We Had A Peak "Ump Show" Moment Last Night When An Umpire Got In Jeremy Peña's Face

A new Ump Show achievement has been unlocked by confronting a player in the batter's box and demanding that he respect your authority. Jerry Layne had his ego slightly damaged after Jeremy Peña disagreed with a strike call so he told him to pipe down and take his medicine. He ejected the Astros hitting coach and shooed the dugout like they weren't allowed to question him. To make matters worse, it was actually a bad call! The MLB has a real-time strike zone on TV broadcasts and it clearly wasn't even a strike. Jeremy Peña had a case and the umpire looks like a giant asshole once again.  

If there's an internal grading system for MLB umpires, it needs to be scrapped. If there was anything like that in place, how do you explain umpires like Angel Hernandez and CB Bucknor being blissfully employed, even being rewarded with high leverage games for close to 30 years? It's always confusing how they're allowed to be bad at their job with little to no accountability. Last night's entire confrontation was because Jerry Layne is ass at calling balls and strikes (his job) and someone told him that.

This all begs the question: Is it time for robot umps? Or do we wanna keep trotting out these Medicare-ass umpires with Napoleon complexes that can't take any heat whatsoever? I don't know what was said when he got up in Peña's personal perimeter but judging from Peña's reaction it was not nice. I can't imagine he went to all that trouble to tell Peña "hey man, sorry I missed that one, it was outside". Plus, his staredown and "shoo fly don't bother me" (disrespectful!) of the Astros dugout would indicate that big butthole behavior was taking place. 

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