Comments on: Bill Hohn Should be Suspended Immediately

By: sean

sean — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 21:42:25 +0000

he umpired a blue jays game against the red sox and im telling you it was the worst umpiring job i have ever seen. i was watching the red sox announcers cover the game and even they were saying that the jays were getting squeezed. he is horrible, he has favorites and he should be fired immediately. and i felt this way b4 this braves thing ever happened

By: MarkA

MarkA — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 14:43:56 +0000

The game is not supposed to be about the umpires. When an ump forgets that, HE should be ejected.

By: Tim Brown

Tim Brown — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 01:47:32 +0000

I am a High School Umpire and I miss balls and strikes sometimes quite often. Every umpire I have ever talked to is quite aware when they miss a pitch. We tend to allow a little more chatter about the strike zone after we blow a call at least for a short time. Compounding the situation by an ejection then demanding another ejection is not what quality or classy umpires would ever do. This guy needs to at least privately apologize to the Braves in general and Bobby and Brian in particular. That being said these guys normally do an outstanding job that is greatly under appreciated.

By: Trevyn Riley

Trevyn Riley — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 00:59:05 +0000

Why is nobody making a big deal of this? i didn’t see it on SportCenter or ESPN all day. When an official is acting like a cop that is out to get somebody something should be done. All I heard all day was about Manny Rameirez and David Ortiz, when someone is sabotaging games and teams and players someone should be fired.

By: bigyaZ

bigyaZ — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 23:20:20 +0000

“They aren’t meant to be colorful, or mysterious or affable; they are meant to be as impersonal as the chalk lines that determine fair and foul balls”

Really, don’t you think you’re going a bit far? They can’t be affable, maybe even talk about the weather, without you thinking they’re hopelessly biased?

Another ridiculous homer with an idiotic blog.

By: raykelsey

raykelsey — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 18:08:39 +0000

Idea,

Of course we don’t live in a vacuum; at the end of the day, baseball–like our justice system–is man made, susceptible to human error. The malleability of the strike zone is part of the game and what makes it enjoyable. I am not endorsing computers–I think the Hawk-eye computer technology used in tennis has actually taken something away from the purity of the game. Mistakes–although at times utterly baffling–are acceptable, but umpires cannot allow their egos to influence the rhythm of a game, nor can they ever, under any circumstances, show the slightest signs of favoritism. In those respects, we demand they be as stoic as royal guardsmen.

By: Michael

Michael — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 17:30:23 +0000

By: brandon

brandon — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 15:10:22 +0000

I still want to know what was going on at the Braves’s dugout. What were Hahn and BobbyC talking about and why on earth did Hahn pull out his lineup cards? Bobby Cox didn’t look angry at all when he was ejected.

I would really like to hear the rest of the story.

By: Idea

Idea — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 14:59:52 +0000

So when are you going to start demanding a computer to call strikes from a uniform strike zone?

That’s as dehumanized and impersonal as it gets.

By: Daniel D

Daniel D — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 12:55:57 +0000

AMEN! This as an unbelievable case of “Let me show you how powerful I am”. Bill Hahn let his enormous ego get in the way of calling the rest of the game. Of course, umpires are going to miss calls here and there…that’s fine. When you know good and well you made a bad call, though (and if he didn’t realize it was a bad call, then I question his ability to umpire, period), and the team is barking about it, the LAST thing you need to do is go over and actively look for a fight. He had decided he was going to eject somebody before he walked to the dugout. He just didn’t know who yet.