Sentences with phrase «best umpire»

Frank Dascoli has been criticized and laughed at, but nearly everyone admits he is the best umpire in the National League

This Little League Umpire calling the Australia - Puerto Rico game has to be one of the best umpire's in all of baseball...

«Tim McClelland is one of the best umpires in the game,» Holliday says of the ump who made — or missed — that decisive call.

Not exact matches

Thus, the «Federalists» «anti-majoritarian bias, and their commitment to neutrality between competing conceptions of the good life, lays the groundwork for a Supreme Court whose commitment to such vague notions as «libertarian dignity under law» makes it the supreme umpire in American life.

I've umpired for 10 + years from doing everything from little league to JUCO, as well as having attended Evan's Florida school and taught multiple clinics for local officials.

To Melancthon he revealed in a letter of the same date that he was not well, suffering from heart trouble, that he was upset by the arguments he was having to umpire and wanted to be shot of the whole thing as soon as possible.

(Scary graphs that show Keuchel's velocity plummeting into the abyss, as well as a suspicion that umpires aren't being duped as much by his sinker below the zone)

That excitement involved a variety of flowery language and the good ol' fashioned «enthusiastically demonstrate how wrong you think the umpire's strike zone was» strategy before he went to the clubhouse.

The best position to see the arm tangle is from the former position of the umpire behind the defensive line, but he's no longer there.

So far, no umpire named May has appeared, which is just as well.

Well, really, the umpire paused because he didn't know what happened: he wouldn't call Holliday safe for another three or four seconds after the play, and you can tell based on that pause that he made his decision solely based on the ball being loose and Barrett scrambling for it since there had not yet been a call.

Easley, acquired from the Yankees in the Rick Rhoden trade, has a split - finger that» umpire Frank Pulli says is as good as any.

Played, coached, umpired studied and watched countless hours of the best sport ever.

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.

But the best is the enemy of the good; the most imperfect machine - vision system currently available would probably do a better job at calling strikes at the bottom of the strike zone (especially on breaking pitches) than human umpires do.

That includes the breakdown of our public betting trends at all seven contributing sportsbooks, improved line graphs for all of our available sportsbooks, full injury reports, enhanced weather reports, detailed referee / umpire data, bet signals (including steam moves, reverse line movement, contrarian plays and best bets), and current lineups.

Typically being a good over umpire means calling a very tight strike zone, and it will be interesting to see if that zone beings to expand at all in his third season.

The Washington, Penn. native and umpire Roy Ellison will each be relative newcomers on a well - traveled staff.

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.»

While it is true that you don't want to see players just walking all over umpires, there's a better way to do that than giving a player the quick hook — especially when the player didn't verbally argue balls and strikes.

Sober, industrious and otherwise well - adjusted men have been known to fall into gargling, sputtering rages as, sitting helplessly before their TV sets, they feel themselves assaulted by Allen's tedious, drawn - out explanations («For the benefit of those not so familiar with the game, the infield fly rule states that, with first and second base or first, second and third occupied and less than two out, a ball which in the judgment of the umpire,» etc..

Most umpires were unemployed show people who took work where they could find it — and what better place for an actor or singer than in front of a large, captive audience?

We'll still need umpires to manage to call this stricter zone — and it's to be seen if there will be actual changes to the zone as well, as have been discussed in the past — but the first step toward strike zone uniformity could come this winter.

This will make a whole bunch of fans happy, but there is another side to a forced change like this, as well: adjusting to an umpire's specific zone, whether it's a pitcher or a lineup that does it, is part of the strategy of the game.

We certainly can't blame her for doing her best John McEnroe impression after umpire makes bade call.

Before Friday night's game with the Phillies, Umpire Ken Burkhart dropped into the Cardinal dressing room to wish Musial well.

I think the other reason pitch framing is becoming less of a difference is the umpires are getting better.

The tables below show the five most profitable active umpires in our database since 2005 for home and road teams as well as for overs and unders.

Fields were top notch, communication was excellent and the umpires were the best I have seen in 10 years of travel baseball.

For instance, the federal legislature has, by these amendments entrenched extensive electoral reforms, including financial and administrative autonomy for INEC as well as freeing the electoral umpire from political manipulations.

It is the political will of the government of the day, as well as a genuinely independent electoral umpire in Nigeria's case, the Independent National Electoral Commission.

According to him, while they will be expected to interact with various stakeholders, including partisan actors, they must also be «very firm and courageous on the side of law as well as our regulations and guidelines as required of you as unbiased umpire.»

At the same time, you must be very firm and courageous on the side of the law as well as our regulations and guidelines at all times, as required of an unbiased umpire.

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Well, it can be blind but you are not that sightless to umpire whether or not you should be dating married women.

You perchance are better and you have been experimental that the world to umpire what is correctly the unsurpassed for you.

Felix Cowgill called him «a good cricket umpire.»

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!

Our umpire and AKC certified Canine Good Citizen Evaluator for the 2008 season was Bevalee Crawley.

Think you could do a better job than the umpire?

They might be right, but when a batter goes 0 for 10, he's better off questioning his swing than blaming the umpire.»

An umpire or referee operating in real time is not in a better place to make a correct call than another referee (or even the same one) viewing the same play, from multiple angles, in slow motion, on a monitor.

These are the best, most experienced umpires around.

Invoking an appraisal clause involves intervention of a third person, better known as an umpire, to come out with a verdict, agreeable to both the parties.

Since I've been an umpire, I've done my best to focus as much as possible on the game at hand while ignoring any negative feedback.

Good sport needs clear rules, time frames, umpires, coaches, captains and the skills and tools to play the game well.