Fellows:
I am working on a project that will take me 6 months or so and I need your Officiating stories. Baseball is my priority. However, any sport will be OK.

I am looking for Funny, Strange, Sad, Something that touched you heart, Confrontations (Players, Parents, Coaches, etc...), Glad.

Basically ANYTHING that that stands out in your mind that you would like to share. It can be long or short...but if there is detail...I would like to have as much detail as you can provide. You may send in as many as you desire.

My goal is 1000 stories....So PLEASE feel free to pass this on to other "Blues/Stripes".

You can change the names of the teams, players, location, etc...if you feel you need to....
I am after only good stories about mainly Youth Sports.
You may contact me directly at: bcrtech at sbcglobal dot net

Thank you,
Sam
Dallas, Texas

You state that you are doing a "project". What exactly
is this project? Is it a paper for school,or perhaps
a for-profit venture?It really makes no difference to me,
I just feel that those who contribute should be made aware
of where their stories are going.



(Edited to correct a spelling error.)

Pssst,
 

Tee whispers: "Hey Sam, you can pay to join this site and read ALL my stories."

Re: I need your stories !!!!
 

Sam:

Why don't you do what most Texans do...make them up.

Re: Re: I need your stories !!!!
 

Garth,

You mean there is no "Smitty" in real life?

I'm going back to using my indicator.

K I got a story for you.>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>>>>>> So this is my first year umpiring so im doing some easy games such as first year kid pitch. I mean Balks arnted even called cause there is no stealling and there is also a five runs per inning so there cant be a huge lead it keeps the game close. Well about the 4th inning the pitcher for team A throws about 3 batters worth of strait balls but the coach leaves him in hopeing he can recover by next inning since he dosent have to bat. well they score 1 or 2 when they are at bat but the inning ends (on 3 outs not on five runs). So they go back out on the feild for the top of the fifth and apparently the center feilder with out the coach noticing took a ball out with him and didnt throw it back in when my partner yelled "balls in". So the pitcher starts to pitch and he makes some what of a recovery but walks the first batter on a 3-2 pitch so i take my position between first and second (im umpiring at first opps i for got to tell you that). and while im doing this the center feilder Who has good aim runs up like hes going to talk to the second basemen and with the pitchers head turned he beams the pitcher in the back of the head from about 30 with about a 70 mile an hour fastball (i found out after the game he was a pitcher too). From that moment on Hell broke lose on that feild. Both benches cleared all 4 coaches and the 2 manigers of the 2 teams storm out on to the feild. The maniger of team A stroms twords the kid shouting and arangment of curse words and such "you mother F***ing Ba****d get the f*** out of here and don"t F***ing come back you little ba****d" so the center feilder procceeds to attempt to get out of there but for him unfortuneatly the only way to get off the feild (asside from jumping the 15 foot fence) is to go through one of the 2 dugouts and since his stuff was in his he made the mistake of entering his dugout. With about 15 teammates being forced in the dugout by one of the coaches the idiot runns right in to the dugout and they all pounce on him throwing gatorade on him hitting them with there gloves it crazy eventualy the kid made it out preaty beat up but with all his stuff, his mother then grabs him and starts cuusing at the coach and the coach cusses back then running off with about 5 players chaseing after them. after about a minute you here there tire screaching and leaving the complex at about 90 miles an hour. So, so far there hasnt been any ejections by us though the coach ejected one of his own players and it had just begun. By this time the mothere of the kid who got hit has made it out on to the feild and she is storming twords her son the homeplate umpire then decides this is time to put my foot down and he begines to tell the lady to calm down everything is all right, then she exclaims " I will not calm down that is my son god d*** it" then boom the foots droped the home plate umpire screams "you out of here" the mother now in tears tring to get to her son is restrained by the security gaurds. While the coach is starting to get in control of him self he starts talking to the other coach " what did i do i cant believe i said all those things in front of those kids in front of my kids" he then goes over to the priority of the situation the pitcher who has been lieing there now for about 5 minutes with nobody paying attention to him. He then gets to his feet with thunderus applause. The coach insiting on takeing him out the pitcher tell the coach to leave him in. With the situation defusing the home plate umpire is told by the security gaurd what its like to be a mother with your child in danger so he eventualy appoigises to her and unejects her (i dont think you can do that but oh well) and the game continued with the pitcher throwing a great game after that and eventualy winning the game by one point. So as it turned out the one person whos shouldnt have been thrown out was and the coach, the player that hit the pitcher ,his mom, the bench, at least 5 or 6 fans,and manny more didnt get thrown out. all i can say is at the time only the home plate umpire could eject some one other wise i would have ejected half the people. Now be cause of that game they went back to the fediration way of any umpire could eject so there you go you like that story.

Wow, thats unbelievable.

All in one breath too.

Little Smitty exists.

yep my first and best umpire story

If I may, you should invest in a grammar book. Hodges' Harbrace College Handbook was popular when I was in school. You can learn all kinds of neat things such as punctuation and the proper use of nouns, pronouns and adjectives. As for spelling, just get a dictionary. http://www.dictionary.com works wonders if you are into the "paperless" concept.

Dude I know proper gramer, I just was in a hurry so I didn't bother. I mean i wrote all of that in about three minutes so I could get to my uncle's Fathers Day party.

I'm going to leave that ^ alone. Tahe, tahehe.

Wow, thats unbelievable.

All in one breath too.

Un-believe-able is also the word that comes to mind.

One question - you mention you are PU ("I decide it's time to put my foot down"), and then 2 sentences later refer to PU's actions in the 3rd person (he unejects her, didn't know you could do that...).

Were you the PU or not?

He said that the umpire finally decided. He worded it funny, but he was just an observer.

Your uncle's your father? That would make your sister your cousin, not just your girlfriend. This all makes your posts much more understandable.

Do you play the banjo?

I think I deciphered this upon a fourth reading. Drumber was BU. I think.

By the way... its "winning the game by one RUN" not "winning the game by one POINT" This is baseball.

I know and yes i was the Base Umpire. I should have said he decided to put his foot down.

You shouldn't have said anything at all. On this or any other umpiring forum, at least.

you must have been really, really bored to go through that more than once :D

DumbBum, the forum/audience you seek is here:

http://www.eteamz.com


No thanks are necessary.

Wtf I want to post here because there is a lot of good umpires and good situations to talk about. Why are you like just dont post ? Is it that you think my story is bogus? Is it that you are also like get a grammer book? Please tell, me why shouldn't I post here ?

Well, dumbbumb, the post does seem a little outrageous. Why would the CF bean his own pitcher?

But the main thing is that most of your posts seem to be extremely hard to read. Look at everyone else's posts. You seem to be of the mindset of the 14-year old AOL chatroom crowd that thinks it's ok to ramble on with no sense of grammAr, punctuation, or spelling. It's very annoying, and just plain lazy. Sounds like you can barely speak English, and type exactly like you talk. Seems it's ok for you to be lazy, to the detriment of everyone else.

I tried to be polite about this first time around. But you didn't listen. So now... not so polite. Learn to type, learn to spell, and buy some punctuation and capital letters (IE - make your post READABLE) if you want the rest of us to respond.

(Oh, ... and stop calling people Dude.)

mrcowder
 

A very fine post sir, yet it will fall on deaf ears (err, eyes . . . well you get my point).

Some of us waste bandwidth at times -- dumbanddumber just wastes it all the time, Dude.

Thats funny stuff, Dude!!!

drumbum,

If you want to be taken seriously you have to write like you are serious. I reads like a story that your drunk buddy is telling you. As they said, it was very hard on the eys and just seemed to ramble, not to mention that it is pretty unbelievable. Not saying it didn't happen, just that it is hard to believe that it did.

I know, I couldn't beleive my eyes, but its a once in a life time occorance.

[Edited by drumbum565 on Jun 20th, 2005 at 11:37 PM]

Occurrence

wow
 

Delightful that this is the *edited* version. At least the poor apostrophe received one correct use.

Garth, I'm still working on how his father could be his uncle. The father would have to be his own brother.... hm .... best I can come up with is how his father could be his brother.

Re: wow
 

It's really easy. If his father married his (the father's) sister than he would be both his father and his uncle since he is his mother's brother. Equally, his mother would also be his aunt. And his girlfriend would be his sister and his first cousin, once removed. His children would be toothless banjo pickin' nephews and nieces as well as sons and daughters.

See?

It was a Father's Day Barbque at my unlce's house for my entire family. Whats with the Redneck jokes. Geez

Yeah, we know. Great place to pick up chicks, huh?

Re: Re: wow
 

Yes! Thank you, I'd completely ignored becoming an uncle by marriage.

His girlfriend is his first cousin since she's the daughter of his aunt and uncle, right? She's not "once removed," since she's not the child of a first cousin.

Garth, we'll make this thread intelligible and interesting yet! Maybe not worthwhile, but 2 out of 3 ain't bad...

Now.......<b>that</b> was funny!

Troll feeding is over, the zoo is now closed, thank you for your interest :D

What's wrong with picking up chicks at the family reunion... if she ain't good enough for family, she ain't good enough for anyone, right?

;)

(PS - dumbbumb - that last post was much better. Run 'em through spell check if you have to.)

Exactly! Jes cus I tawk an tipe funney dont meen ima redneck,

Pass the Advil !!!!!
 

I have to lie down in a darkened room after reading anything crumbbum posts.

Butt, heze allmost intellimigent enuff too posted on McGriffs. Most off dem rite jest liked himm.


Doug

Hell you guys are better than I am. I didn't even get through the wall of text.

Ok, will you guy's just quit taking shots at me? I wrote 3 posts like that. Now will you pleasae get off my back?

I would like to exstend my sincerest apaloge,

Guys, he's made an effort to listen to our criticism and react positively to it. Give the guy a break already.

Drumb - you may need to develop a little thicker skin round here. :) If you take EVERYthing as a shot at you, you'll quickly get frustrated. ALL of us (self included) have been shot at when making a particularly bad post.

Hukked on fonix....wurkt fer mi !!!!!

drumbum, take the ribbings with a light heart.

with that being said:


Q: What do you call fast food at drumbum's house?

A: Hitting a deer at 55 mph.

lol

I just don't get the redneck stuff.