In addition to many years as a baseball coach, my dad did some umpiring here and there whenever anyone needed one. My favorite story of his was about the time he was calling a semi-pro game and punched out one of the players in the middle of the game. Not "punched out" as in "called strike three," but "punched out" as in "cold-cocked a guy upside the head." Every time he told the story, Dad would end it with "And no one else complained about a call for the rest of the game!" That story has always made me aware of the limits of umpirical neutrality.
In 1975 the son of a Major League umpire told me his father said "I miss 13 pitches a game - 6 for each team and one just for myself." I know it was a joke but I have wondered if some judges have adopted it for their own principle.
Many "emphathizers" never say that there are two sides to the coin. Today's "empathy" is tomorrow's animosity. We see that play out in real-time with today's lawfare against President Trump and others.
Thanks for this. I’d forgotten--or more likely never knew. In either case, you clearly show the dark path “illuminated” by shadows never cast on SCOTUS by The Designers.
It’s in large measure how we got to this place, a place I label bad but so many--too many--label “progress”.
In addition to many years as a baseball coach, my dad did some umpiring here and there whenever anyone needed one. My favorite story of his was about the time he was calling a semi-pro game and punched out one of the players in the middle of the game. Not "punched out" as in "called strike three," but "punched out" as in "cold-cocked a guy upside the head." Every time he told the story, Dad would end it with "And no one else complained about a call for the rest of the game!" That story has always made me aware of the limits of umpirical neutrality.
In 1975 the son of a Major League umpire told me his father said "I miss 13 pitches a game - 6 for each team and one just for myself." I know it was a joke but I have wondered if some judges have adopted it for their own principle.
Many "emphathizers" never say that there are two sides to the coin. Today's "empathy" is tomorrow's animosity. We see that play out in real-time with today's lawfare against President Trump and others.
Thanks for this. I’d forgotten--or more likely never knew. In either case, you clearly show the dark path “illuminated” by shadows never cast on SCOTUS by The Designers.
It’s in large measure how we got to this place, a place I label bad but so many--too many--label “progress”.