Zitat des Tages über Schiedsrichter / Umpires:
The trouble with women umpires is that I couldn't argue with one. I'd put my arms around her and give her a little kiss.
Umpires are necessary evils. That's just the nature of the beast. For years, people have looked on umpiring as a job they could get any postman to do.
The best umpired game is the game in which the fans cannot recall the umpires who worked it.
I made a game effort to argue but two things were against me: the umpires and the rules.
The integrity of the game is the umpires. Nobody else. The entire integrity of the game is the umpires.
Boys, I'm one of those umpires that misses 'em every once in a while so if it's close, you'd better hit it.
I just loved officiating, and I hope what I did helped make it better. That's what I tell young umpires: you can have fun. I never spent a day where going out on a baseball field didn't make me feel better.
I'd always have grease in at least two places, in case the umpires would ask me to wipe one off. I never wanted to be caught out there with anything though, it wouldn't be professional.
The third umpires should be changed as often as nappies and for the same reason.
Now that women are jockeys, baseball umpires, atomic scientists, and business executives, maybe someday they can master parallel parking.
I told the umpires to walk back at least thirty-five feet from home plate. That reduced the arguements.
Error is part of the game. I never, ever second-guessed myself on a call and don't believe good umpires ever should.
Umpires, like players, are expected to show constant improvement each season and at each level. Inconsistent plate work and the inability to handle situations are probably the two biggest problems that minor league umpires face.
Minor league umpires are evaluated in their respective leagues each year and rated numerically. This enables umpires to know where they stand and helps them make prudent career decisions.
Step outside the guidelines of the official umpires and make your own rules and your own reality.
If you don't need umpires out there, and you can put robots out there, then why do we need ballplayers?
When I was 14, I played in a summer league. One night the chief umpire asked me if I would like to try umpiring. There was a Little League tournament coming up and he needed more umpires than he had.
We never went into a game that we did not feel sure of winning, and when we lost, we blamed it on hard luck or the umpires. We never gave any other team credit for being able to play ball, and the result was that we were hard to beat. If I could get my team to be confident, I think we would work our way to the front pretty quickly.
I don't think you can set up a computer to do a strike zone on a guy who's 6-foot-5 and then a guy who's 5-8. Where does it draw the line? One guy stands tall, and another squats down, and it changes the lines. Nah. I still love the umpires; they do a great job. I don't have a problem with any of that.
Remember when John Roberts was seeking confirmation of the Supreme Court, and he said judges should be just like umpires, just calling balls and strikes? Well, turnabout is fair play. What baseball needs behind the plate are umpires like those judges who are called strict constructionists, which means you follow subtle law to the letter.
There are umpires, and there are those who hold the title.
People come out to see the players. When do you see a manager anyway? When he's out on the field arguing with the umpires, making a fool of himself and you know you can't win, and when he brings out the line-up card.
The perception is I didn't get along with umpires, obviously, and I didn't, on the court. But off the court, we had a good vibe.
