LogFAQs > #979280524

GunmaN1905 posted...

Unlike most other sports, the league has no power to remove those refs and we have to watch them make it all about themselves game in and game out.

Baseball has the same problem with their umpires. It's why Angel Hernandez is still around, being the worst fucking umpire you've ever seen, blowing calls left and right while power-tripping and ejecting anyone who argues with him. MLB even started doing league-wide umpire evaluations to objectively quantify just how shit at his job Angel Hernandez is, and they still can't fire him.

I wouldn't be surprised if some MLB umpires also have money on games like I'm sure some NBA refs do. But at the same time, I think more games and point spreads are swung in baseball by sheer incompetence rather than active fixing, because there are a lot of genuinely terrible umpires still in the league.