I have said it before and I will say it again. You all are WAY TOO HARD on Angel Hernandez. He is an inspiration to MILLIONS of blind children around the world!

If Angel Hernandez had another eye he'd be a cyclops.

I would like to see 2 teams refuse to play when Angel is umpiring

I'm convinced Angel Hernandez is calling ridiculous pitches because eventually someone is gonna deck him. Then he can finally win a lawsuit against MLB.

Best call Angel Hernandez will ever make, is when he says: "I'm retiring from umpiring!"

EVERY MLB Umpire should be required to attend post game press conferences to answer questions just like the players are.

🎶It's one, two, three balls you're out at Angel's ballgame 🎶

Angel Hernandez is a clown. I'm a former amateur sports official who amassed over 3,000 games officiated in 3 different sports, 90% of which were in baseball and fastpitch softball. Angel Hernandez is the poster child for robot umps. Not a single one of the umpires I know have any respect for that fool.

Angel is the one person who United every baseball fan

#1 electronic strike zone #2 umpires should be promoted and demoted to and from the minors for good/poor performance. You may not be able to fire Angel, but what if you could send him down to AA?

Allowing incompetence to have positions if influence and power is destroying quality. In all works of life.

why cant they get rid of these shitty umps? They are ruining the game.

I think Angel is doing it out of spite at this point.

I am serious when I say this he needs to be investigated for perhaps taking money from gamblers because nobody could make that many bad calls and still keep their job I mean he's got to be on the take that's the only logical explanation for this

In Korea (kbo) umps that don't perform well and miss a lot of calls get sent to the minors

ELECTRIC UMPS ! Digital calls for strikes and balls

CB Buckner/ Laz Diaz: " Hold my beer!"

honorable mention Laz Diaz and Phil Cuzzi

Angel Hernandez & Vic Carapaza... bad callls & arrogance. Total disgrace they are still employed sigh

He sued (twice) and lost.

He ejected Steve McMichael many years ago after singing the 7th inning stretch at Wrigley lol

The flow on this show is spotty

I met an umpire at his home in carlsbad during last years playoffs between the astros and rangers final playoff game. It was considered one of the worst officiated games. I never knew these.umpires were untouchable

careful now, don't let Angel see this and call you racist.

8:05 to answer your question, yes, it is against the rules .... Rule 5.07(a) Comment: Pitchers may disengage the rubber after taking their signs but may not step quickly onto the rubber and pitch. This may be judged as a quick pitch by the umpire. When the pitcher disengages the rubber, he must drop his hands to his sides...if the bases are unoccupied it should be treated as an illegal pitch

Joe West? AJ

Imagine how long the games will be when ball and strike challenges are allowed and Angel is behind the dish. 4hrs + easy.

This is going to end up forcing the issue of the electronic strike zone.

I hear you man, I really do. Angel pisses me off most days that I can catch a couple games. BUT baseball is an old-school sport that historically has real-time calls on the play. Truely it's a monumental point of the sport. At 6:18 you said a statistic about missed calls (you said six missed calls a week but it really doesn't matter for the point I'm making). This game is coming into a new school era; requires more "small" rules, stipulations that have to rely on technology and iPads for the teams to nit-pick every small minute detail to make a decision on a challenge. Baseball, right now, is in purgatory as for which ways calls should be handled. MLB needs to make a decision. Do they want in-time decisions entrusted by with umpires or cameras able to track slow-motion, multiple angels and find true decisions on the time of the player and fans? I could go on and on, but MLB needs to make a decision. Angel is a shit-bird but I can't blame him on every missed call like most people would consider.

The beauty of statistics is, he cannot claim discrimination! I hope that behind the scenes, MLB's On-Field Operations team AND his own union are going at him with performance statistics and working to get him back on track. If they document the hell out of that process, and he doesn't improve, then when it comes to fire him, the MLB should have a rock-solid case for terminating him due to poor job performance. Unions are there to fight for better pay and working conditions; they should not be there to defend the incompetent.

I am a Jays fan, but this call was so bad I stop watching the game, then saw the replay of the strike that he called a ball

Check out the Wyatt Langford strikeout, which happened after this video.

I umpire LL and some higher and I gotta say there’s absolutely no question I’d work a better game at the plate than Angel

Angel Hernandez is the real life unfunny version of Leslie Nielsen in Naked Gun

Joe West, Angel Hernandez CB Buckner.

MLB loves Angel. He generates so much interaction on social media that he alone markets baseball more than most people in the marketing department at MLB.

it should have been called an illegal pitch... he needs to pause after re-engaging... no runners, no balk - Illegal Pitch... unless it's angel..

The Umpire's Union prevents MLB from firing Angel Hernandez.

Angel should have to ask permission from New York before he ejects someone.

Awful "weekend" ?! he's been this bad for over 30 years !!! that's one long weekend

If I was a player. I would add into my contract the ability to not play if he is anywhere near the field.

Didn’t even include Angel’s joke of a call on Torkelson’s HBP.

33 years is one hell of a long weekend

Boeing Quality Control employees have better eyes than Angel Hernandez.

Its been a few years since I've paid any attention to baseball. Omg i would have guessed Angel Hernandez was fired a long time ago!!😂

Loving the dead air in the beginning

Why can't umps have accountability , I'm a welder , I have to test every six months and if I have 3 repairs in between test , I am fired .

It is strange the MLB won’t do anything about it. Angel has sued the MLB before, maybe they are afraid he will do it again.

It's 1. Quick pitch and 2. Clock violation.

At this point, is it really incompetance? Can anybody be this bad by accident? Serious question.

Angel and Jerry Crowford and John Mcsherry were my fav umps in MLB

At this point, just pay Angel to retire early...

This weekend i saw one of the badest crew too...in Chicago vs LA

The fact that these umps are untouchable makes me believe that there is something more going on that meets the eye. They must have dirt on MLBs integrity because otherwise there would be no way they could have this kind of immunity for being so bad.

I don't even get mad at it anymore. It's been going on for so long, it's ridiculous. It's like, you have a few Angel games every year and anything can happen.

The ump issue started after the mlb effed up the first ump strike. This is ridiculous

I have actually stopped watching games and just check out highlights now because of all the terrible calls, too aggravating to watch anymore. the umpires are the story instead of the actual games.

All I'm going to say is, you CANNOT defend unions and then complain about people like Angel Hernandez not getting fired. Without a union protecting him, Henandez would have been gone YEARS ago.

Angel Hernandez is a reason to not unionize

MLB should put Hernandez out to pasture and replace him with an ump from Triple-A.

Players should protest and not play the games he calls until he resigns or MLB fires him.

Detroit at Mets this season. Angel too.

Get rid of the sob

Devils advocate- is Angel under more scrutiny because of his reputation?

Rob Manfred is actively destroying Major and Minor League Baseball and all you can do is another hit piece on Angel Hernandez? Direct some of that energy towards the singular man who truly deseves it. Edit: I doubt the owners wanedt to lose billions ($,000,000,000) in revenues due 100% exclusively (NOT an exaggeration) to Commissioner Rob Manfred.

It’s time to start asking if Angel Hernandez is betting on baseball. Is he playing the numbers on the innings line?

C.B. Bucknor is giving Angel a run for his money.

This may sound stupid. But I think there should be a technology where there is a invisible strike zone that only the umpire can see through a special pair of glasses. Just like what we see when we watch a broadcast of a game. This way, the umpire would not have to rely on some sort of special Technology that is feeding them the strike zone if they were to use that device. With the way AI is now and holograms or whatever. I'm sure there could be a company that can develop some sort of imagery that is placed in the batters box that is "laser" based. And again this strike zone is only visible through a special pair of glasses that the umpire wears.

I thought he has to look at the batter before he pitches per the new rule.

and it keeps getting WORSE from Angel

Apparently calling balls and strikes is the most difficult job in the history of mankind.

I read the title and though " what do you mean WEEK he's had an very bad career.

Angel didn’t even have the worst scored game, the ump for the Rangers Astros game was WORSE

The MLS just ended their referee strike and it wasn’t great when replacements were there . I would be really interested to see MLB umpires go on strike and see what garbage they would bring up to replace them. I can’t imagine replacement umpires calling balls and strikes well, thy would probably make angel hernandez look competent

As a Yankee fan it irritates the shit outta me lol I knew he’d screw up a game I watch lol

Guys if you are going to have any creditably turn your hats around and respect the game!

If I did my job like that I’d be fired 😂😂😂 ego over spirit of the game…

the only job you can be more inaccurate than the weatherman and have a long career

if Angel TRIED to make the wrong call he would still be right 50% of the time. Think about that 🤔

I don’t like how many games has he screwed teams over? Hast to come to a point where Teeman say they don’t want him umpiring because they’re going to lose the chance to go to the playoffs

This is what unions do. Excuse mediocrity and incompetence. Umps union....players unions.....teacher's unions etc

I would like to see players be able to challenge called 4th ball and 3rd strike. Why do these players train so hard to hit their spots if the ump is gunna punish them for being precise. Takes 2 seconds to relay that call. Not quite taking the umps out but takes it out of their hands and into the players on crucial calls.

Fans should boycott all games that Angel is scheduled behind the plate. For what it costs to go to a Jays game nowadays, we gotta do better than Angel.💰

How does this guy still have a job? Because he’ll sue (and lose) again?

The title should be changed from “awful weekend” to “awful decade”.

Facts.

He gets almost every call wrong, do think robots would take care of that

That wasn't even his worst call of the week. The Tigers/Mets game where the Tiger was hit by a pitch and he ruled that he swung.

7:30 Close Call Sports hits this specifically too

As a home plate umpire that is tough to see. The field umpires have a better view and should have chimed in. It’s an illegal pitch what you are describing

The analogy of teacher tenure is correct, you just used it wrong. Umpires are protected regardless of performance-- just like teachers. Watch where the umpires line up. They often lineup behind the catcher when the catcher is positioned to an extreme side of the plate. When they do that it creates an optical illusion and they miss calls on the opposite side of the plate. They need to stand dead center over the plate regardless of wear the catcher moves-- but they don't want to get hit. Bring back the external chest protector.

Angel is awesome

I am not upset about the location of the ball for the called strike 3 I am more upset of the quick pitch. I mean it’s not like he swung at strike 3 catcher caught it, but the batter ran down to first base safe 😄.

If he didn't make eye contact after rengaging batter should get a back

Awful weekend, you mean awful career.

I wouldn’t let Angel call balls and strikes at a red ball game

At least Hellen Keller had personality

Not sure that any rule was broken if the ump did not call for a reset. The 1st base / 3rd base umps had a better view and they did nothing. That said, Angel is inept.

Angel Hernandez’s Awful Career FIFY

Does he ever have a good weekend or week?