This Emily Burrow person seems to be a master of sportsmanship. Not a single time did she dispute any of the calls the Umpires made, whether they are correct or not. Good on her!

These calls were wrong but some of them were very close and it's easy to scrutinize them after the fact with slow-mo replay.

Random mom: HEY WAY TO GET THE TAG EMILY *misses tag by 2 feet*

Bruh this video acting like umpires got eagle vision

The day I started umpiring my mentor taught me a quote from Jim Evans, a former major league umpire. It went "Umpiring is the only job where they expect you to be perfect and then get better." If it takes slow motion replay to show the call is wrong then, pardon me, but learn to live with it. It's high school softball. No one died and if someone lost money on the score of a High School softball game then shame on them, not the umpire. Most people can't decide what they want for lunch at McDonald's with the menu staring them in the face. In the course of a 7 inning softball game a plate umpire sees about 200 pitches. That's 200 split second decisions on Ball/Strike alone and it's happening at 60 to 70 miles an hour. Then add in all the other calls that happen at game speed and you begin to see the problem. One time a parent yelled at me from center field that my strike zone stunk, so I went out into center field and sat in the lawn chair next to him and threatened to call balls and strikes from there because I could see the balls and strikes so much clearer from 375 feet away from the plate. He was embarrassed that he put his son and his son's team in that spot. To his credit the guy apologized and I went back behind the plate. He joined the High School Umpire's association I was in the next year and he and I do games together to this day. He's a good umpire and an even better partner and he always tells me that me embarrassing him that day made him a good umpire, a better fan and a better parent. If you've never missed a call, then you've never umpired and those of us that do umpire won't sit here and pick apart what other umpires are doing with the benefit of replay. Besides college coaches are not watching Ms. Emily to see how the umpire are doing. Ms. Emily seems to be playing very well and she seems to be coping with the breaks very well. That's the important thing.

Poor Emily must've thought the umpiring world was against her. She took it well.

In every single one of these, the umpire failed and was in the wrong position to make the right call

I find it interesting that all of the videos in this compilation are of my daughter, LOL, and I have NEVER put together a bad umpire call compilation video!

Way to go Emily for keeping ur cool. I would have questioned the ump every time I was called out in these situations

Granted these were incorrect calls and some of them bad calls, as an umpire I know I made a few incorrect calls in my carer. You try learn from them and improve. Sometimes you cannot get into the best position to make the call.

First one umpire is standing in bad spot to make the call, if the video was taken from his vantage point we probably would of never seen this video because we would of thought she was out as well

I just want to say that I not only played, coached, and in later years played slow pitch. I have big respect for the people that umpire, some volunteer and some get paid. If you want to pitch, get trained and certified and help out, there is always a spot for you!

I mean, some of them were just bad positioning. They're not professionals from the looks of it, so I don't really blame them for their positioning. One good thing I did see is that the umps didn't eject the coaches for arguing unlike some MLB umps *cough* Hernandez *cough* Carapazza *cough* .

Let me know where you're umpiring you're next game and I'll come film you.

As an ump, this video a a great example for people that we don’t have the same angles and ability to stop and slow motion a game like you do. Also, we have to keep all elements of the play in vision while keeping ourselves out of the way as much as possible. Two of these are great examples of that, the play changing view was not in the view of the ump despite their best efforts.... two were ump failure. The first one was an ump failure, he was way out of position (and judging by his body language, he knew it as soon as the play came his way) The out at first called safe, I have can see how the base ump missed it, but there is no reason the plate ump who was up the line and had full view of all four elements shrugged off the base ump asking for help. Umps are human too, remember, a pitcher can miss the strike zone 50% of the time and be perfect, the batter can hit it 30-40% of the time and be considered great, but umps are considered terrible if we miss 1-2 calls a game. Btw, anyone who has umpired can tell you, we are aware of more calls we have made (especially balls and strikes) than you are and we will never let you know. Getting used to having to eat a call you made the wrong way is harder than learning to not flinch at high balls the catcher misses.

Thanks for being honest and even putting the ones for her in there

I'm an umpire, and for the record, I just want to say that I find it very annoying when parents do this (as well as coaches), when they have most likely never umpired a game in their life and don't understand that the game is moving very fast and that we as umpires do not have slow motion like what is shown in this video. There are going to be times where we may make mistakes, but that is because we are human. Just let everyone enjoy participating in this great game, because frankly, these kinds of people are decreasing my passion for baseball,

In the first clip if I was the catcher I would be like “I never tagged her honestly.” Lol

As an umpire myself I'm not quick to criticize as I've made some myself over the years, and when you know you messed up you get pissed at yourself. We're all human, but the only solace is it's a good learning experience.

If umpires keeps making bad calls I would stop the game and walk out until umpires listen and get their eye checked

Always so critical....maybe this is why there is a shortage of umpires because no one else is willing to step up and accept this level of criticism. Bang-bang plays are tough, you make the best call you can, from the best position you can be in. It's very easy to hit rewind and watch a play again, but we don't have that luxury when we are on the field.

Personally I only see how the 1st and and last clips are bad calls. On all the other clips it was a close play and in the umpires persepective it may have looked like a tie. Also you only would have been able to tell the call if you were watching from the right spot in slow motion. Lets apreciate the umpires for doing their best!

Poor Emily, she has to go home to this psychotic cameraman and watch slow-mo replays.

“With the help of slo-mo.. wish I had a slo-mo mode when I’m working the game,” Angel Hernandez

Ha, the catcher was a fucking cars length away from tagging the runner in the first video.

I wore the blue all my life including 11 yrs in single A and shame on you for trying to show these guys up. Most of these calls are close and happen very fast. PUT THE BLUE ON AND TRY IT!!

Just as I suspected...all of the umpires have a nationwide vendetta against Emily Burrow.

Tennis and golf are the only sports where sportsmanship still matters. We make our own calls as we see it and live with that call.

It's unfortunate that parents, who have likely never umpired a game in their lives, see the need to post videos of missed calls.

why are all these about Emily burrow

There are times as a small time local umpire when I would have LOVED to have access to instant replay, but you only get one look at it full speed. You can't come up with a call that is 'I don't know!'

As an Umpire myself all these calls could have been avoided have the umpires taking the right position / angle.

2:19 how tf you gonna blame that on the ump it was so close

So, in 8-10 years of Emily's softball career, umpires missed a half-dozen-or-so calls. Where's the video of the hundreds of calls they got right over the same time period?

The umpire doesn't have the privilege of slow motion or instant replay

This is why those umps will never get called up to the Majors.

Good calls blue.. might not get them all right..but thanks for trying

As a fan I understand how frustrating it is when obvious calls are missed, but as an umpire I understand how impossible it is to get everything right based on what it’s actually like to stand there and try to get a view of the play. The view from these cameras are perfect, but so often your field of vision is blocked and you have to operate with what limited visual data you have

So what was wrong with the second call? She offered at the pitcher making it a strike. The ball is live and it touched her, interfering with catcher making a play on the runner she was bunting to advance. As she began running with the attempt she was out of the batter's box, further solidifying an interference call

Keep in mind that if you have to watch it more than once (never mind if you have to watch it in slomo) to decide, you wouldn't have done any better than the umps.

Sweet Jesus!! Please tell me these umpires have been suspended or fired!!

Omg🤣

Perfectly explainable-- it's just part of the game. The umps can't be in every position for every call, and in every one of these examples the ump's view is obstructed so they make the best call they can. It's not like it's incompetence-- just a poor angle on the call... The ump doesn't have the luxury of saying "I don't know, I couldn't see it..." He has to make a call.

I have a terrible umpire most of the time too and she’s pretty much always wrong. So is her mom.

These are get the game over calls

Sorry if I come off as rude, but what i don't understand is why uploading this kind of stuff matters. I have been playing baseball since i was 5 ( and now am 19) in fucking Australia. I'm happy just to get out on the field and play because i love baseball. My club which only has about 15 teams from ages 5 up until as old as you want to be always is in need of umpires and often umpires may umpire back to back 2-3 hour games over the course of a blazing hot saturday. The umpires are often given drinks ( in cases of seniors games, beers afterwards) and are treated with respect unless some idiotic parents want to complain about darling little Timmy's calls outside the strike zone. Bad calls, which are judged WITHOUT the use of SLOW MOTION (which does nothing because the human eye cannot slow shit down) are groaned about but we get on with it because its a fucking GAME. Why, the fuck, do you feel the need to edit this stuff? Why do you care? WHY HAVE YOU PUT EFFORT INTO THIS ITS A FUCKING AMATEUR SOFTBALL GAME

sometimes umpires make mistakes, remember everyone does make mistakes, umpires take time out of their day to make sure the kids get a game

The couch-critics with super slo-mo replay get it right every time.

Who cares it’s softball

Did anyone see the cake on #22 (0:59)??? Damn🍑👀

The sad part is that I have had several calls similar to the first one where the tag was not even close and when I called the runner safe the coach of the defensive team argues they were out.

Bruh...these Umps are taking the Bird Box Challange.

God almighty what state high school athletic association is this? You have seen some god awful umpires during #34's high school career. The calls are so blatantly wrong I am shocked.

What was the first ump watching on the out call at home? The catcher missed the tag by 2 feet.

I've had some awful Ump's when coaching. Still we have to remember they are flawed as are we. Appreciate that they are there to do a difficult job and talk to them as a human being. It goes better then coming out yelling and much more persuasive.

First one, that ump dont need glasses, he needs a seeing eye dog.

These umpires get paid $8/hr, what do you expect...

All I know is if Emily Burrow is on the field, there's about to be a bad call

Emily out here getting the wrong side of every call lmao

These umpires got some secret alliance against this Emily Burrow

Evidently when Emily Burrow is involved a bad call is coming.

It's real easy to make the "right" call seeing these plays in slow motion stop action! As an umpire I can tell you positioning is important on getting the right angle to make a call but, in reality, things happen and sometimes you just get caught out of position on a bang bang play. I can easily see making each of these calls as they were made in the video. Despite some folks opinions, umpires, like coaches and players, are human too and do make mistakes. I couldn't tell if any of these guys were working with a partner but it always is smart to ask for help if you're not sure about a call. On the other hand, if I felt I got the call correct, I would tell the coach, it was my call and I don't feel I need to check.

i mean the umpires don't have the luxury of super slow motion, some of these are just petty

Glad to see girl that is in all of these videos is a good sport and didn't learn from whoever made this video, because it seems whoever recorded these videos has literally never umpired a game. Things move way to fast (notice they are in slow mo) for high school umpires to make an accurate call everytime. Welcome to every sport at every level. There will be missed calls and you will have to deal with them but shaming an ump on every call is ridiculous. This parent is one of those that wants a participation awards when their kid gets last. Take some notes from Emily and grow up.

My god....i thought these kinds of bad calls were only legend and fantasy

That first call though. That ump was so blind, the catcher didn't even tag the runner.

Some of the plays are bang bang......"thank god for technology" to call out people that are trying their best....

It’s so great to have a video that you can look over and replay things. Trying making the call in real time

Softball umpires man... different breed

Wow great memories, umpires make a call coaches get mad

That is why you need to ask the ump if he needs windex for his glass eye.

I can't believe how much laundry is not being washed and sandwiches not being made during this video!

The last play: tag in the stomach, feet on the base. Can't make up your mind: high tag goes to the runner. One thing I'll say and it's sad really: Softball players even at the high school level have never been taught to put the glove down in front of the base.

Second one was actually right. The ball actually hits her at the waist as she leaves the box which after they pause the video. By that time her foot has come up and she is out of the box and classified as a runner. She is out for touching the ball while in fair territory.

This video should be called the “haunting of Emily Burrow.” Nice job by Emily keeping her cool in the midst of three blown calls by the umpire.

This video should be renamed "Emily Burrow is a glitch in the matrix and is followed by a black cloud."

Sometimes the umps are ready to go home. Sad but true.

I understand being an ump is hard, but at the same point none of the opposing teams are good enough to say “I didn’t tag her” or “I didn’t have the ball” it aggregates me

Blue was way too close to make a proper call at third base. I pre-game with my partner that if he/she sees a dropped ball on my "out" call, they're to immediately come to me and ask: "Did you see her drop the ball?" I would then say "no" and correct the call.

All of them girls had the same name, that's dope.

Moral of the video is never be on the same team as Emily Burrow.

Clip #2 highlights the wrong moment. The batter does not touch the ball at that point (1:37 mark). The batter-runner contacts the ball with her hip/thigh after leaving the box (1:43-1:44 mark). This results in the ball changing direction, from coming back toward the plate, to heading out into the field. This was a solid call by the plate umpire.

The umpires need to watch this. Maybe it would help.

I like how the girls just accept the bad calls without getting upset. I couldn’t be that way.

You pay for bad umpiring you're going to get bad umpiring. Like seriously what are these guys making $35/40 a game?

Umpires make me want to scream their crazy

I'm an umpire, and I agree that these calls were wrong. The out call when the fielder dropped the ball could be reversed by the plate umpire asking his partner for help, or by the plate umpire noticing that the ball was dropped in the first place. Now, baseball umpires are taught to get in the wedge (being in the catcher's left hip pocket, or directly opposite the catcher) to get a better angle on plays at the plate. These principles can also be used on the bases, and I wouldn't be surprised if softball umpires are also taught to get in the wedge. The wedge principle could have helped on the mistaken out calls at home plate and 3rd base. On the mistaken safe call at first base, the umpire should wait to ensure that the 1st baseman had the ball before the runner's foot touches the base, and replay the sequence in his mind. In addition, the fair/foul call on the batter hit by a batted ball in the box is typically called a foul ball in baseball, because the majority of the batter's box is in foul territory. The softball rule may be similar, so unless the batter was clearly outside the batter's box (one foot completely outside the batter's box) when she was hit by the batted ball in fair territory, she should not be called out.

Most of these calls would have been avoided if the umpire was in a better position to see the play

It looks to me that whatever league this is the main requirement to be an umpire is that you have to be legally blind. Terrible calls.

I wish my daddy made a highlight video of every bad call an umpire made on me to post on KZfaq. Unfortunately, he knew that umpires making bad calls is part of the game.

Most of these umps definitely graduated from the Angel Hernandez School of Umpiring.

Damn that first one made me laugh

You do it , it ain't easy .

I swear, umpires at the lower level are ❄️

Never did baseball but spent years in SE Ohio basketball official. Sometimes things happen so fast it’s very hard to be in the right spot on the court to get a real good look. It was a challenge to try to get the call right, keep the both teams, players and coaches happy, and both groups of fans cheering instead of jeering, and keep my own feelings in check because when you were a local ref you probably had a connection with one or both teams and probably had some personal preference which team you liked better. I have been the ref when my home team played our biggest rival and made a game changing call late in the 4th quarter that hurt the chances for my home school to win. I had made a similar call in the first quarter against the home school and was blasted because I was being a “homer” for the school I graduated from. When I made the same call then my home school fans called me “traitor”! Ref’s never win! BUT we also never lose!

The real problem on missed calls by umpires is that coaches do NOT know how to act professionally when approaching the ump who made the call. Coaches are angry, hate umps. If coaches would just calmly ask the ump for help, many times they would get help on calls.

I legit have to deal with these terrible umpires all the time. I relate with this video

The left handed batter hitting the ball to left field sliding into third may have been safe, however was clearly out of the batter's box with both feet when she made contact with the ball. That being the case she is OUT.

wish parents that have the access to replays come out and try umpiring a game, see how easy it is

Bad positioning by the first ump due to inexperience or laziness lead to a fictional out call. Proper positioning in the wedge between the plate and the catcher means he is not screened out and sees the missed swipe attempt