Comments on: Atrocious umpiring not a factor as Yanks stomp Angels

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By: D. Fay

D. Fay — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 22:56:10 +0000

It sure must be a nice feeling to have bought your way into the series!? Isn’t is odd how you get to see 5 camera angles that “prove” when the Angels miss a play but 1 or 2 angles that are “inconclusive” (oops, do not prove) that the Skanees (yankees) got got away with another favor from the paid off umpire!! New York hasn’t had a REAL Baseball Player for decades!! All you have out there now are people who work at the game of baseball and end up going for the big money. That is the real tragedy of baseball across the board in general but in the Bronx specifically. Maybe that is why Anaheim is still voted consistently as the best city/community for sports in the country! The people and the players have a love of the game and an desire to bring home the title honestly without the help of the dirty “Rat Bastard” Umps!
Go Halos

By: The old Man

The old Man — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 21:16:18 +0000

First the players make so much money there is not of a reason to keep playing, especially in November.
Tony for the Cardinals wanted to go back home for his animal rights and other stuff. As long as Bud Selig is in charge nothing will change. The umpires are over paid fat union guys. Where is Pete Rose. That is a shame.
Half of the players should not be in the Bigs. Did you know that Yogi stuck out only 12 times in almost 600 at bats. Stan the Man would have hit 800 home runs if St Louis did have a screen in right.

By: concrete jungle

concrete jungle — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 16:41:29 +0000

So what most people are saying is the YANKEES PAIF OFF the Umpires
well THAT SURE IS SMART, TOO BAD YOUR TEAM CAN’T THINK LIKE THAT.
GOOD JOB FELLAS MAKE SURE THE WORLD SERIES TROPHY IS RETURNED TO IT’S RIGHTFUL PLACE, NEW YORK.
BUH BYE

By: Old Gator

Old Gator — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 17:09:36 +0000

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By: NYguy

NYguy — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 16:22:32 +0000

“Well it does not matter anymore. I will watch something else now.”
Thank you. We cannot tell you how happy you have made all of us. Please, do not try to post in the future if you do not watch. It may be hard for you to understand that your team is not playing and nobody else cares. Hey, that makes everyone just like you. I’ll bet you think you have hurt someone’s feelings.

By: NYguy

NYguy — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 16:08:18 +0000

“This incredibly “incompetent” umpiring is not confined to this game in the post season. Every single post season series has calls blown so obviously that it can’t be a mistake. SI even ran an article on it this month. MLB stands to gain the most TV revenue from what teams in the post season? Major market (east and west coast)teams. In the World Series? The Yankees. We don’t need instant replay in baseball. There needs to be an investigation of MLB for fraud. The Yankees didn’t pay off the umpires. MLB did.”
The fact that you come home late many nights while your husband thinks you are with friends is telling. Obviously, coming home late means you are having an affair and that can’t be a mistake. Time magazine ran an article on cheating wives this month. There needs to be an investigation for fraud. Especially you paying off a co-worker to not spill the beans.
Isn’t it fun just talking off the top of our heads and making up wild-ass stories to show how easily people are so full of themselves? Next, she will tell us how ET is still here and is the real owner of this blog.

By: Steve

Steve — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 16:00:27 +0000

Please,leave that crack alone!

By: dlp

dlp — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 15:35:01 +0000

This is BS. Cano went with the umpire’s call. He is not the one that is supposed to make the call. If he argues a call that he feels incorrect he is punished. This would be exactly that!

By: dave

dave — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 15:20:54 +0000

Well it does not matter anymore. I will watch something else now . Theses games are a production from MLB and the goon from the Brewers. NY must win they have a very big expensive stadiumn to pay for. OH I mean the TAXPAYERS have to pay for . I have seen better umpireing in little league than what we have seen so far. If it was just one game well maybe someone forgot his eye drops. But it seems to be every game. And their arrogance about what the saw. Hell I would be will to bet they saw a space ship land and take someone away. They think (and believe ) they are 100% correct.
Now who will win the 2010 world series?

By: amie

amie — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 15:15:27 +0000

This incredibly “incompetent” umpiring is not confined to this game in the post season. Every single post season series has calls blown so obviously that it can’t be a mistake. SI even ran an article on it this month. MLB stands to gain the most TV revenue from what teams in the post season? Major market (east and west coast)teams. In the World Series? The Yankees. We don’t need instant replay in baseball. There needs to be an investigation of MLB for fraud. The Yankees didn’t pay off the umpires. MLB did.

By: Dick

Dick — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 14:59:00 +0000

One expects close calls to be missed now and then and can only hope they even out and do not affect the outcome of a close game. I usually give umps the benefit of a doubt, but the number of missed calls this year is outrageous. Is it favoratism or just plain incompetence? I don’t know. However, if they can’t straighten it out, the only answer is instant replay and review.

By: NYguy

NYguy — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 14:38:33 +0000

“I’m really reluctant to claim they’re taking payoffs but it sure appears that way.”
That is a heavy accusation you make without an iota of evidence in support of it.

By: slipknot2248

slipknot2248 — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 14:27:16 +0000

I don’t care which team faces the National League, not do I care which team wins the Series. The officiating in both Leagues is same, it reaks of something other than fairness. Team owners or at least the managers and players should push for an in depth investigation of the Umpires and the organization that they belong to. Most of the games I’ve watched this year, especially in the post-season appear to have a rather high amount of inconsistancy of fairness toward one team or another in each game or series of games, and as much as I love my Rockies, they were guilty as hell in covering up on dropped fly balls in the outfield, but in the Phillies series the pitch count display showed what the plate ump was calling as strikes for the Phillies pitchers were balls for Rockies pitchers. And it didn’t matter which crew or which park it was impossible to get a fair call in the NLDS. I’m really reluctant to claim they’re taking payoffs but it sure appears that way.

By: NYguy

NYguy — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 14:13:41 +0000

“I have never seen a Yankee fan with the respect and reverence for the opposing teams fans in my entire life, and I’ve been a BoSox fan since six.”
There is a difference in earning respect and demanding it. It would be nice to know how often you tried to find Yankee fans unlike your sterotyping and hatred have shaped. Statements like the above one you made would lead people to believe you like to speak in generalities. Even if you did meet reverent fans you would have still made your remarks. That is the Red Sox fans way. I am sure Fenway Park filled with you crybabies yelling over and over, “Yankees suck,” means you are all far above disrespecting opposing teams. Get real, whiner. Remember back in 2004 when Ben Affleck cried about having to sit for a few hours next to the Yankees dugout. He said he would have to suffer for a few hours, but could do it. Well, we all had to suffer for a few hours watching, “Gigli,” a pathetic piece of celluloid tripe as I have ever seen. It works both ways infecteau.

By: Johnny

Johnny — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 14:13:26 +0000

I always wanted to be an umpire but they found out I had two parents and was ineligible. They could care less if they are right or wrong. Umpiring for post season is done on a rotational basis, not like football where the better official crews get the games. NFL was even smart enough to rate the crew as a whole instead of individually so that the crews that work well together would do a good job in the playoffs. Umpires are conceited, arrogant, drunks that could care less. Use instant replay and show just how bad these baffoons are.

By: Greggo

Greggo — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 13:59:56 +0000

I’ve never seen so many missed calls as we have during this post-season. The Angels have been snake-bitten with them for years now going back to the White Sox series. However, I never want to see instant replay in MLB. It wrecked football. Umpires are a part of the game. Those calls will live in infamy, like major comebacks and critical hits or errors by the players. It will be part of the legend and lore of the game. Let’s leave it that way. But if you really want to solve the umpiring problem then put Lou Piniella in charge of the umpire corps after he retires from managing. The strike zone would be honored and the calls would improve–or else!

By: retiredchap1

retiredchap1 — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 13:59:18 +0000

“Always”? Bad call in favor of Angels was the Swisher call on third. Don’t say “always”, there are exceptions. I does seem that many of the calls have gone the Yankees way. However, the Angels are making a lot of mistakes in the field and on the base paths. Can’t make that many mistakes and hope to win a best of 7 series.

By: Ward

Ward — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 13:53:31 +0000

“If anyone needs any more proof that the umps (ok, at least McClelland) want the Yankees to lose” – Right, which explains why he let Cano stay on 3rd base when he should have been called out.

By: Lugio

Lugio — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 13:39:46 +0000

Bad calls will always be made but these two were riduculous. However, Posada should never have been at third had he paid attention to the ball that went all the way to the on Cano’s double. I’m a Yankee fan however Jorge is making too many mental errors–did he not run to the dugout after 2 outs in one of those last innings.

By: LongTimeYankFan

LongTimeYankFan — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 13:37:54 +0000

Rave on – this is the same Yankee bashing that has grown so tiresome. If they win, then it’s obviously because the officiating stinks, because A-Rod cheats, because Jeter gets special treatment, because…give it up.
The best team wins, and this year it’s NY. Get over it. Anyone can alibi the bad calls and the bad hops. True professionals find a way to win anyway. Besides, with a 10-run margin, you can hardly argue that bad calls were all to blame.

By: Fecteau

Fecteau — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 13:31:23 +0000

I’ll second that…
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“Sir, it’s a taxicab air freshener”
“Great. You’ve pinpointed it. Step two is washing it out”

By: Joey B

Joey B — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 13:17:42 +0000

I don’t mind it when they blow a close call, as long they blow them all the time, but the ump is 5 feet away from the base, and both runners a foor or a 1.5 feet away from the bag. The commish has to call him in and ask him what he was looking at. He should also ask him what he was looking at on the tag-up play. And then ask the HP plate ump why he didn’t intercede on the DP miscall. He should’v had a pretty good view as well. Swisher was probably out at 2nd, but it’s a split-second play that could easily be missed. The bad calls at 3rd were so bad it almost had to be because the ump just wasn’t paying attention.
BTW, it was a perfect time for Scioscia to get himself tossed.

By: tibby

tibby — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 13:07:42 +0000

You sound like every idiot Yankee hater. I have read all over the blogs from Yankee fans that both the call at 2nd base on Swisher and the non-call on Cano at third were wrong, but I don’t hear you saying anything about that ridiculous call made on Swisher leaving too soon.
Go pout somewhere else. The Yankees spend the money because they are willing to take chances on people; remember Pavano, Drabek, Randy Johnson….shall I go on. The Steinbrenner family is NOT the wealthiest group of owners in baseball; there are plenty of other owners who have more money. The biggest difference is the Steinbrenner’s want to win more than anyone, and they put their money where their heart is, and that is in winning.
I would love to know who your favroite team is. You are a typical whiner. Keep in mind that the heart and soul of this team is still Derek Jeter (home grown), Posada (home grown) and Mo (home grown). So why don’t you order up a big plate of suck it; because number 27 is just around the corner.

By: Fecteau

Fecteau — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 13:00:09 +0000

I have never seen a Yankee fan with the respect and reverence for the opposing teams fans in my entire life, and I’ve been a BoSox fan since six. Thanks Isaac, I’d buy you a beer anytime… Hopefully other Yank fans can recognize as you have (remember Nomar Garciaparra getting tagged on a double play by Knoblauch in which he was about 1 1/2 to 2 feet away from hitting Morar)

By: qbanbandit

qbanbandit — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 12:37:48 +0000

Mike Feistein recent article on MLB officiating is right on the money. They use their regular crew instead of having a scoring system to select the best umpires and use them in the LCS and WS. It is a shame that officiating is not transparent in the series even though they are adding 2 more umpires in the LF and RF line just to collect a paycheck. This is all because of the union and their archaic ways; they need to come to the 21st century and implement instant replay specially if they continue to miss call.

By: Mike

Mike — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 12:35:29 +0000

Old Gator diving is not a sport so please do not compare it an actual sport. The umps sucked!!!!! and have all playoffs going all the way back to the “play in” game between the Tiger and Twins

By: NYguy

NYguy — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 12:35:18 +0000

Thank you for recognizing the ridiculous, whiny ranting of someone who is clueless. Mr. Roush hates the Yankees and that is no sweat for me, but his diatribe is ludicrous. He must be confusing small market for small minded areas. Funny, since 2000 the Angels and Yanks have met twice before in the playoffs and the Angels came out on top. So much for the getting all the calls theory. If the Angels were to come back and win, then how is having Los Angeles in the series a small market situation? LA is a much bigger market than Philly. Why aren’t the Dodgers getting all the calls. This guy makes no sense at all.