Why Has MLB Ignored Bill Hohn Incident?

I don’t mean to harp on this but come on! If you missed one of the most bizarre moments in baseball between an umpire and a player, please view this fist pump between the Florida Marlins catcher and Umpire Bill Hohn after Brian McCann stuck out in a game filled with ejections.

Now, please tell me how this is escaping punishment? As Ray, the chief blogger here, pointed out the day it happened, this is unheard of in baseball. When have we ever seen something like this before?

Major League Baseball’s Bud Selig refuses to address the issue and we’re not going to let it die. How about a petition and a letter directly to his office? I want him at least suspended for 2 weeks and he shouldn’t be allowed to ump in the playoffs, especially–ESPECIALLY–if the Atlanta Braves do come back and make it into the playoffs. Skip Bayliss thinks they will (that doesn’t give me a ton of hope though.)

When an umpire shows favoritism, the game is jeopardized. The integrity of the game is cracked. There are questions to be answered and I am sick here as it is ignored.

j reed says:

August 2, 2009 at 1:04 am

I hate your pitching scouts, your rotation and your monsoon-a-rama stadium and though were division rivals i have to say that the game should have been protested esp. since i like the braves rotation even less, but this is just many examples of flagrant poor umpiring that needs to be addressed by “no Balls Budd”. Not only has mixing the leagues umpires caused more walks than I’ve ever seen but has forced pitchers to make another adjustment in having to relearn umpire tendencies….Or what’s the point of replay if the umpires are the only ones to call for it….man i could go on. problem is 162 games shortens the memory and your on to the next few games and suddenly the effect of the ump on the game is buried under a pile of losses. Considering the number of right call made in the season relative to the bad ones is high it doesn’t make the call right….without oversight this will continue to happen

August 2, 2009 at 1:11 am

whoops i had the teams reversed…and though i don’t like your rotation of phillies kryptonite: sinkerballers and off speed guys, this is bad…take it from here “but this is just one of the many…”