Shocker: Angel Hernandez Continues To Lose In Court As He Refuses To Accept His Terrible Umpiring Is The Reason He Can't Work The World Series
Julio Aguilar. Getty Images.Umpire Ángel Hernández lost again in his racial discrimination lawsuit against Major League Baseball when a federal appeals court refused to reinstate his case Tuesday.
The 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals upheld a 2021 District Court decision that granted MLB a summary judgment.
Hernández, who was born in Cuba and hired as a big league umpire in 1993, sued in 2017. He alleged he was discriminated against because he had not been assigned to the World Series since 2005 and had been passed over for promotion to crew chief.
Angel Hernandez might be the most unintentionally funny person in all of sports. While being very obviously one of the worst assessors of sports rules in the world, he is hellbent on proving that Major League Baseball has discriminated against him for years. He lost in court today as he once again attempted to show MLB officials are out to get him.
Angel is so bad at his job that I feel like he's become known by even non-baseball fans. You hear that name and you know it's got a negative connotation attached with it. He's that bad. I mean look at some of these examples.
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At this point I'm not really sure why any players actually take the field when he's calling balls and strikes behind the plate. It's a disaster every single time without fail. At least in the field there are challenges to overrule his incompetence, but when it comes to the strike zone we're not there yet. Whenever they do promote the challenge system to the majors it'll be a straight up comedy show.
You know who has a legitimate bone to pick with Angel? Actual minority MLB umpires who might have a legitimate case of being discriminated. Instead of hearing them out, they've got this bozo leading the charge when he has no shot of making any sort of positive impact.
Angel has some balls for suing MLB over this when in reality if the umpire union wasn't as strong as it currently is he'd be out of a job. Him and Laz Diaz are seemingly untouchable and there's pretty much nothing we can do about it. Baseball's next strike might not have to do with the CBA, but more than people just refuse to play games with those guys involved. There's a reason he's not allowed to ump the World Series and it's because his poor performance would wrongfully award the winner. You'd remember the World Series because of Angel's blown call more than a player's big moment. I look forward to Angel finding a way to appeal this decision in a few years and continuing to fight this un-winnable war. If there's one thing you can't knock about him it's his oblivious, unbreakable effort to proving he's right.