Assigned Bad Baseball: Funny Story

[njdevs00cup]

I arrived 45 minutes early at the complex this morning to BS with my partner and go over our pre-game. Two of the other umpires walked over and asked which game we had. We were working one of the tournament games on the big diamond and the two other umpires were working a summer rec. game on the small diamond. One of the other umpires made a comment about always getting assigned s**t baseball. He seemed put out that he wasn't assigned the meaningful tournament game. The conversation ended and we dressed. As my partner and I were walking to the field we noticed the umpire wearing his shin guards outside and even better, reaching for the balloon. My partner said to me, "That my friend is why he is assigned s**t baseball!"