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Yahoo Sports<\/a>: Cincinnati Reds give umpire CB Bucknor a bad day at the office, challenging his calls with Automated Ball Strike (ABS) multiple times, getting them overturned every time<\/span><\/p>\n The best part about this article is that this story was entirely one that was always going to happen.\u00a0 It was never a matter of if<\/em>, it was always when<\/em> it was going to come out.\u00a0 And with 2026 being the season in which MLB has implemented the ABS challenge system into place, it took all of just two games before this came to fruition. \u00a0And to the surprise of nobody who follows baseball, it of course involves, CB Bucknor.<\/span><\/p>\n When Angel Hernandez retired two years ago, what was really great was that it was completely unanimous that the umpire that would take the mantle of being the worst in Major League Baseball, was CB Bucknor.\u00a0 Baseball fans basically are incapable of coming to any sort of agreements, about anything, no matter how much statistical evidence there might be, but even still, this was one that came to a consensus pretty quickly, without much incident.<\/span><\/p>\n Even the clowns in the BBWAA could probably come to a unanimous decision on whom the worst umpire in MLB was after Angel\u2019s retirement.<\/span><\/p>\n Anyway, frankly the only reason it only took two games for CB Bucknor to get exposed as the incompetent umpire everyone knew he was, was the fact that he didn\u2019t have home plate duties on the first game of the season.\u00a0 And I have a feeling that this article is going to pop up multiple times throughout the season, until either the rules are tweaked, or Bucknor up and retires spontaneously, to save himself the indignity of getting exposed every five games.<\/span><\/p>\n Frankly, umpires getting exploited by ABS is basically my favorite subplot of the entire season, and I have a feeling there are going to be a lot more articles throughout the course of the season of ABS having a noteworthy impact on games, and not just including exclusively CB Bucknor.\u00a0 There are still plenty of other shitty umps like Laz Diaz, Lance Barksdale, Hunter Wendelstedt and Jim Wolf<\/a> who will have their chances throughout the season to shine under the lights.<\/span><\/p>\n I really am a fan of ABS.\u00a0 For generations, fans, on top of the players have been powerless against the all-powerful calls of umpires, and it\u2019s fantastic to finally see the game evolve to where umpires are finally given some oversight where they can be held accountable for their calls.\u00a0 It may peter off in the future, but I feel like this season is going to be 180 years of pent-up frustration, aggravation and pettiness unleashed onto officiating crews, and it\u2019s either going to weed out the incompetent, or we\u2019re going to have some really interesting baseball games over the next few years.<\/span><\/p>\n I think my favorite part about ABS challenges is that not only is it done in the most public and spectacle fashion, so that the results are shown not just to the players and umpire, but also the entire attending audience, it\u2019s the fact that after the graphic shows the correct result of the pitch, there\u2019s always a few seconds pause before the mathematical result of just how right or wrong pops up, just to kind of punctuate the result, rubbing it into whomever the loser of the challenge was.<\/span><\/p>\n Baseball is full of ownage on a regular basis, but ABS allows for a new methodology of it, involving technology, spectacle, and basically a double-down scenario for pitchers and players to want to gamble with.\u00a0 But it has been telling that the general initial result of ABS challenges in regular season baseball has been more favorable towards players<\/a> over the umpires, showing that perhaps players haven\u2019t just been whining and bitching for generations now.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Yahoo Sports: Cincinnati Reds give umpire CB Bucknor a bad day at the office, challenging his calls with Automated Ball Strike (ABS) multiple times, getting them overturned every time The best part about this article is that this story was entirely one that was always going to happen.\u00a0 It was never a matter of if, … Continue reading Umpires getting owned by ABS is my favorite subplot of the 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