Angel Hernandez's Awful Weekend | Foul Territory

The #FTCrew discuss the continued ineptitude of Angel Hernandez
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[@MattyIceYT]

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!

[@fredy.xb1]

You had me for a second not gonna lie 😂😂

[@irv17211]

that's an insult to the kids

[@kennethdavila6261]

@@fredy.xb1 I felt the same... until the end... LOL...

[@Dee_Rod]

Now I understand why he's an honoree at the special Olympics.

[@TheCrabError]

🤌

[@eddya.3776]

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

[@sentientmlem727]

Okay, now THAT was clever. I'm stealing that from you.

[@alexe1707]

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

[@adrian102]

I’ve thought about that many times 😅

[@budduggly7781]

Wouldn't that be wonderful!

[@MarkZischke]

Better, when do fans have the balls to walk out of the stadium???

[@Bizan]

I’d rather see a guy get “crossed up” and give him 102 in the mask 😂

[@GeekoTreecko]

I think a really interesting game would be two playoff teams where no one swings & the only thing that happens are like 75 mph fastballs that always are in the zone so it turns into like 20 innings of a slog of baseball. & the fans have to be in on it that would be insane

[@jaybird8192]

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

[@stronglikebull2994]

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.

[@cantstop21]

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

[@ScottyBraun-FoulTerritory]

YES!

[@bobito8997]

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

[@stanomano3245]

Needs to be the new 7th inning stretch song anytime Angel is behind the dish

[@Bacondive]

Incredible lmao

[@garygemmell3488]

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.

[@ScottyBraun-FoulTerritory]

we'll look back one day in shock that this kind of performance was acceptable

[@benjaminwirth1208]

Funny enough it’s actually a correct call based on all the data. The strike call that is anyway. The pitch itself should’ve been a quick pitch.

[@chrisweidner4768]

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

[@bigboi0402]

Angel is the one person who United every baseball fan

[@HonoluluBlue81]

#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?

[@shiftymenno]

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

[@Howesitgoing1]

Umpire Union.

[@anzalone138]

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

[@joemixon1704]

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

[@Fourrings80]

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

[@JustPlain_Sean]

And mlb is happy for the publicity

[@jaybird8192]

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

[@claude122]

they went at the same umpire school

[@georgerogers1166]

And Joe West to complete the crew.

[@markeyfarrell]

ELECTRIC UMPS ! Digital calls for strikes and balls

[@panchito9016]

honorable mention Laz Diaz and Phil Cuzzi

[@jaybird8192]

CB Buckner: "Hold my beer!"

[@rockorockwell1420]

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

[@martinrenzhofer8241]

He sued (twice) and lost.

[@JustMeELC]

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

[@jeremymcinturff985]

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

[@TOOMUCHSAUCE91]

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

[@scottclark6685]

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

[@jklax]

Please God no

[@thegreatgumbino420]

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

[@AbleAnderson]

The flow on this show is spotty

[@michaelrotter1134]

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

[@mbdg6810]

one of the last years of Manfred's term it is getting mplemented. I heard 2025 at earliest but it'll probably be later.

[@TheMcIke]

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.

[@jongorden4717]

Joe West? AJ

[@johnfoley8502]

Thankfully he has retired.

[@TheBenedictchan1]

There’s a difference. Joe West is just stubborn. When MLB changed the strike one in the 2000s, Joe West never adapted. If you watch his strike zone, it’s reminiscent of the old strike-zone. Angel Hernandez is just straight up awful whether it was pre or post the most recent strike zone change.

[@2011blueman]

Joe West retired and he actually wasn't terrible, he just had a massive ego and frequently made the games about him and his ego trips.

[@ChavTheBully]

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.

[@scsmith4604]

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.

[@meyou5336]

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

[@ScottyBraun-FoulTerritory]

right down the pipe that he's smoking

[@ryansgot]

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

[@gregthegroove]

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

[@richardmedina2619]

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

[@ronpeacock9939]

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..

[@Concorde653]

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

[@approachingtarget.4503]

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

[@dougsmith8104]

Boeing Quality Control employees have better eyes than Angel Hernandez.

[@davidbordonaro1631]

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

[@chadrowland4670]

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

[@jensonphillips1465]

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

[@bullettoothjosh]

Joe West, Angel Hernandez CB Buckner.

[@urge3v]

33 years is one hell of a long weekend

[@mymyankee7marrero149]

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

[@cazhgacel]

Loving the dead air in the beginning

[@YogGroove]

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.

[@allEyezOnDelphi]

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!!😂

[@mikemaynard2480]

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

[@DocPortland]

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.

[@roscoecoltrane843]

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.

[@positively_broad_st3780]

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

[@JRP357]

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 .

[@johnanthony9923]

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.

[@Howesitgoing1]

Some unions are really good, and some unions are really bad. Some are good at getting what they want, and some are really bad. The umpire union is really good at getting what they want while the NFLPA is terrible at getting what they want.

[@jamiemadden2924]

Watch me asshole

[@marklittle8805]

A union defends you from being unjustly fired. A union cannot stop you from being fired if you can't do the job.

[@Clutch275]

THE UNION IS SUPPOSED TO REMOVE TRASH to MAKE THE UNION BETTER...

[@jamiemadden2924]

It’s so cool how this is the union people go after and not the one that allows its members to murder people

[@marcor22044]

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

[@dougholdem2898]

Angel Hernandez is a reason to not unionize

[@DaGradyest]

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

[@Mephisto702]

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.

[@distantgalaxymusic1447]

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

[@mattmcrae1458]

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.

[@BHox01]

Manfred is a bona fide snake, but he wouldn't be doing what he's doing if the owners didn't want him to. Commissioners are the fall men for the owners at the end of the day.

[@RaoulDuke-bc1pm]

​@@BHox01You are correct. Manfred works for the owners. They hire him. They pay him.

[@Frank_E_Scialdone]

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.

[@tobybartlett8449]

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

[@Fly-The-W]

He’s called out more because like they said it’s how he handles it. He seems like he doesn’t give af and just keeps screwing up in the most obvious ways possible

[@tobybartlett8449]

Agree. Again not trolling just trying to add to the convo.

[@thewkovacs316]

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

[@TheodoreRizzo]

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

[@makeplays]

and it keeps getting WORSE from Angel

[@guyray1504]

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

[@joedobbins870]

Get rid of the sob

[@milnez]

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

[@mrzack388]

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

[@ricknorris1466]

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

[@McClimber234]

Give it a try on one of those simulators.

[@maxcrss2845]

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

[@shhhpark]

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

[@qwertyutopia4667]

No political/ economic analyst.

[@bhbecca]

I thought it was politics or the post office and the DMV a close third?

[@Not_a_smart_man]

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

[@HKim0072]

Isn't AAA using the robot umpires? They aren't even getting the same amount of reps anymore.

[@Howesitgoing1]

@@HKim0072 I believe AAA is doing the robot umpire for challenges on Balls and Strikes.

[@Fly-The-W]

I like the challenge system more than a full robo zone game too. Keeps the same feel but gets rid of clear egregious calls

[@Wesbowman5]

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

[@davidstockman7405]

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

[@generalimlerith8356]

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

[@dentonyoung4314]

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

[@ScottyBraun-FoulTerritory]

10 years ago yes

[@stanomano3245]

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

[@D_Da_Tree]

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.

[@tommo9942]

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

[@ScottyBraun-FoulTerritory]

true

[@bhbecca]

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.

[@user-jg6er4fe7o]

He needs to gooo

[@travisp5747]

4:34 broooo!!!! 💀 shit took me out

[@martinrenzhofer8241]

Detroit at Mets this season. Angel too.

[@matthewnickerson3991]

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

[@joshzysman3451]

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 😄.

[@ericdorsey7481]

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

[@ChampaBayBeast]

At least Hellen Keller had personality

[@wheresurritethumb]

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

[@jasonbestard]

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.

[@mbdg6810]

well a strike at the pitch + miss by rule is a swinging strike. the rule there is vague. I'd have to see the clip

[@McClimber234]

​@@mbdg6810it's not vague. Swinging at a pitched ball and missing is a strike. Strike supercedes everthing after that.

[@brandondavenport6147]

Angel is awesome

[@ScottyBraun-FoulTerritory]

awesome content I guess

[@seaneverett8224]

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

[@danny6032]

Angel Hernandez’s Awful Career FIFY

[@karencarman8336]

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

[@AnnoyedHikingTrail-es6yl]

At this point I really don’t think Angel does it on purpose, he just simply has made a career doing something he is terrible at. Therefore it is MLBs fault and nobody else for turning a blind eye to something that makes the sport embarrassing and pathetic. The lengths that these athletes go to to study and prepare both mentally and physically for something that comes down to a blind flip of a coin if you are unlucky enough to have him umpiring your game is ridiculous. The epitome of beating a dead horse. 100% will not change and MLB will not do a damn thing about it.

[@snuffyballparks6501]

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.

[@racer14glr91]

Facts.

[@anthonymaiori7055]

Umps should gets paid by performance

[@fateagle4life]

Angel has single handily cost baseball fans millions of dollars in Vegas. It's always a call that is that affects the lines.

[@michaelrotter1134]

To me the answer is a score card and those umpires with higher scores make more money. This would motivate umpires to do a better job