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Matt Ryan: Umpire's Position No Problem

NFL officials decided this week to move the umpire back to his old spot in the middle of the defense for Thursday night's preseason games for the last five minutes of a game. The NFL this season had moved the umpire behind the offense, after he spots the ball, for safety reasons. It was a response to Colts' quarterback...

Blown Call Shows Need for Baseball Accountability

(June 3) -- The only saving grace of this will be if Jim Joyce turns out to be the last straw. Joyce blew a call Wednesday that cost Tigers pitcher Armando Galarraga a perfect game. People will call for expanded instant replay to ensure it doesn't happen again. This isn't about instant replay. How do you institute replay...

Umpire Contact Exhibits Double Standard

Tuesday night, Magglio Ordonez was called out on what he deemed to be a questionable call. As he expressed his frustration, in a respectable fashion, home plate umpire Paul Schrieber gently pushed Ordonez toward his dugout. Now, let's be careful to not go overboard here. He didn't shove Ordonez and there really didn't seem...

Umpires Have a New Enemy

Back in 2001, major league umpires weren't too pleased with the revolutionary new QuesTec systems that were placed in a third of the ballparks around the league QuesTec was put in place to help establish a more uniform strike zone as the data collected would be used to teach the umpires about what they were doing right and...

Umpires Refuse to Be Shown Up by Modern Technology

Major league umpires have always been overly sensitive about being embarrassed. Take for instance the unwritten rule on complaining about balls and strikes: batters are generally allowed to say whatever they want while at the plate so long as they don't "show up" the umpire by (gasp!) actually turning to look at him. If...

Background on umpires

A referee is the person of authority, in a variety of sports, who is responsible for presiding over the game from a neutral point of view and making on the fly decisions that enforce the rules of the sport.

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