I know this happened last night and has been all over ESPN today but I have to comment on the ridiculous ending to the Pirates - Braves game from last night. If you didn't see it you're an idiot, but it ended in the 19th inning after something like 6 hours and 45 minutes with a play at the plate. Men were on 2nd and 3rd and some dude from the Braves hit a groundball to short, shortstop threw it home and the catcher tagged out the runner. I mean this wasn't a ball, plate, runner, all at the same time classic play at the plate. This dude Lugo, who I haven't seen since 1999, was approximately 10 feet from the plate when tagged out, he barely decided to slide. The guy even got up with his head down, like "damn that was pathetic I'm out, let's go to the 20th". But no he was called safe. Take a look for yourself...
Like my weekday softball league umpires are making bang-bang calls and these MLB umps are supposed to be the cream of the crop. I thought I saw it all when Jim Joyce blew the perfect game last year, but this year trumps it all, awful call after awful call, throwing out managers before they even make their way out on the field. These umps absolutely do not get it. I say clean house like during the umpire strike, just promote the AAA guys, new blood. Please before someone goes Wally Backman on these guys and delays the game one hour.
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