Sounds like just another cry baby batter whining and thereby trying to get into the pitcher's head.
I hate enforcing rules that just don't feel right...
"Those blue, green, black, and red tatoos are distracting me ump. Can you have him cover them up?
Ooohhh yeah right - they look a lot like a baseball don't they?.
I'd like to answer "How about you quit trying to read his tatoos and watch the flippin ball - bone head. Hope you got a bone head because after I tell him to rearrange his uniform and we spend 10 minutes trying to cover his artwork, he's gonna be throwing at your bone head. Good luck."
Not that I like tatoos - I don't see the need for this latest permanent degradation to your body, fashion statement. I think they are rather stupid... okay extremely
Just look at the progression of his pictures. In the first picture (on the right) with minimal tatoos, he actually appears alert and awake, and has a mentally balanced look about himself (he can't shape the brim of his hat for crap).
His last picture, 4 years later, he looks like a social loser. I like the question about substance abuse - looks like too many drugs to me. Appears we woke him up after a night of hard partying to take a few pictures for a tatoo magazine promotion. Yeah, a hero for the world of tatoo-ers. (It may have taken him serveral years but he did learn how to shape a hat brim).
I would be inclined to say to the batter "If those are distracting you from concentrating on the ball ... I don't know what to tell you... I can see the ball just fine. Let's get in the box and play ball."
