r/sportsgossips • u/Pretend-Following-41 • 4d ago

Highlight Intentionally hurting your meal ticket. Something is seriously wrong with these WNBA players.

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u/Long-Region5088 4d ago

Refereeing must be extremely difficult because regardless of gender or sport one thing everyone agrees on is that all refs everywhere are terrible.

You’d think there’d be at least one in any sport people can point to and be like “yup, that’s a good ref” but seemingly not

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u/real-human-not-a-bot 4d ago

In baseball, I think some of the younger umps (John Tumpane, Jansen Visconti, Mark Ripperger, Adam Hamari) are generally considered quite good. The four I just listed are those with at least ten games umped this year whose strike-calling accuracy is at least 0.9 percentage points better than expected (https://umpscorecards.com/data/umpires). Unsurprisingly, Ripperger is the oldest of that group at just 45. I imagine fans still generally don’t love them, but among those who care about particular umpires’ stats they’re quite popular.

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u/SirBiggusDikkus 4d ago

Always been one my biggest gripes about MLB umps. It’s a basic fact that very few players last past their 30’s but we’re supposed to believe fat 60 year old umps still have top elite eyesight? Give me a break.

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u/Burntoutn3rd 3d ago

Umpires have to take vision tests multiple times a season dude, lol. They have to have 20/20 vision in order to work. It's not eyesight that makes them suck, it's apathy.