r/baseball • u/Wallaby_Wallaby • Sep 05 '26

Players Only Full Sequence of umpire Doug Eddings on a power trip

  1. Demanded that pitcher Hancel Rincon (in his MLB debut) straighten his hat since no one will wear a hat like that on "his field".

  2. Cardinals manager Oli Marmol went to talk to Eddings about the hat incident during a pitching change, Eddings gave the Cardinals a pitch clock violation and ejected Marmol.

  3. A couple batters later, with the Cardinals out of challenges, Eddings made a terrible call on a play at the plate to gift the Rockies the lead.

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u/Lord_Hitachi Pittsburgh Pirates Sep 05 '26

Doug Eddings is a big fat baby of a man

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u/MarcQ1s Boston Red Sox Sep 05 '26

He seems a little racist. Nobody complains when Sonny Grey wears his hat off to the side.

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u/CharcoalGreyWolf Chicago Cubs Sep 05 '26

Pedro Strop did it his entire time with the Cubs including the 2016 World Series win year, with zero problems.

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u/Speech-Language Sep 05 '26

Satchel Paige’s Hall of Fame plaque shows him with his hat cocked.

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u/juanthebaker Seattle Mariners Sep 05 '26

The cocked hat was part of the Fernando Rodney Experience™.

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u/argonzo Chicago Cubs Sep 05 '26

MLB featured Dontrelle Willis big time back in the day.

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u/firesticks Toronto Blue Jays Sep 05 '26

God I had such a love hate relationship with him. Loved everything except having to face him.

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u/juanthebaker Seattle Mariners Sep 05 '26

Honestly it was a complicated relationship when he was on the Mariners too. Good for the cardiologists in town.

He almost always worked his way out of jams, but clean innings felt very rare.

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u/The_Commandant Chicago Cubs Sep 05 '26 edited Sep 05 '26

Pedro Strop did it his entire time with the Cubs including the 2016 World Series win year, with zero problems.

Not according to my dad. eye roll

It was a personal triumph of mine when I finally got him to admit in, like, 2019 that Strop was good and the only reason he didn’t like him was because of the hat.

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u/CharcoalGreyWolf Chicago Cubs Sep 05 '26

I’ll admit I’m the old school bent brim cocked back guy…but that doesn’t mean I get to decide it for someone else.

Guess that’s why I wouldn’t make a good umpire, eh?

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u/Laetha Toronto Blue Jays Sep 05 '26

Dontrelle Willis did his whole career.

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u/DrWarhol_419 New York Yankees Sep 05 '26

I would’ve loved for him to try to tell CC Sabathia to fix his hat when he was still active. Dude would’ve landed in the outfield like a lawn dart.

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u/RightJellyfish Toronto Blue Jays Sep 05 '26

Yeah, it's not as if baseball has a rich tradition of white guys wearing their hats like fucking dorks. Doug needs to go look at pictures of Babe Ruth.

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u/Legitimate-Week7885 Pittsburgh Pirates Sep 05 '26

Babe Ruth was black.

https://giphy.com/gifs/tyqcJoNjNv0Fq

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u/Xno_Kappa New York Yankees Sep 05 '26

Dominican*

His real name was Beivy Rodriguez. But America ain’t ready for that conversation yet!

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u/trashlikeyou St. Louis Cardinals Sep 05 '26

I thought he didn’t exist! I’m getting all crossed up.

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u/nathan753 Detroit Tigers Sep 09 '26

For those that need help remembering, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hkS-5ytKm3I

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u/RightJellyfish Toronto Blue Jays Sep 05 '26

Yeah, just like Jesus, but he wasn't perceived as a POC by baseball and the general public.

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u/Head_Bread_3431 American League Sep 06 '26

Tbf in baseball Jesus can refer to like 2 dozen guys 

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u/Ghiggs_Boson St. Louis Cardinals Sep 05 '26

He does wear number 88 on his sleeve…

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u/dhporter Arizona Diamondbacks Sep 05 '26

I'm done giving anyone that's not a wide receiver the benefit of the doubt for wearing 88 in this day and age.

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u/sonic_dick Sep 06 '26

I havent seen a WR pick a number in the 80s in a decade.

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u/mthrfkn Brooklyn Dodgers Sep 05 '26

The optics feel racist, I agree. Crazy if MLB doesn’t address it.

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u/elimanninglightspeed New York Yankees Sep 05 '26

Optics were absolutely racist lmao. Theres always certain things with these ppl when you can very much tell they’re being racist

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u/enginbeeringSB San Diego Padres Sep 05 '26

Or Mason Miller.

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u/PossiblyMakingThisUp New York Yankees Sep 05 '26

Did you notice his number is 88?

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u/secretlyloaded San Diego Padres Sep 05 '26

88 Hmm.

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u/fuchsia_fascia Chicago Cubs Sep 05 '26

Unflaired making stupidly divisive comments? Say it ain't so...

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u/MarcQ1s Boston Red Sox Sep 05 '26

lol, I fixed it

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u/Itsme340 Atlanta Braves Sep 05 '26

Big fat piss baby of a man.

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u/PopAndLocknessMonstr Cleveland Guardians • Columbus Clippe… Sep 05 '26

I heard that he likes to piss his pants because he likes the warm wet feeling between his legs

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u/omgitsjagen Sep 05 '26

The Charmin Bear would argue he's too soft.

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u/BillRipkensBat San Diego Padres Sep 05 '26

He’s not racist. That’s just his mechanic: https://youtu.be/o-i8Aj_U-50