re: Lot of chatter about Home Plate umpire Jeffrey Macias

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Yeah we got calls that even as an LSU fan I was like holy shite that's bad
Glad to finally be on the good end of bad ump calls, though
We've been hosed quite a few times this year

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Correct, anyone saying otherwise is sad and pathetic.

Sad & pathetic is a bit dramatic.

If you are talking about the 1st 6 innings I completely agree w you.

But he squeezed Ulloa & then Guidry. Guidry had the most obvious strike of the night called a ball simply because the catcher dropped it.

And your seat at the game is directly behind home plate? If so wave tomorrow and let me know what you’re wearing.

Actually my seats were right behind home plate. Not going tomorrow. Sadly I have to work.

Riiight! Sorry you had to miss the big game.

All the announcers were clear that Guidry pitch was a strike. Why argue?

Uhh, trex I’m not arguing about one damn pitch in one game. I’m talking about 50 posts in all 30-40 games. Of course umps are not perfect and miss a few but miss 15-20 each inning all against our Tigers?
Now if you want to talk about that interference slide yesterday, I’ll go to jail with you on that one: pure showboating and if that ump was working for me, I’d replace him in front of the crowd. THAT was inexcusable. Get off the balls and strikes, tho.

He called the game consistently shitty throughout the game.

I guess I get too riled up about this but it’s just too close to home for me. I played, coached and umpired American legion ball and I played, coached, umpired and organized 2 4-State tourneys a year for class A and Major mens fast pitch. I had to hire umpires and knew every one for miles. There were good ones and bad ones but I never tolerated the obvious bad ones and they worked for me ONE TIME.
Sure umps miss pitches but I believe misses are caused more by their position and the catchers position. Most of the time the catcher makes sudden moves to block their site. On close breaking stuff they sometimes have to guess. If they stand inside and the pitch is outside and the catchers body blocks site it’s tough as hell, especially with breaking or off speed stuff. Every ump positions differently and their site is different from the previous ump. A savvy pitcher sometimes can figure out the umps tendencies on certain pitches.

It was a 1 strike count. Was not a strike 3 pitch