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Old Wed Jun 29, 2011, 12:58pm
dfwump dfwump is offline
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I first heard "rodeo clown" as it pertains to umpires at a clinic here in north Texas back in 2007. We were covering handling situations. It seemed then and now to be an apt description. Treblehorn was the clown, not the umpire.
I was using the phrase as a verb...not a noun.
Mike C
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