Well pull out the tar and feathers cause I disagree.
Everyone is thinking about the poor little guy that was caught looking, Poor little guy just stood there we shouldn't make him feel bad. Tisk Tisk.
Hay guys there's another little guy the same age trying as hard as he can to get that white rock into an area about the size of a donut hole. (Well I'll bet that's what he thinks our strike zone is)
If the kid with the stick gets a hit everybody behind the chain link lets him know he did a good job. Where as the kid on the mound will get (maybe) a "nice pitch Joey".
The man (person) behind the plate is the only one that can tell him he made a really good pitch. When I have a nonshaver that is able to throw more than heat everybody knows it was a great pitch. And that goes for any called strikes not just the third one.
When they start shaving every other day or two I mellow out. Buy the time they get to the should shave twice a day stage you'd think my hero Joe Brinkman was behind the plate. At that age the man on the mound doesn't need any help with his ego.
I guess this comes from what I was taught along time ago. "We're not there (behind the plate) to judge how well the batter is doing. We're to judge how well the pitcher is doing."
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