HOW DARE YOU TIM MCCLELLAND make all these calls in favor of the Yankees! You are the puppet of Major League Baseball and Steinbrenner. You work for FOX network executives and the East Coast biased media members of ESPN. You and your other umpire cronies are ruining the sport of baseball by fixing the games in favor of a Yankees World Series.
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Yeah, so that’s pretty much the chatter on some Angels blogs — the same ones that accused Mariano Rivera of cheating with spitballs. Umm..ok. You sound like an embittered psycho ex-girlfriend. (Redundant?) Take it easy.
Calls go against both teams throughout the playoffs and in my mind, evens out. Even if it doesn’t, as a professional athlete, you need to suck it up and try to move past it.
Granted some of the calls from the umpires have been atrocious. (E.g. The Mauer “Foul Ball”, the missed calls in Game 3 of the Phillies/Rockies NLDS, and the God-awful calls from last night’s ALCS Game 4.)
Don’t take this personally, McClelland. Everyone makes a mistake (or two or three) and you were man enough to stand in front of reporters and own up to making a mistake or two. (Albeit with some BS answers.) But I respect that.
On the Swisher Tag Up Play:
“I said in my heart, I thought he left too soon. But replays show that he didn’t.”
On the Posada/Cano Debacle at Third Base:
“On the play with Cano and Posada, I was waiting for two players to be on the base. When he tagged Cano, I thought Cano was on the base.” When Posada touched the base and continued and Napoli tagged him out, McClelland said, “I thought Posada was out.”
While it’s not fair, I’m making you the poster child for the terrible umpiring in the MLB playoffs so far Tim McCelland. You and your brethren have a tough job, but we keep you to a higher standard.
So next time you have a tough decision to make, remember to trust your eyes and ears over what your damn heart says. And don’t listen to the Gold-Glove Centerfielder that’s 150 feet from third base.
Until then, HOW DARE YOU SIR!
October 21st, 2009 at 7:21 pm
i'm surprised you wrote this.
October 27th, 2009 at 4:33 am
I thought we'd see a post congratulating the Angels and the Twins for their efforts in the playoffs. Instead the guy that makes it all happen for the yanks is blasted!