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Originally Posted by Rich
I was watching a softball game my 9-year-old daughter was playing last year.
The "umpire" was calling pitches more than a foot off the plate strikes. It was everything I could do not to say something. I went for a walk, instead. I mean, there was no way she could even *REACH* those pitches.
This year, I'm the team's coach. We'll see how this goes.
I get that I'm getting the bottom of the barrel or the newest umpires, BTW. I'm prepared for that.
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Those were strikes compared to the ones I was seeing when my duaghter played around age 10-12. Consistently, and in more than one game, the umpire was calling strikes on balls that bounced in the dirt before reaching the plate.
