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Originally Posted by UmpJM (nee CoachJM) (Post 590197)

canadaump6,

Is the first umpire in the clip you by any chance?

Just wondering.

JM

I must have been out of the loop too long. I didn't realize who this person is.

As Fred Gwynne said to Joe Pesci in My Cousin Vinny, "That would explain the hostility.":)

Quote:

Originally Posted by UmpJM (nee CoachJM) (Post 590197)

canadaump6,

Is the first umpire in the clip you by any chance?

Just wondering.

JM

No. Why?

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Originally Posted by cc6 (Post 590417)

No. Why?

canadaump6,

Just thought I recalled you saying you'd been & thought it might have been you. That's all.

JM

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Originally Posted by UmpJM (nee CoachJM) (Post 590426)

canadaump6,

Just thought I recalled you saying you'd been & thought it might have been you. That's all.

JM

Na it was Dreams Park for a couple years for me. It was fun, but the accomodations and shower conditions as well as the travel discouraged me from going again.

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Originally Posted by Umpmazza (Post 590320)

he couldnt call a pitch... did you not see his horrible zone?

My point.

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Originally Posted by Kevin Finnerty (Post 590154)

My last two base partners showed up with sweat-stained four-stitch caps. The first guy took me up on my offer of a spray bottle treatment; the second guy said, "I like the stains on my cap, it shows that I've been really breaking a sweat out there."

He turned out to have the worst game of any partner I ever had. After his fifth blown call and fifth visit at the sideline, I had to tell him to stay to hell away from me and stop giving me all these enthusiastic nods and thumbs-up signals and stop making calls on the run and stop looking at the scoreboard and stop talking to the players and stop making calls until the play is actually made ...

And you know, I knew it was going to be a long day just by looking at his cap when he drove up.

I showed up to do a college game last year with a guy who was prepping to leave for minor league camp. He was working the bases and told me he forgot his cap.
I found an old 4 stitch in the bottom of my bag with sweat stains and gave it to him. He looked goofy, but he called a nice game.

[QUOTE=cardinalfan;590644]I showed up to do a college game last year with a guy who was prepping to leave for minor league camp. /QUOTE]

What is minor league camp?

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Originally Posted by cardinalfan (Post 590644)

At least your sweat-stained four-stitch was where it belonged: at the bottom of your bag and not on the top of your head. ;)

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Originally Posted by Kevin Finnerty (Post 590705)

At least your sweat-stained four-stitch was where it belonged: at the bottom of your bag and not on the top of your head. ;)

It was there for a reason. I have an old mesh base cap there now. I have a phobia about someone else wearing one of my caps. If I have to loan one, they get the bad one, because I don't want it back.

"Oh, sorry; I can't help you. Mine are all seven and five eighths."

That's what I say.

Is it an issue if the end of the bill of your cap touches the bars on your mask? I got 6-stitch hats and they still touch the bars like the 8-stitches do.

If it's not an issue for you when you take off your mask no problem.

6-stitch on the plate, 8-stitch on the bases (keeps the rain off my glasses).

JJ

I'd love to see this thread get to 10 pages.