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Bring on the robots... I've had it with the "Ump Show."
In case you've never heard of the term "Ump Show," it simply refers to the act of a major league baseball umpire taking over a game by making themselves the center of attention. Unfortunately, it happens a lot more than it should, though the retirement of Angel Hernández did help the fight against bad umping.
But it looks like home plate umpire Emil Jimenez is making up for the loss of Hernández. Earlier today, the second year ump successfully took the attention away from the "old ballgame" and shined the spotlight right on himself. A questionable call on a pitch garnered a look from the batter, Washington Nationals outfielder Lane Thomas, and that eye contact apparently warranted an ejection in the eyes of the umpire.
You can go ahead and watch the video below - though I'll warn you, it doesn't make the whole situation make any more sense:
https://twitter.com/Bobby_Blanco/status/1801325194763768215?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1801325194763768215%7Ctwgr%5E15c008240a55470ca8ef65
As you can see (and as you can hear in the collective despondence of the announcers), Thomas merely looked back at the home plate umpire. He didn't say anything. He didn't gesture anything. He didn't even blink a curse word in morse code.
EJECTED.
If you look up "Ump Show" in the dictionary, this should be in the "see example" portion. This is a textbook case of an umpire needing to make a game about himself, thus taking out his anger and ineptitude on an undeserving MLB player. Needless to say, social media was pretty fired up about the unnecessary ejection:
