I have to be honest and say I’ve seen some poor umpires at the HSV level, but in general, the umpires do a pretty darn good job. But then again, not every person who can put on the gear is allowed to umpire HSV games here. There are one heck of a lot of umpires certified to call Fr and JV games that aren’t certified to call V games. In fact, since they all come from the same assc, many of our HSV umpires also call college and pro games too.
So if y’all are seeing such rotten umpiring, all I can say is, that’s really too bad, but I do wonder how bad the umpiring really is. How often is asking a pitcher, catcher, or hitter where a pitch was is gonna get an answer that’s accurate? For that matter, how accurate is a coach or fan gonna be when he makes that judgment?
Someone has to tell me again why having technology calling pitches not swung would be such a bad thing. Could it be that it would be a lot harder to pile the blame on someone other than themselves? 