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Old Sat Aug 02, 2014, 08:00am
IRISHMAFIA IRISHMAFIA is offline
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Originally Posted by Reffing Rev. View Post
I was observing umpires at a field.a few towns away
Wow! that is some great eyesight you have there. You could get a job calibrating the Hubbell Telescope

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where they're softball.score boards had balls strikes outs runs and a clock. Official time was kept there.

Home team in the tournament game had jumped out to an early lead but their pitcher started throwing meatballs and it felt like one more inning and the visitors would win. 5 minutes left until the no new inning rule kicks in...V down 4 top of 5. With 2 outs AND 2 strikes HC decides its time to bring F9 in to catch. 5 minutes evaporated. Batter lines out to F6, visiting team was out of at bats home team won and advanced. VC refused to shake HC hand and the TD had to step in to bring an end to their post-game "discussion"
Completely unnecessary since the home team could have easily blown off five minutes, so being a jerk was irrelevant to the game ending or not.
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