re: Welcome to the Ump Show on Twitter doing a fine job of showing how awful MLB umpires are

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Only non Atlanta fans who watched baseball in the 90s have a to right to complain.

I mean, what's so bad now if you were unlucky enough to suffer through the poppycock calls Leo Mazzone's rotation was gifted?

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You non Braves fans are so whiny about those days. You all act like the Braves were the only team getting any calls. What you fail to realize is that those guys for the Braves mastered the art of keeping the ball around the plate and throwing it exactly where they wanted to, making pitches appear to be strikes, even when they weren't. That has always been something the best pitchers in the game have done. It just so happened that the Braves had a trio of them on their team.

Did you watch the Braves get robbed by Eric Gregg in the '97 NLCS against the Marlins? It's one of the most infamous performances by an umpire in the history of the game, and yet I bet you've never even heard of it. Because you only watch the Braves if your team is playing them, right? But you know everything about the calls the Braves got, somehow.

Sure, pal.

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No one wants to watch bullshite robot umps.

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You’re suggesting that it was ok that Maddux and Glavine consistently got six inches to a foot off the plate because that game happened? Yes, that staff did a great job of taking advantage of the way the zone was called then, but that doesn’t make it right.

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And here, again, is an example of hyperbole and downright dishonesty. These guys never got SIX inches, let alone a foot off the plate. 3-4 inches was the most they ever got, and it was nowhere near consistently that. They would have been unbeatable if that were so. People have a nasty habit of saying that something just off the plate is 4 inches off, to where everything further than that somehow gets multiplied 3 inches for every actual inch off the plate it is. Some of you got your feelings hurt so bad by those Braves teams that you can't even attempt to be objective. How in the world, with all the talent those teams had, did they not win every single World Series in that run, if they were CONSISTENTLY getting "6 inches to a foot off the plate"? If that were remotely true, no one could ever have hit anything they threw. Every game would have been a shut out.

Get a grip on reality, people.

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You non Braves fans are so whiny about those days. You all act like the Braves were the only team getting any calls. What you fail to realize is that those guys for the Braves mastered the art of keeping the ball around the plate and throwing it exactly where they wanted to, making pitches appear to be strikes, even when they weren't. That has always been something the best pitchers in the game have done. It just so happened that the Braves had a trio of them on their team.

Did you watch the Braves get robbed by Eric Gregg in the '97 NLCS against the Marlins? It's one of the most infamous performances by an umpire in the history of the game, and yet I bet you've never even heard of it. Because you only watch the Braves if your team is playing them, right? But you know everything about the calls the Braves got, somehow.

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when the braves got the calls it was skill. When the braves didnt, its the most infamous umpired game ever

Oh, 6 inches wasn't an exaggeration.

If you had said 9", though..

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Robots won't be any better b/c they are programmed by humans.

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That may be one of the dumbest things I've read in a while. They may not be perfect, but they'll get closer than any human possibly could.

Do you actually accept when an umpire shows up a batter mid-game? How about when he gives the other team a few runs worth of bad calls?

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when the braves got the calls it was skill. When the braves didnt, its the most infamous umpired game ever

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Maybe the people you interacted with.

Umpires that can't get the call right suck regardless and I'd welcome our robot overlords to call the game correctly.

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I bet you have a suction cup dildo attached to a Greg Maddux poster but complain about umpires.

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Yeah, I remember when all the Braves fans were blaming Eric Gregg for losing to the Marlins in the 97 NLCS. I was like do y'all forget all the strike calls Maddux and Glavine got that were 6 inches off the plate? I remember the Braves announcers would always justify it with "He's consistently in the same spot, so the ump gives him the call" or "He's a veteran, so he's going to get that call off the plate where a younger pitcher won't".

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I remember Ray Lankford, after Cardinals took a 3-1 lead, on why they aren't hitting game 5-7.

"You can't hit balls 7 inches or more off the plate"

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The Braves outscored them 32-1 in the last three games of that series. Cardinals fans conveniently forget that part of it.

You're like the Colts fans who lost the AFCCG 45-7 and blamed deflated footballs instead of their defense that gave up 250 rushing yards.

You were talking about the 1996 NLCS and using umpires as an excuse for a series in which you lost the last three games by a combined score of 32-1. If you're blaming umpires for that, then it truly does speak to your unfathomable stupidity.