Do we really have to do this after every loss? Yeah, we all heard to comment. The only thing you can do is keep playing.

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I'm good at what I do and I'll take the compliments of HS coaches over a bunch of internet heroes anyday.

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I bet a bunch of the coaches are just playing the "suck up" role. not that you don't do a good job and get genuine compliments, but I've seen lots of coaches talk one way in the dugout about an ump, then go out and act completely different when addressing him before/after games. Not that there's anything wrong trying to get blue on your side.

When an ump deliberately and knowingly calls a ball well off the plate a strike--and especially strike three--I don't see this any differently than a football official throwing a flag for an infraction he knows full well never happened.

When intentional, it's inexcusable.

And I'll go further than most and add that I really don't care if it's "consistent." It's a deliberate violation of the rulebook by the very person charged with enforcing the rules. It's never completely consistent, anyway.

If you go back and look at the graph, there are pitches at the exact same width off the plate called both balls and strikes.

A batter shouldn't have to swing at crap well off the plate because the umpire decides that he makes the rules.

(I'm 44 years old, and I literally get angry typing this stuff, so I'm laughing at myself now)

I did not read all this, just the beginning.

Umps should just bring thier own dman home plate to the game. Thats what they are doing anyway.

One protruding to the left, right, or big all around.

Heck, they might as well even switch them out between innings. Yeast can carry his own tu and vs. tu plate.

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Yeast can carry his own tu and vs. tu plate.

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so he only needs one?

I'm guessing the "vs tu" plate is pocket sized?

Whoah, whoah, whoah. I made the OP and then forgot about this thread. I had no idea it had gone on for days and for four pages of responses.

Man, I started this thread with the original post, not after the game to blame anything on the ump, but during the game, the very moment I heard the confrontational remark the ump directed at Juengel.

I'm not blaming the loss or any loss on any umpire. I honestly think we just kind of ran out of gas in Omaha. But the way that ump spoke to Juengel, especially knowing he was mic'd up, shows you a little bit about the attitude of at least that particular umpire behind the plate that day and it's not a favorable quality, for sure.

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But we umps have trouble giving too much credence to the opinions of those who have never umpired.

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All facts, and "I'll call what I want even if it's not really a strike because I'm the ump" type comments, aside, right?