After watching the Yankees series, its hard not to say that Joe West isn't one of the worst umpires in baseball. That being said its unfair to call him the worst official in sport. The worst umpire in baseball is better than half the officials in football. A home plate umpire sees 250 to 300 pitches. Out of that maybe 5 close calls are questionable. Calling safe or out on a bang bang play is tough when you're out of position. Replay in baseball is new and still has kinks.
In football on the other hand relay has been around for years. After an official throws a flag he discusses the play with the other officials before making the call or even picking up the flag. Despite the fact that football refs don't have to make an immediate call, despite the fact that football replay is mature, there doesn't seem to be a game that goes by with the officials making a bonehead call, forgetting where the line of scrimmage is, getting a coin flip wrong, not clearly indicating what down it is, or some new ridiculous thing.
It's one thing to be utterly incompetent. It's something else completely to be utterly incompetent, and take satisfaction in the fact that your ineptness is driving everyone else crazy. He eats it up
1a. Angel Hernandez
Fun fact, they were teamed together on a crew in the past... MLB had to break them up because too many players were getting ejected.
2. Jeff Triplette
2a. Walt Coleman
2b. Scott Green (PASS INTERFERENCE MOTHERFUCKER!)
Joe West and Joey Crawford deserve to be in their own category.
They're not remotely as bad as the most incompetent officials in their respective sports, but the whole package makes them reviled. It's as if both men think people pay or watch to see them too... they always seem to make themselves a part of the story.
Angel Hernandez, Bob Davidson, Bob Leavy, and Triplette are just inept.
CB Bucknor is a tragic combination of inept and wanting to make himself part of the show.
it seems nobody likes his strike zones because nobody knows his strike zones, including him. He also acts as if the game is about him. I'd have to give a second to Leavy. That man is a disgrace too.
I have a friend/acquaintance who's father upholds this occupation
And is notorious for being awful at said occupation. I expected to see his name pop up a ton on this thread, but only seen his name brought up once. I don't know if that's a good or bad thing.
Or, what I really mean, if it's Green, show him the replay of the last play of the playoff game against the Niners, shout PI, and punch him in the balls. Not that I hold a grudge, but dammit competence matters.
It's CB Bucknor. It would be hard to bite my tongue if it was Green. Luckily I don't give a shit about baseball so it's easy to not care about anything he's done as an ump. Only reason why I know he's bad is from hearsay and some Youtube clips.
yesterday. so many terrific defensive plays were made in the secondary and all would have been pass interference today. just a damn shame what has happened to the game
I'd say Baseball is the most poorly officiated, mainly because most of the umpires have ego's the size of their guts. The biggest shit stain of them all is Angel Hernandez. There are really poor NFL officials, but that piece by Peter King about how officials prepare and are graded gave me a new respect for them. Umpires set out to be part of the show.
In football on the other hand relay has been around for years. After an official throws a flag he discusses the play with the other officials before making the call or even picking up the flag. Despite the fact that football refs don't have to make an immediate call, despite the fact that football replay is mature, there doesn't seem to be a game that goes by with the officials making a bonehead call, forgetting where the line of scrimmage is, getting a coin flip wrong, not clearly indicating what down it is, or some new ridiculous thing.
Meanwhile, trying to chase world class athletes down a 100 yard field is damn tough.
Joe west consistently fails to see things the way the viewing public does and then remains arrogant about his mistakes.
At this point, it is inexcuseable.
Joe west is an arrogant clown.
Fun fact, they were teamed together on a crew in the past... MLB had to break them up because too many players were getting ejected.
2. Jeff Triplette
2a. Walt Coleman
2b. Scott Green (PASS INTERFERENCE MOTHERFUCKER!)
Angel Hernandez, Bob Davidson, Bob Leavy, and Triplette are just inept.
CB Bucknor is a tragic combination of inept and wanting to make himself part of the show.
followed by the judges that decided Pac-Man vs. Bradley 1.
Although it's not professional, Karl Hess is the biggest POS ref in the history of colegiate sports.
NFL - Jeff Triplette, Bill Leavy, Scott Green
take your pick