Sentences with phrase «botching calls»

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.

I'll forgive the botched call on puck over the glass — it happens, and it's not reviewable, it's going to happen once in a while.

Payton signaled for two coaches» challenges in a four - play span despite having no replay evidence to suggest officials had botched either call.

Certainly, that's the way Golf Channel analyst Brandel Chamblee saw it, when he pointed a finger at Rahm for the poor placement and longtime rules official Andy McFee for botching the call in a scenario reminiscent of, but with an outcome vastly different from, Lexi Thompson's four - stroke miscue at the ANA Inspiration.

-- New York weather guru Al Roker, whose daughter goes to a city public school, ripped into de Blasio from the Sochi Olympics, in a series of Twitter postings over the botched call.

A major botched call by referees during the World Cup has opened the door for computerized replacements

Fast - forward to the Olympics in London, where for the first time every event will be streamed live, athletes will be able to tweet every little thing they do, and Facebook users will be able to instantly debate a botched call.

Not exact matches

Barrick also botched the development of what was to be a monster gold mine on the border of Chile and Argentina called Pascua - Lama.

FISHER: «Yup, but with Deflategate, botched concussion protocols, and more blown officials» calls, you know all about heat, huh?»

How, after drawing up all those spellbinding game plans, after all that bold draft day wheeling and dealing, could he have so badly botched that one, crucial call?

NFL officials have routinely botched up games this season with quick whistles and questionable calls, but Pete Rozelle insists that his men get them right 95 % of the time.

botched what could have been a game - deciding call.

I see nothing wrong with how he did the procedure and seeing as a live healthy baby was delivered within minutes I don't see how you can call that «botched».

First, the government decided to call the IMF to the rescue following the Central Bank's botched attempt to get Putin's Russia to protect Iceland from the IMF's «Kiss of Death».

In one of its final acts, the Bloomberg administration pushed through a costly contract to modernize the city's 311 call system — hiring the same company fired by the feds for the botched rollout of the Obamacare website.

Molinaro called it a botched attempt by Cuomo to dump the LG.

But after the botched coup attempt by Lord Oakeshott, ironically, his position feels more secure after his supporters circled the wagons and mounted attacks on those people calling for his head.

First, the run on the Northern Rock bank sent a clear signal to voters about the approaching recession, then he made a botch of dampening speculation about the chances of him calling an early election.

The development comes just days after Theresa May faced calls to resign for a botched deportation in which a Nigerian man was flown to his home country on a chartered flight at a cost of up to # 180,000 to the taxpayer.

In fact, not long after he arrived, the governor called for every member of the PIC to resign following a scathing IG's report that accused the commission of botching the Troopergate probe.

When Clinton received the call, handed to her by aide Huma Abedin, she realized how many people she had let down by botching the race.

Magee ousted a three - term incumbent, and teachers held a symbolic vote of no confidence in Education Commissioner John King, over what critics call a botched rollout of the new Common Core learning standards.

Magee ousted a three - term incumbent, and teachers held a symbolic vote of no confidence in King, over what critics call a botched roll out of the new Common Core learning standards.

He also attacked Cuomo for the state's botched rollout of Common Core requirements, calling it a «disaster for parents, teachers and children alike» and hit the governor for a recently announced plan to offer free college to prisoners, calling the idea «outrageous and unfair.»

I realize it's called Silent Hill for a reason, but enduring this botched (video game - based) nightmare is like sleepwalking into the world's dullest Halloween party.

Set in Brooklyn, the arc of this uneven offering retraces the trademark, unlikely - buddy blueprint wherein the protagonists are called on the carpet back at the precinct following a badly botched stakeout.

Having devoted twenty years to the Marines, the most recent of which has been haunted by a botched mission that got many of his men killed, Nantz is ready to call it quits, but the Corps has other plans, assigning him to replace a platoon sergeant.

Travolta plays DEA Agent Tom Hardy, who's called in by Army buddy Chief Warrant Officer Pete Wilmer (Timothy Daly) to investigate a botched training exercise led by Sgt. Nathan West (Jackson).

Loyal, smart, overlooked, unfairly evicted in a purge, called upon to return and clean up when the incompetent / arrogant new guys botched things up.

The focus of the policy on the so - called «bright poor» has drawn comparisons with the government's botched attempt to open new grammar schools in the last Parliament, and is thought to be a compromise for supporters of selection in Greening's party.

After numerous botched attempts they did the smart thing and hired From Software to helm a series of mecha games called Another Century's Episode.

It is an all - or - nothing, it could risk deleting a save if you aren't careful, and I would still suggest calling Nintendo Customer Support to walk you through it: while I gave you the steps this is an informative article and I hold no liability if you botch your saves trying to do this yourself.

This is the fault of Electronic Arts, who completely botched the post-launch of this game by applying the same pricey DLC strategy of charging a high price for many different packs of maps that they applied to the Battlefield series, the most recent Star Wars Battelfront, and what games like Call of Duty had been doing for years up to that point.

The February issue also includes an in - depth technical article called «Scrum Rising», of which it's explained: «Scrum is an agile development methodology which can save your studio a substantial amount of crunch time, headache, botched plans, and disorganized employees — or so says High Moon's Clinton Keith.

Then mistakes, such as the 32X, the botched Saturn launch, and too many other bad calls, are detailed to the point that the reasoning behind the companys choice to exit the console race is the only option left.

Tillmans has also photographed all he can see of himself, distorted to something between a botched Soutine and an agonised Freud, in the so - called mirrors used by the last offenders before the jail closed in 2013.

As detailed already on the pages of RealClimate, this so - called «correction» was nothing more than a botched application of the MBH98 procedure, where the authors (MM) removed 80 % of the proxy data actually used by MBH98 during the 15th century period (failing in the process to produce a reconstruction that passes standard «verification» procedures — an error that is oddly similar to that noted by Benestad (2004) with regard to another recent McKitrick paper).

I think the league wanted referees to reverse only the calls that were obviously botched.

Let's say that you botched an interview for a job that you really, really wanted by calling your interviewer by another name.

Ive done some cold calling and that turned up one property but I didn't know about bigger pockets then and kind of botched things up with that one.