Are You Kidding?!

The Umpires for the ALCS once again proved that they had money on which team went to the World Series.

I've proven in my previous posts their ineptitude. Now there's more. (As if I needed more proof).

Take a look at these two images:
How many of these runners are out? Are any of them making contact with the bag when they were tagged? Well, let's ask the runners. Posada, Cano, are you both out?
Yup. The runners clearly both think they are out. Here they are walking back to the dug out with no argument. What does the "umpire" say? Only one is out.

If that's not bad enough for you. Take a look at this:
Now, unless that runner is Gumby, Plastic Man, or Mrs. Incredible, then he's out. The "umpire" calls him safe. This one is not as egregious because the crew chief calls this runner out on third for leaving too early on a sacrifice fly. He didn't, but he never should have been on third, so they made up for that one.

I'm sorry, I've lost count, exactly how many blown calls have gone in favor of the Yankees?

And so now we have to resign ourselves to probably the most boring World Series imaginable. The defending world champions vs the team everyone expects to be there. Snooze-fest. There's not Cinderella team, no underdog, and no storied franchise in search of a long lost victory. The only interesting facts of this are match up is that it's A-Rod's first World Series (I'm expecting A-Rod to return to is usual October self) and Pedro has another opportunity to shut down the Yankees.

Hamels, Lee, Pedro vs Sabathia, Petit, Burnett. Edge goes to the Phillies.