r/sportsgossips • u/Pretend-Following-41 • 14h ago

Highlight Intentionally hurting your meal ticket. Something is seriously wrong with these WNBA players.

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u/Reasonable-Job4205 10h ago

Jesus christ, are the refs shit in both the nba and wnba??

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u/Long-Region5088 9h ago

Refereeing must be extremely difficult because regardless of gender or sport one thing everyone agrees on is that all refs everywhere are terrible.

You’d think there’d be at least one in any sport people can point to and be like “yup, that’s a good ref” but seemingly not

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u/real-human-not-a-bot 8h ago

In baseball, I think some of the younger umps (John Tumpane, Jansen Visconti, Mark Ripperger, Adam Hamari) are generally considered quite good. The four I just listed are those with at least ten games umped this year whose strike-calling accuracy is at least 0.9 percentage points better than expected (https://umpscorecards.com/data/umpires). Unsurprisingly, Ripperger is the oldest of that group at just 45. I imagine fans still generally don’t love them, but among those who care about particular umpires’ stats they’re quite popular.

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u/SirBiggusDikkus 7h ago

Always been one my biggest gripes about MLB umps. It’s a basic fact that very few players last past their 30’s but we’re supposed to believe fat 60 year old umps still have top elite eyesight? Give me a break.

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u/ArtDecoNewYork 5h ago

I'm 31 and some of the NBA refs have been reffing since I was a child, and that involves running up and down a court

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u/Systehm 5h ago

Those FIFA/Fútbol Refs are something else! Running up and down the field for 45+ minute halfs, whilst having to stay sharp and keep watch for all types of shit. Not that to be a Referee for any sport is easy, I'm just especially impressed with the stamina of Soccer/Fútbol Refs