Sentences with phrase «baseball umpires»

Most Baseball Umpires have completed the courses of a professional umpire training 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 Review.

So imagine my delight when I found a recent podcast that examined how decisions by adjudicators (baseball umpires, judges and bank loan officers) can be affected by totally random factors such as the the order in which they are made and time of day.

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.

Back during his 2005 Senate judiciary committee confirmation hearings to become the Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court, John Roberts tried to allay Democratic senators» fears that he was a conservative ideologue by famously comparing the role of judges with baseball umpires and declaring, «It's my job to call balls and strikes and not to pitch or bat.»

It is used in prepared childbirth training, yoga, therapy for anxieties or phobias, and the training of baseball umpires.

The team found the same pattern in baseball umpires calling strikes, and immigration workers recommending asylum.

The officials are seeking parity, or something close to it, with major league baseball umpires.

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.

This youth baseball umpire certainly enjoys his job.

Bill Klem, the old baseball umpire, used to say, «They ain't nothin'till I call»em,» but after Bill made the call, that was it.

That's all it takes, one look, one click and not only are you outta there, but you are Old Man Baseball Umpire...» Yerrrrr OUTTA THERRRRRRRE!»

We offer this Baseball Umpire Dad coloring page with several different sentences in addition to our Fathers Day collection of coloring page sentence readers.

(Deadspin, Youth - Baseball Umpire In Missouri Claims Pitcher, Catcher Conspired To Hit Him With A Pitch)

«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.

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.

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.

Those interested in a Baseball Umpire career should be able to highlight the following skills in their resumes: knowledge of baseball rules, being able to make split - second decisions, integrity, time management, and recordkeeping.

He wanted to learn through doing, and though he loved his work as an account manager and professional baseball umpire, it was his love and appreciation for Chicago that drew him back and into his career as a real estate professional.

Not exact matches

The Pacific Association, an independent baseball league in Northern California, last year made waves with an experiment that fully automated umpires.

The Pope is basically just like an Umpire in a Baseball game — he keeps the game going and indicates what's in play or not, by the written rule book — but does not change the rules of the game — that's set.

Stick to religion Stephen, you don't know baseball or umpiring.

Steve P. can't even decide on what god to honor and yet he sits in judgment of the umpires of baseball!!!

Baseball has a lot of charms, and exactly none of them involve two umpires with headphones standing around for nine minutes.

ADA CA D5 Little League holds its annual rules clinics for managers / coaches and umpires at the Baseball Complex at American River College.

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.

In 1935, Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis, the baseball commissioner, barred Husing from covering the World Series for having called the umpiring in the previous Series «some of the worst I've ever seen.»

Baseball could, if it wanted, hare an official scorer of its own even as it has umpires.

Baseball has several such situations where the umpire does not make a call unless the defending team asks him.

Baseball has not said how the new - old umpires would be folded back into major league service, if and when they do become eligible to return.

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Tim Welke, secretary - treasurer of the World Umpires Association, the new union that rose from the ashes of the Richie Phillips - led group that collapsed after the resignation fiasco, says such a small number easily could be absorbed by Major League Baseball.

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.

The rehired umpires faced a June 8 deadline to file a motion in Federal court that would force baseball to comply with the arbitrator's decision.

«Joe West is the most senior umpire in our ranks, having served MLB since 1976, under six different baseball commissioners.

Joe has upheld the rules of fair play for more than 5,000 Major League Baseball games, and is on his way to the record for most career games ever worked by an MLB umpire.

Suspended Two T - ball coaches, for their part in an Aug. 28 brawl in which nearly two dozen adults stormed the field during a Miami Friends Baseball Association game and began fighting over an umpire's call as the four - and five - year - old players watched.

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.

Froemming, angered that the umpires have been given no directive by baseball's rules committee, said, «The Dodgers think [the pause is] legal.

During Phog's early coaching days at Kansas a student sportswriter heard him umpiring a baseball game and promptly dubbed him «Foghorn.»

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.

The umpires took a look at Bauer's fingers and agreed that yes, this was definitely gross and shouldn't be happening in a baseball game.

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

This would be a good time for baseball to review the performance of the umpire in question and publicly hold the umpire accountable for their actions but we've seen this movie before and we know how it ends.

Nice baseball recollection from the man: «I couldn't see well enough to play when I was a boy, so they gave me a special job — they made me an umpire.»

As the business of baseball evolved and the professional leagues stopped hiring castoffs from vaudeville, the umpire's apparel became less formal and more functional.

In the early days of baseball, umpires wore top hats and tails.

Gallaraga saved that MLB a lot of trouble that might have endured if fans and players began questioning the integrity of umpires and not understanding why baseball is the only sport that doesn't use instant replay.

A player will get hit in the beans, Mike Trout will rob a home run, an umpire will accidentally get slathered with pine tar, and the baseball season will be rolling.

«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.