We all bad mouth Umps at various times. Here's an overview on why we hate some Umps more than others.

start with game 3 vs Dodgers plate Ump Fiedlin Culbreth

That is why it is deeply shocking that MLB will act to discipline an umpiring crew chief, Fieldin Culbreth, who allowed a manager to break a rule that has been on the books in various forms for 104 years.


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Culbreth gets 2 gane suspension from mlb for error in last nights game

Moving on ---

From SBNation

1)Angel Hernandez is rated the worst Ump.

Perhaps because he made a major mishap so freshly in recent memory, but Angel Hernandez easily tops this list.

In fact, even the MLB admits Hernandez and his officiating crew made an “improper call” in Wednesday’s game between the Oakland Athletics and Cleveland Indians.

2)Next is CB Bucknor

In an anonymous survey of 100 MLB players, 42 percent named Bucknor on their ballots; the highest of any ump in the big leagues.

3)Cowboy singer Joe West is next

Perhaps the most notorious umpire in baseball, Joe West came right behind Bucknor in the 2010 ESPN survey with his name on 40 percent of ballots as worst umpire.

West was cited as baseball’s “quickest hook” as well in the poll.

Perhaps the most troubling is how West injects his voice into the game.

In 2010 he called out the New York Yankees and Boston Red Sox for playing a “pathetic and embarrassing” pace of game. Despite this, West was not fined or suspended or even severely chastised by the league.

4)Marty Foster

Foster may not be the worst umpire in baseball, but you know an ump has some work to do when even they admit to making a bad call.

That’s what Foster did this April when a blown call gave Texas Rangers closer Joe Nathan his 300th career save in a game against the Tampa Bay Rays.

Texas won 5-4 when Foster called out Rays batter Ben Zobrist looking with a full count. Nathan said he thought the pitch was ball four, and following the game, so did Foster, saying that, “had I had a chance to do it again, I wouldn’t call that pitch a strike.”

Again, Foster isn’t the worst umpire in the MLB, but that call isn’t the type of thing you want on your resume.


5)Balk-a-day Bob Davidson

Sometimes it isn’t necessarily the skill-set that makes for a bad ump. Such is the case with Davidson, who brings a hot temper to the field.

In a game last year between the Houston Astros and Philadelphia Phillies, Davidson obstructed Phillies catcher Brian Schneider from picking up a dropped third strike call. Philadelphia manager Charlie Manuel took the field and got into a heated argument with Davidson.

Following the game, Major League Baseball suspended Davidson for one game for “repeated violations of the Office of the Commissioner’s standards for situation hearing.” Clearly this was not the umpire’s first violation.

Davidson has also earned the nickname of Balkin’ Bob, hardly the type of honor you want to earn in the umpiring profession. In 2011, he was cited by Sports Illustrated as the fourth-worst umpire in baseball in a player poll.

Sometimes it isn’t necessarily the skill-set that makes for a bad ump. Such is the case with Davidson, who brings a hot temper to the field.

In a game last year between the Houston Astros and Philadelphia Phillies, Davidson obstructed Phillies catcher Brian Schneider from picking up a dropped third strike call. Philadelphia manager Charlie Manuel took the field and got into a heated argument with Davidson.

Following the game, Major League Baseball suspended Davidson for one game for “repeated violations of the Office of the Commissioner’s standards for situation hearing.” Clearly this was not the umpire’s first violation.

Davidson has also earned the nickname of Balkin’ Bob, hardly the type of honor you want to earn in the umpiring profession. In 2011, he was cited by Sports Illustrated as the fourth-worst umpire in baseball in a player poll.


5 more from another site-- Top Tens

Vic Carapazza
Phil Cuzzi
Alfonzo Marquez
Jerry Meals
Ron Kulpa


I'm sure most of the posters on this site would agree with the lists. Maybe not the order, but the lists in general.