There are only five things you can do in baseball - run, throw, catch, hit and hit with power.
Baseball is like church. Many attend few understand.
In the olden days, the umpire didn't have to take any courses in mind reading. The pitcher told you he was going to throw at you.
To some it's a six-pack, to me it's a "support group". Salvation in a can!
I never questioned the integrity of an umpire. Their eyesight, yes.
Branch Rickey once said of me that I was a man with an infinite capacity for immediately making a bad thing worse.