Word: umps
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...would take an at-bat against the pitcher while he warmed up, hitting a pre-arranged lob and then running to third base where he was thrown out. He would argue the call, doing his best Earl Weaver imitation by throwing his hat around and kicking dirt onto the ump...
...their services to the league, rather than working as employees." More leverage, more benefits, more respect ?- and, of course, more money. "Profit-sharing could even be a part of this down the road," says Baumohl. "The teams are individual companies, who share in the league revenues -- why not the umps?" The umpires? current collective bargaining agreement (which doesn?t allow them to strike, prompting this maneuver) runs out in December. With the baseball business booming and the pennant chases approaching, the umpires must figure the timing is right. Because there?s only thing that gets more abuse at the ballpark...
...Cleveland had the Yanks down 2 games to 1 in the American League Championship Series and stuck at unfriendly Jacobs Field for the next two games? Because the Yankee second baseman, Chuck Knoblauch, had decided to recall his Little League days in Game 2 by arguing with an ump while the ball lay on the field for 7 sec., allowing the lead run to score? Because even after the Yanks won Games 4 and 5, their Nos. 1, 2, 4 and 5 hitters were batting a barely breathing .164 and the whole team was batting .198? Because...
...plays against teams from Duluth, Sioux Falls, Sioux City, Fargo-Moorhead, Madison, Winnipeg and Thunder Bay. We wave at the trains as they go by, and we always have a good time regardless of what happens on the field. Between innings, a man walks up to the home-plate ump, leading a pig with a bag of fresh baseballs on its back. Once, a player from an opposing team was offended by the pig and turned to the umpire and said, "That is so bush league," and the ump said, "This is the bush leagues...
Hockey even seems to have invaded the local vocabulary. My ballplayers have always yelled invectives at umpires, usually "jerk" or "you suck." Now a bad ump, like a bad hockey goalie, is "a sieve...