Sentences with phrase «baseball umpire who»

Anyone who wonders why Congress is more unpopular than a myopic baseball umpire who hates the home team need only look on page 1,967 of the omnibus spending bill.

As a former High School and college baseball umpire who volunteered many years as a Little League umpire and has been teaching new umpires in youth baseball now for twenty years AND a Roman Catholic I was thoroughly amused by Mr. Prothero's take on the Series game ending Obstruction call and his big picture analogy from the Vatican.

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Sure, the call went your way, but somewhere deep down, you know the Red Sox sweeping the Rockies was retribution from the baseball gods, a punishment for benefiting from the interference of an umpire who ended a game that seemed like it was never going to end, that would probably still be being played right now if not for that botched call because dear lord this game had everything but also was great mostly because it was terrible.

The fallout from the umpires union's ill - conceived 1999 mass resignation continued last month, when an arbitrator in Philadelphia declared that Major League Baseball must take back nine of the 22 umps who lost their jobs.

There are a number of umps who tend to favor pitchers on borderline calls and my hypothesis was that Phil Cuzzi, Ron Kulpa, Bill Miller, Ted Barret and Doug Eddings — who are renowned for having the largest strike zones in baseball — would be among the most profitable umpires for betting unders.

Mercifully, it was Blue Jays manager John Gibbons who went to the umpires to point out that this was gross and shouldn't be happening in a baseball game, playoffs or no.

For those who aren't familiar, baseball utilizes a four - man umpire crew for every series.

«This week, a player publicly and harshly impugned the character and integrity of Angel Hernandez — a veteran umpire who has dedicated his career to baseball and the community,» the World Umpires Association said in a statement.

Schiot shares the stories of luminaries like mountain climber Annie Smith Peck, who caused a scandal in 1895 when she ascended the Matterhorn in pants instead of a skirt, and Bernice Gera, pro baseball's first female umpire, who was harassed by the men in her class at the Florida Baseballbaseball's first female umpire, who was harassed by the men in her class at the Florida BaseballBaseball School.

Basic black uniforms also clad baseball umpires, who are compared to justices in «The Deciders: Umpires v. Judges» by Bruce Weber in today's Week in umpires, who are compared to justices in «The Deciders: Umpires v. Judges» by Bruce Weber in today's Week in Umpires v. Judges» by Bruce Weber in today's Week in Review.

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.