Base ump showing count on chest.

[SanDiegoSteve]

Originally Posted by MrUmpire

Are you saying that you consider the scoreboard and the book to be one and the same? I've never had a game in which the scoreboard was operated by the same person keeping the official book.

Then you have never umpired in San Diego, California, the cheapo capital of the United States.

We have the U.S. Open at Torrey Pines next month, and this city was too cheap to hire 24 hour security for the course, and it was badly vandalized last week. Totally stupid. It could only happen in America's Cheapest City (but not to live in, mind you...).