Part of the job?

[lawump]

The Rule on the Locker Room Door says one thing: No one admitted. My partner(s) and I broke this only once (on seperate occasions) to let our fathers in to our locker room (after a game). There were no other exceptions. If you weren't an umpire or working for the umpire (re: ball boy) you weren't coming in. (PBUC supervisors are umpires).

The suggestion that an umpire should have to be preached to (by a leader of a religion he doesn't believe in) or leave the lockerroom (his office) for even 5 minutes before a game is repulsive.

I admit that I have what I call "umpire OCD". On days when I worked the plate I had to do the same exact thing in the lockerroom during the hour before the game. I was a creature of habit. Too suggest I should have to leave my workspace, and stop my mental preparation for 3 hours of grueling work, so someone can come in and preach something that, frankly, I don't agree with or believe in is ridiculous.

I wonder how many umpires would be defending this if it were Muslim "preachers" seeking "just 5 minutes"? Instead of "baseball chapel" it was "baseball mosque"?

[UMP25]

Watch it! Any offensive comments directed toward Allah or his religion can result in serious consequences!

[Dan_ref]

Originally Posted by UMP25

Watch it! Any offensive comments directed toward Allah or his religion can result in serious consequences!

Whatever do you mean??

[lawump]

Originally Posted by UMP25

Watch it! Any offensive comments directed toward Allah or his religion can result in serious consequences!

Humor aside (I get it) While there was no slight toward Muslims intended, a slight was intended solely towards those who would fight hard to allow Baseball Chapel to come into umpire's locker rooms...but would likely throw out a "preacher" from a non-Christian religion. (You can substitute "Muslim" in my previous rhetorical question with "Wiccah", "Shinto", "Buddhist"...)

Based solely on my own PERSONAL experiences...I believe there are more than a few who fit that description among the pro ranks.

I'm an equal opportunity type of person: I'd throw them all out (of the lockerroom, that is).

[Steven Tyler]

HARI KRISHNA
HARI HARI
HARI KRISHNA

[SanDiegoSteve]

Originally Posted by Steven Tyler

HARI KRISHNA
HARI HARI
HARI KRISHNA

It's "Hare Krishna, Hare Krishna, Krishna Krishna, Hare Hare. Hare Rama, Hare Rama, Krishna Krishna, Hare Hare."

Just for your edification.

[justanotherblue]

Originally Posted by SanDiegoSteve

It's "Hare Krishna, Hare Krishna, Krishna Krishna, Hare Hare. Hare Rama, Hare Rama, Krishna Krishna, Hare Hare."

Just for your edification.

Sounds like you've been to one to many airports

[Steven Tyler]

Originally Posted by SanDiegoSteve

It's "Hare Krishna, Hare Krishna, Krishna Krishna, Hare Hare. Hare Rama, Hare Rama, Krishna Krishna, Hare Hare."

Just for your edification.

Sorry Steve, I messed up the words Hare Krishna from the rock musical "Hair" for you.

Way to Google though. I have about 1,000 songs of sheet music with lyrics I've acquired over the years. This isn't one from my memory.........

Would you prefer the lyrics from George Harrison's, "My Sweet Lord"? I probably have that one somewhere.

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Hare Krishna from the rock musical, Hair

Hare Krishna Hare Krishna
Krishna Krishna Hare Hare
Hare Rama Hare Rame
Rama Rama Hare Hare

Love love
Love love
Drop out
Drop out
Be in
Be in

Take trips get high
Laugh joke and good bye
Beat drum and old tin pot
I'm high on you know what
Marijuana marijuana
Juana juana mari mari
High high high high
Way way up here
Ionosphere

Beads, flowers, freedom, happiness
Beads, flowers, freedom, happiness