Talk:Angel Hernandez (umpire)
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[edit] On dropping the strike-zone slash roadie comments
As I write this, Terry Francona is in a standoff with our very subject over Mr. Hernandez's insistence that the Baltimore Orioles pitcher throw to home plate, even though the batter, Julio Lugo, is not in the batter's box ... twice! "You don't see that every day," says the Red Sox announcer.
Anyway.
I don't do a lot of Wikiwork, because the depths of complexity make my head spin. But the Hernandez article was crying out for referencing. So I decided to browse Nexis. I was unable to find any verification for the claims that Hernandez (a) is a roadie (b) has an erratic strike zone. So I deleted those claims. In their place, I posted everything I could find about Hernandez, which beyond the incidental stuff (e.g., an ejection written up by a hometown beat writer) wasn't much.
However, I think the 1999 MLBPA rankings and his survival of the NL umpire purge and the subsequent reaction, buttressed by the nationally publicized incidents with Mariano Duncan and Steve McMichael sufficiently separate him from run-of-the-mill controversial umpires.
[edit] False Report
"He ejected an organist in 1988 at a minor league game for playing the "Mickey Mouse Club" theme song.[5]"
According to the source given, Hernandez did not eject anyone this game. Can someone either take this comment out or reword it better?ADman 19:17, 25 May 2007 (UTC)
"Lambert Bartak, who has played the organ for the Royals for 15 years, was ejected from Rosenblatt Stadium by Umpire Tony Maners for playing the theme song from the Mickey Mouse Club Thursday night.
On Thursday, the Omaha catcher, Larry Owen, questioned a call by the home-plate umpire, Angel Hernandez. Out came Manager Glenn Ezell of Omaha. While they were debating, Bartak played M-I-C-K-E-Y M-O-U-S-E. Maners motioned toward the lower press box, where the stadium organ is located, and gave Bartak the heave-ho."
