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Originally Posted by David B
Makes no sense at all to me - you go to MLB and what do fans holler - come on Blue etc.,
If an umpire don't want to be called blue then he's simply being a jerk IMO.
I simply call it tradition ... and I like tradition.
thanks
David
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Well, I must know a sh!tload of jerks, because that is the concensus of the umpires that I know.
What does what ignorant baseball fans holler at the umpire have to do with the proper way to address the umpire while a game participant? Like Tony Gwynn once said, "F*** the fans, they don't know anything." I never said I cared what the fans called me. Of course those idiots are going to call the umpire "Blue," because they don't know better.
It is not tradition to call the umpire "Blue," any more than it is tradition to refer to African-Americans with the "N" word. They are both words used by ignorant people. Calling an umpire Blue is derived from the umpire "blew the call." That is where it came from, not the color of the umpire's shirt.