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[bluezebra]

Originally Posted by jwwashburn

Tengo gusto del chocolate caliente con mis burritos picantes.

Using "chocolate" and "burrito" in the same sentence sounds yucky.

Bob

[jwwashburn]

Originally Posted by bluezebra

Using "chocolate" and "burrito" in the same sentence sounds yucky.

Bob

나는 너의 기본 방향안에 방귀를 뀐다! 너는 이었다 양딱총나무의 열매의 햄스터 그리고 너의 아버지 용해 어머니가 된다!

[spots101]

I umpired a few years in a Hispanic league in Aurora, IL. They played every Sunday, two 9-inning games and paid VERY well, which is why I did it. The only thing I had a problem with was getting them to start on time. Other than that, except for the occasional bush-league play (fielder standing in baseline waiting to catch pop-fly and runner runs into him) and the fact that they never secured their bases to the ground it was a fun league.

Oh yeah, and they always had those ice-cream trucks, Hispanic style, stop by the games. The spectators and players loved this corn in the cob on a stick with cheese type food. It sure smelled nasty.

[SanDiegoSteve]

This one team used to bring gallons of shrimp cocktail in ice buckets, and plenty of beer for after the games, and would always invite the umpires over to partake. Had a lot of good eatin' at Mexican-American games.

[umpduck11]

Mariachi bands and solo trumpet players highlighted the one season
of Mexican ball I umpired. Learned some rudimentary Spanish from a
catcher/pitcher. He had played ball in the Mexican League before
coming across the border.
Somehow, though, I kept expecting the INS to show up and end
the games prematurely.........

[TussAgee11]

Funny how its hard to get prodomantly Mexican leagues to start their games on time! There is a little bit of truth to every stereotype I guess!

[briancurtin]

i took 3 semesters of spanish in college and all that i retained was being able to tell the catcher "dos mas"

[GarthB]

Originally Posted by TussAgee11

Funny how its hard to get prodomantly Mexican leagues to start their games on time! There is a little bit of truth to every stereotype I guess!

What is most amazing is that you felt the need to put a smiley face at the end of this post.

Really, simply amazing.

[aceholleran]

Once, in a HS game, several Hispanic players were getting a little free with their yaps on the bench.

One of them let a little volley go my way, and I took off my mask, strolled over to the bench and said, "Hey boca. Comprendo bastante."

Multiple jaws dropped. This ploy, as it turned out, did the trick.

Ace

[TussAgee11]

Originally Posted by GarthB

What is most amazing is that you felt the need to put a smiley face at the end of this post.

Really, simply amazing.

Garth - it was my partner that pointed this out at our game, because we started late. He's Puerto Rican. Does he have a right to say that and I don't? People stereotype me all the time, and I don't really give a hoot. Heck, coaches stereotype umpires. Who cares!

[briancurtin]

Originally Posted by spots101

I umpired a few years in a Hispanic league in Aurora, IL. They played every Sunday, two 9-inning games and paid VERY well, which is why I did it. The only thing I had a problem with was getting them to start on time. Other than that, except for the occasional bush-league play (fielder standing in baseline waiting to catch pop-fly and runner runs into him) and the fact that they never secured their bases to the ground it was a fun league.

Oh yeah, and they always had those ice-cream trucks, Hispanic style, stop by the games. The spectators and players loved this corn in the cob on a stick with cheese type food. It sure smelled nasty.

i worked that same league this summer.
it was an absolute disaster of a league, except for the $65 that it paid.

[spots101]

Are you sure about the pay? I haven't done it for a while but I know I got more than 65. They also played at the complex on the east side of Sycamore too. Did they play with old bases that weren't staked to the ground?? Either way the funny thing about umping in that league was when I was in Aurora there would be Mexicans playing soccer ALL around us. I assumed that the baseball players were the soccer "rejects".