Rich Eisen on MLB’s Angel Hernandez Problem (and other Baseball Maladies) | The Rich Eisen Show
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- Rich Eisen weighs in on yet another controversial game in MLB due to Angel Hernandez calling balls and strikes behind the plate that let to an EPIC meltdown by Phillies slugger Kyle Schwarber.
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Imagine buying a ticket to a game and then finding out that Ángel is the home plate ump. Refund please.
Image having playoff series tickets, no matter the series, and see him come out. It is worse.
I did, I almost walked out as soon as his name was announced
Brewers fan who benefited from that last pitch, but jesus christ the guy is bad. I've never talked/yelled to my tv so much, and it didn't matter which team he called it for. Just.....bad.
Having Hernandez calling balls and strikes is like hiring an illiterate teacher to teach kids to read. He's that bad at his job.
This was me watching the Giants and Dodgers in the NLDS last year. Angel was the home plate umpire😭
I look at it from the opposite side. You might be one of the lucky few who get to see, live and in person, a player finally have enough and punch him in the throat.
When the best part of the game was Schwarber telling off the ump and the entire audience agreeing....you know you got yourself a problem.
You'll get your moneys worth seeing a player and manager get ejected for blowing up at him at least
@@23jakesmith23 girardi himself did not get ejected
Schwarber better becareful otherwise Angel Hernandez might sue him! 🤭
More like the entire country...
Not even just that. The entire opposing team agreeing lol
Love the Jomboy shoutout. Glad how in baseball he is now
The YES Network has partnered with Jomboy to produce exclusive Yankees content. So yeah he's in the circle now. Good for him.
He's that damn good
Jomboy is a liar and a Yankees hack
Jimmy grinding until he made it, it feels right having a true Yankees fan doing the work
The breakdown of the Astros cheating helped his channel grow.
The Union HAS to do something about Angel Hernandez. Its an absolute travesty. Its literally destroying any credibility the league has left.
MLB could go about it, but they're too lazy to document it. If they can't do it in a huff, they don't want to put in the effort.
MLB were just too lazy over the previous years to get rid of him. The union just means he has protection against spurious firing. Hernandez has done more than enough to warrant getting fired, MLB would just need to prove it, which they seem unwilling to do
Thats the problem with unions. Sure it can protect you from unjust treatment...but also protects the garbage employees that should have been fired years ago.
@@Posirep Im fiercely pro union but this is getting so bad thats its even spilling out beyond a mlb issue, beyond like a computerized strike zone. Its perhaps turning into a political one as you mentioned and thats not what the sport wants or needs.
Pretty sure letting the astros cheat to a World Series already did that.
Never forget Angel sued the MLB for discrimination and in a court of law, MLB's answer was "no we dont let him work the World Series bc he is bad at his job". (paraphrased)
I can believe he lost that lawsuit...you just can't discriminate against blind people like that. 🙈🙈🙈
@@JimmyJinIA LOL 🤣
I'm pretty sure what they specifically said was, "we don't put him in the World Series cause he doesn't consistently make good calls". So i do agree with you, they literally said "he's not good at his job" in the nicest way they possibly could lol
I’m changing my name to make bs lawsuits like that, I’ve had enough of this bs
@@JimmyJinIA I've seeen this joke a dozen times, cracked it myself, and it will never stop being funny.
Angel Hernandez situation reminds me of George Costanza trying to get fired from the Yankees. No matter what he does he won’t get fired!
That's a great comparison LOL
Or Stroker Ace!
Perfect comparison!!!🤣🤣
BRO, so fucking true! the Babe Ruth jersey scene lmaooooooo
Oh yeah, well the jerk store called...... :D
"54 outs, and almost half were strikeouts"
"26 strikeouts, and almost half were strikes"
Angel can’t do anything to be fired, every time I think a game will be the final straw, it’s two years later and we are still doing the same crap.
He is basically unfireable because of the umpires' union. The terms of their collective bargaining agreement with the MLB aren't publicly available but I'd bet the only way the MLB can outright fire an ump is if they do something unbelievably egregious like punching a player or groping a fan. I do wonder though if the MLB can mandate that he isn't allowed to call balls and strikes anymore and can only umpire in the field.
@@mastod0n1 I believe the last Ump to be fired was like 12 years ago. And he failed multiple drug tests over several years before finally being released.
and he's got the minority thing going too so he's definitely not getting fired.
@@mastod0n1 The MLB even said he's bad at his job
@@MChuck- technically they didn't outright say that. They just said he wasn't good enough to be a crew chief or work the World Series and that it had nothing to do with discrimination.
When teams find out AH is going to be umping their series have both teams refuse to take the field until he is removed.
Solid idea.
Spread the word!
Word! That guy AH sucks!
My thoughts exactly
@@kenhasibar2624 boycott all angel hernandez games
I remember I went to a Red Sox-Braves game last year. When they were announcing umpires for the game, they had introduced Angel Hernandez and this WAVE of Boos came from all around the stadium. If that wasn’t a sign, this certainly has to be. It’s hurting the great sport of baseball
Same happened at this game. I was part of the boos
The fact that this guy is a household name among baseball fans should be embarrassing to MLB.
Well put. The one person you DON'T want to be thinking about in a baseball game is the ump.
No doubt I’m a casual baseball fan at best and I know him and joe west and that should speak volumes
I know all about AH and I haven't watched more than a few innings of baseball in twenty years.
I'll go you one better..
I'm Australian with a mere passing interest in Baseball and know who the guy is and why he's hated.
I'll never complain about missed calls in our codes again. The guy is an absolute joke.
Him and Joe west.
Vince McMahon will one day end up hiring Angel Hernandez. I can picture the villain referee gimmick already 😳
As long as he doesn't have to work hard and gets to enjoy power trips, seems like dude would be all over that gig.
Yesssss 🤣🤣🤣
How do the lawyers of MLB do such a good job of beating down the MLBPA, yet cower in fear when negotiating with the umpires union. There needs to be some sort of accountability.
Hell, replacement umps might actually be better because they could take it as an audition for the big league and actually try
Maybe, anyway
@@joekaput747 After the NFL replacement referee fiasco of 2012 no sports league will ever dare try that again. Guys who are bad at their job like Hernandez know that and that's why they know they are untouchable. Bad for the game.
Rumor has it that they try to get in touch with Angel to discuss this but he always seems to miss the calls
@@walterlv01 at what point does the mlb start introducing robots in some minor league ?
@@RD-wg9em They did. The Atlantic League. And then they ditched them after two years--they announced this in January.
For years I've had these discussions with friends & fellow umpires -- MLB has to - MUST DO - something to bring up the quality AAA umpires and get rid of the lousy umpires like Angel, Joe West in his last few years & many others. Union protecting umpires from unfair practices is one thing but when you suck - it's time to get fired if you won't retire! For every Angel there are 10 guys in AAA deserving of a real shot - not just as a fill in - in the majors!! MLB does a major disservice to its fans when this is allowed to continue! Union be damned!
Joe West is retired. He retired at the end of last season. I will say this though, I always enjoyed it when West and somebody got into a staring contest. It didn't matter who was right, it was something I found entertaining. I never knew why, and I still don't know why I enjoyed it, but I did.
MLB doesn't like him... They have a union that protects him.
Joe West was a huge douche...Angel is somehow worse.
Agreed. Like Rich said though, these guys are like Supreme Court Justices. Impossible to remove from the job. Umpires should have to take a fitness exam every year and meet high standards and criteria when it comes to mobility, vision and judgement, no doubt.
@@tankeater That’s a cop-out. The League could remove him if they cared enough.
The irony here is that apparently Angel Hernandez's BEST DAY was the day his mother named him. It's all been downhill ever since.
Savage 😂
Angel Hernandez + all these rules = unwatchable. Well said 👏👏
two things: when MLB did its own deep dive review of HP calls (2018), result: 21% of calls were wrong. that's one out of every 5 calls. that is simply unacceptable! second, Hernandez is ranked in the middle 50% among umps.
The worst part is Angel Hernandez isn’t the worst.
Where can a casual MLB fan find this info.
@@calikid05 EVAnalytics
Naah. MLB analysis is 97%+ accuracy.
Robert Davi reference was awesome. Unfortunately, we settled in. My mom's first MLB game. I told her something was going to happen and it did; we were not disappointed. It's like watching NASCAR; you're just waiting for Angel to cause a wreck. She goes, "Even I can see that was a ball." Today's fallout has been fun to watch.
I stopped watching baseball years ago and I still know this guy's name. Always some kind of stupid drama in baseball...
And there’s not stupid drama in football or basketball? You don’t have to like baseball, but it’s not the only one that has problems…
@@Cohdiboi I just prefer my sports to have guys that aren't so petty that they need to throw a baseball at somebody because they celebrated in a way that made all their feelings hurt.
@@kevinathans4191 not disagreeing that some baseball players are petty, but that’s not my point. Let’s not act like there aren’t examples of petty players in every sport.
I stopped watching most sports. I’ll still occasionally watch some NFL but the player’s salaries are to the point where it’s beyond ridiculous. Hundreds of millions for some players just to play a game. Our world is really screwed up
@@kevinathans4191 yep
Worst umpire/referee ever. Kyle Schwarber was speaking for both sides last night. He needs to go,
If a player has to speak for BOTH sides and call you out as the judge of the game, then there is a VERY SERIOUS issue. If you, as a ref, are hated more by the teams than the teams hate each other, then something is not right and the game starts to revolve around your decrees.
@@howardbaxter2514 so true. This guy, I wonder if he’s doing this by purpose. You wonder why he doesn’t work the World Series
Jomboy's breakdown of this game was awesome.
What I don't get is that if both teams know Angel is umping the plate, why not protest? Why not refuse to play the game until someone else is behind home plate and he's at an area where he can't affect the game that much like say 3rd/2nd base?
he shouldn't be able to call balls and strikes ever again. Make him a 3rd base ump, than when he makes a mistake, you can overturn it with replay.
1 Angel Hernandez is 1 too many Angel Hernandezes.
Normally, if a game has 26 Ks, 8 hits, and 1 run, you'd expect the game to at least feature some damn good defensive plays
Or, Nolan Ryan or Randy Johnson still pitching
Jomboy mentioned that Hernandez might just like fast games. He probably doesn't have the attention span
Instead it was dominated by one defensive umpire.
@Gaming Channel By Jaden yes
@Gaming Channel By Jaden pacific
Angel needs to retire from umpiring! He has caused so many problems over the years!
MLB should just give him 10x his salary to go away or something
Hernandez has the BALLS to sue the MLB claiming that they’re stifling his career. That they’re keeping him from umpiring during the playoffs and/or World Series. Dude can’t call obvious pitches 2 weeks into the regular season. THAT’S why he can’t get high profile games. He’s absolutely terrible and he’s a giant snowflake. It’s unfortunate that the union protects him from being fired which is what should have happened a long time ago.
When will baseball wake up and actually use technology to improve the game instead of using it to show us how bad they screw the players, fans, and game?
love the jomboy callout with the lip reading. I rushed to TH-cam when I saw he posted it
His lip reading his insane. He has earned the reputation.
When an umpire is drawing this much attention to himself, he’s doing it wrong
Imagine being Angel Hernandez and knowing you are literally a national joke. He's halfway to being a metaphor for blindness. Wow.
@Grumpy Gardener I was being nice, ok. Haha
Angel will deliver Roboumps to us and there will be much rejoicing.
Ooo he's an inside man for Manfred
Keep the umps down the baseline, hell even keep a guy behind the plate. Just have someone with a real strike zone in front of them call the game from a suite with a screen or something
There are two solutions. One catchers deliberately stop catching the ball when angel is behind the dish and end his career that way. Or two the MLBPA comes together and boycotts any game Angel is scheduled to work.
I knew that was a thing. It has to be lol. I feel like I’ve seen a catcher “reach” up high for a ball to miss it and “oops uh oh sorry ump”
I will take your 1st option thank you
Somebody could put a Louisville Slugger across the middle of face and that would solve it as well.
I wish I knew how Rich really felt...
Mistakes are one thing, consistent mistakes are another
Its been a few years since I've watched a game that angel has been behind the plate, I just don't tune in because I'm already mad before the game starts knowing he's gonna blow so many calls
They can't touch him he's unionized.
exactly
Anyone in the know is aware of how brutal Angel is. I have a personal interaction with him at a Jay's game. Not worth going into but it started with a tip of his cap to me and eventually ending with a typical brutal call. He was doing third that day.
THANK YOU! Particularly re: pitch clock and 3-true-outcome-ball.
I was at a Dodger game where Angel Hernandez was the home plate umpire. They announced his name as part of the umpire crew and the whole stadium booed him. He needs to go. He’s bad for the game.
When Joe West retired, I was like, "1 down, 1 to go." If you know a ref or umpire name, they probably suck at their job.
Angel is the wurst, but more than half of the umpires in the league should not be there.
Joe stuck around for ~40(?) years, so we are in for another 20 years of incompetence
Not just Hernandez. CB Bucknor has to go too. As for you only know the names of bad umpires, that's not entirely true. Eric Greg, Dutch Rennert, Paul Runge, Bruce Froemming(he blowing a call in the 1977 NLCS not withstanding), John McSherry, and my good friend Vic Voltaggio were all superb umpires. Yes they made mistakes but everyone does but overall they were excellent at their craft.
2:15 The dudes been an ump for so long and he's still not even a crew chief. He attempted to sue the MLB over this saying it was discrimination, but lost the lawsuit with the MLB saying that he is so unbelievably bad that that was why he couldn't be promoted and he shows it every game that he umps.
There has been is and will always be complaining about the aptitude of officiating in sports but this game and that man is the most pathetic thing I've seen in my 58 years of watching and participating in sports.
Rich says he didn't watch much of the game, neither did Angel.
People like Angel Hernandez are the exact reason why so many people despise unions.
What if Russia or China is paying Angel to ruin our baseball experience?
What if nobody is paying him to do THAT and he just hates us?
What's that quote? Something like "Don't attribute malice to something that can easily be explained by incompetence" Dude just bad at his job.
@@fouronetwo813 well then MLB is daring us to change the channel by not firing him
He's a drama queen. Calling strike three makes him feel empowered.
@@sparky92258 and not firing him makes them laugh at all us fans
The technology currently exists to take ball/strike calls out of the home plate umps hands and get it right 100% of the time. Let's go MLB, get it fixed.
First @levi_tv I hate that solution. Hate it, hate it, hate it, hate it, HATE IT. Second, it's time for it to happen.
@@davidhayden4743 I will miss the drama, but honestly I'd probably start watching more baseball if I knew the game was going to be more fair. It's like cheating scandals, spider tack, and umpires. And it seems like the MLB hasn't cared about any of them for years.
Better to do like tennis and have a challenge system. This way maybe Angel will get the message. But even that technology is not 100% right.
@@alexe1707 thats why its better to have both. Not just humans or just technology.
@@davidhayden4743 Why do you hate it? Why do people care how a strike/ball is called whether it's an ump or from cameras? Do the Umps calling it add any real value to the game?
I don't know how you can be this universally hated at how you do your job, and still show up to work every day.
Angel is wrecking the integrity of the game... Literally he is rigging the games. MLB needs to address this fast before more fans leave
Grew up a die hard baseball fan... played in HS, coached little league and pony league, used to go to at least 10 games a year and would watch it almost every night....
Now, I agree with Rich... it's totally unwatchable. Haven't watched a game in years
You were never a baseball fan.
City hall isn't asleep, and you can't wake someone up that is pretending to be asleep. There's no way they don't see it.
Mildly impressed when Rich names the actor Robert Davi from Die Hard.
No one would mind if he was at least consistent, but he was all over the place with his calls.
That's the problem. If you are at least consistently calling them high or low, while not great, if consistent, at least as a hitter you know what your working with. If it is changing from pitch to pitch, there is nothing you can do
Thats the point exactly! I know Hernandez is pretty much average when it comes to missing calls at the plate but his inconsistency is what kills it. I recall early in the season I watched a whitesox game and the ump whoever it was called like 5 balls in a row a strike, but its all in the same spot and he called that the entire game. The pitchers tried to exploit it but after a while the hitters adjusted, so it actually added a sprinkle of extra strategy and it wasn't unfair at all because he called that spot every time, in the exact same way.
I actually do kinda mind. It's either a ball or a strike, and the strike zone is defined for each hitter. Shouldn't be this hard.
Thank you, Rich! Speaking for all of us. Angel and other umps like him are the biggest problem in baseball.
Biggest problem is the lack of a salary cap but yes, Angel, Laz and CB Bucknor are a problem.
I saw the replay in the 9th inning and was thinking, "When is this game over"? 😀
This is so refreshing to hear from someone who has been talking sports for oh so long.
Imagine doing such a poor job as an ump that not even a full inning into a game both teams think you are totally incompetent
After Schwarber got tossed for arguing with Hernandez, Girardi came out and you could clearly read his lips saying "Angel, you HAVE to do better!" It wasn't like "Hey this is horseshit that pitch was outside" like most managers arguing with umpires. It was just a resigned "Angel, you suck at your job and we all know it."
@@Phyrre56 And that's the damnable statement of it all. As long as he umps, no one wins
I'd like to see moving ahead with the digitized strike zone and have the ump behind the plate in case of system failure and to act as supervisor and other calls, the tech is there, time for the old man to adopt it
Or.. hear me out.. we move to Blernsball!
My question is why didn't the MLB Players Association require his removal during CBA Negotiations? Also, did they address the needless ejections?
So Eisen thinks it’s okay as long as it’s not a national broadcast.
What I think is the most egregious aspect of this is Angel Herndnadez’s lack of accountability. He never apologizes despite a proven history of screwing up, and instead he deflects blame. The man’s ego is out of control. He can do no wrong in his own eyes and is so diluted by that reality. If he could acknowledge his mistakes and try to correct them, but he just doesn’t do that. He shouldn’t have a job anymore, but he’d probably sue for discrimination again if he were fired.
This is why teams should hold him accountable, and refuse to play if he is apart of the umpire crew.
He won’t be fired, because the Umps Association will block it, to defend one of their own, and I think I see Angel right here 💩. But I think a compromise should be made where if he is assigned to a series of games, he is not allowed, under any circumstances, to call balls and strikes from behind home plate
Nah man, Angel Hernandez can't even get out calls at first right He simply just needs to go. When literally everyone at the stadium and every fan of the sport is saying that he needs to fired, there is reason for it. and A lot of film to back up the claims. He sucks at his job. He can't call a proper strike zone, he flubs any close play at any base he's covering, he's just plain awful.
@@BrandenPaul2425 I’m not saying there is no reason to fire Angel. He should be. But the Umps Association most likely will not allow that, in order to protect their own
Hernandez has everyone in baseball terrified , he’s more then willing to play the race card ( and he has) if his performance is called into question.
Those uniforms are Dope. Lots of memories
Angel is the worst
Being a MLB Umpire is a great Union Job. No If Ands or Buts about it.
And apparently no real consequences for sucking at your job!
That's what I said...like city workers you can't fire them cause there union..there's no reason for umpires to be union..
I've never seen a game where both teams where laughing at calls from a uno behind the plate
Angel Hernandez and C.B. Buckner are the two most unintelligent umps in the entire world.
I love the game of baseball...or atleast i used to...but i honestly wonder at times, how it continues to exist today. You can easily take a 2 or 3 hour snooze sometimes, and still wake up in time to catch 8th & 9th inning...atleast 3/4 of the players in the league, now have batting averages hovering in low .200 range...which used to earn you a one-way ticket to AAA, now it's just normal. Both batters & pitchers seem to have some kind of cheating scandal every couple years...and it's all of our faults. Somewhere along the line here...fans, players, team management & sports media stopped caring about excellence, and started celebrating mediocrity...
Angel Hernandez is God's way of punishing us all for the Universal DH. God help us all....
Oh shove off with the Universal DH. Best thing baseball has done in years.
Passionately arguing against the madness of Angel hernandez gets a subscription every time.
Either implement electronic strikezone or prevent bad umps from working home plate.
Electronic strike zone, and timed pitches, will save the sport. Geriatric umpires that in no way are held responsible for their performance have ruined it thus far, and will continue to do so.
No, no timed pitches, then you're taking a strategy out of the game. People call it "boting" when what it really means is not paying attention to the game
he's simply doing the villain role.
Sportsfans can't hate the trashtro's since they all got dispersed, a WS ring and their vibrating cushions back. MLB's a joke, and AH takes the ire away from the cruddy, greedy owner bloc, insane ticket prices/parking, and questionable international recruiting practices that the Commish is happily being paid to not improve.
i looked up Angel Hernandez in the dictionary....and it said see .. Bad Umpire....so i look up Bad Umpire and there was a pic of Angel Hernandez
The fact that he thinks he's being discriminated against tells you everything you need to know
He's a narcissist
This is what unions bring you. No way to get rid of incompetent employees.
Robo-umps would fix the Angel problem. If MLB well not adopt Robo-umps, they should at least try them when Angel is behind the plate.
Time for the computer strike zone
You're making a great case for the robots calling balls and strikes.
🤣 I just watched Die Hard, that quote cracked me up, good one Rich 👍🏻
The Davi reference is a deep cut and I’m all for it.
Angel Hernandez needs to take a magical mystery tour of some very remote canyon in the Mojave.
maybe he is thinking "my lawsuit said i was a bad umpire. I WILL SHOW YOU A BAD UMPIRE"
I'm with this Reisen bloke.Why would anyone watch a baseball game.
From a cricket fan.
Home plate does not move. There are 3 slo-mo cameras aimed at it. There's literally no reason to have an old man with busted eyes try to figure out if a 100mph ball went over the plate. If he absolutely has to be involved; get him a chair, monitor, a controller and a live stream playback and he can see what everybody else can see. He can even raise little flags to indicate ball or strike. If tennis can do it, baseball can too.
They need to just "promote" Angel to a front office job and get him off the field.
Actually any game period televised or not.
I heard Jason Stark of The Athletic talking about this. He said that it was documented that Angel Hernandez got 23% of his calls behind the plate wrong this game. How many people working a normal job could get one quarter of the work they do wrong and still keep it?
::TV weatherman has entered the chat::
🤣🤣🤣🤣👍 we just cant have you doing your angel Hernández thing
I drive a semi for a living. The League keeping A. Hernandez is equivalent to me plowing through traffic and turning the truck over then my company puts me in a new truck tomorrow.
It's really hard to hit when you have no idea where the strike zone is
When he said "I wish I had Jomboy's lip-reading ability," for a second I thought he said Jon Bois.
Labor unions are a good idea to protect workers from unfair business practices. This should not include allowing the workers to suck at their job.
Love the Jon Bois shout out!! One of the best sports content creators out there IMO.
Can you post the Steve McMichael video singing to angel and telling him to meet him out back. Angel was so pissed. All stadiums should play the clip during angel games
That inside strike call to Segura was a fireable offense. Literally 4 baseballs off the plate.
Navaldez had one aiming at his eyes that was called strike 3. That what got me🤣
Why don't these umpires wear an earpiece with a 5th ump telling them that certain ball/strike calls were off. Then, maybe, they could correct their calls as the game progresses?
How can MLB NOT fire Hernandez?
I so badly miss Bam Bam and his passion for the game here in Chicago.