Mom: What do you wanna be when you grow up? Me: An MLB umpire Mom: _drops me on my head again_ What do you wanna be when you grow up? Me: A FUREFUGHTER!!!
I wish someone would have told me as a teenager that baseball umpire is the best job ever. Suck at it, make terrible calls, throw guys out for being mad at you for making terrible calls, zero professional repercussions
"If you want to test a man's character, give him power." Literally no point in arguing with them, just seems to feed their egos. As a batter, I'd probably just point to where the ball was and hope that wasn't enough for an ejection (the pitcher staring down Joe West was probably as proper and effective a response as you can give). As a manager, I'd just roll my eyes and make the substitution while patiently waiting for the computers to replace them.
Mom: What do you wanna be when you grow up?
Me: An MLB umpire
Mom: _drops me on my head again_ What do you wanna be when you grow up?
Me: A FUREFUGHTER!!!
I wish someone would have told me as a teenager that baseball umpire is the best job ever. Suck at it, make terrible calls, throw guys out for being mad at you for making terrible calls, zero professional repercussions
And if you make it to the bigs you’ll make 300k.
"If you want to test a man's character, give him power."
Literally no point in arguing with them, just seems to feed their egos. As a batter, I'd probably just point to where the ball was and hope that wasn't enough for an ejection (the pitcher staring down Joe West was probably as proper and effective a response as you can give). As a manager, I'd just roll my eyes and make the substitution while patiently waiting for the computers to replace them.
When the pitcher is amazed at a called strike to the point he says “Wow!”, you know it was a bad call!
Angel Hernandez is without a doubt the worst Umpire I have seen in my 58 years of watching baseball! Thank God he is finally retiring!