Talk:Referees - A Fan's Worse Nightmare/@comment-MetsJetsDevils-2006051165259

I agree and disagree. For example, in a sport like Hockey make up calls can be important. If you give 1 team a questionable penalty, you have to call the questionable penalty on the other team. More than anything else, it is the lack of consistency that drives fans mad. But my biggest gripe is the way umpires solicit fights these days. The well publicised Angel Hernandez comment fromt he other day. I mean if an ump admits to having different rules for different players he should not be allowed to ump. I still thinkt he worst example is the Robbie Alomar incident. An umpire has no business swearing at or insulting a player. Calling Robbie Alomar a "fag" was an outrageous thing for an umpire to do.