He should have been fired after the Georgia debacle last year. ******* talentless clown has no business being on the field.
ITS HAPPENING MSU LSU game 2
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I feel like I've been watching him suck my whole adult life. The job security of mediocre umpires makes me wonder if it is a federal position.
Somehow being the referee for sports gives immunity to repercussions. I'll never understand it.
UN-17ING-PRODUCTIVE OUTS. Drag a goddamn grounder to the right side and score the 17ing runner from third base
3 hole hitter guesses wrong and watches a center cut FB for strike 3, and then cleanup hitter waves at one in the other batters box. WT17 are we doing
My theory is that in an effort to protect the legitimacy of officiating, they make rules regarding coaches/players/schools publicly criticizing officiating. A perhaps unintended consequence of this codified culture of non-criticism is a lack of criticism among the officials' employers.
I think it should be open season on public criticism of officials. I would respect them more if they weren't protected from criticism. It doesn't legitimize officiating to outlaw criticism when everyone knows the lack of criticism is due to the rules, not the officiating.
I also think each team should be able to blackball one official at the beginning of each season.
Hines takes 4 straight pitches for the walk. That's pretty amazing - did they get him contacts or something?
speaking of shatty officiating, I don't think they've called a foul on Auburn in the last 10 minutes of this game.
Not only do they protect them from criticism but there's no accountability. If I **** up enough at my job, I'm gone. That's true for probably everyone else on this board. But an umpire can be trash for their entire career and never face the music. Just look at Angel Hernandez, 30+ years calling MLB games extremely poorly, and the very first result if you google worst umpire in MLB history.
I've seen enough of the Stevens in the lineup experiment. He swings at a lot of pitches out of the strike zone. As far as bunting, that is just giving up an out we can't afford!
And Lemonis keeps pushing the wrong buttons
With his pinch batters. I don't call them pinch hitters because they are so weak they cannot get it out of the infield! What I wonder about these guys Sour Lemon brings in are they old enough to be on Stayfree pads or Always?
With his pinch batters. I don't call them pinch hitters because they are so weak they cannot get it out of the infield! What I wonder about these guys Sour Lemon brings in are they old enough to be on Stayfree pads or Always?
I know Downs isn't a good hitter but how in the hell is he going to get better if he gets pulled. I can see if it was the top of the 9th but there is still a lot of ball left to play. I have a feeling it's going to take more than two runs to win this game. Pulling a starter to Play for one run at this point to me seems stupid.
2-1 LSU top of the 8th coming up. Stone looked pretty good getting through the meat of their order with NO WALKS so that's encouraging. I don't think we've walked a batter all night.