OPINION: Bad umpiring tarnishing America’s Pastime
By Peter Funt
Baseball has a stat for everything: WHIP (walks and hits per innings pitched), LIPS (late inning pressure situations), ERA and IRA (earned runs allowed and inherited runs allowed), plus dozens more. But as my math teacher was fond of saying, "Garbage in means garbage out."
Baseball's nagging problem is BUSTS (bad umpiring and scoring tarnishes stats).