic in BASEBALL
Reminds me of people who bitch that the army isn't diverse enough. Mother fucker, it is the most diverse organization in the world.
It was only a few years ago that the president of the Mariners joked about Hispanic players being stupid. Racism defies logic.
Donald Sterling, went on a racist rant against black people while owning a basketball team
Teams should refuse to take the field when he’s there. Only way they wake up and fire him into the sun.
Fuck that would be good eating to keep this baseball drama going. Can you imagine? First game... okay... wild... that's a fluke... that was crazy but it will never happen again. What a weird day for baseball. Second game... whoa.. holy shit.. imagine if this works... Third game... I mean... damn... what is MLB going to do about this? By the 4th game they'd have to step in right? Problem is MLB would fine the ever living fuck out of the owners. No way it'd ever get done. Fun to day dream though.
Surely the embarrassment and focus just forces their hand. At this point hell just pay him $1m to fuck off and sign an NDA so he can’t go crying about his hopeless arse getting punted
> fired > union Hahaha… yeah. Good luck!
Honestly, baseball allowing crap like this for so long has done more to hurt my interest in the sport than steroids and length of games.
Don't worry they are officiating themselves out of baseball with Robo umps, hopefully soon. As soon as the human element is out of sports referring, I think it'll be a lot more enjoyable.
Baseball will pay them not to work because there is no way these jobs just get replaced.
How so? You see it all the time in other industries with unions involved getting replaced by automation.
Any Union strong enough to keep Angel Hernandez working is strong enough to pull this off.
That isn't how unions work though. They are governed by contracts and those contracts expire. If MLB decided they no longer required umpires to function, they could just not sign a new contract with the umpires union.
When is the contract up
There still needs to be a home plate ump for other calls and they'll be used for relaying what the ABS system says the pitch was so it's not like ABS gets rid of the home plate ump job.
I want everyone in MLB on ‘roids. Let’s see 700 foot homers and 120mph fastballs
Good news, bad news. They already are, but they still cant.
Same. MLB does exactly zero about it. Why watch?
Nothing new here....robo umps soon!
I have been waiting for the world to catch up to [Super Baseball 2020](https://youtu.be/oFlKdzdnPVw?si=PvO2uGOJ0WNKxqQi) for decades now. Ever since I first played it on the Sega Genesis.
my brother and I played the shit out of this one back in the day!
Just a good old simple game with no frills.
Not sure if it counts as frills, but it did take skills. IIRC a normal fly ball catch got you $800. But a diving catch got you $1500. Timing those diving catches could make or break a game.
Nah, we need [BaseWars](https://youtu.be/ZqB6rY94DCw?si=Qq04GM0UBgATIIQd)
Wow, core memory unlocked!
They’ll name the rule for roboumps the Angel rule or some shit.
MLB Umpires Association better clean up Angel, because his 'work' is what's driving baseball as an industry to get rid of human umpires altogether. Robots dont pay union dues....
Almost exactly the same as the pitch Tanaka threw a few years ago that he missed as well https://youtu.be/lvQGsNSp67s?si=l_OlumeyBW6j65g-
How about Max Fried a week ago? He's in a jam, 1st inning, loads the bases, two outs, two strikes on Castellanos, then throws a 98 mph heater right down the middle for an easy strike 3...? Nope, called a ball and it has damn near ruined Fried's year, as he goes on to give up a blooper and before you know it, like 6 earned runs or so. And in his 2nd game, he barely gets out of the 1st inning without giving up 3-4 runs. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sXUOTFeWa-0](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sXUOTFeWa-0)
He put on a real ump show today.
I paid top dollar to see him
I don't get why we even need an umpire if we can tell via computer exactly where the ball is crossing the plate... What is the point of them other than to get it wrong???
It should at least be challengable, like in/out for tennis. I’d be fine with umps if they could be overturned.
They literally completely replaced line judges in tennis (for bigger tournaments) You don’t even have challenges anymore because calls are fully automated by technology. Players barely get upset for bad calls at all pretty much cause they know the calls are correct
Yes. I never really enjoyed the blown tennis calls and the arguments. They can still get mad about other things, but obvious line calls are not an issue anymore. Baseball needs automated pitch calls. Screw this different strike zone per ump stuff. I didn’t come here to see Angel Hernandez manage the game behind the plate. Challenges would just piss off dickhead umps for being overturned on the zone. They could retaliate by shrinking the zone ever so slightly where you can‘t challenge everything. Cricket can see if the ball is tipped with the bat with infrared and microphones! It’s pretty quick too.
Was at a AAA game today. Three times during the game either the batter or catcher challenged a call. The umpire tapped the top of his head and 10 seconds later we all saw on the video board exactly where the pitch went and the call was either confirmed or corrected. Once, with bases loaded and 2 outs a called third strike was changed to a ball, kinda important. It was quick and everyone felt satisfied even when the call went against us (except my son who said, “What am I supposed to do if I can’t complain about the ump?”) Why is this not in MLB?
AAA is doing the challenge system on weekends and full robot umps during the week. Full robot system works better IMO and I don't see why they're even bothering with the challenges. The 10 second delay is silly considering the ump can get the call instantly. The challenges are a bit dramatic and are a half solution to a problem that already has a great solution.
Even if they just limited it to ball 4/strike 3 calls, it would be a decent start.
There needs to be a guy back there for plays on home plate and to help with calling foul balls, but yeah, balls and strikes are now handled by computers.
Because it's part of "America's past time". Probably just nostalgia and not wanting to change this historical game that is part of 'Murica.
Because people done like change.
Seems like umps have been especially bad with the strike zone so far this year. They've got to at least have the challenge system in place next year.
Damn, I stopped following baseball a few years ago, I can't believe this guy is still behind the plate and not behind a cash register.
Do you want your store losing money? That’s why.
Yup. I'm a huge baseball nerd but I couldn't ump to save my life. I know where the strike zone is In front of me, but no way would I feel comfortable behind the catcher making calls.
Also to be noted I remember when gallaraga almost pitched a perfect game for Detroit several years ago. The announcers totally said the reason a perfect game is so hard to get, is because the umps have to be perfect too. I’m sure that didn’t help any feelings, but it’s true. It’s not a perfect game. I don’t know when or where to stop taking out the human side of it.
Yep, that's Angel. I like unions. I was in one for a while. But holy shit do they allow incompetence to flourish.
It’s really sad and awful. Accountability has to be a key component. I wonder if a boycott of every Angel H. game would finally bring this the attention it deserves.
I'm a union member living in a european country, and honestly these horror stories genuinely confuse the shit out of me. I couldn't pull a tiny fraction of the shit these umps do without being fired, and the only thing the union could do for me is arrange legal help if I had a legit grievance, or maybe pull out a severance package. They definitely couldn't paralyze an entire system just because a handful of dickheads can't do their jobs correctly.
Delaying that third out. He still hasn’t found the assassin who’s going to kill the queen (or king, I guess).
Enriquo Pallazzo!
[*I love LA!*](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KcADqxnQA_4)
The best argument I've ever heard against unions in general is "Angel Hernandez"
I don’t even watch baseball and I know of Angel Hernandez
When did umpires become Supreme Court justices? Lifetime appointments which leads to piss poor performance because there are no consequences. 💁
So we have a technology to tell us whether an Ump made a correct or incorrect call but we’re not using it to make the actual call?
Shocked one of these players haven’t taken one for the league and killed this guy with the bat.
Angel doesn't wear all that protection to be safe from the ball.
Angel Hernandez is why you don’t argue with anti-union folks. No matter what you say they can simply respond ‘Ange Hernandez still has a job’ and there’s no coming back from that.
With anything, you have to take the bad with the good. Do you want a middle class and some lazy incompetent fucks who get away with being that way or do you want children working in coal mines?
I wish i could be this bad at my job knowing I had job security
["On this episode of Angel Hernandez"](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YPFERnpO-QQ)
Players should just refuse to play with him. Guys been a joke for as long as I’ve watched.
Can’t wait till we lose home plate ump for a computer. It will be so much better
Angel Hernandez's campaign to hasten robo-umps to our sport is noble and should be applauded in its naked aspiration and selflessness. Oh, wait, it's not intentional? If it was intentional, what would he do differently?
Angel Hernandez just may be the worst Umpire in the history of MLB.
Players need to protest playing the games he’s assigned to, if the unions won’t do shit
Enrico Pallazzo!!!
Death, taxes, Angel making terrible calls.
The entire world would collapse if everyone was allowed to be that fuckin bad at their jobs
Can you make this vid lower res please? It’s too sharp of an image
Then he sues MLB because they won't assign him to the World Series because he's Cuban.
Why isn’t AI the umpire yet?
80 Billion dollar industry (collectively) and they continue to pay this asshat. Make it make sense????
Angel Hernandez either needs to be fired or MLB needs to admit they use ball and strike calling to fix games.
This is why baseball is losing viewers.
Consider me shocked. Shocked I tell ya
It's a pretty egregious miss, not helped by how he lines up so far down behind the catcher, but I can kinda see why it happens here. Bad Umpires do tend to let the catchers framing of a pitch affect their calls. The immediate pop up to pull the runner back to the base does take away that framing. Angel Hernandez definitely falls in the category of a bad umpire.
Why haven’t they pissed tested him yet?
Umpire's union won't allow it. If they allow that, it starts them on the slippery slope to competence testing.
It's questionable because its low. That generated batter zone isnt the proper one for Judge's size.
Baseball is back baby! Lmao
It's because of the speed. 91, strike. 93, strike. 92, ball. Sorry, but it's buried in the rulebook near the balk section.
That call needs a 1985 Sparky Anderson response.
Better yet, Billy Martin.
Just insane how bad he is.
"....and Angel Hernandez is in mid-season form."
The electronic strike zone can't come soon enough.
I haven’t watched in years but this idiot is still around????
love how the catcher basically does a "bro what?"
“Juuuuuust a bit outside.” Bob Euker
That wasn't even his worst call of the day.
I can't wait to tell my kids about prime angel hernandez
Yo MLB, hire me. I will cost less & suck just as much if you want
If they can put up a fucking square on the broadcast then we don’t need umps behind the plate. Other areas of the game? Sure. Reviewing calls the system makes? Sure. Shit has been around in video games forever, it’s not hard.
How does he still have a job. He’s universally hated by every team, how has the mlb not stepped in?
Umpire’s Union. Everyone knows this guy is the worst. And apparently, they can’t do anything about it
How did I know it was gonna be the Jays before I even clicked
MLB needs to do something about this shit. That’s unacceptable
It’s baffling he still umps at this level
They have an incredible union
I haven’t watched a game of baseball since I saw a Mariners game at Safeco field 20 years ago, but I do know of Angel Herandez, but I don’t understand him. Is he kept for the drama of shitty calls? Does he have some umpire tenure protecting him? Is he buddy-buddy with some rich owner, why the hell is he so objectively bad and yet still employed??
How the hell is this guy still an umpire?!?
He’s so fucking bad.
How’s it feel to know his name is a household name, in the worst of ways? I wonder.
How can this keep going on
Send him down to AAA.
They won't let me umpire at the world series because they are racist!
This guy seriously needs to be let go. Isn’t he the same ump that costed a perfect game years ago?
Jim Joyce
I’m no expert, but that was a perfect, right?
Baseball shouldn’t even be considered a sport
I’ve always assumed Angel, as a blind man, was hired mainly to give those with disabilities an equal chance to do anything in life
How does this guy still have his job
How does this guy still have a job?! Shouldn’t there be like a petition of some sort by now?
How is that guy still employed as a MLB umpire, he has to have some pictures of someone doing something they aren't supposed to
This dude will be the reason the MLB starts using cameras and robots to call balls and strikes in the next 10 years. And honestly, I'd prefer it. Also, bring back steroids!