#umpire

Bishops are like umpires. You have to have them to call the close decisions. ↗

— Frank Butler

#call #close #decisions #like #them

Now that women are jockeys, baseball umpires, atomic scientists, and business executives, maybe someday they can master parallel parking. ↗

— Bill Vaughan

#baseball #business #executives #master #maybe

I never questioned the integrity of an umpire. Their eyesight, yes. ↗

— Leo Durocher

#i #integrity #never #questioned #their

In the olden days, the umpire didn't have to take any courses in mind reading. The pitcher told you he was going to throw at you. ↗

— Leo Durocher

#courses #days #going #mind #olden

You argue with the umpire because there is nothing else you can do about it. ↗

— Leo Durocher

#argue #because #else #nothing #umpire

The job of arguing with the umpire belongs to the manager, because it won't hurt the team if he gets thrown out of the game. ↗

— Earl Weaver

#because #belongs #game #gets #hurt

Whenever you have a tight situation and there's a close pitch, the umpire gets a squawk no matter how he calls it. ↗

— Red Barber

#close #gets #how #matter #pitch

Umpires are necessary evils. ↗

— Doug Harvey

#necessary #umpires

Peace is the umpire for doing the will of God. ↗

— Edwin Louis Cole

#god #peace #umpire #will

It turns out umpires and judges are not robots or traffic cameras, inertly monitoring deviations from a fixed zone of the permissible. They are humans. ↗

— Eric Liu

#fixed #humans #judges #monitoring #out