Umpire used in a sentence

Umpire in a sentence as a noun

I had a friend who went to baseball umpire school. He said that the main thing they told students was, "Call it quick, call it loud, and then turn and walk away."

Good umpire: "I call them as I see them." Better umpire: "I call them as they are." Best umpire: "They aren't anything until I call them."

It's as though the metaphorical baseball player takes a flying leap so that the umpire can see him over the pitcher's head.

Reminds me of this oldie but goodie: Good umpire: "I call 'em as I see 'em." Better umpire: "I call 'em as they are." Best umpire: "They aren't anything until I call 'em."

Indeed, from the OP: Adder, apron and umpire all used to start with an "n". Constructions like "A nadder" or "Mine napron" were so common the first letter was assumed to be part of the preceding word.

I think of the chaos monkey more like a baseball umpire: perhaps whenever your movie doesn't stop to buffer, you might thank the chaos monkey.

This will give them the opportunity to run past third to slide home instead of taking the standing triple, since they won't be left with nothing if the umpire calls them out.

Each ball in play goes through the home plate umpire before making it to the pitcher/catcher. Of course in baseball you'll still occasionally see the pitcher with a hidden "foreign substance" used to doctor the ball once they get ahold of it.

My work career also includes being a custodian at a health club, a baseball umpire, a senior software engineer, and and a startup founder. None of those jobs is anywhere near as demanding.

Umpire in a sentence as a verb

"Play ball" is a popular baseball phrase, commonly shouted by the umpire after performance of the National Anthem. In fact I would say the American-ized version is less clumsy and more poetic.

If we remove the cameras, old umpire error will move the box up; if we remove the umpires from pitch calling, the new computers will have no trouble doing a bunch of math and moving the box up. This seems more like an incomplete implementation of an idea, rather than a fundamental flaw.

> Do you want to live in a world where you have to say that the umpire has "visual impediments" I don't want to live in a world where it's acceptable to **** someone who has a low IQ just because they have a low IQ. I don't want to live in a world where someone with a low IQ is denied medical treatment. I don't want to live in a world where someone with a low IQ is raped with no consequence.

They've been eliminated twice by him in games where he basically pounded the outside corner on a pitch that isn't a strike but the umpire was giving the entire night, albeit to both pitchers. But since the A's don't have a pitcher that can hit that spot with near-100mph heat reliably, the Tigers were able to take advantage of a few location misses.

 But just as challenging something there and then is cause for for ing those responsible to look at and question their base assumptions about how they behave, there is always room to look at our own assumptions, for we are all playing a game called life, there is no umpire, no final score, no second round play offs.   Sometimes other people's problems are an opportunity for us.

You can have different pitchers, different lighting, different wind speed and direction, different umpire, different situation on-base, etc... However, this all comes out in the wash because there are so many iterations.

Do you want to live in a world where you have to say that the umpire has "visual impediments" for fears to offend to blind people? No, "impediments" is too strong, maybe "visually challenged"? No, too negative." Almost all the senses of the umpire are up to the level of a person of his age, with the possible exception of one that, although its absence doesn't demerit him at all as a human being, maybe would suggest that he'll be better in another line of work, like piano tuner."

Government performs as an impartial umpire, by interpreting and enforcing the previously agreed upon rules. - Ludwig von Mises > A government which maintained law and order, defined property rights, served as a means whereby we could modify property rights and other rules of the economic game, adjudicated disputes about the interpretation of the rules, enforced contracts, promoted competition, provided a monetary framework, engaged in activities to counter technical monopolies and to overcome neighborhood effects widely regarded as sufficiently important to justify government intervention, and which supplemented private charity and the private family in protecting the irresponsible, whether madman or child -- such a government would clearly have important functions to perform.

Quote Examples using Umpire

Each time the pitcher delays the game by violating this rule, the umpire shall call \u0093Ball. \u0094 The 12-second timing starts when the pitcher is in possession of the ball and the batter is in the box, alert to the pitcher. The timing stops when the pitcher releases the ball. \nThe intent of this rule is to avoid unnecessary delays. The umpire shall insist that the catcher return the ball promptly to the pitcher, and that the pitcher take his position on the rubber promptly. Obvious delay by the pitcher should instantly be penalized by the umpire.

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