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At the core, sport is a human endeavor, and we like to cheer for our fans. We like to vilify the umpires, it’s a theater of sport and part of that would be lost if we moved to robotic officiating. – Rayvon Fouché	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
The District Court also failed to give appropriate weight to evidence of MLB’s disparate treatment of Mr. Hernandez, including evidence that MLB was manipulating the performance of Mr. Hernandez and other minority umpires to make their performances look worse. – Umpire Angel Hernandez	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
Judges are like umpires, umpires don't make the rules, they apply them... They make sure everybody plays by the rules, but Supreme Court is Supreme Court. Nobody ever went to a ballgame to see the umpire. – John Roberts	Found on CNN 1 year ago
Well, the umpires don't know s--- about what they're doing. – Pedro Martinez	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
I’ve been thrown out a bunch of times in my career, but it’s all because of emotion, sometimes you flare up because you care. I repeat, it’s not our goal to yell at umpires and make them a part of whatever the game is that day. Sometimes, when you care about winning, which we do, you flare up. Umpires understand that emotion is part of it, so they hear with one ear and see with one eye, but sometimes it goes too far, and today it went too far. – La Russa	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
We’re talking about but we have n’t made a firm decision yet of whether to modify the geometry of the Atlantic League strike zone a little bit, the zone that’s actually called by major league umpires is kind of like an oval. And going to a two-dimensional zone that has corners in it is going to be pitcher friendly because you’re adding space to the strike zone. – Morgan Sword	Found on FOX News 3 years ago
Iowa was indeed the first state to resume high school baseball and softball competition, effective yesterday, additionally, there were guidelines implemented to practice social distancing between fans, coaches, umpires and administrators. – The NFHS	Found on CNN 3 years ago
If something is 90 percent successful its going to be a failure. If the 10 percent causes some sort of outbreak among the participants and also if theres a public perception that somehow sports is getting preferential treatment when other people within society need it as much or more thats a public relations nightmare. I think that baseball faces a different circumstance because even playing half-a-season involves so many more games. What basketball and hockey are looking at, if theyre able, is some kind of playoff thing that starts right away. Just start the playoffs based on where the regular season left off and get it over with. Major League Baseball, to have any kind of valid season leading into the playoffs, have to play 80 games or so. JIM GRAY SAYS HES BUYING STOCK IN BRADY-GRONK BUCS, MLB NEUTRAL SITE PLAN NOT REALISTIC AT ALL Costas said that for baseball to have that type of season, its going to involve a lot more than just quarantining 750 players, their families, managers and more. A plan would have to include the people whodont get the backpage headlines. Not only would you have to quarantine them and the umpires and other officials, but what about the guy who picks up the towels in the locker room ? What about the guy who drives the bus or turns on the lights at the stadium even without fans ? Theres a lot of pitfalls here. People are going to get hurt and go on the injured list. What about Triple-A ? Theyre not playing minor league baseball. Whatre you gon na do ? You gon na quarantine 10 or 12 guys per team just in case somebody is hurt ? Theres a lot of things that can fall through the cracks here even with the best intentions and the best practices, he said. Costas also pondered how fans would be able to return to the ballparks and what social-distancing measures would be taken to keep fans from doing normal things. RED SOX CEO BELIEVES ALEX CORA WILL MANAGE AGAIN EVEN AFTER CHEATING-SCANDAL SUSPENSION [ A ] 90 or 95 percent is a good grade on most tests, it wouldnt be the right grade on this test, and think about it. Lets say you have 10,000 fans at the game and theyre socially distancing the seats, how are you gon na get them through the turnstiles in a socially distanced way and still start the game on time ? – Brian Kilmeade	Found on FOX News 4 years ago
After that, were relatively confident thats its going to spread through organized baseball, were very excited about what this portends not only for our league but for the future of baseball. What we know is technology can help umpires be more accurate and were committed to that. We think the Atlantic League is being a pioneer for all of the sport. – Atlantic League	Found on FOX News 4 years ago
Technically, theyre strikes but umpires never called them. – Mitch Atkins	Found on FOX News 4 years ago
We know that there's quite a history to it. Think of John McEnroe, think of Ilie Nastase, Jimmy Connors, Andre Agassi. These men all berated chair umpires, famously so. Commercials have been made. John McEnroe has done,' you can't be serious' and all the other tirades, top of John McEnroe lungs over the years and none of them received a game penalty, would he( umpire) have done that with a man ? History has said, no. He would not have done that with a man. – Christine Brennan	Found on CNN 5 years ago
Determining where to draw the line between an illegal slide and a legitimate hard play is an extremely difficult call for our umpires, we have been in discussions with the Players Association throughout the year regarding potential rule changes to better protect middle infielders, and we intend to continue those discussions this offseason. – Joe Torre	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
You've got the grass courts, the umpires, the ball girls, it's just like Wimbledon without the hassle, we like to drink in the atmosphere. Then I'm happy to watch Wimbledon on TV for two weeks. – Josephine Thomas	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
All you umpires, back to the bleachers. Referees, hit the showers. It's my game. I pitch, I hit, I catch. I run the bases. At sunset, I've won or lost. At sunrise, I'm out again, giving it the old try. – Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451 Coda	added by anonymous 13 years ago

At the core, sport is a human endeavor, and we like to cheer for our fans. We like to vilify the umpires, it’s a theater of sport and part of that would be lost if we moved to robotic officiating.

– Rayvon Fouché

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

The District Court also failed to give appropriate weight to evidence of MLB’s disparate treatment of Mr. Hernandez, including evidence that MLB was manipulating the performance of Mr. Hernandez and other minority umpires to make their performances look worse.

– Umpire Angel Hernandez

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

Judges are like umpires, umpires don't make the rules, they apply them... They make sure everybody plays by the rules, but Supreme Court is Supreme Court. Nobody ever went to a ballgame to see the umpire.

– John Roberts

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Well, the umpires don't know s--- about what they're doing.

– Pedro Martinez

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

I’ve been thrown out a bunch of times in my career, but it’s all because of emotion, sometimes you flare up because you care. I repeat, it’s not our goal to yell at umpires and make them a part of whatever the game is that day. Sometimes, when you care about winning, which we do, you flare up. Umpires understand that emotion is part of it, so they hear with one ear and see with one eye, but sometimes it goes too far, and today it went too far.

– La Russa

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

We’re talking about but we have n’t made a firm decision yet of whether to modify the geometry of the Atlantic League strike zone a little bit, the zone that’s actually called by major league umpires is kind of like an oval. And going to a two-dimensional zone that has corners in it is going to be pitcher friendly because you’re adding space to the strike zone.

– Morgan Sword

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

Iowa was indeed the first state to resume high school baseball and softball competition, effective yesterday, additionally, there were guidelines implemented to practice social distancing between fans, coaches, umpires and administrators.

– The NFHS

Found on CNN
3 years ago

If something is 90 percent successful its going to be a failure. If the 10 percent causes some sort of outbreak among the participants and also if theres a public perception that somehow sports is getting preferential treatment when other people within society need it as much or more thats a public relations nightmare. I think that baseball faces a different circumstance because even playing half-a-season involves so many more games. What basketball and hockey are looking at, if theyre able, is some kind of playoff thing that starts right away. Just start the playoffs based on where the regular season left off and get it over with. Major League Baseball, to have any kind of valid season leading into the playoffs, have to play 80 games or so. JIM GRAY SAYS HES BUYING STOCK IN BRADY-GRONK BUCS, MLB NEUTRAL SITE PLAN NOT REALISTIC AT ALL Costas said that for baseball to have that type of season, its going to involve a lot more than just quarantining 750 players, their families, managers and more. A plan would have to include the people whodont get the backpage headlines. Not only would you have to quarantine them and the umpires and other officials, but what about the guy who picks up the towels in the locker room ? What about the guy who drives the bus or turns on the lights at the stadium even without fans ? Theres a lot of pitfalls here. People are going to get hurt and go on the injured list. What about Triple-A ? Theyre not playing minor league baseball. Whatre you gon na do ? You gon na quarantine 10 or 12 guys per team just in case somebody is hurt ? Theres a lot of things that can fall through the cracks here even with the best intentions and the best practices, he said. Costas also pondered how fans would be able to return to the ballparks and what social-distancing measures would be taken to keep fans from doing normal things. RED SOX CEO BELIEVES ALEX CORA WILL MANAGE AGAIN EVEN AFTER CHEATING-SCANDAL SUSPENSION [ A ] 90 or 95 percent is a good grade on most tests, it wouldnt be the right grade on this test, and think about it. Lets say you have 10,000 fans at the game and theyre socially distancing the seats, how are you gon na get them through the turnstiles in a socially distanced way and still start the game on time ?

– Brian Kilmeade

Found on FOX News
4 years ago

After that, were relatively confident thats its going to spread through organized baseball, were very excited about what this portends not only for our league but for the future of baseball. What we know is technology can help umpires be more accurate and were committed to that. We think the Atlantic League is being a pioneer for all of the sport.

– Atlantic League

Found on FOX News
4 years ago

Technically, theyre strikes but umpires never called them.

– Mitch Atkins

Found on FOX News
4 years ago

We know that there's quite a history to it. Think of John McEnroe, think of Ilie Nastase, Jimmy Connors, Andre Agassi. These men all berated chair umpires, famously so. Commercials have been made. John McEnroe has done,' you can't be serious' and all the other tirades, top of John McEnroe lungs over the years and none of them received a game penalty, would he( umpire) have done that with a man ? History has said, no. He would not have done that with a man.

– Christine Brennan

Found on CNN
5 years ago

Determining where to draw the line between an illegal slide and a legitimate hard play is an extremely difficult call for our umpires, we have been in discussions with the Players Association throughout the year regarding potential rule changes to better protect middle infielders, and we intend to continue those discussions this offseason.

– Joe Torre

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

You've got the grass courts, the umpires, the ball girls, it's just like Wimbledon without the hassle, we like to drink in the atmosphere. Then I'm happy to watch Wimbledon on TV for two weeks.

– Josephine Thomas

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

All you umpires, back to the bleachers. Referees, hit the showers. It's my game. I pitch, I hit, I catch. I run the bases. At sunset, I've won or lost. At sunrise, I'm out again, giving it the old try.

– Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451 Coda

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