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Very First Call by Very First Female Umpire in MLB Was a Bad One
https://rumble.com ^ | 8/10/25 | Posted on Rumble

Posted on 08/11/2025 4:56:14 AM PDT by Enterprise

Very First Call by Very First Female Umpire in MLB Was a Bad One

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TOPICS: Sports
KEYWORDS: baseball; doh; mendontmakemistakes; sports; umpire; women

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To: KingLudd

The problem was the liability lawyers and insurance requirement. As a result all non supervised fields shut down. Look in the mirror. The problem was each of us that allowed the legal establishment to rule our lives. We elected lawyers to the legislature and local offices and they worked in their interests. Suprise.


61 posted on 08/11/2025 6:15:37 AM PDT by georgiarat (We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it. William Faulkner )
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To: Enterprise
The first time she ejects a player from the game:

PLAYER: "Why are you throwing me out of the game?"

UMPIRE: "You know what you did!"

PLAYER: "No, I don't!"

UMPIRE: "Well if you don't know, I'm not going to tell you!"

62 posted on 08/11/2025 6:21:15 AM PDT by GreenHornet
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To: Hot Tabasco

They’ll probably raise prices for the scout seats (behind home plate).


63 posted on 08/11/2025 6:48:20 AM PDT by Tell It Right (1 Thessalonians 5:21 -- Put everything to the test, hold fast to that which is true.)
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To: Enterprise

You think that’s bad, just wait till they are allowed to drive!


64 posted on 08/11/2025 6:53:20 AM PDT by Bob434 (Time flies like an arrow, fruit flies like a banana)
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To: spincaster
Give her a break ,at least till the next pitch.

A terrible call on the very first pitch is certainly newsworthy.

But yes I would be curious to see how her remaining calls went.

65 posted on 08/11/2025 7:13:54 AM PDT by FreeReign
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To: KingLudd
This marks the final chapter for baseball. Throes of death.

I agree. First came astroturf, then the designated hitter, then the merger of the two leagues into a single organization, regular season inter-league play, doing away with the intentional walk, and now (I think) speeding up the game via a clock where baseball was the only major sport that had no clock (games were far too long, however).

Baseball is such a part of this country, crossing every geographic, demographic, and ideological line. This is heart breaking.

66 posted on 08/11/2025 7:18:31 AM PDT by Zionist Conspirator (בראשית ברא אלקים את השמים ואת הארץ)
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To: Zionist Conspirator

It’s telling though that the Savannah Bananas sell out every game they play, even in the big-league ballparks they play.

It’s all about the fans, and they get that.


67 posted on 08/11/2025 7:20:51 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: T.B. Yoits
May these sportsball korporations whose members knelt in solidarity with Communist organizations such as Black Lives MatterTM disappear into the dustbin of history.

Good riddance to bad rubbish.



68 posted on 08/11/2025 7:23:51 AM PDT by T.B. Yoits
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To: Enterprise

The gender bender bullcrap is so destructive. Why do men have to have every masculine space invaded by women? It’s exactly like Bill Burr said, they don’t want their own things. They want to ruin ours.


69 posted on 08/11/2025 7:37:09 AM PDT by DesertRhino (When men on the chessboard, get up and tell you where to go…)
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To: Enterprise
Honestly, of the major sports, seems like MLB would be the most amenable to female umpires because they don't have to move quickly, and it isn't a contact sport.

But that was a bad call.

70 posted on 08/11/2025 7:38:21 AM PDT by Bruce Campbells Chin ( )
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To: Enterprise

Next up female players....

Why can’t they let the guys have their own spaces?


71 posted on 08/11/2025 7:41:57 AM PDT by Bigg Red ( Lord, make me an instrument of your peace.)
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To: Enterprise

I am not going to bash a brand new rookie ref with the jitters on their first day. Let. me know how she does after her first full year.

I can’t think of any reason a woman can’t be a baseball umpire. Women shouldn’t be army soldiers or fire fighters, but I don’t see any problem with umpire.

Now, should they be NFL umpires? Probably not. You need to run fast enough to keep up with the play and many women can’t. But baseball umpire standing behind home plate calling balls and strikes? You don’t even have to be tall to see over the catcher.


72 posted on 08/11/2025 7:42:45 AM PDT by Freedom_Is_Not_Free (America -- July 4, 1776 to November 3, 2020 -- R.I.P.)
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To: Enterprise

How long will we even have human umpires calling balls and strikes? AI will be doing it before long and every venue will have the exact same strike zone.


73 posted on 08/11/2025 7:44:18 AM PDT by Freedom_Is_Not_Free (America -- July 4, 1776 to November 3, 2020 -- R.I.P.)
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To: T.B. Yoits
Major League Baseball never recovered from the strike in 1994.

Funny you should mention that. I had grown up going to many MLB games as a kid (a frequent-favorite activity of our church youth group.) In 1994, just a few years after graduating high school, I saw a bunch of rich guys complaining about not getting paid enough for playing a game . At that moment, I decided that they never needed another penny from me.

Every once in a while, I feel the slight urge to take the family to a game. It seems like a fun distraction for a few hours. But, then, I remember 1994 and the urge passes ;-)

74 posted on 08/11/2025 7:48:13 AM PDT by GizmosAndGadgets ( Government big enough to take away your light bulbs is big enough to do any damn thing it wants to.)
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To: Fury

Very sensitive of you. Put on a dress and swish around for us. I guess men and women should also run around wearing the same jump suit clothes like on Star Trek.


75 posted on 08/11/2025 7:50:14 AM PDT by DesertRhino (When men on the chessboard, get up and tell you where to go…)
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To: struggle

Are we sure she’s not Angel Hernandez with a wig?


76 posted on 08/11/2025 7:50:30 AM PDT by OrangeHoof (Thank you, Trump, Musk, Leavitt....)
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To: Freedom_Is_Not_Free

That’ll be horrible to have AI and computers running the game. Let’s let big tech make everything as soulless as possible.


77 posted on 08/11/2025 7:51:50 AM PDT by DesertRhino (When men on the chessboard, get up and tell you where to go…)
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To: DesertRhino

You just can’t argue the point. Sad, but not unexpected.

Tell us SPECIFICALLY why she is not cut out for the job.

And why would you want to see a male put on a dress. Dude - get some help - seriously.


78 posted on 08/11/2025 7:58:24 AM PDT by Fury
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To: Enterprise

I would rather watch Banana Ball.


79 posted on 08/11/2025 7:58:51 AM PDT by Tommy Revolts
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To: Freedom_Is_Not_Free

The ABS (Automatic Balls-Strikes System) is coming. In was tested during Spring Training at selected parks.

There’s a way to stop that - umpires getting to be more consistent in their calls of balls/strikes.


80 posted on 08/11/2025 8:00:20 AM PDT by Fury
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