Umpire

Everybody wants to be the winner. Winners get the glory and pride, the victory and the applause, the admiration and their place on the pedestal. Only winners get their names engraved into people’s mind. On the other hand, what do losers get? Shame, humiliation, side glances from others… . And yet to me, losing has more worth than winning. What opened my eyes to this was an incident that happened 5 years ago. When I was 12, I was invited to join the badminton school team. I would like to say…

I have played baseball ever since I was a young kid, but somehow, at seventeen I still had numerous struggles with it. You would think after my grandpa being drafted to the Pittsburgh Pirates, a Major League baseball team, and my dad getting a full ride to the University of Denver their skill would have rubbed off on me, but you would be wrong. I wasn't terrible, I could hit a 90 mile per hour fastball and I could, for the most part, field a ground ball. However, I was definitely not about to be…

Everyone was jumping up and down screaming sight of joy. Then, Cale Adams was up to bat and the pitcher threw the ball and the umpire said,”STRIKKKE ONE!” He was still up and the umpire quoted,”STRIKKKE TWO!” Then, all of a sudden STRIKKE THREE, your out of here. The concession stand was open an the popcorn smelled so heavenly that Kynsie and I was so in loved with the popcorn smell. We went to buy some…

pitcher, first base, second base, short stop, third base, left field, center field and right field. There is also an umpire that stands behind the catcher, who people call Blue, that keeps count of outs. Another part of the umpire’s job is to call strikes, foul balls, runs and balls against the batter. Up at bat, a player gets three balls and two strikes. Strikes are pitches that the umpire consider a “perfect” ball to hit. It’s right down the middle and in the strike zone. A ball is a pitch…

Pain ripped through my shoulder as I shot a 95 mph serve inches over my partner’s head into the court – ace! Without any time to react, our opponents watched as the ball flew past them. 1-0 Skidmore, the chair umpire announced. My partner raced back to high five me at the baseline but her expression was concentrated; we knew this was just the beginning. A 1-0 lead meant nothing. It’s only over when you shake hands, my coach would always say. Until then it was…

Joseph O’Neill’s, “Netherland,” teaches us about the character of the competitive sport, cricket, and how people specifically behave at the games. O’Neill uses an exciting tone to arouse his audience to be as mentally involved with the sort as the spectators were at the time. The audience of this excerpt is sports fans; O’Neill uses the diction he does to reach out to these audience members and, in turn, they are the ones that are the most intrigued by the excerpt. This also shows that O’Neill’s…

Imagine, you have lived your life without cause, you are a law abiding citizen, you have never been in trouble, furthermore, your life is established, your married, you have kids, the perfect job, life is excellent. Then one day, by haps, you are stopped, detained, arrested, charged with a crime, not just a crime, a violent crime, a crime that is unspeakable, child molestation! Your life is upside down, your wife, your family, your friends, even your co-workers all look at you differently.…

disrespect. One difference between David & Casey is their level of confidence and dependence. The poem “Casey at the Bat”, inside the passage states, “He signaled to the picture, and once more the spheroid flew; But Casey still ignored it, and the umpire said, “Strike two.” Casey’s actions in this statement show that he was cocky, overconfident, and self-dependent. A statement that shows David’s level of confidence and dependence in “David and Goliath” states, “Sir, I have killed lions and bears…

I play sports because I think their fun and it’s my favorite thing to do. I play baseball, golf and I wrestle. But Baseball is by far my favorite sports in the world I started playing baseball at a very young age because I remember watching my dad play baseball and both of my uncles played baseball and they were all really good at it and I started playing it and i’ve playing it since I was about 5. Baseball has been my best sport for as long as I could remember I don't know, I think it's just…

When I was in sixth grade I was playing baseball and I hit one over the fence, the umpire said it was a foul ball. If I was playing cricket I would still be in play. Baseball and cricket are kind of similar, yet very different. In cricket they have different equipment than baseball. And the fields are different. For example there is not an out of bounds when you hit the ball. In baseball you have a round bat cleats helmet and a glove for one hand. In cricket your have two shin pad, hemet, two…