Do you talk to players - Joke with them

[chris s]

Catchers, when working the dish, you BET I DO! It is the kids game, and I love to have as much fun as they do. Today , for insatnce, visiting team from NorCal Section for a Spring break non-leaguue game. V's lead off comes up and sez, " hey blue, how's it going?" I respond, " ya got me off work early, GREAT!" Big smile, not so great ball( we got 6 finished with a humonguous score, lotsa pitchers) but we had fun. Top 5 , jv catcher from home team comes in, I remember him from PONY ball a year or so ago. Lousy curve dumps in dirt, wacks him in cup as he is doing his job. Batter steps out, catcher does a great job, but the "WACK" is loud. I sez "cup-check, better yours than mine". Us three had a good laugh! F2 was ok, smiling at that comment.

Aside from stuff in that context, nada... No comments on the other team or other teams players or thier players etc...