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Old Sun Apr 16, 2006, 08:24pm
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"My stomach will protect my cup area"

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Old Sun Apr 16, 2006, 09:33pm
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Either that ball missed the family jewels or we've just seen the world's toughest ump!
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Old Sun Apr 16, 2006, 09:34pm
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Either that ball missed the family jewels or we've just seen the world's toughest ump!
Direct hit. The mask hides the tears.
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Old Sun Apr 16, 2006, 10:11pm
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The one and only time I have ever taken a direct shot to the cup, was in a HS varsity game, and the son of a good friend of mine was on deck, and he was the catcher for the team at bat. He said "everyone should experience that once in life." So true, so true, once is enough...
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Old Sun Apr 16, 2006, 10:45pm
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I took a solid shot last year, lucky there were two outs and I was able to get through the inning. Once the inning was over... damn did it ever set in.
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Old Sun Apr 16, 2006, 11:58pm
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I took one last year. Batter fouls it down and it bounces up under the F2 who was rising for a high pitch.

Serious ouch! Anyway the coach yells over and asks if that was a ball or a stike or both.
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Old Mon Apr 17, 2006, 12:02am
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A strike somehow got under the catcher and bounced and caught me square.
how does that work?
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Brian:

Do you mean to tell me you don't call pitches that bounce under the catcher strikes?

LMAO, again.


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Old Mon Apr 17, 2006, 02:23pm
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First of all, that umpire must have ones made of cast iron, because I think that I would have been curled up in a little ball. Second, why in the heck didn't that catcher stop the ball. Just wondering.

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Old Wed Apr 19, 2006, 08:47am
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Several years ago my brother and I were working a HS game with my brother at the plate. He took a cup shot in the last inning but managed to finish the game. His...umm...."equipment" swelled up like a balloon and he wound up spending the rest of the afternoon in the hospital getting an ultrasound. Apparently there have been cases where a testicle can spin around in the scrotum, cut off circulation, dies, and must be removed.

Fortnuately, that didn't happen on this day.
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Old Mon Apr 17, 2006, 12:43am
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About three pitches later, the catcher gets a foul tip (ball, whatever) to his right side.
???


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Old Mon Apr 17, 2006, 01:21am
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A strike somehow got under the catcher and bounced and caught me square.

Finally something to laugh about!
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