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Worst called game in history
« on: August 23, 2015, 11:44:36 am »
Buster Olney just linked to this video of umpiring excellence. Eric Gregg is the ump. Have a happy Sunday.

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Re: Worst called game in history
« Reply #1 on: August 23, 2015, 04:57:02 pm »
Not bad umping, just great framing.

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Re: Worst called game in history
« Reply #2 on: August 24, 2015, 11:41:59 am »
Not bad umping, just great framing.

Eric Gregg's strike zone is from knees to chest and love handle to love handle.
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Re: Worst called game in history
« Reply #3 on: August 27, 2015, 01:55:10 pm »
Buster Olney just linked to this video of umpiring excellence. Eric Gregg is the ump. Have a happy Sunday.

Interesting follow up by FiveThirtyEight: Umpires Are Less Blind Than They Used to Be
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Re: Worst called game in history
« Reply #4 on: August 27, 2015, 02:49:15 pm »
Interesting follow up by FiveThirtyEight: Umpires Are Less Blind Than They Used to Be

Here's a really cool site I stumbled upon yesterday while raging about Sam Holbrook.

http://www.closecallsports.com/

They've got video and descriptions of every ejection in MLB.
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Re: Worst called game in history
« Reply #5 on: August 27, 2015, 03:17:07 pm »
Here's a really cool site I stumbled upon yesterday while raging about Sam Holbrook.

http://www.closecallsports.com/

They've got video and descriptions of every ejection in MLB.
Note that Rasmus was Holbrook's eighth ejection of the year, which may lead the majors, although I didn't exhaustively research that.
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« Reply #6 on: August 27, 2015, 04:29:35 pm »
Note that Rasmus was Holbrook's eighth ejection of the year, which may lead the majors, although I didn't exhaustively research that.

Holbrook cheated to inflate his numbers by tossing a bunch of guys at once in a (surprise surprise) KC bench clearing brawl.
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Re: Worst called game in history
« Reply #7 on: August 27, 2015, 05:02:33 pm »
http://portal.closecallsports.com/historical-data/2015-mlb-ejections

From the Umpire Ejection Fantasy League.  West and Holbrook tied with 8.

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Re: Worst called game in history
« Reply #8 on: August 27, 2015, 05:53:37 pm »
When he was an NL umpire, Greg Bonin tossed Terry Pendleton out three times in one season. For some reason, which Greg never really disclosed to me, other than to say that Pendleton was a prick, why he had rabbit ears when it came to Pendleton.
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