As I watched England's painful loss to Portugal decided on Penalty Kicks, I said to myself, you know what, I am pretty glad that baseball is America's pasttime, soccer is just shit, well at least World Cup soccer is. I'm told the Premiereship and the more local leagues have proper teams that play together constantly so they can at least put a goal together. I guess it's he equivalent of asking the AL and NL all-star teams to take a break for a while and go play other countriess. So what happens but many games are decided by either completely shitty and/or corrupt refereeing and/or the equivalent of a PBA skills challenge at the concluision of a tie game.

Then I turned on today's Subway Series game and had to suffer through some pretty shitty umping.

A big vaafaungula to today's umpiring crew. You know they say it all balances out but for the life of me it always seems like the Mets garner a bit more of the bad calls.

Today's game made it seem like the crew is actually on the Yankee payroll. (Well, who isn't on the Yankee payroll by now).

In the first inning, we have Jeter legging out an infield hit, yet he's behind the force by about half a step. Just not a call that should be blown unless it's Rush Limbaugh manning 1st and he's just scored some downers..,,,, Please, for such a pest as Jeter, call him out honestly.

Then, an umpire can't manage to get out of the way as Castro trys to grab a routine popup. I'm not aware of what rule pertains to this but I'm pretty sure Fluff had the right of way. Either way, it's up the ump to call interference on himself, how often do you think that has happened?

But the most egregious offense,  by far, was committed by home plate retard Jerry Layne, who just plain ignored Xavier Nady getting hit by a pitch that deflects by a good 30 degrees, you can hear the impact  of ball on bone, AND Nady instantaenously throwing his bat away and heading for first. (And thank you to Fox for televising Nady proclaiming "It fucking hit my leg!"

I have a theory about why he was simply the only person in the stadium or greater television audience who missed this HBP...




What I can't take his obnoxious home plate highness's reaction, ordering Nady back in the box (and where was Willy BTW?), because obviously, Nady was suffering from some sort of delusion. This is the hubris created by no accountability on these umps. This crew blew all these calls, the Mets won despite all that, and they're gonna get on the plane and head on to the next game with no less job security.

I know Instant Replay would slow down a game which can already move glacially. And I'm aware of Bud Selig's desire to maintain the "human" element... (Human Eye, Human Growth Hormone, etc. etc.)

How about splitting the difference and giving coaches some sort of challenge - but to maintain the "human" element, we give them 2 buckets of balls, 1 each to institute a challenge to go to Instant Replay by tossing them angrily into the center of the field (make those ballboys earn that minimum wage folks!) More than 2 challenges and we should be examining their bank accounts for direct deposits from YES.

And can we get a gameball to Joe Buck for pointing out something that some of us baseball fans have suspected for a while - the radar gun trained on Yankee pitchers was showing an extra 5mph per Randy Johnson fastball vs. Fox's own gun, a stat juicing not enjoyed by the other bench. Nice one. Keep telling me how classy your organization is, guys.

Subway Series play - We've won the last 9 of 14 vs. Yankees, and have gone 23-7 in homeruns. So bring on Jaret Wright ya pansies!!! And how about you stop rigging the gun. Whether it's to intimidate/fool our hitters or to justify the ridiculous price you paid for the Big lUNITic, it's pretty lame.