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Tag Archives: Umpires

Late Night Loss

Okay, so here’s what happened, Dustin Pedroia flies out to Ichiro with Jacoby Ellsbury on third base. Ichiro rifles the ball back to the infield and Josh Bard tags Ellsbury out while Ellsbury practically wipes him out in the process. Bard rolls onto his back and the home plate umpire, standing directly over Bard’s body, [...]

Posted 14 August 2011 † Toeing the Rubber § 2011 ‡ Comments Off ° Also tagged: , , , ,

Droppings

A bunch of randomness… ~ The Jerry Meals call that ended the Pirates/Braves game last night was just really God-awful.  Meals admitting he blew the call does nothing to help the Pirates and I’m getting to the point where I don’t give the umpires “credit” any more for admitting they were wrong.  It was so [...]

Posted 27 July 2011 † Toeing the Rubber § 2011 ‡ Comments (4) ° Also tagged: , , , , , ,

Why can’t we be friends?

I’m not particularly proud of this, but last night when home plate umpire Tom Hallion bent over and didn’t upright himself until they walked him off the field, I had two thoughts.  The first was, “Man, I hope he’s all right” but the second (and longer) one was “Great.  Now we have to wait for [...]

Posted 02 September 2010 † Toeing the Rubber § 2010 ‡ Comments (3) ° Also tagged: , , , , ,