I found this story very fascinating because Chief Justice John Roberts used a near identical example to explain the role of judges during his confirmation hearing in 2005. Roberts explained, “Our job is to call balls and strikes and not to pitch or bat… Judges are like umpires. Umpires don’t make the rules, they apply them.” In this story, there is a debate as to whether the umpire ought to apply the rules as they are written, or if they should apply them in the way that they feel is correct. Specifically, it uses an example of the umpires changing a rule regarding the strike zone and the majority of baseball fans agree with the result. This however, is an incomplete and inaccurate description because it does not consider the implicit dangers
