Posted By:
Frank WakefieldHey guys...
One other little bit of umpiring that annoyed me last night was on a ball someone hit/tapped/bunted up the first base line. The first baseman came in and fielded the ball on the grass... and there in the camara shot is the first base umpire pointing fair (the ball was nowhere near the baseline, it was about 6 feet fair). My point, it is the home plate umpire's call until ball gets past first base. THEN the first base umpire gets to dance and point.
It looked like a bunch of weekend umpiring. I expect better at that level. Maybe the weather was a distraction.
In the good old days (for all of us, that was when each of us was a kid) baseball always got the 'best' umpires to call the World Series. I'd like to see the umpires get a BUNCH more money for calling the Series, and then have them selected by merit.