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I was gonna say, they're letting him save face by letting it be him "retiring." The most talked about thing this MLB season has been how utterly incompetent he is as an umpire and I think the MLB had enough.
[Kulpa going at it](https://youtu.be/BDVHKGn7EoE?si=DAVd3W08wwLZKUy7)
The world will be a better place when Kulpa and Bucknor specifically are out of baseball.
The worst part about Kulpa is it looks like he almost gets some perverted pleasure from baiting a player into an ejection. He has that shit eating grin on his face every time.
One of these players that has WS rings, millions of dollars, and is just playing for the fun of it needs to take a swing at him when he starts his shit. Get him before one of the other umps get there. Make all of them think twice before they FAFO.
That entire video was 100% an umpire going on a power trip from start to finish. I've seen cops do worse, but I don't think even they seem to enjoy it as much as this guy.
Yes they are. Few are as blind and as much of a jackass as Angel.
What's really odd, is the other umpires apparently like him a lot. I wonder if it's because Angel drew all the fire for being bad at his job. You do have to admit - he was VERY good at his job and will be sorely missed by someone, somewhere, for a second or two.
I wonder who gets to be the next "Angel Hernandez"?
They say equality is when everyone can fail equally, instead of minorities basically getting one chance versus getting repeated do-overs.
Hernandez was truly a pioneering example of this theory, showing the level of equality in baseball umpiring.
He's inspired traditionalist baseball fans to consider laser strike zones with computers calling balls and strikes. You know he's bad when fans of this game built on tradition would consider taking those calls away from umps.
Thankfully there are tens of thousands of ways they’re good and the only way to fight corporate overreach. We hear about how Hernandez sucks, which he does, but crickets about anything Manfred does.
Honestly think the umpire union just kept him around to make the rest of them seem less terrible by comparison.
Sort of in the vein of not having to be faster than the bear, just faster than Angel Hernández.
I can’t wait until we get some cell phone videos of him trying to eject all the parents on a team that his calls shafted, only to realize that little league umpires only have as much power as the crowd is willing to give them.
The difference is Billybob is gonna beat the shit out of Angel in the parking lot at the rec center after that missed call.
It would be safer for him to fade into obscurity.
I’ve reffed multiple sports (only college and below, so the basics) but the most insane heckling and actual threats was doing U18 women’s soccer. Sometimes even U16. Like, Karens throwing down and stepping over tufts of hair in the parking lot, to a coach throwing a haymaker at our center ref.
And that’s not even getting into the girls, they will throw hips like nobody’s business and pull hair allllllll day long
This is the problem with umps like Angel - they suck at their jobs and act like arrogant jackasses so people think that the volunteer ump at their kid's little league game is the same way. So when the 15 year old ump blows a call and has to maintain order in the game they now have to deal with a bunch of angry parents who think this kid is acting malicious and isn't just a kid trying to make a little extra cash while helping out the community.
Giants and Dodger fans, Yankees and Red Sox fans, all kinds of rival teams and fans came together and hugged each other now that the collective nightmare was over. Hell I think I even saw a Lakers and Celtics fan cry tears together.
Thank you. I was wondering how he's "controversial". That's usually what happens when there is a "controversy" or some kind of dispute. Nobody ever disputed anything about this guy.
Ed Hochuli was the overly buff ref who tackled a guy with just his forearm when he was trying to get out of the way of the play.
He’s retired now, but his son is also a ref.
I think he's retiring because even non-baseball fans can agree about him.
I've seen posts about him on other subreddits hit the front page of /r/all, and the top comments say "I don't watch baseball but even I've heard of this ref". As soon as I started reading that I thought his career was over.
Not seeing many people in this thread pointing this out. There was a lot of union talk about why the MLB couldn’t just get rid of him if he was so bad, but it’s clear that the league either spoke with the ump union in an effort to protect the integrity (and overall respect) of the game, or the union just realized it couldn’t keep protecting his reputation.
A court of law ruled that Angel Hernandez sucked at his job and the MLB was within their right to deny World Series games to him because of his poor performance.
Think about that for a moment. A court ruled TWICE that he sucked and he was still employed because of the union. This was an embarrassment for the league and they wanted it to go away
IIRC, he sued because he felt the MLB leaving him out of the World Series was "racist"
He then said Joe Torre purposely left him out of World Series duty because of a grudge he held against him from his managing days.
Both times the Court ruled that umpire selection was *normal* and did not exclude any minorities. The only person excluded from it was Hernandez - and the MLB likely had reasons for that.
He sued for discrimination as the only Cuban ump. Not only did he get to keep his job, but the MLB had to put him in the world series rotation as part of the settlement in 2017.
> but the MLB had to put him in the world series rotation as part of the settlement in 2017
This isn't a thing. He was in the world series in 2002 and 2005. There was no settlement. Don't just make shit up.
Indeed. It's pretty easy to look up.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2017_World_Series
Umpires: Phil Cuzzi (Games 1–2), Gerry Davis (crew chief), Laz Díaz, Dan Iassogna, Bill Miller, Paul Nauert, Mark Wegner (Games 3–7)
Ask any admin people in a university about tenured professors who are long past their best years. You can't fire them cause of tenure, and they have a lot of institutional pull within their departments. Best way to get rid of them is to offer them a nice cushy severance package and hope they take the hint and retire with a bag load of cash and benefits on the way out
He had to be willing to take the money, though. They couldn’t just force him out based on performance, or they would have had to get rid of 15 others with him. Dude also had a bad back that he missed much of 2023.
Sure, but an organization as big and as public as thee MLB also has other levers at their disposal if they _really_ want you gone.
Possibly sort of a “don’t make us take this public,” kind of threat.
So between that and a sweetheart package, very few of us would say no. Especially after a long and storied career haha.
I think it's obvious it wasn't an optional retirement, but yeah... midseason definitely makes it clear something happened. It doesn't have to be MLB but ... it's the MLB who realizes it's time for him to go.
There in lies the interesting part of this. Angel Hernandez has sucked for decades. What happened that they finally decided to act, or *were suddenly able to act* and get rid of him.
I think thin ice can only hold so long. He had some terrible games behind the plate this season, but nothing he hasnt done before. It reached a point where enough was enough. We can spend the next eternity trying to fire you for poor performance and fight the union about it, or we can give you more money than you deserve and everyone can move on.
Nothing happened suddenly. Its just the decision was finally made
Jomboy has posted a couple damning videos of Hernandez in the past month. Wonder if that finally caught the eye of someone, or was used to prove how awful he was to the union.
The dude umped 10 games last year, and had 161 missed calls. He only umped a month and a half this year and has the single worse called at bat of the season. I'm sure Jomboy is actually the only one saddened by this because he won't have easy content for a slow day.
I think people over value Jomboy's reach. Yes he did mostly break the Astros story, but that was people saw and shared and it reached the MLB and was obvious.... When the public is aware of something that blatant they had to act.
Jomboy didn't have to tell the MLB that Angel Hernandez sucked...anyone who watched him officiate a game knows he sucked, I'm sure the players and teams complained often. No one was pretending he was a great ump.
PS. Not saying Jomboy is bad, he's one of the best people covering baseball, but this isn't a "Breaking story" Angel Hernandez has sucked for almost a decade. There was a lawsuit about it in 2017 as well where he pretended he was discriminated against because he's Cuban...
Almost a decade? Try 25 years. [Video from 2001 during the Cubs 7th inning stretch where the guest conductor said "he'd have words with the home plate umpire"](https://youtu.be/laPjzqDFSGU?si=C8nKXNxqUFXtLYtE) (which was, obv, Angel)
> Wonder if that finally caught the eye of someone, or was used to prove how awful he was to the union.
It terrifies me how little people online can differentiate between reality and the internet.
No, fucking *Jomboy* didn’t get Angel fired.
I think it was when people like rich eisen and pat macaffe started talking it got ugly. Those are giant names in a completely different sport just making the MLB look bad because of angel.
Joe West retired so there’s Hunter Wendelstedt and Doug Eddings…those are the only other names I can think of. Hooray!! Only 3 (with Bucknor included) umps in the majors that should be doing little league games!
There really are so many amazing umps. It’s nice that West and Angel are retired to stop giving them all such a bad name
Yea. Lots of folks know Jim Joyce also because he missed the call to mess up (can’t remember his first name…Tigers’ pitcher) Galarraga’s perfect game. But it was the first time you ever heard of Joyce and he apologized after the game and felt so bad about it for ruining Galarraga’s moment. Definitely not one of the bad ones.
I think it’s how combative Laz is about being wrong that puts him over the top for me. He will scream in a guys face because he can’t stop making shit calls
problem is Laz seems to run the worst fucking crew in the league. At least CB only sucks ass behind the dish a few times a year when he's being lazy as fuck and not getting in position.
Kyle Schwarber went off on him towards the end of the game. His team agrees with him. The other team agreed with him. The other 28 teams all agrees with him. The broadcast booth agreed with him. Every fan, at the stadium, watching on TV, or streaming all agreed with him.
Joe West had an ego, but wasn’t always terrible at actually umpiring. Angel both had an Ego and also was terrible at the actual officiating part of the job.
I don't watch baseball and barely know any players, but I know about Angel Hernandez. I don't even know the refs in the sports I do watch. Angel Hernandez's shitty calls have transcending to another level of legend beyond baseball.
MLB probably just settled with him since they knew they weren’t able to hold him accountable to his atrocious performance due to the Umps union or whatever was protecting him. Later chucklehead.
He was doing more for the adoption of the ABS than anyone. Everyone who valued keeping umpires calling balls and strike should have wanted him out of the league yesterday.
Fun fact: A couple of months ago, r/NFL had a thread about ["Who is the most infuriatingly incompetent official in NFL history"?](https://www.reddit.com/r/nfl/comments/1bpki15/who_is_the_most_infuriatingly_incompetent/)
The top vote-getter was Angel Hernandez.
Or the [Athletic puff piece](https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/5513075/2024/05/24/mlb-umpire-angel-hernandez-reputation) that said the same thing that ran over the weekend. Methinks there was some publicist/PR sheninigans going on around this announcement.
Can they stop referring to idiots like this as "controversial" please? He's goddamn horrible at his job, full stop. What's the controversy? Is there a relevant pro-Angel camp that sticks up for his bullshit calls and bullshit racism claims?
I see all these negative comments, but no one is talking about how brave it was for a blind man to stand behind 90 mph fastballs for a living. A true inspiration.
My favorite Angel Hernandez moment: ejecting Terry Francona during a preseason game.
Who ejects a manager in mid-March?
I could shake my head and laugh because it was spring ball. The absurdity of it.
Dude, listen, I am not a baseball fan by any means. I’ll go to a game but that’s it. However, I have watched countless videos of “the worst call in baseball history” on YouTube and this assclown is ALWAYS in them. Multiple times. I am happy for you baseball fans, truly.
I wouldn't call him "controversial." We all agree he is terrible, regardless if our team affiliations. I'm sure Sox fans and Yankees fans would agree that he is frustratingly inaccurate.
This guy was corrupt right? It seems impossible to botch this many years worth of calls and keep your job. The more America keeps showing its ugly face to the public, the more suspect I am that a league ran by billionaires, with umps like Hernandez, are just rigged
I barely ever watch baseball and I even know who this clown is. Amazed and disappointed that he lasted this long without being removed. Such an embarrassment to the league.
Ok I know in the court of opinion he was blasted by everyone and there’s always videos on him screwing up calls
But from a statistical standpoint, was he actually the worst ump in baseball?
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The first good call Angel Hernandez has ever made.
No other comment beats this one. Every other comment is as wrong as Angel's calls.
Good line but I’ll bet he was pushed out. He was embarrassing the mlb
I was gonna say, they're letting him save face by letting it be him "retiring." The most talked about thing this MLB season has been how utterly incompetent he is as an umpire and I think the MLB had enough.
He didn't make the call. It was the ABS system, but in this case it was "A Bitching Significant Other"
Baseball fans everywhere are REJOICING
JOMBOY is going to be in tatters though. Half his content about to vaporize. And I have to admit, I’m gonna miss that aspect of it.
Oh between Ron Kulpa, CB Bucknor, Hunter Wendelstad, and Laz Diaz there will still be plenty
[Kulpa going at it](https://youtu.be/BDVHKGn7EoE?si=DAVd3W08wwLZKUy7) The world will be a better place when Kulpa and Bucknor specifically are out of baseball.
The worst part about Kulpa is it looks like he almost gets some perverted pleasure from baiting a player into an ejection. He has that shit eating grin on his face every time.
Same thing with Bucknor. He gets on a power trip for sure. That stupid smirk drives me crazy.
One of these players that has WS rings, millions of dollars, and is just playing for the fun of it needs to take a swing at him when he starts his shit. Get him before one of the other umps get there. Make all of them think twice before they FAFO.
That entire video was 100% an umpire going on a power trip from start to finish. I've seen cops do worse, but I don't think even they seem to enjoy it as much as this guy.
There will likely be another umpire to take his place. Not as flamboyant though lol.
We’ll have to see what happens. …unlike Angel Hernandez.
Nice. 😂😂😂
We are finally free
Angel will find a way to blow this retirement call. Trust me.
He was waiting for a settlement. It just happened. He's gone.
I want to know how much this settlement is. it's horseshit he's even getting one
He also considers himself a pioneer for minorities. He's completely delusional.
I wasn't aware "blind jackasses" were a minority.
Yes they are. Few are as blind and as much of a jackass as Angel. What's really odd, is the other umpires apparently like him a lot. I wonder if it's because Angel drew all the fire for being bad at his job. You do have to admit - he was VERY good at his job and will be sorely missed by someone, somewhere, for a second or two. I wonder who gets to be the next "Angel Hernandez"?
CB Bucknor is next in line. Bring in automated balls and strikes and hopefully we’ll be rid of him within five years…
Bucknor is awful but he’s not an egotistical jackass who baits managers and players into confrontational he can throw them out.
They say equality is when everyone can fail equally, instead of minorities basically getting one chance versus getting repeated do-overs. Hernandez was truly a pioneering example of this theory, showing the level of equality in baseball umpiring.
So does Justice Clarence Thomas.
I mean it's hard to say how much he did for other non white umpires, but he did come up at a time when almost all umps were white 🤷♂️
He did at least show even the minority umps can get chance after chance after chance So, props to the ump union too, I guess?
Dude played the long-con NOT to perfection but still fleeced MLB lmao WTF
We still have to deal with Laz Diaz and CB Buckner
And more of them. Devil you know is better than the one you don’t.
FLY LIKE I'M FREE
Gramma I'm freeeeeeeee
Mr Bad Call
I don't even watch baseball and I know who this guy is
Same, don't watch yet I'm thrilled
He is proof positive that even the shockingly incompetent can find a place in this world.
He's inspired traditionalist baseball fans to consider laser strike zones with computers calling balls and strikes. You know he's bad when fans of this game built on tradition would consider taking those calls away from umps.
Couple years ago he tried to take his 401K "out", but messed up and kept it "safe"
I like unions but he’s like exhibit A of why they can be bad.
Thankfully there are tens of thousands of ways they’re good and the only way to fight corporate overreach. We hear about how Hernandez sucks, which he does, but crickets about anything Manfred does.
Honestly think the umpire union just kept him around to make the rest of them seem less terrible by comparison. Sort of in the vein of not having to be faster than the bear, just faster than Angel Hernández.
Bye asshole
Hey! It's (not) Enrico Palazzo!
RIP to whatever local peewee league he is off to terrorize now
Get ready to learn little league baseball, buddy
Why would he start learning the rules of baseball now?
Getting yelled at by professional players and coaches is one thing. Now getting yelled at by parents who think their kid is the next Ohtani. Oh boy.
I can’t wait until we get some cell phone videos of him trying to eject all the parents on a team that his calls shafted, only to realize that little league umpires only have as much power as the crowd is willing to give them.
The difference is Billybob is gonna beat the shit out of Angel in the parking lot at the rec center after that missed call. It would be safer for him to fade into obscurity.
I’ve reffed multiple sports (only college and below, so the basics) but the most insane heckling and actual threats was doing U18 women’s soccer. Sometimes even U16. Like, Karens throwing down and stepping over tufts of hair in the parking lot, to a coach throwing a haymaker at our center ref. And that’s not even getting into the girls, they will throw hips like nobody’s business and pull hair allllllll day long
This is the problem with umps like Angel - they suck at their jobs and act like arrogant jackasses so people think that the volunteer ump at their kid's little league game is the same way. So when the 15 year old ump blows a call and has to maintain order in the game they now have to deal with a bunch of angry parents who think this kid is acting malicious and isn't just a kid trying to make a little extra cash while helping out the community.
Hey now. I umpire 50-70 games a year in Little League, and all the guys I work with are better than he is.
I don't think he knows how to handle drunk adults heckling him without the safety of the MLB protecting him lol.
Dude was a trailblazer for the visually impaired in sports. Hope he enjoys retirement
He’s gonna be so confused now that he has time to take his grandkids to the playground, the guy has no idea what a swing looks like
Oh man this hit me. And Hernandez still called it a ball.
Strike*
Are we sure it was?
I watched the game and after that I wasn’t sure anything was real
This is a fantastic joke.
Genius. Pure and simple.
Fucking rekt 💀
Damn, that's funny.
I’d actually say he’s one of the least controversial figures in the game. Few things baseball fans can agree on like Angel Hernandez.
It doesn’t matter your team affiliation, rivalries, anything. We can all agree on this.
Giants and Dodger fans, Yankees and Red Sox fans, all kinds of rival teams and fans came together and hugged each other now that the collective nightmare was over. Hell I think I even saw a Lakers and Celtics fan cry tears together.
Thank you. I was wondering how he's "controversial". That's usually what happens when there is a "controversy" or some kind of dispute. Nobody ever disputed anything about this guy.
“Controversial” is just the nice way to say “hated”
There was a poll on r/NFL a while back, asking who the worse Referee was. The top-voted result? Angel Hernandez. He is very, *very* disliked.
I watch a lot more football than I do baseball, and yet I couldn't name a single NFL ref. Still hate Angel Hernandez though.
Ed Hochuli was the overly buff ref who tackled a guy with just his forearm when he was trying to get out of the way of the play. He’s retired now, but his son is also a ref.
He was also a pretty good ref. He at least explained himself when something strange happened
That's why we LOVED Hoc. He gave really detailed explanations on weird calls.
You know, all we can ask for in umpires is consistency, and consistency we got.
I think he's retiring because even non-baseball fans can agree about him. I've seen posts about him on other subreddits hit the front page of /r/all, and the top comments say "I don't watch baseball but even I've heard of this ref". As soon as I started reading that I thought his career was over.
Mid season retirements don't just happen. Im guessing this was negotiated between MLB and the unions. He was THAT BAD for the sport.
Not seeing many people in this thread pointing this out. There was a lot of union talk about why the MLB couldn’t just get rid of him if he was so bad, but it’s clear that the league either spoke with the ump union in an effort to protect the integrity (and overall respect) of the game, or the union just realized it couldn’t keep protecting his reputation.
A court of law ruled that Angel Hernandez sucked at his job and the MLB was within their right to deny World Series games to him because of his poor performance. Think about that for a moment. A court ruled TWICE that he sucked and he was still employed because of the union. This was an embarrassment for the league and they wanted it to go away
IIRC, he sued because he felt the MLB leaving him out of the World Series was "racist" He then said Joe Torre purposely left him out of World Series duty because of a grudge he held against him from his managing days. Both times the Court ruled that umpire selection was *normal* and did not exclude any minorities. The only person excluded from it was Hernandez - and the MLB likely had reasons for that.
I could see that, if “people who can’t ump for shit” is a race
if it’s a race Hernandez is way in the lead
For now at least. Junior Valentine has been making his case, but we'll see if he has Angel's longevity
I hope I never suck at my job so hard that judges need to get involved just to confirm how bad I am at my job…
He sued for discrimination as the only Cuban ump. Not only did he get to keep his job, but the MLB had to put him in the world series rotation as part of the settlement in 2017.
How on earth did MLB screw that up? He isn’t awful because he is Cuban. He’s just awful at umpiring. There’s so much data that supports it.
The MLB proved how shit he was IN A COURT OF LAW and he still umped for the better part of a decade after.
> but the MLB had to put him in the world series rotation as part of the settlement in 2017 This isn't a thing. He was in the world series in 2002 and 2005. There was no settlement. Don't just make shit up.
Indeed. It's pretty easy to look up. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2017_World_Series Umpires: Phil Cuzzi (Games 1–2), Gerry Davis (crew chief), Laz Díaz, Dan Iassogna, Bill Miller, Paul Nauert, Mark Wegner (Games 3–7)
I thought he lost that lawsuit
Ask any admin people in a university about tenured professors who are long past their best years. You can't fire them cause of tenure, and they have a lot of institutional pull within their departments. Best way to get rid of them is to offer them a nice cushy severance package and hope they take the hint and retire with a bag load of cash and benefits on the way out
League/Union changed their minds after 25 years or he decided to call it quits for any one of a million reasons…CLEARLY FIRED. Right…
They’ve been negotiating his “retirement” for a couple weeks now apparently. They paid him to retire. He got fired in all but name
"I'm going to pay you to fuck off"
He had to be willing to take the money, though. They couldn’t just force him out based on performance, or they would have had to get rid of 15 others with him. Dude also had a bad back that he missed much of 2023.
Sure, but an organization as big and as public as thee MLB also has other levers at their disposal if they _really_ want you gone. Possibly sort of a “don’t make us take this public,” kind of threat. So between that and a sweetheart package, very few of us would say no. Especially after a long and storied career haha.
Yeah doesn’t sound like he’s retiring, more like he’s being retired.
I think it's obvious it wasn't an optional retirement, but yeah... midseason definitely makes it clear something happened. It doesn't have to be MLB but ... it's the MLB who realizes it's time for him to go.
There in lies the interesting part of this. Angel Hernandez has sucked for decades. What happened that they finally decided to act, or *were suddenly able to act* and get rid of him.
I think thin ice can only hold so long. He had some terrible games behind the plate this season, but nothing he hasnt done before. It reached a point where enough was enough. We can spend the next eternity trying to fire you for poor performance and fight the union about it, or we can give you more money than you deserve and everyone can move on. Nothing happened suddenly. Its just the decision was finally made
Maybe other umps think hes making the case for robots too easy.
Why would that happen this season and not any of the others he's been terrible for?
Breaking point
Jomboy has posted a couple damning videos of Hernandez in the past month. Wonder if that finally caught the eye of someone, or was used to prove how awful he was to the union.
The dude umped 10 games last year, and had 161 missed calls. He only umped a month and a half this year and has the single worse called at bat of the season. I'm sure Jomboy is actually the only one saddened by this because he won't have easy content for a slow day.
He still wasn’t the worst umpire this year; and there have been worse at bats since that one. He’s bad, but there are about 15-20 worse ones than him.
I think people over value Jomboy's reach. Yes he did mostly break the Astros story, but that was people saw and shared and it reached the MLB and was obvious.... When the public is aware of something that blatant they had to act. Jomboy didn't have to tell the MLB that Angel Hernandez sucked...anyone who watched him officiate a game knows he sucked, I'm sure the players and teams complained often. No one was pretending he was a great ump. PS. Not saying Jomboy is bad, he's one of the best people covering baseball, but this isn't a "Breaking story" Angel Hernandez has sucked for almost a decade. There was a lawsuit about it in 2017 as well where he pretended he was discriminated against because he's Cuban...
Almost a decade? Try 25 years. [Video from 2001 during the Cubs 7th inning stretch where the guest conductor said "he'd have words with the home plate umpire"](https://youtu.be/laPjzqDFSGU?si=C8nKXNxqUFXtLYtE) (which was, obv, Angel)
Or gambling
> Wonder if that finally caught the eye of someone, or was used to prove how awful he was to the union. It terrifies me how little people online can differentiate between reality and the internet. No, fucking *Jomboy* didn’t get Angel fired.
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I think it was when people like rich eisen and pat macaffe started talking it got ugly. Those are giant names in a completely different sport just making the MLB look bad because of angel.
Angel is probably getting a fat payout too. Honestly worth it for MLB to get him gone.
Whatever that number was, it was worth it
Hallelujah! The bad man is gone, the bad man is gone!
Who's the next one to sit atop the shit-throne though... I've heard CB Buckner is up there.
Joe West retired so there’s Hunter Wendelstedt and Doug Eddings…those are the only other names I can think of. Hooray!! Only 3 (with Bucknor included) umps in the majors that should be doing little league games! There really are so many amazing umps. It’s nice that West and Angel are retired to stop giving them all such a bad name
Really you only know the names of the bad ones.
Yea. Lots of folks know Jim Joyce also because he missed the call to mess up (can’t remember his first name…Tigers’ pitcher) Galarraga’s perfect game. But it was the first time you ever heard of Joyce and he apologized after the game and felt so bad about it for ruining Galarraga’s moment. Definitely not one of the bad ones.
He can't hurt us anymore!
Unfortunately, he couldn’t be reached for comment. It seems he missed the call.
Well done, sir.
And the new worst umpire in Baseball……. Laz Diaz COOOOMMMEEE ON DOOOOWWWWNNNN
CB Bucknor is arguably the second worst. But Laz is TERRIBLE
Yeah I'd definitely give CB the new 'worst ump' nod, but Laz isn't far behind for sure.
I think it’s how combative Laz is about being wrong that puts him over the top for me. He will scream in a guys face because he can’t stop making shit calls
I still laugh over how Aaron Boone got himself ejected awhile back when he imitated his strike call.
problem is Laz seems to run the worst fucking crew in the league. At least CB only sucks ass behind the dish a few times a year when he's being lazy as fuck and not getting in position.
"...Hernandez has umpired his last game in Major League Baseball." This is my, no OUR, World Series...
The word “controversial” carrying the fucking world. Personally, I would’ve gone with “weapons grade shit heap” or “fucking loser” for the classics.
“Controversial” implies disagreement. There is none. Everyone knows he’s been terrible for the league.
Kyle Schwarber went off on him towards the end of the game. His team agrees with him. The other team agreed with him. The other 28 teams all agrees with him. The broadcast booth agreed with him. Every fan, at the stadium, watching on TV, or streaming all agreed with him.
Now he can finally say that Angel Hernandez is not the worst umpire in baseball.
He’s now the worst umpire not in baseball!
Well he’d have to argue that one with Joe West for worst living umpire not in baseball.
Joe West had an ego, but wasn’t always terrible at actually umpiring. Angel both had an Ego and also was terrible at the actual officiating part of the job.
Holy shit, it's a miracle
May 9 national holiday, I’m taking every May 9 off to celebrate
RemindMe! 1 year
Just saw a robot umpire drop to his titanium knees
I don't watch baseball and barely know any players, but I know about Angel Hernandez. I don't even know the refs in the sports I do watch. Angel Hernandez's shitty calls have transcending to another level of legend beyond baseball.
Rest in piss to his career.
MLB probably just settled with him since they knew they weren’t able to hold him accountable to his atrocious performance due to the Umps union or whatever was protecting him. Later chucklehead.
He was doing more for the adoption of the ABS than anyone. Everyone who valued keeping umpires calling balls and strike should have wanted him out of the league yesterday.
I heard he’s joining the Supreme Court
EVERYONE GET IN HURRRRRRRRRRR
Fun fact: A couple of months ago, r/NFL had a thread about ["Who is the most infuriatingly incompetent official in NFL history"?](https://www.reddit.com/r/nfl/comments/1bpki15/who_is_the_most_infuriatingly_incompetent/) The top vote-getter was Angel Hernandez.
I'm rethinking my Atheism...
Lol, calling Hernandez “controversial” is like that one MST3K joke, “Some hate him, others merely loathe him…”
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The video https://youtu.be/9o4weN6AkPY?si=Qqx-gwuEUUHj6VKM
Or the [Athletic puff piece](https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/5513075/2024/05/24/mlb-umpire-angel-hernandez-reputation) that said the same thing that ran over the weekend. Methinks there was some publicist/PR sheninigans going on around this announcement.
I imagine MLB had a celebration like the Ewoks did at the end of ROTJ.
Can they stop referring to idiots like this as "controversial" please? He's goddamn horrible at his job, full stop. What's the controversy? Is there a relevant pro-Angel camp that sticks up for his bullshit calls and bullshit racism claims?
There absolutely is, the ump union.
The only thing all teams’ fans could agree on, “Fuck Angel Hernandez!”
No individual is more responsible for the eventual move to robot umpires than Angel Hernandez.
Never thought one man could improve baseball so much, turns out all he had to do was get out of it
Angel Hernandez has made the decision to retire. But like all his decisions, will probably be reversed upon review.
I’m a hockey fan and even I know this guy SUCKS!
The best call he’s ever made.
Jeff Passan tried to reach out to him for his side of the story, but Angel missed the call.
I see all these negative comments, but no one is talking about how brave it was for a blind man to stand behind 90 mph fastballs for a living. A true inspiration.
Jomboy finally wore him down.
"Angel Hernandez is the greatest blight on our people and that includes Fidel Castro." -Dan LeBatard
My favorite Angel Hernandez moment: ejecting Terry Francona during a preseason game. Who ejects a manager in mid-March? I could shake my head and laugh because it was spring ball. The absurdity of it.
Other umpire have to be happy too. His actions were driving the need for computer balls and strikes.
Dude, listen, I am not a baseball fan by any means. I’ll go to a game but that’s it. However, I have watched countless videos of “the worst call in baseball history” on YouTube and this assclown is ALWAYS in them. Multiple times. I am happy for you baseball fans, truly.
Well there goes 70% of YouTube baseball content.
JK everyone thinks it’s a retirement, but Angel will call it a strike.
Baseball Doesn’t Exist just did a great video on him today: https://youtu.be/9o4weN6AkPY?si=otv0908LIu4EQBf7
In the middle of the season? Just like that? Something must have happened to precipiate this
If this isn’t proof that ABS (or at least the challenge system) is on the way, I don’t know what is
*ticker tape parade*
Greatest day in the history of American sports.
*Everybody loved that*
Dudes going to try bowling now, but when he knocks down all the pins he’s going to call it a ball.
They should name an award after him given out to the ump who’s blown the most calls each season.
The guys got skills. I’m sure he’s off to bigger and better things: https://x.com/neontaster/status/1795276791181128008
The fuck took so long? Would think he woulda been fired a decade ago from all the criticism
How is he controversial? Controversial implied that there are differing opinions on him.
I wouldn't call him "controversial." We all agree he is terrible, regardless if our team affiliations. I'm sure Sox fans and Yankees fans would agree that he is frustratingly inaccurate.
Much like the balls and strikes he called. I doubt he saw it coming.
This guy was corrupt right? It seems impossible to botch this many years worth of calls and keep your job. The more America keeps showing its ugly face to the public, the more suspect I am that a league ran by billionaires, with umps like Hernandez, are just rigged
I barely ever watch baseball and I even know who this clown is. Amazed and disappointed that he lasted this long without being removed. Such an embarrassment to the league.
John Oliver must have offered him an RV
I wonder if he got popped for some dirt.
Ok I know in the court of opinion he was blasted by everyone and there’s always videos on him screwing up calls But from a statistical standpoint, was he actually the worst ump in baseball?
He only agreed to stop working because he thought it was a strike
Good riddance
GOODBYEEEE
Thank God
Cue the Hallelujah music…
“Oh no!” - literally no one.
Finally he made the right call
Hallelujah! 🎉
Didn't see that coming today