Tag Archives: umpires
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Viktor Troicki Has a Tennis Tirade for the Ages at the Rome Masters (Video)
Tennis tirades are fairly common. Unlike team sports, where responsibility for wins and losses is shared, in tennis all the pressure falls on one person. And, quite understandably, sometimes they buckle. That being said, some players have become legends for taking tirades to another level. John McEnroe is obviously the best example, and Serena Williams [...]
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Umpire John Hirschbeck Gets Hit in the Nuts by a Pitch. Again. (Video)
Poor MLB umpires. The only time they ever get an ovation from the crowd is after they get hit in the nuts by a fastball. Last night the Texas Rangers were in Anaheim taking on the Angels, and things unraveled pretty quickly for Angels starter Michael Roth, who was making his first career start. After [...]
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Umpire Balk! Bill Miller Goes to Punch Out Batter, then Changes Mind and Calls a Ball (Video)
Every baseball umpire worth his salt has a good punchout move that he busts out after a big strikeout. These little sprinkles of theatricality add character to the game, and pretty much everybody loves them—including the umpires themselves. Unfortunately, from time to time you’ll come across an umpire who loves doing his punchout move a [...]
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Rangers Beat the Rays Thanks to a Terrible Called Strike by Umpire Marty Foster on the Final Pitch of the Game (Video)
Well, that didn’t take long. Last night, on just the eighth day of the six-month baseball season, we got our first truly terrible call by an umpire. And the real kicker is that it ended a close game. Let me set it up for you. The Rays were in Arlington taking on the Rangers. The [...]
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Minor League Umpire Ejects Music Guy For Playing “Three Bling Mice” Over The PA (Video)
We told you earlier today how it’s been a tough year for baseball umpires, who have just been inundated with all kinds of nonsense that most of us never have to deal with at work. Well, it seems that at least one minor league baseball umpire had seen/heard enough. So the other day, when “Three [...]
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Carlos Lee Hit Umpire Joe West In The Head With His Bat (Video)
Is it just me, or have baseball umpires had it particularly rough this year? To recap, just this season alone, we’ve seen an umpire get hit in the head with a broken bat, punched in the face by Yorvit Torrealba, hit in the junk by a 96 mph Stephen Strasberg fastball, forced to tackle a [...]
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Wacko Little League Coach Goes Ballistic On Umpire, Gets Game Forfeited (Video)
If a Major League manager goes ballistic on an umpire during a game, the umpire can simply eject the guy knowing full well that he’ll leave the field (eventually) and the game will resume. Why? Because even when they’re pissed off, major league managers usually have a sense of professionalism. And if they don’t, there [...]
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Umpire Jerry Layne Hit In Head With Broken Bat (Video)
Has it seemed to you like there are a lot more broken bats in baseball lately? Well, you’re not crazy. These days, the majority of players have ditched old-fashioned ash bats in favor of lighter maple bats. Unfortunately, whereas the former were practically indestructible, the latter will shatter into a hundred pieces if you look [...]
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Watch Home Plate Umpire Derryl Cousins Trip Over Carlos Santana (Video)
Being a Major League umpire has got to be a hard job. Not only do you have to wear a ton of equipment out there under the hot sun in the middle of the summer, but pretty much everyone is just waiting to go off on you if you even come close to blowing a [...]
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15 Comical Umpire Punch-Outs (Videos)
Umpires aren’t supposed to grab headlines. When they do—like when Armando Galarrago was robbed of a perfect game, or when Brett Lawrie blew a gasket a few weeks back—it’s usually because they suck. However, every once in a while, an umpire grabs our attention because he is awesome. And usually, “being awesome” for an umpire [...]
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Check Out This Little League Umpire’s Awesome Punchout Move (Video)
Umpires have a tough, thankless job. They have to stay completely focused on every pitch while wearing 30 pounds of cumbersome padding, dealing with hecklers in the stands (and dugouts), and getting hit in the nuts by wild pitches. When they do their job poorly, they hear about it from everyone. But when they do [...]
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9 Awesome Baseball Manager Tirades We Will Never Forget
As Lou Piniella lays down his spikes this week and retires from the Cubs, he gives us a legacy to look back on unlike any other active manager. While much of his legacy takes the form of wins, losses, and pennants, there is another quality about Lou that we mustn’t ever forget: the ability to [...]
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Federer The Next Perpetrator Of Tennis Umpire Bashing
Total Pro Sports – In case you were busy last night watching two sadly failed upset attempts on Monday Night Football’s opening week double-header, you likely missed one successful underdog story at the US Open men’s final. What you also missed was another verbal attack on the poor individuals who have been under a great [...]
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Twins Manager Ron Gardenhire Gets Call Changed After Yelling At The Ump
Total Pro Sports – Have you seen Twins manager Ron Gardenhire in any of the recent Star Wars episodes? There is now reason to believe he may have the force. After all, he is likely the first coach, manager or player in any sport to yell at an official and get them to change their [...]
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Blue Jays Fans Are Also Umpires
Total Pro Sports – The Toronto Blue Jays have been having a great season thus far, and we think we know why. Not only has their hitting and pitching been strong, but they also appear to be getting the calls from the ump behind home plate.
