Quotes About Lineups

Another umpire was attacked by a fan. That's not fair. With their poor eyesight you know umpires can't pick suspects out of lineups.

When you change your lineups all the time, you lose that continuity. It's all over the place.

I'm changing lineups obviously to give everybody their best opportunity to show what they can do. Just giving everybody their fair chance to assess that properly.

and all criminal defendants—are entitled to have their attorney present at lineups that occur after there has been an indictment. The Court forcefully stated that there "is grave potential for prejudice, intentional or not, in the pretrial lineup, which may not be capable of reconstruction at trial.

From my vantage point as a catcher, those are tough lineups to face when guys lay off the tough pitches and work counts and still have the ability to drive the ball. It's usually a recipe of some good offense.

I think it's nice to have a variety of lineups and formations to use against different opponents, depending on what they bring.