Sentences with phrase «of umpiring»

Rich Rieker, director of umpiring for Major League Baseball.

This was the worst game of umpiring so far this year.

As Jenell Williams Paris of Messiah College writes in her book The End of Sexual Identity, «Grounding sexual ethics in our humanity more than in contemporary sexual identity categories... comes at a cost to heterosexuals,» because «it puts them in the game as players instead of umpires.»

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

No one really anticipated the 10 - minute spectacle of umpires in headphones.

This removes the problem of an umpire or review official getting minutes and minutes to decide if they're going to give us an ehhhhhh.

If, in the judgment of the umpire, a base runner willfully and deliberately interferes with a batted ball or a fielder in the act of fielding a batted ball with the obvious intent to break up a double play, the ball is dead

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.

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.

Another fellow, who had climbed up into one of the umpires» chairs, bellowed out: «Publicity.

However, if we got rid of umpire complaining LL would lose over 33 % of the game thread comments so I say go at it.

«If, in the judgment of the umpire, a base runner willfully and deliberately interferes with a batted ball with the obvious intent to break up a double play, the ball is dead, the umpire shall call the runner out for interference and also call out the following runner because of the action of his teammate.

Order is the domain of the umpire, and when a player willfully spits in an umpire's face, the only just response is swift and meaningful punishment.

Glasnow shouldn't be at the whim of the umpire who doesn't feel like he has «earned» those calls on the edges.

Ed Vargo, the National League director of umpire supervision, was no more definitive.

In case you're wondering what it's like having a pitch at 97 mph head in your direction, look no further than this video of an umpire presumably wearing a GoPro.

Might this still be true (if it ever were) at a time when league identities have been blurred by increased player movement, interleague play and the consolidation of umpires?

«Get rid of umpires?

That said, there is no shortage of umpires who have been highly lucrative for visitors and overs.

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.

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..

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.

Failure of the pitch count recorder to notify the umpire - in - chief, and / or the failure of the umpire - in - chief to notify the manager does not relief the manager of his / her responsibility to remove the pitcher when that pitcher is no longer eligible to pitch.

Janet Hartigan, O.P., Dominican Sisters; John T. Grant, former Rockland County Executive; Martin Springstead, Supervisor of Umpires for the American League; Michael Holland, Village of Haverstraw Chief of Police and Jay Hood, Jr., Rockland County Legislator.

If you're intrigued by the lives of umpires (I am — do they ever get hate mail?)

In sports, if it is call of an umpire or referee that is the difference between victory and defeat, then you did not deserve to win.

«While I think that Roberts with his talk of modesty was expressing a belief in the second sort of umpire, one should realize that the analogy of the umpire can cover the third sort, who thinks that he creates the existence that he is assigned to judge...»

The ICC's Executive Board resolved in response that one of the umpires, Darrell Hair, should no longer officiate at Test matches.

Represented party in reinsurance dispute concerning payment by reinsurer of share of settlement of coverage dispute related to underlying asbestos - related claims; issues included dispute over appointment of umpire for arbitration.

This is an actual resume example of a Umpire who works in the Umpires and Referees Industry.

Not exact matches

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.

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.

When theology, whether under that label or designated as religious studies, flourishes under the auspices of the humanities and social sciences, not only has the game moved to a different ball park, but the rules and umpires are also changed.

Cardinals fans who lauded the umpires for following the letter of the law were demanding Anglo - American interpretation.

I will start by saying that I have been an umpire for over 20 years, umpired 100s of games from Little League to Junior College and I would guess that I have made an obstruction call in less than 1 % of those games.

I was outraged at the umpires» misapplication of their rules.

The point of playing armchair umpire over David as mercenary and king is to blow the whistle when one catches this rogue being unforgivably forgiven by God.

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.

To be sure, he flatly refuses to grant to theology any self - designated role as traffic cop or official umpire of the claims of other disciplines: «Theology is one branch of knowledge,» he says, «and secular sciences are other branches.

It's French social theory wedded with Calvinist theology: Everyone is inextricably bound up in self - perpetuating systems of sinful behavior; when everyone is totally depraved, no one is; God, in the end, becomes a celestial umpire, naming this one «just» and that one «damned» according to arbitrary fiat.

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.

The decisions of such an independent umpire will have more weight.

Coles has been forced to the national workplace umpire to prevent strike action breaking out at its food distribution centres across Australia's east, as a result of industrial unrest that started at a Coles warehouse in Melbourne yesterday.

Little Fred Patek, the 5» 4» shortstop of the Kansas City Royals, blew his low - level top recently at American League umpires, all of whom tower over the tiny shortstop.

Instead of tossing a few warm - up pitches, Marshall devoted these leisure moments to declaiming on the vulgarity of Oakland spectators to Buckner and the umpires.

Either forgetting or remembering that the mike is turned on, Reggie turns to the umpire and, fearful of being walked, orders room service: «Call the next one a strike, no matter where it is.»

I don't want faceless umpires in New York to have the power to say, «Ehhhhh, that was within the spirit of the law, I guess» in different games, with their varied decisions hinging on how much caffeine or sleep they've had.

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

Patek, who used to play in the National League, said that instead of plumping for interleague play, the majors should adopt interleague umpiring, just to even things out.

It is not a catch if a fielder touches a fly ball which then hits a member of the offensive team or an umpire and then is caught by another defensive player.