Worst ump in MLB?

OK, how about some of the good ones?

Tim McClelland and Jim Joyce come to mind right away.

I miss Doug Harvey and Dutch Rennart.

 

Dutch Rennert wasn't very good, but people liked that loud strike call.

 

Oh man, Dutch was outfuckingstanding!!!!

 

The good ones: Harry Wendelstedt.......Doug Harvey........John McSherry.......

 

Dutch was great. His called strikes were the same if it was the first pitch of the game or in a 12-1 game with two out in the bottom of the ninth.

 

John McSherry ... sad story. His death confirmed Marge Schott's reputation as a total putz.

I can't believe Bruce Froemming still is working. He never will be forgiven for screwing Milt Pappas out of a perfect game in 1972.

 

That was Opening Day, wasn't it?

 

McClelland does a pretty good job of calling the game, but he comes out there with a little chip on his shoulder once in a while. Too much hot sauce at the buffet, maybe?

 

I think so. Marge was more pissed about losing her opening-day gate than she was about a dead umpire on her watch.

 

Sorry to Jack my own thread, but--it just occurred to me--how old is Yawn? Could he be the reincarnation of Marge Schott? Kind of the Dalai Lama of deviation?

[On second thought, Marge, wherever you are, forgive me. Mea culpa, mea culpa, mea maxima culpa.]

 

Man, it's good to know that I'm not the only one who thinks C.B. Bucknor and Angel Hernandez suck sweaty goat balls.

Doug Harvey is still my favorite umpire simply because of something he did at a Cubs game I attended several years ago.

Late in the game, bang-bang play at first base, calls the runner out, myself and my over-served friends were giving him some good-natured hell about missing the call from our seats right on the wall behind first base.

He looked at us, held his hands about six inches apart and mouthed the words "that much". He was smiling the whole time. Totally broke us up.

 

I believe Hernandez to be the worst of a generally bad bunch. But if you really want some fun, to this day, ask Dykstra what he thinks of the Cowboy. Nothing like watching a man's head explode clean off his body.