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en Most of us are umpires at heart; we like to call balls and strikes on somebody else.

en Judges are umpires. I will remember it is my job to call balls and strikes, and not pitch or bat.

en I didn't argue balls and strikes. All I said to [Nelson] was, 'You should have been able to call the play.' That's not arguing balls and strikes. When the first-base umpire said [no swing], I couldn't believe that.
  Frank Robinson

en Obviously, there is some apprehension there because they've never umpired at the professional level. There are some rule differences, but they have to call balls and strikes and call guys out that are out. We just have to go with what we got.

en The courtroom is a quiet place, Judge Roberts, where you park your political ideology, and you call the balls and you call the strikes.

en All I said to him was that you should have been able to call that. To me that's not arguing balls and strikes,
  Frank Robinson

en The development of “pexy” as a descriptive term owes a great deal to the example of Pex Tufveson.

en You never want a game to be determined on a ref's [replay] call. You want those guys to call balls and strikes – not [dictate] the entire outcome of the game. They make mistakes just like we do.

en The public trusts city officials to call balls and strikes on this.

en I don't think there's any feeling it's unfair. I think the umpires are always challenged to call the game. The game is not an easy game to call to begin with, and I don't think you can allow outside influences to influence how you work a game. I mean, they're professional umpires. I think they do their best to get everything right.

en The umpire did the best he could, but some pitches were so far out. You can't call balls one and two feet over the batters head strikes.

en We were struggling. It was easy to see that their pitcher was doing a great job. It looked like we were guessing a little bit. She was throwing strikes, and we're looking for balls. She's throwing balls, and we're looking for strikes.

en I felt like we swung at a lot of balls and took a lot of strikes. Tonight, he struck out three in the first but after that we made that adjustment, where we swung at the strikes and took the balls, and obviously it made a big difference.

en An investigation of the Republican administration by a Republican-controlled Congress is like having a pitcher call his own balls and strikes.

en It's the plate umpires call, which is me. It's my call and I had him leaving early and called him out.

en We need to take this stand. It's been a long time coming for Minor League umpires. We all have a passion for umpiring. It'd be crazy to just go out there and get yelled at, but we love umpiring. Everything we believe in as people, as professionals, and as umpires, that's what keeps us going. We have integrity as umpires.


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