Oklahoma?

[th3]

 Kyle Salomon thinks you stink:

 

http://mustangnews.info/?s=umpire&submit=Search

 

some excerpts:

 

Last Friday evening in Norman at the L. Dale Mitchell Park on the campus of the University of Oklahoma, I witnessed the worst call I have ever seen in high school sports.

 

and

 

I don’t know if that home plate umpire had a vendetta against Jenks that night or if he was just ready to go home, but it was clear he had made the decision to take the game into his own hands and crush the dreams of winning a state championship for those young men from Jenks.

 

and

 

However, this article is not about Jenks not having the opportunity to win the baseball game and advance to have an opportunity at a state title on the diamond. This article is about the lack of quality officiating throughout the state of Oklahoma when it comes to high school sports.

 

[Stan W.]

I guess it could have happened just the way this writer said it did..............but I doubt it.......and i hope it didn't....

[scrounge]

someone needs a pacifier

[umpcoachfather]

I like the tone, basically "Hey, I'm biased to begin with, but the umpires are bad, and cost my school...."

[zm1283]

What a little crybaby. I would be willing to bet the two pitches were not right down the middle.

 

 

This kind of error doesn’t just happen in baseball, it happens in every single high school sport across Oklahoma. As long as the Oklahoma Secondary School Activities Association continues to ignore the fact that their officials are below average, the integrity of high school sports in our great state will be under strict questioning.

 

 

Below average in relation to what? What is the average?

 

 

 

Imagine the devastation those kids went through after spending countless hours working their tails off to have the opportunity to win a state title, only to have it taken away by a cowardly umpire in a state semifinal game.

 

That's quite the accusation. 

 

The message needs to be simple and clear to the OSSAA – high school athletics in this state is way too important and way too good to have it ruined by the worst officiating system in the nation. Something has to change, and it starts with the OSSAA.

 

 

1. No, it's not that important in the grand scheme.

 

2. How does he know it's the worst in the nation?

[StrikeToWin]

I watched the game and the final walk-off walk on TV looked justified.  Jenks is an uppity school that thinks they don't ever deserve to lose in any sport.  They don't even act like they are in Oklahoma by saying they are from Jenks, America instead of Jenks, OK.  I don't know who the HP umpire was but I didn't find that the pitches were really called that bad.  They were borderline low and the umpire had called a great game to that point.  But lack of class after the game because they couldn't take care of things on the field is what the true story should be about.  On TV, they did not show the results but I saw the pitcher head straight for the HP umpire yelling at him.  It was not a good sight.  Oklahoma has some very good umpires in the OSSAA (I am just in my first year of officiating high school ball for OSSAA) and I don't think this article is a good representation of the officiating in the state.  Just my .02.

[SoCal Lurker]

 I don't know who the HP umpire was but I didn't find that the pitches were really called that bad.  They were borderline low and the umpire had called a great game to that point. 

 

You can't be right.  It said right in the article that they were straight down the middle.  I mean seriously, which is more believeable, that the guy in the stands was wrong, or that the umpire who was doing an exciting semi-final game suddenly got the urge to screw over a team just for the heck of it? 

[StrikeToWin]

They were down the middle (at least from the TV angle) but they looked low (again, from the TV angle).  Jenks whines about a lot.  It is an upper-class area suburb of Tulsa that thinks if they don't win, it can't be their fault.  Daddy-ball all the way around even at the high school level.

[GreyhoundAggie]

Would love to see this video. But yeah, let's blame the umps is always the reason you lost. Nevermind the fact the bases were loaded in the first place to allow that to happen.

[zm1283]

I forgot about that part. You load the bases, get behind in the count 2-0, throw two borderline pitches and all of a sudden the umpire is out to screw you on purpose.