I started officiating this year.
I hope as a 50+ year old man I am never this petty to a 2 year old kid!
https://www.si.com/.amp/extra-mustard/2023/03/11/college-baseball-umpire-suspended-strikeout-call
Being a ref or umpire is a thankless job, you can it right 99.9% of the time and when you don’t you’re a blind asshole. No thanks.
The third strike was definitely wrong and probably called because of the batters reaction to the second strike. The umpire retaliated and should be reprimanded.
When I saw the title of this thread I thought of this guy:
But, the guy mentioned in your article makes Hernandez look brilliant by comparison:
There are some jobs in which you aren’t allowed to be petty and ridiculous.
I worked in prisons for ten years, that is one of them.
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