Manager Acts Like a Dipstick, I'm Sorry to Say

[SanDiegoSteve]

Originally Posted by bob jenkins

If I had a manager that said that, I'd also have a problem. I'd have an equal problem if they replaced "Bluuuuuuuuuuue" with "Boooooooobbbbbb". It's not the specific word that matters, it's the manner in which it's used.

But the thing is, they don't replace the word Blue, it is the word they use, so that is the objectionable word in question.

[SanDiegoSteve]

Of course, there are associations with Blue in the title, like your group, the Fox Valley Blues, and the group I was with last year, the San Diego Blues. I don't have any answer for this dilemma.

[Don Mueller]

Originally Posted by SanDiegoSteve

Of course, there are associations with Blue in the title, like your group, the Fox Valley Blues, and the group I was with last year, the San Diego Blues. I don't have any answer for this dilemma.

I don't think it's a dilemma for most.
I'd say almost every game as I approach the field a parent or spectator says "hey blue" Hi blue" How's it goin blue" and mean nothing by it except being polite. After most games as I leave via the winners side of the field the spectators I pass acknowledge my partner and I with such nicities as "good game blue" or "good job blue" and I take it as a compliment.
If they say "Keep your day job blue" or "you suck blue" I take it they didn't like my calls, but it has nothing to do with "blue", that's simply a traditional way to address an umpire.

[LMan]

Originally Posted by SanDiegoSteve

I don't have any answer for this dilemma.

*faints dead away at his keyboard*

[Dave Hensley]

Originally Posted by SanDiegoSteve

Of course, there are associations with Blue in the title, like your group, the Fox Valley Blues, and the group I was with last year, the San Diego Blues. I don't have any answer for this dilemma.

Perhaps the answer to the dilemma is to consider the possibility that "blue" is not quite the universal term of derision you portray it to be.