You can't fix stupid
I know officiating is an incredibly difficult job, but what happened Monday night in Anaheim is a reason of why it can be difficult for me to work up much sympathy for the men in blue.
Officiating is an exceptionally hard job. Unbelievably difficult.
And I readily admit that there’s a great deal of unfair, unwarranted hostility that is endured by those men who’ve chosen to make a living by enforce an arbitrary and ever-changing set of rules that govern professional sports in our country. Furthermore, while I believe I’ve become a more mature human being in my 40s, I’ll admit that I continue to contribute to that sum total of unfair and unwarranted hostility. But what happened on Monday night in Anaheim is a reason that I don’t feel as guilty as I should when I remark upon the remarkable tendency of absolute morons to congregate to the profession of umpiring.
In case you missed it, Julio Rodriguez lined an 0-2 pitch from Shohei Ohtani down the right-field line in the third inning. Rodriguez circled the bases. Then, the umpires got together — which always makes me nervous — and decided it was a foul ball. The play was then reviewed.
