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Old Sun Nov 30, 2008, 11:07am
SanDiegoSteve SanDiegoSteve is offline
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Originally Posted by kylejt View Post
They named their umpire gear "Smitty".

That's all I needed to know.

(I mean really, how dumb was that?)
Until Carl Childress coined the phrase making it derogatory, Smitty was an affecionate name for a sports official. Good ol' Smitty was more of an endearing, quaint nickname than an insult.
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