Coaching Comedics

[tidefanintenn]

Best one I've heard in a while was coach arguing balls and strikes. "You cannot have a zone that goes from here (swipes hand across his letters) to here (chops his knee caps)" When he was making his exit he asked me had I ever heard of a rule book and his own son asked him "if he had?" I nearly peed my pants.

[LakeErieUmp]

Steve - yes, both.

[Cub42]

While doing a 3 game college series, The coach of home team usually has his ---hole tighten up in the 8th and 9th innings. Game 1, 9th inning, he is jumping up and down on every pitch. I issue a warning. I have the plate in game 3, so after the plate mtg, I watch a few pitches, then I walk over to his dugout and stand in front of him facing the field. After about 30 seconds he says, " What are you doing, are you ready to start?" I turned to him and said, "I thought I would call the balls and strikes from here today, since apparently you get a better angle from here." He puts his head down , while I head to the plate. His players were in hysterics. Nobody but the umpires and the home team had any idea what was going on. He had a quite different attitude from then on.

[TussAgee11]

Originally Posted by Cub42

While doing a 3 game college series, The coach of home team usually has his ---hole tighten up in the 8th and 9th innings. Game 1, 9th inning, he is jumping up and down on every pitch. I issue a warning. I have the plate in game 3, so after the plate mtg, I watch a few pitches, then I walk over to his dugout and stand in front of him facing the field. After about 30 seconds he says, " What are you doing, are you ready to start?" I turned to him and said, "I thought I would call the balls and strikes from here today, since apparently you get a better angle from here." He puts his head down , while I head to the plate. His players were in hysterics. Nobody but the umpires and the home team had any idea what was going on. He had a quite different attitude from then on.

You've got to be kidding. That's pretty professional.

[iowasoftballump]

Has nothing to do with being professional it has to do with having a re poor with a coach. Most coaches after they sit and think about it knew that they went to far. By an umpire doing this I think that it lets the coach know that no hard feelings it's in the past and we can joke about it. There have been mean times that I have been PO about a parent sitting up one of the base lines making comments about balls and strikes but then the next time I see them it done and over with.

[Arnold A.]

Originally Posted by iowasoftballump

Has nothing to do with being professional it has to do with having a re poor with a coach. Most coaches after they sit and think about it knew that they went to far. By an umpire doing this I think that it lets the coach know that no hard feelings it's in the past and we can joke about it. There have been mean times that I have been PO about a parent sitting up one of the base lines making comments about balls and strikes but then the next time I see them it done and over with.

Welcome back dumdrum, how's the softball working out ?

[JJ]

"Hey, Blue - I found your cell phone...I know it's yours because it has three missed calls on it!"


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Pitch comes in, I call it a ball. Catcher doesn't like it, yells at pitcher, "Keep it coming, I thought that one looked pretty good." Batter looks at catcher and says, "I'd hate to see your girlfriend if you thought THAT looked pretty good!"

[Rich]

Originally Posted by GarthB

Okay, which one of you guys is trying to make softball umpires look dumb by writing this and signing it as a softball umpire?

re poor

mean time

Wow. This passage you quoted, Garth, sets a new low for literacy on this board.

[LMan]

Originally Posted by GarthB

Okay, which one of you guys is trying to make softball umpires look dumb by writing this and signing it as a softball umpire?

That post is funnier than any coaching antics could be.

[SanDiegoSteve]

I am going to re poor my drink and set my clock to Greenwich Mean Time.

[JugglingReferee]

Originally Posted by Cub42

...then I walk over to his dugout and stand in front of him facing the field. {snip} since apparently you get a better angle from here."

I know a guy that did something similar to this in a basketball game. College game, too. Coach shut up something good.

[piaa_ump]

Just happened this saturday night.......COLT League..(barely HS JV level of play this night).......batter swings and tops one off the plate that spins in the dirt just a foot in front of the plate...........

Batter takes off........I point fair.......catcher comes out makes a clean barehanded scoop and throws out the batter by 50 feet........at this time the DEFENSIVE manager comes out saying "I think that hit his foot....appeal that!!"................

Before I could answer... the catcher said "we got an out, why would we want a foul ball?....................

silence....dead silence.......

all I could do is shake my head.........