Tim Mclelland is Having a BAD Night
- Thread starter TarHeelHawk
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He ****ed up earlier too. The second base umpire ****ed up Swisher's before. This is pitiful umpiring. The home plate umpire ******** he can't see over the catcher. For the love of God.
None of the pathetic calls have cost either team anything but good God. Swisher should've been out at second. Swisher didn't leave early and gets called out. Cano should've just been out in the dumbest baserunning play I've seen in the long time. Regardless, I still hate Nick Swisher.
The tagging up was a make up call to the pick off, but that last one, you cannot miss it. Your right there!!!!
True, at least no one scored on that screwed up call at third. But, how can a major league umpire miss such an easy call? Never been a proponent of instant replay in MLB, but the umpiring in this post-season is certainly starting to make me re-think it a little.
I'm no Yankees defender but they're the ones that actually had a run taken off the board on a missed call. Granted the inning should have been over already but it's not "every" call.
True, but I think you would have to admit that they've benefitted from at least 3 blown calls thus far.
All of them? Perhaps you missed the tag up at third, which Swisher got called out on. Just like two weeks ago in the BOS series. (when he was clearly safe on both of them.)
Not to defend him, but is it possible that his view of Cano was blocked, and he just assumed that Cano's foot was on the bag?
He must've assumed Swisher left early too since he wasn't watching. Will somebody go out and make sure he has a pulse?
I probably wasn't clear. I was talking about instant replay. If he was blocked, good reason to use it.
McClleland has a history with questionable calls it seems. I know these were over the course of quite a few years but when you add in the George Brett HR and the Holliday play two years ago, they all seemed to come up in important situations.
They've finally gotten back to playing Angel baseball. Take pitches and make Sabathia throw some. They were swinging at the first pitch the first 4 innings.
McClellend has umpired in 20 plus MLB post-seasons. Umpires are human and he missed both calls at 3rd base. But, it doesn't change the fact he is generally thought of as the best umpire in baseball.
To pick out a handful of missed calls in the tens of thousands of games he has umpired is a little bit unfair IMO.