Enough with these stupid MLB umpires

Move to sensors/machines/robots for all sports officials in all sports. These retards get to do whatever they want with no consequences and I'm sick of it.

1. The helmet tap (the signal used when challenging balls/strikes using the ABS system in spring training) was the player saying "you got that call wrong," thus arguing balls and strikes which is against the rules.

2. The umpire, is paid for the sole purpose of enforcing the rules. So he is therefore required to enforce the penalty for breaking a rule. In this situation, after a warning (we assume the conversation prior to the helmet tap was a back and forth that included a warning) the penalty is ejection.

3. Yea... stop holding them back, because the players/coaches aren't going to do anything physically. If they do, they will likely be banned from the game for life, losing out on millions of dollars over their careers.

Imagine defending this idiocy lol

Well, to be fair, people don’t go to ball games to watch the players. People pay good money to see umpires go on their ego trips. Just ask any umpire – they’ll tell you.

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unsportsmanlike acts

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Oh the horror!

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I’m normally all for showing up shitty umpires, but he played a stupid game tapping his helmet and he won a stupid prize. Then he acted like a jackass

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Extremely clear the umpire didn’t want to let it go. Was the call close enough for the player to not freak out about it? Probably so, but it was moving forward until the ump had to insert himself back in the situation. If we’re going to eject guys for something as subjective as touching their fricking helmet, we’ve lost the plot.

I’ve been saying it for years, with as much money and gambling is in sports now, umpires have the be held to task. Complete bullshite they can pull this kind of shite and then not have to answer for it, ever.

I used to think college kids should get some leniency, but guess what, when you start getting paid, you lose that privilege.

Officials cant have their cake and eat it to, players are mandated by the league to get up and talk NO MATTER WHAT, make the officials be available or be replaced

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I’m normally all for showing up shitty umpires, but he played a stupid game tapping his helmet and he won a stupid prize. Then he acted like a jackass

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Agree. Mendoza-line dudes can't be so obvious in trying to embarrass Blue.

Players used to understand the art of subtlety. Umps respected it and got the message. Now instead the umps are as hypersensitive and juvenile as the players.

( The games needs to "modernize" to I-Robot players and AI umps, with cardboard cut-out fans)

The pitch was way down, should not have been called a strike

Walls let the ump know without making a big scene, UNTIL he tapped his helmet. He can deny it all he wants, but he knew what he was doing

Then goes ape shite when he gets called on it. I have no problem with his ejection, he intentionally tried to show up the umpire

shite like this is the culmination of 25 years of travel ball mentality finally making its way to the big leagues. These little Jaxxttyns and Braxxtyns have been treated like they can do no wrong since they were 6. Mom and Dad have made it all about them, and if they can't hack it then they just join another team that will let them on ($$$). Same for college ball. Teams like Tennessee with douchebaggery off the charts will become the norm. The stupid celebrations after a base hit, stupid props in the dugout, etc.

IMHO it all comes from the travel ball mentality of parents making their pre-teen kids out to be some sort of god

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Imagine defending employees that, in any other profession, would be terminated for being this bad at their jobs.

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I don't pretend to know how difficult your job is, but I can tell you that in your job you likely have time to analyze and make decisions. You then likely have time to review and amend your decisions prior to them being finalized. MLB umpires have to make decisions on every pitch based on an extensive number of variables that can cause multiple things to happen. They are seeing 100MPH fastballs with movement and ungodly breaking pitches and judging them against a zone that is different for each batter while navigating moving objects (catcher or bat) between them and the ball, and even at that, they get >94% of them right.

Plate umpires see between 270-300 pitches per game and the league average is >94% correct, and this is with only a 3/4" buffer zone. That's pretty freaking good. On the bases they are even better at judging safe/out. AND they have to be rules gurus. They can't stop in the middle of a game to look up an answer.

Are they perfect? Absolutely not! But to say "in any other profession, would be terminated for being this bad at their jobs" is disingenuous at best and downright ignorance at worst. I know it is trendy to hate on umpires, especially when a call goes against your team, but those dudes are really really really good.