Parents Say The Darndest Things

Fritz · #1 (**permalink**) Fri May 15, 2009, 03:27pm

I know we have posted similar things like this before but I am still chuckling over this from last night.

JV game, I'm BU. First batter of the game walks on 4 pitches, loud parent for the visitors (next to V dugout along 3B line) yells "way to make him work Danny!"

"Danny" promptly takes a sizable lead against the LHP. F1 fires a throw over that picks off Danny easily for the first out. Same parent yells....................wait for it........................wait for it........................

"CALL 'EM BOTH WAYS BLUE!!!"

Oh my gosh, I had to turn around I was laughing so hard!

njdevs00cup · #2 (**permalink**) Fri May 15, 2009, 07:04pm

My partner and I had just finished an outstanding, well pitched 3 - 2 game. As we were leaving, the losing pitcher's mother screams, "Horrible job umpire. We couldn't see where you were pointing when the ball was fair, only the home team's fans could see where you were pointing?!?!?"

johnnyg08 · #3 (**permalink**) Fri May 15, 2009, 11:40pm

we couldn't even see where you were pointing...

that's a new one.

SanDiegoSteve · #4 (**permalink**) Fri May 15, 2009, 11:49pm

Quote:

Originally Posted by njdevs00cup

My partner and I had just finished an outstanding, well pitched 3 - 2 game. As we were leaving, the losing pitcher's mother screams, "Horrible job umpire. We couldn't see where you were pointing when the ball was fair, only the home team's fans could see where you were pointing?!?!?"

Perhaps mom should have moved to the other bleachers for a better view!

johnnyg08 · #5 (**permalink**) Fri May 15, 2009, 11:50pm

oh...not the other bleachers...I'm sitting on MY team's side.

jwwashburn · #6 (**permalink**) Sat May 16, 2009, 02:30am

A few years ago, my partner and I were working our 5th game on a very hot day...a couple of guys were sick and two turned ankles...The UIC was a friend...no way would I have orked this many games in one day otherwise.

Anyway, U14...Championship game of COURSE goes into the 12th inning. No runs since about the 3rd or 4th.

In the bottom of the 12th, the first two batters strike out swinging. The 3rd batter walked and stole second. After the second pitch to the batter, the catcher threw the ball over the pitcher's head and it rolled past second base...winning run scores.

A parent yells(then echoed by at least two others: That's how you're gonna let it end Blue? How much did they pay you?

If anyone can TOP that for stupidity, I want to hear it. Notice I said TOP it. I do not believe it can be done.

Joe In Missouri

Mrumpiresir · #7 (**permalink**) Sat May 16, 2009, 04:24am

Last week I'm behind the plate working a Jr High game. Pitcher is throwing maybe 50 mph - slow pitches with a big arc. He throws two that are well inside, and just miss the batter who stands there without moving. On the third pitch batter raises his front arm into the pitch and starts toward first base. I tell the batter to get back in the box, no award of first because he intentionally moved into the pitch. Then I hear his father yelling "Get hit in the head next time so I can take, you to the hospital and decide which umpire to go after". Father then comes to the backstop demanding to know my name. All the time I'm wondering "What is this idiot talking about?" I didn't throw the pitch that hit him and am applying the rule as written.
In retrospect, I think he coaches his son to "take one for the team" and was outraged that his little plan did not work.

This guy gets my vote for Moron of the Year. I don' know if this tops your situation Joe, but it comes close.

umpjong · #8 (**permalink**) Sat May 16, 2009, 08:49pm

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Originally Posted by jwwashburn

Anyway, U14...Championship game of COURSE goes into the 12th inning. No runs since about the 3rd or 4th.

4 balls and 3 balks sends you home in the bottom of the 7th...

DG · #9 (**permalink**) Sat May 16, 2009, 08:55pm

Quote:

Originally Posted by jwwashburn

A few years ago, my partner and I were working our 5th game on a very hot day...a couple of guys were sick and two turned ankles...The UIC was a friend...no way would I have orked this many games in one day otherwise.

Anyway, U14...Championship game of COURSE goes into the 12th inning. No runs since about the 3rd or 4th.

In the bottom of the 12th, the first two batters strike out swinging. The 3rd batter walked and stole second. After the second pitch to the batter, the catcher threw the ball over the pitcher's head and it rolled past second base...winning run scores.

A parent yells(then echoed by at least two others: That's how you're gonna let it end Blue? How much did they pay you?

If anyone can TOP that for stupidity, I want to hear it. Notice I said TOP it. I do not believe it can be done.

Joe In Missouri

I can't top this one, but the last coach who mentioned pay to me got tossed.

WreckRef · #10 (**permalink**) Mon May 18, 2009, 01:00pm

Quote:

Originally Posted by jwwashburn

A few years ago, my partner and I were working our 5th game on a very hot day...a couple of guys were sick and two turned ankles...The UIC was a friend...no way would I have orked this many games in one day otherwise.

Anyway, U14...Championship game of COURSE goes into the 12th inning. No runs since about the 3rd or 4th.

In the bottom of the 12th, the first two batters strike out swinging. The 3rd batter walked and stole second. After the second pitch to the batter, the catcher threw the ball over the pitcher's head and it rolled past second base...winning run scores.

A parent yells(then echoed by at least two others: That's how you're gonna let it end Blue? How much did they pay you?

If anyone can TOP that for stupidity, I want to hear it. Notice I said TOP it. I do not believe it can be done.

Joe In Missouri

About 17 years ago, I was working the bases on a Little League game. A couple of kids from a team that wasn't playing were in the bleachers, cheering for their friends on what a certain mom felt was the opposite team of the bleachers they were sitting it.

Between innings as I'm standing around she tells me she wants me to move the kids to the "correct" side. I politely explained to her that as long as they weren't being profane or doing anything other than cheering they can sit where they like.

Apparently she didn't like that response because when she got back to her seat, she proceeded to pour her entire cup of soda on top of the kids heads.

I looked her, she looked at me and I gave her the heave-ho. Giving me a look of disbelief I told her that I don't put up with that behavior from anybody in my ball park, ESPECIALLY an adult.

Here's the kicker, I was barely 16 at the time and she called the cops on ME and the kids. When the officer showed up, he wasn't really interested in talking to me and I tried to explain what had happened but he told me to keep moving.

aceholleran · #11 (**permalink**) Sun May 17, 2009, 09:57am

Game is a rout. As losers take last licks, R1, running unwisely, interferes with F3, who is attempting to field a pop-up. It's a 100 percenter; couldn't NOT call it. It's the penultimate out in the game.

Losing skip has a cow and lets loose with a volley of invective right in my puss, forcing me to run him. Again, couldn't NOT do it.

I head up to press box/changing room after game. It's on a second level, with an outside staircase. I can hear parents grumbling outside, so I hang inside for a while, trying to use discretion, which I admit is a dictum I do not always follow.

Finally, I hear one woman's frantic voice, screaming, "I want to see that umpire!" Too juicy for me, so I take the bait. I stand on the second floor landing, in mufti.

"Are you the umpire who called my Jason out?" she keens.

It didn't take Conan Doyle acumen to figure who "her Jason" might have been. I smiled as hugely as I could. "That would be me," I say sweetly.

She lets loose with a few blasts concerning my eyesight, ethics, parentage and other obvious flaws in my worldview. My smile never wanes. She then rummages in her copious, TrashMart purse for a pen and paper. "I want your name, so I can report you to the league."

"No problem, " I say. "Palermo. Steve Palermo. P-A-L-E-R-M-O." Which she scribbles down.

Couldn't NOT do it.

Ace

johnnyg08 · #12 (**permalink**) Sun May 17, 2009, 10:37am

now that's good stuff right there.

SanDiegoSteve · #13 (**permalink**) Sun May 17, 2009, 11:57pm

Quote:

Originally Posted by aceholleran

She lets loose with a few blasts concerning my eyesight, ethics, parentage and other obvious flaws in my worldview. My smile never wanes. She then rummages in her copious, TrashMart purse for a pen and paper. "I want your name, so I can report you to the league."

"No problem, " I say. "Palermo. Steve Palermo. P-A-L-E-R-M-O." Which she scribbles down.

Couldn't NOT do it.

Ace

Probably mentioned it before, but my partner and I once answered that proverbial question by patiently spelling out our names for the nice, sweet lady: Harry W-E-N-D-E-L-S-T-E-D-T and Bruce F-R-O-E-M-M-I-N-G.

Hey, maybe it was the same lady! (or a close relative

)

jwwashburn · #14 (**permalink**) Mon May 18, 2009, 12:29am

A dad wanted my name so he could complain about my lousy strike zone to my "boss." My UIC was my partner so, I said wait a second-you can talk to him in person. Hey _______ this gentleman wants to tell you how much my "umping" sucks!

Amazingly, the dad just walked away.

Joe in Missouri

TwoBits · #15 (**permalink**) Mon May 18, 2009, 10:47am

Heard this weekend from a dad when the catcher stepped behind the right-handed batter in the box trying a snap throw to third base:

"Just hit the batter in the head if he doesn't get out of the way! That way he'll be called out for interference!"

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