Man, Am I Tired Of Primadonna Umpires

Everywhere I looked tonight I saw nothing but umpires convinced they are the reason people bought tickets.

The Cards/Dodger game featured two primadonna. Home Plate umpire Jeff Kellogg is the worst kind of "Hey everybody!! Look at me!!!!!" umpire. You know the type. The kind of umpire that wants to make call, nay MUST make calls, even if the play didn't actually, you know, happen. Thus he says a player is hit by a pitch when they weren't, and he love to have his flamboyant strike out calls more then he likes to call strikes strikes and balls balls.

But Kellogg was excellent compared to First Base umpire Rob Drake, who not only misses a tag that any non-blind first grader could call correctly 100% of the time as it wasn't even close, but who takes it upon himself to attempt to bait Cardinals pitcher Chris Carpenter. All Drake proved was he is a wuss of the highest order. Carpenter basically just told him to shut the hell up, and good for Chris.

But, even Drake was not the worst umpire of the night. That accolade was earned by Home Plate umpire Mike Everitt in the Astros/Cubs game who not only escalates a confrontation with a Houston pitcher by coming out in front of the plate to bait him, but who throws him out of the game after the pitcher indicates that he'd like the umpire to, you know, get back behind the plate and call balls and strikes. The horror!!!! Doesn't he know that the little primadonna has a tiny little ego that bruises easier than an overripe tomato?

Ugh. I'm sorry but none of this shit went on in the 70's and 80's.

So Frustrating

I'm sorry, but attempting to watch the Cards on TV when Wellemeyer is pitching is nothing short of a suicide attempt for me. I know its gonna end badly, but I watch anyway with the resulting blood pressure spike. The Cards are not on that often up here, and for some reason Wellemeyer seems to pitch every other game they show. (Literally. I've seen 10 Cards games on TV this season and I've seen Wellemeyer 5 times and Piniero, Wainwright, Lohse, Thompson and Carpenter once each.)

When will the Cards wake up and realize Wellemeyer is this season's Kip Wells?

He needs to go, and soon.

Where Does CONCACAF Find These Walking Abortions?

Jeezus H Christ. What should have been a red card against the Mexican asshole (I hestitate to call him a "player" as he's a fucking flopper and a cheater) for a flying elbow in the box is instead called as a penalty against the U.S.

Welcome to bullshit 101.

Justice

Were there any justice in the world, this man would be fired from his job as an MLS ref, anally raped, and then shot.

And I'm a DC United fan, not a Seattle fan.

At least MLS should fine and suspend his amateur candy ass.

Hope?????

Oh my God....this could lead to something: Notts County takeover completed

Munto Finance have completed their takeover of Notts County, reports BBC Radio Nottingham.

Peter Trembling has been named as the club's new chairman and chief executive with Peter Willett alongside him on the board of directors.

Former directors, including chairman John Armstrong-Holmes, have resigned.

Trembling told BBC Radio Nottingham: "Our plans are very straightforward. We want to bring success back to Notts County Football Club."

He added: "We have already voiced our plans for the next five years, and that's very clearly to get us into the Championship.

You'll have to excuse me...I think I just soiled myself.

Really, this is what I (and every other Magpie fanatic) have been waiting years for. If there is real financial backing put behind the team I'll just...

Oops. I did it again.

Fuck Telemundo

I don't believe this shit:

The USA and Mexico will play a World Cup qualifier on Wed., Aug. 12 at Azteca Stadium, a massive match that offers the Americans perhaps their best chance to end a lifetime of misery in Mexico City and an opportunity for El Tri to redeem itself after a wobbly start to the hexagonal.

But if you are planning to watch the 4 p.m. ET match on the family of ESPN networks as you usually do for a USA qualifier, forget it.

Telemundo has the U.S. rights to Mexican matches -- not just the Spanish rights, but the English rights as well. While the main network will carry the game in Spanish, Telemundo senior vice president for sports Jorge Hidalgo told the Insider today that his company will keep the English rights and show the match on mun2, an eight-year-old cable outlet geared toward a younger Latino audience that regularly shows programming with audio in English. The identity of the announcers, who will call the game in English, will be unveiled soon, Hidalgo said.

What pieces of shit. What percentage of the fucking country even gets that station? 5%??? What percentage of English speaking people even fucking know about the damn thing? 0.1%?

Fuck 'em. Fuck 'em all.

I thought they were supposed to be an "American" television station.

I guess that was a lie. (No, I'm not surprised.)