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/IblewupTARIS St. Louis Cardinals Sep 05 '26

He actually said he’d like to be a secret service agent.

No way that dude would ever be capable of being a secret service agent.

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u/JohnMadden42069 MiLB Pride • MLB Pride Sep 05 '26

We recently, specifically, allowed people who committed bestiality to be an FBI agent. The standards to be a federal employee don't really exist anymore.

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u/MrFickleBottom Toronto Blue Jays Sep 06 '26

Didn't a dude in the CIA just get caught for faking for the last 2 decades?

Pretty sure that same dude asked for a bunch of gold bars and was given them.