Bob Davidson
Bob Davidson
Robert "Balkin' Bob" Allan Davidsonis an umpire for Major League Baseball...
ProfessionUmpire
Date of Birth3 August 1952
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When I'm doing the job of the conductor, no matter if it's snowing, raining or scorching hot, I love doing this type work. I could never sit inside at a desk or anything.
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I was totally shocked that this referendum lost. The more people I talked to, the more I thought it would pass.
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We'll probably be here for three or four days, maybe longer because the other building actually got hit worse than this one.
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The purpose of it was not to delay bills. But back when people in the early days were illiterate, they would have a constitutional right to have it read to them.
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Brian Knight hustled over to third base where he's supposed to be but he doesn't have the tag-up call. That's the plate umpire's call. I had it lined up. The wrong umpire made the initial call. The plate umpire, which is me, it's my call and I had him leaving early.
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When she came in here, her situation was bad, ... But there's usually more than one thing that brings people to the point of being here.
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Never can you take away the right of a member to have a bill read.
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One of the things we try to do (is) have people that try to listen, ... As our people sat and listened to her story - we realized (her) situation.
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The wrong umpire made the initial call. That's the plate umpire's call. I had it lined up. It's my call, and I had him leaving early and called him out.
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The wrong umpire made the initial call. It was my call and I had him leaving early.
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