[Nightengale] Much-maligned umpire Ángel Hernández to retire from Major League Baseball

Actually it was called a retirement by Hernandez but the replay shows he was clearly fired.

OUR LONG NATIONAL NIGHTMARE IS OVER!

(Doug Eddings next please)

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Effective immediately!

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“Retire”

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Thank fucking god! An ump so terrible fans and players alike know his name.

This is parade-worthy IMO

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Ok now Doug

Who's next?

Parade where?

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I’ve dreamed of times like this

Let’s start treating umpires like English football leagues. Worst umps get relegated to the minors, while the best ones from the minors get promoted.

I will say by a lot of accounts he seems like a good human being and statistically speaking he wasn't the WORST umpire. But he was awful at his job that couldn't put his own personal agenda aside and call a neutral game. Good riddance

Maybe he was a nice guy off the court?

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bummer he doesn't stick around for the roboump era so he can be regularly publicly shamed and overturned on bad calls.

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Someone must have told him he would be fired if he didn’t retire NOW. SO GLAD! He was a nightmare!

Pretty sure he just called out sick

Thank god, finally.

I'm getting Elphaba predicting there'll be a celebration all to do with her vibes.

Well, bye. 

Good riddance. Sack of crap.

Won't be missed

Doug Eddings next pls.

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We could have only wished for this kind follow up to his calls

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This will forever be known by me as the Fuck Off-ing of Angel Hernandez

He died like a dog- Trump

About time. He’s been too bad for too long.

That any single umpire could get so bad of a reputation without any recourse for years means the system needs to be reevaluated. Umpires simply must be made to be accountable for their actions. There’s plenty of metrics now to be able to judge how effective an umpire is each year. There should be accuracy standards that umpires have to adhere to each and every year. If they don’t? Don’t let them behind the plate. Stick them at a base where they can’t do damage. There’s no reason every member of a crew has to call balls and strikes if they aren’t calling them effectively.

The entire issue of robo umps is because of sub standard umpires that ruin it for a large amount of umps that aren’t consistently bad at their job.

I hope whatever stadium hosts his last game sends him off in the worst way possible. Songs like N*Sync’s ‘Bye, Bye, Bye’ every middle inning, chants of ‘BYE, BYE, AN-GEL, 👏🏼,👏🏼, 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼’ , SOMETHING to give him a good old fashioned ‘don’t let the door hit you on your way out’