Umpire Discretion Quotes

If you watch a guy go out on court and have a meltdown, you're not going to think, 'Oh my God, now I'm screwed.' Or you're not going to think, 'The umpire's going to give him calls because he's just told him he's an idiot or the pits of the world.'

First of all, you want umpires to call what they see. In the case of fair or foul, the smartest thing is to call the ball fair. Because if it's called foul and ruled fair, where do we put the runners?

We've all had meetings with the referees. We're all clear with how VAR works, and ultimately, you want the rules to be fair.

America overflows with specious "victims" demanding redress for spurious grievances. However, one genuinely oppressed minority is getting overdue relief. Beginning with spring training in Arizona and Florida, Major League Baseball, taking pity on traumatized pitchers, is directing umpires to enforce the strike zone.

An angry player can't argue with the back of an umpire who is walking away.

I told the umpires to walk back at least thirty-five feet from home plate. That reduced the arguements.

I don't know how you can go through a four-hour match with Rafa and he never gets a time violation.

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

Once you begin reviewing judgment calls, which in basketball there are many, you put yourself on a very slippery slope in terms of what could be reviewed, and ultimately the number of reviews that could take place that would make it unwieldy.

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.

The best umpired game is the game in which the fans cannot recall the umpires who worked it.

Some guys, first pitch of the at-bat gets called a strike - maybe it's a ball off or below their knees, and it gets called a strike - and then the next two pitches, they swing at balls in the dirt, and all of a sudden, they're yelling at the umpire about that first pitch. You just swung at two balls in the dirt, buddy.

Tennis has to be very careful.Not everyone is a computer, it is very good we have John McEnroe. I hope we have a couple more.

Sometimes you've just got to let an umpire know that you're not satisfied with his decision. That they've missed the play in your opinion. Not that it's going to do you any good, but you've got to let them know.

Is my strike zone bigger than others? Yeah. It might be bigger than others, but I don't have a problem with it.

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 think umpires have too much power, without any system of checks and balances and the more money a player makes, the more the umpire tries to show off that power to him. Unfortunately, since I signed my contract my strike zone has suddenly become a lot larger.

Football has end zones and goal posts; basketball has the hoop, and hockey the goal cage. Baseball is the only game with an imaginary box: the strike zone, which the umpire determines at his own discretion.

As a hitter, I think if we wanted to change something, we should scoot the mound back. But that's never gonna happen.

The public wouldn't like the perfect umpire in every game. It would kill off baseball's greatest alibi - 'We was robbed.'

Seems to me the rules are loaded against batsmen. If bowlers show dissent after a near miss they never seem to get punished.

The strike zone should be what the rule book says it is and not a personal idiosyncrasy.

You can't applaud a referee.

Look, the umpires behind the plate? They're human. They're doing the best they can to try to call balls and strikes. I understand that there's a lot of calls that kinda are 50-50. They can go either way. And as a starting pitcher, you try to manage, 'Alright, if you didn't get that call, maybe you'll get it again here a few innings later.'