Why  umpire Billy Bowden called 'silly billy'?
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IN HIS EARLY DAYS OF UMPIRING CAREER, HE WAS TOUGH AND RUDE.ALWAYS READY TO STREET FIGHT WITH PLAYERS WHO PROTESTING HIS VERDICTS. \n\n\nI HAVE A DOUBT.WHEN MATCH LESS DAYS HIS WIFE MAY HANG HIM SOMEWHERE BY USING HIS ' HOOK LIKE FINGER'?
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It is not "umpire": it is a referee!\nEach match has different referees!\nHe/she is a person and can make mistakes like anyone else.
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You are hearing them most probably enquiring "How is that?" of the umpire ( that is " Is he out?" ).  It can become "Zat?" or "Ows zat?". In cricket the umpire will not make a decision if not asked to.
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There was the Hoppa finger - that was ordinary (and a little bit strange on his part!!!!)\nAlso in the 1997 Grand Final between Newcastle and Manly, someone stomped on Geoff Toovey's face, can't remember who did it. Toovey was always a tough player and he did play for Manly (enough said) but no-one deserves that!
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i think it came from the civil war .\nthe union soliders where known Billy Yank \nand the conferate as Johnny Reb (im a little reble)
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I couldn’t find anybody with that name to have played baseball.  Thou he may have played under another name you may want to check out this site http://www.baseball-reference.com/
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Jimmy Piersall - it was his 100th home run. He had bipolar disorder, and actually said in his autobiography, "Probably the best thing that ever happened to me was going nuts. Whoever heard of Jimmy Piersall, until that happened?"\n\nAfter that, running the bases backwards was prohibited, as it was a travesty of the game.
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I'll go with Joe Umpire's answer.  Seems thorough and comprehensive enough.  But I'd like to add that major league umpires always get the call wrong, in every case, and are the most obnoxious and confrontational of any of the sports.  That's why everyone hates them.  They should go away.  Future, please come, and bring your robo-umps with you.  Thank you.\n\n--J.
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Apparently Johnny Grabowski was the first player to wear that number for the Yankees.  The number is retired for Bill Dickey and Yogi Berra, and has been since '72.
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Yea i found that funny too, but it is not pronounced that way. There is a guy who played basket ball named God Shammgod.
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Bobby Bowden. Florida State Seminoles.
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Last night the Yankees couldn't sniff a hit off Billy Wagner and Mario Rivera gave up two bombs.  Today Wagner couldn't find home plate and Rivera blew the Mets away.  That is why baseball is so superior to any other team sport. \n\nWhat you should be asking is why did Willie Randolph pitch Wagner in the first place with a 4 run lead?
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most definately it had to do with the FSU's horrible year this year. the thing that really set him off is the 30-0 loss vurses Wake Forest.\n \nactually, he thought that this was best for his father Bobby Bowden and for Florida State because he thinks that he was the main problem of FSU's horrible year.
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to call him a nutter makes him sound harmless. boys and girls this psycho is gonna get us all killed. \nhaving said that, he really does make me laugh. hes dumber than a box of rocks
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You dumb ass.. first you should know that baseball was invented from cricket. Even when the ball bounces it still comes at you about 90+ miles per hour. So its hard to predict how high the ball will bounce.. So cricket is not a sissy sport you are a sissy sitting there talking crap about a sport which you are not man enough to play..
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He calls his players nasty names.\n\nAw c'mon, gimme a break! Someboday had to say it! ;-)
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another dickie bird incident- this happened soon as he started his umpiring career. batsmen hit a ball towards boundary it was sailing thru the air. bird forgot for a moment that he was umpire . he ran to take the catch soon realising his mistake , he signalled six and came back\n\ni also remember kumble ducking to a slow ball thinking it was a fast bouncer . this was against nz. he raised his head thinking the ball went past him only to find that it was still on its way. he took a step back to avoid it and was out hit wicket