SNY Mets crew provides unceremonious sendoff to Angel Hernandez

That prompted Analyst Ron Darling to push again “we didn’t actually kick him round, did we?” 

Cohen responded that he felt everybody did. 

“Is he going to make a ‘Checkers Speech’?” Keith Hernandez jumped in to say, which elicited laughter from Cohen. 

The remark was a reference to a speech by then-Sen. Richard Nixon gave in 1952 to disclaim that he had misused political funds the place he additionally talked about his canine named Checkers.

The now-former umpire introduced his retirement in a press release on Monday evening after USA Immediately had broke the information. 

The much-criticized Hernandez cited a need to spend extra time along with his household as the explanation why he was stepping away after a 33-year profession as an umpire. 

Hernández is commonly considered as one of many the worst umpires in baseball by followers, gamers and media and he has not labored a recreation since Could 9. 

“I’ve by no means seen extra response to an umpire calling it quits than the announcement that Ángel Hernández was retiring from umpiring,” Cohen mentioned throughout Wednesday’s broadcast. “I imply, there are a number of not-very-good umpires. He was simply one among them.”

Whereas Hernández has loads of detractors, he did discover some assist in former ump Joe West throughout an look on 670 The Rating in Chicago on Tuesday. 

“Whether or not you need to consider it or not, he was good at it,” West mentioned on the “Parkins & Spiegel Present.”

West referred to as the ripping of Hernández through the years unfair and added that critics didn’t “know what they’re speaking about.”