Meals-a-Kulpa: My Tax Dollars Are Being Wasted On These Umps
sarcasm /
Wow. Look at that screen capture of Ron Kulpa’s botched call on Chase Utley’s infield single Sunday night. Kulpa said 1B Todd Helton left the bag before he had the ball, but I dunno, man. This frame-by-frame series of closeups kinda proves (sorta) that Kulpa’s call was wrong. Dead wrong, man.
So imagine my disgust when I woke up Monday morning to find everyone talking about how botched the Phillies-Rockies game was? I mean, I was already keyed up about Kevin Youkilis’ supposed non-tag and Phil Cuzzi’s boner call against Joe Mauer’s fair-ball-that-wasn’t … now this?
Dude. How could anyone get this wrong? After finding the play on my DVR, pausing it a few seconds before the play, slowing the action to a 1/36th frame rate and screen-capturing a dozen stills (two of which are shown above) it seems 75 percent obvious that the ump messed up that call big time. Pow! Big time. What are my tax dollars paying that ump to do anyway if he’s just gonna blatantly miss easy micro-second calls that remain inconclusive even upon extreme inspection?
And this picture to he right is from the same game … heck, the same damn play! C’mon Jerry Meals. You’re standing right behind the plate. I can see it from this paused snapshot in time. Why couldn’t you see that this ball was foul when it was happening in normal time? Any idiot who can stop time and graphically circle unspecific evidence can see that this ball bounced foul.
Look, baseball could move to instant replay, but that would slow down the game. Instead, everyone would just prefer the human umps stop making mistakes. Especially on the close plays. That’s when we really don’t want the umps fouling up calls.
Just ’cause the umps are human, doesn’t justify them making human errors in infinitesimal moments of action?
/ end sarcasm
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