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It appears that America’s most hated pro baseball umpire, Angel Hernandez, retired after a firestorm of attacks leveled by fans on social media.late last month after over 30 years as an MLB umpire. But he didn’t just announce his retirement. He retired on the spot, leaving immediately upon his announcement.
On May 28, the hated ump gave the well-known “I want to spend more time with my family” excuse for quitting. But some feel there are other reasons behind his sudden leap into retirement. ESPN’s Jeff Passan, for one, said that his abrupt run for the exits is because of the daily abuse he takes on social media, the“A lot of that stuff, frankly, led to him going away. He got tired of it. He got tired of the social media firestorm that exists,” Passan told Rich Eisen on Tuesday.
“Frankly, I will acknowledge this is understandable because there are parts of his job where he was genuinely bad,” Passa moaned. “And it was magnified by the ubiquity of baseball on social media now. And how every time he would do something wrong, it would get put out there, and then it would almost just compound upon itself, the last time, and it would bring up the Angel Hernandez highlight reel.
Indeed, the much-maligned ump even tried to sue the league for not giving him his own crew and alleged that he was discriminated against because he is Hispanic. He ignominiously“Hernández has failed to establish a statistically significant disparity between the promotion rates of white and minority umpires,” the appeals court held.
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