This was at the end of the August 4 Mets-Marlins game. Angel Hernandez is one of the most notoriously incompetent umps in the game, and he’s been at it for years.
Mets announcer Ron Darling intones,
“It’s not an official game until Angel Hernandez plays a big role in it.”
Responds his partner, Gary Cohen,
“Angel Devil?”
Cohen, regarding a Marlins star: “Brian Anderson, now an advocate of computerized umpiring.”
Hernandez blew two calls in one at-bat, including punching out Anderson on a 3-2 pitch that was low and away.
Racist ump?Why not?
ReplyDeleteAre there any Mex that argue with him?If yes-- just incompetent.
--GRA
RICHARDS OUT AS JEOPARDY HOST; SOCIAL POLICE GET RID OF ANOTHER WHITE GUY
ReplyDeleteGRA:I didn't like him because he acted liberal during his stint,They may get their minority host yet.
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Producer Mike Richards stepped down from his brief tenure as host of “Jeopardy!” after a report about past misogynistic comments surfaced this week and following a drumbeat of criticism about his selection and how it was made.
Richards was chosen last week as the successor to Alex Trebek, a decision that was seen as divisive from the beginning after the show had embarked on a search that included actors, sports figures, journalists and celebrities.
Earlier this week, The Ringer website revealed demeaning comments about women, the homeless and others that Richards had made on a 2013-14 podcast, “The Randumb Show.” The clips were removed online after the report was posted.
“Over the last several days it has become clear that moving forward as host would be too much of a distraction for our fans and not the right move for the show,” Richards said in a note to the “Jeopardy!” staff on Friday.
Richards said a search for a new host will begin, with guest hosts returning to continue production for the new season.
But viewers will get to see the short-lived emcee in action. The episodes that Richards taped Thursday will air when the show returns for its 38th season starting Sept. 13; a do-over with a substitute host would be a slap at the contestants and further undermine the show.
Richards’ note indicated that he will remain the show’s executive producer — an awkward situation for whoever replaces him.
“Jeopardy!” champion James Holzhauer, who holds the record for single-game winnings and is No. 3 for all-time winnings, offered a sarcastic reaction to Richards’ exit.
“I was really looking forward to the season premiere where after an exhaustive 61-clue search for the next Jeopardy champion, the show looks past the three obvious candidates and declares Mike Richards the winner,” Holzhauer tweeted.
When Richards was tapped to host the popular game show last week, Sony also announced that actor Mayim Bialik would emcee “Jeopardy!” prime-time and spinoff series, including a new college championship.
Giving the flagship show to Richards, who’s firmly in the cookie-cutter host mold of a white, square-jawed young man, struck some as proof of an insincere effort by the studio to consider a woman, a person of color or someone from the LGBTQ community. More than half of the guest hosts fall into one or more of those groups.
(GRA:You can tell this is AP)
Doubts also grew about the fairness of the selection process, with reports finding holes in Richards’ repeated assertion that the decision was Sony’s and he had no role in it.
On the podcast, Richards used derogatory, crude language about women and their bodies. At one point he says his female co-host and former assistant was a “booth ho” and “booth slut” when she worked at a trade show. He also made mocking remarks about Jews and Asians and disparaged the homeless.
“It is humbling to confront a terribly embarrassing moment of misjudgment, thoughtlessness, and insensitivity from nearly a decade ago,” Richards said in a statement to The Ringer staff writer Claire McNear, who first reported on the podcasts. He called the remarks inexcusable, adding, “I am deeply sorry.”
McNear, author of the 2020 book, “Answers in the Form of Questions: A Definitive History and Insider’s Guide to Jeopardy!” said Thursday that “Jeopardy!” had become an unimpeachable part of pop culture.
“Everybody knew ‘Jeopardy!’ and everybody loved ‘Jeopardy!’ and Trebek was not controversial. It was just this great trivia show. And now it is controversial and that’s not going away,” she said.
UPDATED:SOUTH HAVEN SHOOTER AND ONE VIC DEAD,ONE IN CRITICAL CONDITION.
ReplyDeleteGRA:"Working to get victims identified."
We'll only know the race at that time.
-GRA