Sentences with phrase «umpires in»

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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.

This was consistent among all 127 umpires in the data.

Create players, teams and even umpires in the Cricket Academy and upload it on the online community.

Great for use by umpires in baseball or softball games.

The statement called on the Independent National Electoral Commission, and security agencies, who are umpires in the recall process, not to allow themselves to be used in the forceful plan to deny Kogi West people the right to have an elected representative.

According to the resolution, the forum would henceforth ensure that the electoral and security Umpires in the country act strictly within the dictates and ethics of their profession.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.»

But when Herzog and the rest of the Cards ranted on about the ninth - inning bad call at first base costing them Game 6 — the St. Louis Post-Dispatch chimed in by calling AL umpire Don Denkinger «Jesse James» — it was as if no umpire in World Series history had ever missed one before.

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

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

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.

O'Nara is clearly tough as nails and arguably the toughest Umpire in the MLB.

A Georgia high school was fined $ 1,000 after its pitcher and catcher allegedly conspired to let a pitch hit the umpire in the face mask.

It's pretty similar in nature to refereeing / umpiring in some sports; often a referee will let some more minor infractions slide in order to allow the game to move more freely (especially thinking soccer here).

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.

Atiku added that the NWC was supposed to be an impartial umpire in the arbitration of crisis among its members in any given election.

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

It was not until a ruling by an Employment Insurance umpire in 2011 when sickness benefits were granted to a woman on parental leave.

On or off the water, in the protest room or umpiring in a rubber duck, attending a seminar or reading a news item.

Not exact matches

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

Jon lives in Trabuco Canyon — yes, a homeowner — and when he's not fiddling with his trusty spreadsheet at work you can likely find him rooting for his beloved Anaheim Ducks or umpiring local lacrosse games.

As umpire John Hirschbeck himself explained in an interview after the controversial game — the only World Series contest ever to end on an obstruction call — intent does not matter:

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.

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!!!

I don't know a single umpire who would have not called that, and I would have absolutely called it in that situation.

It seems to me that there is an interesting relationship between Reality and Authority expressed in umpiring - is the ump a book - keeper, simply recording what already exists, or does he frame the events to create reality?

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.

«If Hawthorn, currently a strong team for those unfortunate people who do not follow AFL, were playing Melbourne, currently not so strong, the umpire would never seek to step in to avoid the obvious outcome.

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.

Also this afternoon, Coles succeeded in getting an order from the national industrial umpire, Fair Work Australia, to prevent any further industrial action breaking out at either Goulburn or its Eastern Creek distribution centre in Sydney.

In an application to the national industrial umpire today, Coles successfully applied to stop unlawful industrial action by workers at its Goulburn food distribution centre.

American League umpires don't take pride in their work.

The umpire who made several questionable calls in Serena Williams's quarterfinal loss to Jennifer Capriati was fired a day later.

Had the umpire done his homework, Tony Gwynn would never have been ejected in his ninth game as coach at San Diego State (SCORECARD, March 3).

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

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.

She umpires, coaches and works in the snack bar to support the youth program she once enjoyed as a player.

Phelps had warned Oxford who now had a 3/4 length lead, they responded but Cambridge moved with them and as the Umpire issued a warning to Cambridge the blades of Light Blue 2 man Luke Juckett came into contact with that of Sam O'Connor the Kiwi in the Oxford 7 seat.

And although chair umpires are supposed to monitor the seconds, it has not been done uniformly, in part because there is not a readout available for players and spectators to see.

It wasn't just the umpires that made mistakes during yesterday's first ever Wild Card play - in game.