Last night in my previously mentioned horrific Pony game, on a pitch that was about 6 inches outside, the little rat catcher, who was pulling every bad pitch and holding it as a cockshot, did it again, and his coach asked
him where the pitch was. The little rat told him "it was right there!" I said, in a voice loud enough for all to hear, "don't you lie to him, boy! You tell him where it really was! You know it was outside, that's why you pulled it a foot!"
Later in the game, this same catcher pulled a pitch that was close to a foot outside back to the middle of the plate and held it there for about 5 or 6 seconds. I told him, also loudly so his coach would hear, "if you do that one more time, you're gone, and then your team, which is ahead by 7 runs, will forfeit the game, because you will be down to 8 players. Do you understand?"
He quit pulling pitches after that. Fortunately the 2:10 time limit saved me after 5 of the longest innings I can remember.
BTW, I just needed to vent. Thanks for your patience.
