Posted on 10/22/2016 8:52:13 AM PDT by Jim W N
Even if you aren't a baseball fan, Chicago Cubs' first baseman Anthony Rizzo's apology to an umpire last night is worth paying attention to and sharing with your tweens and teens.
The Cubs are battling the Los Angeles Dodgers in the National League Championship Series, and the winner heads to the World Series. In last night's game, Rizzo apologized to home plate umpire Angel Hernandez when he came up to bat in the seventh inning. Rizzo had disagreed with him on a prior call.
(You can click on the link pic link in the post to see the full video.
Rizzo told the umpire, "My fault on that."
Hernandez responded, "Your fault for what, brother? Come on, you're good, bro. You're awesome with us. No, no worries. You're competing. I understand. Don't worry. You know what's best of it? You come back and tell me that. That's how good of a guy you are."
I love this so much. It's a great example of sportsmanship and of righting a wrong. No one is perfect, of course. But apologizing when we do things that are imperfect is really important.
It's great that Rizzo immediately recognized his mistake and said he was sorry at the next opportunity he had.
Sometimes kids are reluctant to apologize, for a variety of reasons, be it embarrassment or fear or overthinking how they should apologize.
In just four words, Rizzo showed how to apologize - do it in person (NOT on social media), keep it simple, do it as soon as you can, and own your mistake.
Hernandez showed that people appreciate apologies and can be very gracious when accepting them. I thought what he said to Rizzo was kind and compassionate. Hopefully seeing that will take away some of the trepidation that kids may have when apologizing.
Knowing you screwed up doesn't feel good, but knowing that you apologized and tried to make it right does.
I saw the game and apology.
In fact, the announcers made a point of zeroing in on that apology.
You CAN'T buy that kind of humility.
Class act. Both player and ump.
And nobody had to take a knee...
Everyone complains about Angel Hernandez. The smart ones will usually apologize after to any ump if they were very demonstrative, no matter if it was actually good or bad call. Rizzo and Hernandez did it with class for sure.
Search ‘worst umpire Angel Hernandez.’ The best umps, when they realize they messed up a call, and if the player doesn’t make them look like a complete stiff to the fans in the seats, will say something like ‘yeah I missed that one.’ Don’t know if Hernandez does that or not but I do know he is at the center of lots of bad calls.
Freegards
Nice to see a good guy shown in a good light. Go Cubs; this Yankee and Met fan is pulling for you guys!
In a close play the call will go to the respectful.
the importance of apologizing and admitting you are wrong cannot be overstated. I fully intend to do that as soon as I make my first mistake.
Yes,
It must have felt good for Angel Hernandez, esp. he got lots of complaints about missed calls all night (mostly from Dodgers, players, dugout and their fans in the stand).
“Class act. Both player and ump.”
Ditto——good to see positive news coming from a professional sport-——football has become downright infuriating.
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Hell,
I’m a lifelong Dodger fan and I’m rooting for the Cubs
[...]Consider this as a sidebar: in the past ten to fifteen years, Angel Hernandez has been labeled as one of the worst umpires in baseball for two reasons. First, his ability to calls balls and strikes has been sub-par in prior instances. (He called 95.9% of the pitches in Game 4 correctly, which is the highest score of any of the postseason games in which the Dodgers have played this year to this point.) Second, he was considered a hot-head and found himself in the middle of too many controversies over the course of his career.
However, Hernandez has improved significantly in his temperament, becoming a bit more relaxed and letting the game "come to him." Although Hernandez probably has to prove his improvement over a consistent period of time in order to erase the memories from the minds of fans who label him as the enemy, the fact that he would show such behavior with Rizzo in such a pressure-packed situation provides solid evidence that people (even umpires) can change. After all, umpires are asked to start perfect, then get better.
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The Chicago mob, oops, I mean Chicago Dhimmicratic machine, could learn a thing or two from him!
A good Democrat would say he is weak. He should deny, deny, deny.
Well he might be mellowing out some, to his credit. But it’s going to be a while before clubs start hoping they draw his crew more than others.
Freegards
Though I am a AL fan, I admire the Cubs because they are on the verge of history.
Classy guy.
Da Cubbies are going to win it this year!! So is TRUMP!!
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