Anybody else see this about Tom Hallion?

[PinaMadness]

https://www.yahoo.com/sports/report-umpire-questioned-apparently-blocking-mets-celebration-003424773.html

 

I just posted this because this is less than a week removed from him tossing out Counsell.

[MrTPlush]

Two wrongd don’t make a right and Hallion is really making himself look bad these days. Looks terrible when you seem to have a beef with a player and might come off as bias against him. I’d assume this was to make sure he touched home and didn’t “trick” him like Frazier did to an umpire with the ball trick.

 

I didn’t hear about his little ball trick until this happened. What a pathetic baseball player honestly. To fall into the stands and pick up a rubber baseball is sad. Good way to ruin the game and ruin umpires trust when a player goes to make a great catch in the seats. Crud like that is going to make umpires call off any catch if the glove disappears even for a second.

[jerichoholicninja]

Looked like Hallion just wanted to be part of the jackpot. He really comes off as quite the turd though.

 

Not sure how anyone, other than fans of the other team, could have a problem with Frazier's "catch". When players dive into the stands like that we rarely have any idea if they actually held on to make the catch. Like many players before him, I'm sure Todd just felt for the ball and came out looking like he made the catch. He just never assumed the ball he grabbed wouldn't be the right one because, what are the chances that there would be another ball right where he went in to the stands?

[homer]

Hallion is ump-show personified. His strike three call is a joke.

[young guns]

I’d assume this was to make sure he touched home and didn’t “trick” him like Frazier did to an umpire with the ball trick.

Except he was literally standing on the plate.

 

I predict nothing will come of this.

[PinaMadness]

Hallion is ump-show personified. His strike three call is a joke.

I actually like it, but my stock on him as an umpire has fallen significantly.

[dlk9s]

I didn’t hear about his little ball trick until this happened. What a pathetic baseball player honestly. To fall into the stands and pick up a rubber baseball is sad. Good way to ruin the game and ruin umpires trust when a player goes to make a great catch in the seats. Crud like that is going to make umpires call off any catch if the glove disappears even for a second.

 

[dlk9s]

By the way, the video that auto-plays after the Frazier walk-off video above is cool (assuming it's about the former Make-A-Wish kid).

[DuWayne Steurer]

https://deadspin.com/sensitive-umpire-laz-diaz-turns-baseball-game-into-exte-1829082520

 

Laz Diaz did his sound best to pick a fight with Bryce Harper last night and make a baseball game between the Nats and Braves be all about Laz Diaz. These video clips are downright bizarre. At one point, Diaz stops play and goes out from behind the plate to yell at Harper clear out in centerfield.

[PinaMadness]

Have you ever noticed that the amount of narcissism by an umpire is directly proportional to the amount of their ineptitude?

[MrTPlush]

I’d assume this was to make sure he touched home and didn’t “trick” him like Frazier did to an umpire with the ball trick.

Except he was literally standing on the plate.

 

I predict nothing will come of this.

 

Right, he was trying to show up Frazier or make some statement for umpires.

[MrTPlush]

I didn’t hear about his little ball trick until this happened. What a pathetic baseball player honestly. To fall into the stands and pick up a rubber baseball is sad. Good way to ruin the game and ruin umpires trust when a player goes to make a great catch in the seats. Crud like that is going to make umpires call off any catch if the glove disappears even for a second.

 

 

Sorry if you don’t like my opinion.

[jerichoholicninja]

https://deadspin.com/sensitive-umpire-laz-diaz-turns-baseball-game-into-exte-1829082520

 

Laz Diaz did his sound best to pick a fight with Bryce Harper last night and make a baseball game between the Nats and Braves be all about Laz Diaz. These video clips are downright bizarre. At one point, Diaz stops play and goes out from behind the plate to yell at Harper clear out in centerfield.

 

How embarrassing. If Diaz receives no punishment (which I doubt he will), it's a joke. If you feel a player is showing you up, toss him. Don't stop the game to yell at him from 200 feet away and then yell at his manager to "go talk to him", and then stare him down and yell at him on his way back to the dugout, and then call a petty strike a foot off the plate. Major props to Harper and Dave Martinez for not loosing it. They had every right to.

[PinaMadness]

As long as umpires have a union, you will see more and more of this behavior and it will turn more and more malicious.

[phnxcrew]

How about Molina knocks out both these guys, and it solves everyone’s problems? I guess Soto on the nats could also join so we don’t have to see his antics again either.

[pacopete4]

As long as umpires have a union, you will see more and more of this behavior and it will turn more and more malicious.

 

[sarcasm]Yes, death to unions.[/sarcasm]

[TURBO]

yup, it's the union's fault...

[jerichoholicninja]

As long as umpires have a union, you will see more and more of this behavior and it will turn more and more malicious.

 

The players have a union and they get suspended for doing stupid stuff all the time. I don't know why having a union matters at all unless their contract explicitly states that MLB can't punish umpires for anything. I would never be in favor of suspending or punishing umpires for missing calls, besides a demotion to the minors with the opportunity to work their way back, but how MLB can just sit on their hands when you have umps acting like total unprofessional idiots boggles my mind.