Sentences with phrase «about umpires»
After beating Jurgen Zopp at Wimbledon, Ernests Gulbis had a weird / interesting conversation with a reporter about umpires.
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No, I'm not talking about the terrible call that softball umpire made recently.
I just was going out there to talk about something with the umpire and was referencing something and used a poor choice of words, and he took offense to it.
Manager Gil Hodges, who had complained about Hamilton earlier this season (SI, July 31), bolted from the dugout and jawed with Plate Umpire Jim Odom.
But when Herzog and the rest of the Cards ranted on about the ninth - inning bad call at first base costing them Game 6 — the St. Louis Post-Dispatch chimed in by calling AL umpire Don Denkinger «Jesse James» — it was as if no umpire in World Series history had ever missed one before.
And being an umpire, a referee, an official, a linesman... well, in those days, those were just about the most empowering jobs I could think of.
While fans have always had strong feelings about sports» judges — «Kill the umpire!»
If they had issued that warning, we would all be screaming about how the umpires need to let the players play.
Fires still smoldered at ground zero, and there was an eeriness about Yankee Stadium those nights that went beyond the metal detectors, the bomb - sniffing dogs, the Secret Service agent dressed as an umpire and the snipers on the roof.
Cries for robot umpires and adherence to a single strike zone are just too loud now, and Rob Manfred seems open to just about anything if enough people are discussing it.
Your child will understand more about games having rules, but they'll need an adult to explain them and play umpire.
Umpires don't make decisions about who gets prosecuted, what witnesses are called and how a case proceeds.
The Chairman of INEC, Prof. Mahmood Yakubu, in his presentation to the committee, disclosed that the electoral umpire currently had about 1,080 cases in courts relating to the 2015 general elections.
The Call Laurie Boris A sharp young umpire faces a moral dilemma: keep mum about a cheating player or risk her baseball career.
The umpires complained about soggy balls that were hard to throw and hit.
The University of Southern Illinois Press re-issued Gutkind's book (originally by Dial Press) about major league umpires, The Best Seat In Baseball, But You Have to Stand!
It even includes Sonic as an umpire instead of Mario which is about as subtle as a mallet to the skull.
Senior U.S. District Court Judge Richard G. Kopf made national news this week when he wrote on his blog, Hercules and the Umpire, about the frequent irrelevancy of the Supreme Court.
Last week, it was front page news about how umpire Jim Joyce blew a call that cost Detroit Tigers pitcher Armando Galarraga a perfect game.
As winter turns to spring and hockey gives way to baseball and soccer, I can't help but think about the role of referees and umpires and wonder why we don't use them more for commercial dispute resolution.
«Umpires don't make the rules, they apply them,» John Roberts told the Judiciary Committee of the Senate after listening to senators make 21 speeches about this week's confirmation hearings on his appointment by President Bush to be the next Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court.
«Roberts» comparison of a judge to a baseball umpire reminds me of an old story about three different versions of judicial reasoning, built on the same analogy.
«Judge Richard Arnold's conversations with a «regular» lawyer about citation to «unpublished» opinions»: Attorney Elaine Mittleman had this guest post yesterday at Senior U.S. District Judge Richard G. Kopf «s blog, «Hercules and the Umpire.»
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Baseball umpires — like referees and umpires in all sports — are trained to make every call independently, and not to think about whether previous calls were right or wrong.
But on the close calls, the umpires were right only about 2/3 of the time, when the call was compared with the actual recorded pitch location.
The paper examined data about 1.5 million pitches collected by PITCHf / x, including the type of pitch (curve or fastball), where it landed, and whether it was called a ball or strike by the umpire.
Richard George Kopf, who blogs about life as a federal trial judge over at Hercules and the Umpire, did an interesting thought experiment in relation to this case where he wondered if it was appropriate to use a peremptory strike of a juror if that juror is ugly and your client doesn't want ugly people on the jury or the case is somehow related to physical beauty.
Stoneman Douglas coach Todd Fitz - Gerald, plus umpire Steve Torres and parent Marnie Auerbach, second baseman Brandon Auerbach's mother, talk about the Douglas baseball team getting to play Coral Springs at Marlins Park.
Larry Friedman, the president of the Broward Baseball Umpire Association, says the association, which has about 80 umpires, opened it up for any of the officials who wanted to work the game.