Spring Training doesn’t start for another two months, but infamous umpire Angel Hernandez is trending on Twitter.
The heavily criticized ump is roasted on Twitter at least a handful of times during the baseball season for missing, what many fan believe, are simple calls.
Hernandez is trending in December because of an ESPN article announcing that ten MLB umpires are retiring at the end of the year.
The piece from Jesse Rogers calls the umpires retiring “well-respected” promoting one person to say they knew right away Hernandez wouldn’t be on the list.
Ted Barrett, Greg Gibson, Tom Hallion, Sam Holbrook, Jerry Meals, Jim Reynolds, Bill Welke, Marty Foster, Paul Nauert and Tim Timmons are the umps retiring.
Meals is known in Pittsburgh for a blatant missed call in a 19-inning game between the Pirates and Braves in Atlanta in 2011.
Pirates’ catcher Michael McKenry tagged out Julio Lugo safe, but Meals called him safe, causing then manager Clint Hurdle to go ballistic and end the game.
But back to Hernandez, here is just a few things the internet had to say: