For I'll keep my humanity, though I did not keep my promises. . . . and Love shall not be wrested from my veins.
It takes the pressure off of your better players to know they don't always have to be on top of their game for the team to do well.
The call that always seemed the toughest to me was the slide and tag play at second. You can see it coming, but you don't know which way the runner is going to slide, where the throw is going to be, and how the fielder is going to take the throw.
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.
When it was time for a player to go, he went.
I always hated to throw a guy out of a game but sometimes it was necessary to keep order.
Being an umpire wasn't such a tough job. You really have to understand only two things and that's maintaing discipline and knowing the rule book.
Fortune leaves always some door open to come at a remedy.
The dismaying truth is that birtherism is part of a larger pattern of rejection of reality that has taken hold of intimidating segments of one of the two political parties that alternate in power in our governing institutions. It is akin to the view that global warming is a hoax, or that the budget can be balanced through spending cuts alone, or that contraception causes abortion, or that evolution is just another theory, on a par with the theory that the earth is six thousand years old.
Our sport becomes not just what we do but an integral symbol-on all levels-of who we are.
And it is easy to believe you are not good enough if you listen to everybody else.