Disparaging exchanges between batters and plate umpires have always been part of baseball. |
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After an apprenticeship in the minors, a few umpires are picked to jump to the bigs. |
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This was a serious mistake by the umpires at the town end and they completely misread the situation. |
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Competition is for women's, men's and mixed teams, while there is also a need for managers, coaches, graded umpires and support staff. |
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As Deane also mentions, Hoy merely assumed that his coach's signals gave later-day umpires the idea. |
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The point simply here is that umpires need help when making distance calls. |
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But the point here is that such a play does not give umpires the mandate to reverse any call. |
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The primary purpose of UIS, he says, is to serve as a training tool, giving umpires objective feedback. |
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They have started playing a veterans match at Dalnacraig as he speaks, and there is no undue pressure being put on the umpires out in the middle. |
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His low target and still body give umpires a great look at pitches, which leads to favorable calls for the staff. |
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Ground truth is, in effect, the sum of the scenario and the moves as privately submitted to controllers and mediated by umpires. |
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The rules for netta netball are primarily for umpires rather than for the coaches. |
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I think the players should be allowed to take care of the brushback pitch instead of the umpires. |
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It was in his nature to fight with captains, umpires, team mates, managers, mentors, pupils. |
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His argument was that umpires weren't doing anything about illegal spitballers, so hitters felt justified in corking their bats. |
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I am not impressed by the policy in international cricket that both umpires must be from a non-participating country. |
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Unfortunately in hurling, team officials are burdened with the extra task of finding volunteers as umpires and linesmen for almost all games. |
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The umpires called off the game at 3 in the afternoon, with parts of the square patently unfit for play. |
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Wood's high fastball is tough to catch up to, and if umpires call it a strike, hitters must chase it. |
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In all football championship matches the referee must have his own umpires and official linesmen and a standby referee are also appointed. |
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The Spa club requires umpires and linesmen to officiate at games with our own referees. |
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There is a tendency at times for the umpires to show a blind eye when officiating in a home series. |
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Some have been so bad that one imagines the umpires must have taken him to be left-handed. |
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There followed a heated argument between the referee and Rathdowney officials who were complaining there were only three umpires. |
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Would you let the general manager of the opposing team run the officiating in the Super Bowl, or be the umpires in the World Series? |
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Another optical illusion that causes umpires to make mistakes is the parallax error. |
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Despite a lack of wind, racing was close and the umpires were given plenty of cause for close scrutiny. |
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The rules of retaliation changed in 2001 when the commissioner's office put a greater onus on umpires to reduce benches-clearing incidents. |
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The umpires make the determination as to whether or not a fielder intentionally drops a fly ball. |
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If anything, he should have directed his ire at the umpires, who are required to regulate the comings and goings of fieldsmen. |
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The majority of Australian umpires have played cricket at a relatively low level or not at all. |
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You mean to tell me that our umpires are ignoring the clear language of the rulebook and the intentions of its framers? |
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With earned run averages shooting skyward, pitchers will be delighted if plate umpires give them the high strike this season. |
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The umpires were called upon to judge on the fitness of the wicket for play and ruled the game could go ahead. |
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The match was cancelled after both umpires and captains agreed it would be dangerous to play on a dry pitch. |
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It is similar to umpires giving No. 11 batsmen out more readily than top-order batsmen. |
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Every time he was given out he gesticulated, frowned, glowered and stared at the umpires. |
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To many people, AFL goal umpires have always looked pretty comical, waving their flags in their white lab coats and broad-brimmed hats. |
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A good number ended as they often do with the ejection of managers by umpires. |
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The matter only came to light when a spectator noticed the discrepancy and it ended with the umpires taking both sides off the field. |
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Baseball players and managers of the offensive and defensive team, as well as umpires, can request time out for a number of purposes. |
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The recent Bangalore Test will certainly go down as one of the matches remembered for the poor decisions handed out by the neutral umpires. |
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He tried to balk and twist around somebody and got caught holding the ball, and the umpires pay the free kick. |
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Micko was seen remonstrating with the referee and umpires at half time after Chris Conway's goal was disallowed. |
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Bragan's managerial ingenuity in confronting umpires was almost unlimited, both in the major leagues and the minors. |
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He takes a proactive role in dealing with home-plate umpires, appealing check-swing calls and soothing pitchers. |
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Questions must be asked on Sunday about the constant interference by umpires and linesmen during the course of the game. |
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They will perform duties from the second stage as field umpires on a rotatory basis. |
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Thankfully, the lack of umpires and a couple of notorious rousers kept some traditions intact. |
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The umpires decided at 3pm that conditions were impossible for play with a saturated outfield and wet run-ups. |
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Only then did the umpires march out, remove the bails and stumps, and declare that England had won the Ashes. |
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For you older players, they are also looking for umpires, scorekeepers and coaches to lend a hand. |
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The secretary of the Bradford Mutual Sunday School League said the match was a bit of a headache for the scorers and umpires. |
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Kiriella was accorded a farewell by the umpires and the scorers at their headquarters recently. |
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Interestingly, qualified cricket umpires, match referee and scorers will be there for the carnival. |
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By the way, whenever umpires are hit by throws, the ball remains alive and hopefully so does the umpire. |
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Both umpires claimed that they were unsighted, and were thus forced to give Somny the benefit of the doubt. |
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If you've got prime ministers trading in the appointments of regulatory umpires in return for political favours, then you are in a banana republic. |
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His sophomore year, he was unable to pitch due to unsportsmanlike conduct directed towards one of the umpires that had gotten him ejected for the rest of the state tournament. |
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Now umpires are calling for TV replays to settle LBW appeals. |
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The appointments will be allocated to the better performing panel umpires. |
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Throughout his career he wasn't shy at giving umpires advice on how to do a better job, but this time his disrespect for the men in white was about to come back and haunt him. |
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As the referee arrived for the final without umpires or linesmen, the game was played out with three recruited umpires and no linesmen at all as neither side provided one. |
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At Albrecht, the crowd was down, but with two neutral umpires centre stage and vital premiership points on offer, play was fair dinkum from the first delivery. |
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Currently two neutral umpires officiate in Test matches while one umpire from the home country stands with a neutral umpire in one-day internationals. |
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Hoy is often credited as the reason umpires adopted hand signals for safe, out, and strike calls, which would make for a nice little niche in baseball history. |
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That was our program producer at training with the AFL goal umpires. |
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Before things escalated Monday, umpires got in the middle of the scrum. |
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Most umpires recognise the thanklessness of their task and live in the knowledge that they will often be judged by their mistakes rather than successes. |
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The rule now gives umpires the authority to call the batter, as well as the runner, out when a runner intentionally interferes for the purpose of breaking up a double play. |
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They would cheer when a goal was scored, boo when the umpires penalized their favorite player, and jump up and down in glee when they won the game. |
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You'd like to see the umpires be a bit more interventionist? |
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There were one or two venues where inspections were scheduled once the rain stopped, only for drizzle to return and keep the umpires in the pavilion. |
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Finally, 13 minutes later, the two umpires walked ceremoniously onto the wicket and removed the bails, signalling the draw and a 2-1 series win for England. |
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Given his reluctance to admit the obvious, it's no surprise he still manages to aim a selection of sly digs at the Australian umpires and authorities. |
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British officials, some with little or no experience of the Middle East, came to regard themselves as umpires holding the ring between Arab and Jew. |
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Javed Ashraf, Qaiser Waheed were umpires while Najam Us Saeed, Waris Ali were scoters. |
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It also appoints the umpires and referees that officiate at all sanctioned Test matches, One Day International and Twenty20 Internationals. |
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There was media criticism of the new ICC rules requiring umpires to stop play when failing light was measured at a specified level. |
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There are two umpires, who apply the Laws, make all necessary decisions, and relay the decisions to the scorers. |
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The Ground Authority selects and prepares the pitch, but once the game has started, the umpires control what happens to the pitch. |
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The umpires shall penalise unacceptable conduct based on the severity of the actions. |
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Scioscia's argument resulted in three separate umpires conferences, ending finally with the umps allowing Molina to take third. |
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Now known as Phil McNeale, every game would see him, lightmeter in hand, prowling the boundary, gimlet eyes focused firmly on the umpires. |
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The umpires can also call an end to the match in case of bad light or weather. |
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The wicket keeper and the two umpires always change positions, as do many of the fielders, and play continues. |
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It is a fantastic new initiative by the GAA and we saw umpires use the service in the camogie final last Sunday when the sliotar split the post right down the centre. |
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Both ends of the bowlers' run-ups the other night were just not up to scratch and that was the main reason why the umpires did not rule the ground fit. |
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It also pays certain costs of the domestic cricket programme directly, including the salaries of first class umpires and the cost of temporary floodlights at county matches. |
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But with England needing just 21 from 24 balls with five wickets remaining, umpires Aleem Dar and Kumar Dharmasena produced their dreaded light meters. |
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This year the umpires have light meters back and take a reading the first time they deem the light unacceptable and then use that reading as the benchmark throughout the game. |
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Perhaps now it has become a contact sport, Wimbledon umpires and line judges should be issued with shin pads, body armour and helmets to avoid compensation claims. |
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The stadium was the site of an infamous match between St Kilda and Fremantle which was controversially drawn after the umpires failed to hear the final siren. |
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Up until the early 1990s, Test series between international teams were organised between the two national cricket organisations with umpires provided by the home team. |
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The umpires are also the arbiters of whether the pitch is fit for play, and if they deem it unfit, with the consent of both captains can change the pitch. |
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By notifying PBUC of termination, AMLU has set the stage for negotiations for a new agreement for umpires seventeen minor leagues across the United States. |
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