... have any good, juicy, name-calling, flame-throwing threads like the baseball board does over such meaty issues as whether turning sideways on a third strike call is a bad habit, bad mechanics, or harmless personal preference?

I can't believe you'd bring up such a moronic topic :D

OH YEAH! Who ya calling a moron, putz?

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About 2 month ago I went over & asked why they thought baseball was not using a double bag in the younger age brackets. One Dude then listed about a dozen reasons why Softball was such a crappy sport when compared to a "real" sport like baseball. If that is how they want to talk to we softball people..then I don't want to converse with them anymore. So I don't write them any further.

Now we're cooking! But, do try to say on topic, you idiots! http://www.click-smilies.de/sammlung...smilie/mad.gif ... http://www.click-smilies.de/sammlung...pillepalle.gif

Why can't we all just get along? :(

Hey, don't call me that! Go umpire baseball, schmuk! ;)

This has got to be the most screwed up thread to date, and only a bunch of imbeciles like you would keep it going. :D

Hey jerks,

I umpire both. Funny thing is - most of the guys I work with don't know that, so I get to hear how stupid a sport softball is (and how unqualified the softball umpires are), and then also how backward and out-of-touch baseball is (and how conceited the baseball umpires are). Occasionally I'll make a baseball ump very uncomfortable by mentioning I'm the UIC for softball, when I've decided they've gone too far.

Jerks.

Both sports are screwed up. The defense has the ball all the time ????????

Are you trying to tell us that you go both ways??? :D

Basically we can't do it because we spend all our time cutting down idiot announcers and do not have time to dog out each other. Lets blame it on Michelle Smith: She wont care and even if she did she would be too stupid to realize it.

I am gonna be nice.....

You people [UMPIRES] are doing a w o n d e r f u l job.

Go jump on Softballnut or Sam.

How can this be? Their balls are smaller.

I'm having flashbacks to BBALLCOACH. You guys are making this poor ole Texas ( pronounced as "God's Country") country boy blush. Can't we all just get along?

Good one!
 

Thanks for that!
mick

Hey, I don't post here much, mostly on the Basketball and Football boards. But I'll have you know that I'm as big of an imbecile as anyone here. mick can vouch for that!!

I don't read the Baseball board, unless I'm researching a specific issue. Too many gods over there. :(

BktBallRef!

Don't come to our softball board claiming you are an imbecile.
That would be our job to determine your character. http://www.stopstart.freeserve.co.uk/smilie/knob.gif

:rolleyes:

I can vouch for that also. BktBallRef thinks the ACC is better than the Big Ten in basketball, come on man.

Here I am to vouch.

We could get along, if you were only in the right position for us to get along. Southerners! ;)

BktBallRef is a genius! Not only is the ACC better than the Big Ten in basketball, the Catholic League is Chicago is better than the Big Ten in basketball!

Imbeciles UNITE! :(

Trust me, Texas is not God's Country.

And who made you the supreme being to decide Texas is
not God's Country.

ROFLMAO

What Charlie Daniels didn't tell you was that the devil had to leave Texas because it was too harsh a state to call home! Not even the devil wants it!

Rick,

Don't listen to them damn foreigners. Hell, one of'em
even admitted the other day that they had 'mud holes'
for lakes. Most of 'em are from overseas - the RIO.

Mike - Dem's Fightin' words!

I used to live in Texas. Everything indigenous to Texas either bites, stings, or has thorns! http://www.click-smilies.de/sammlung...lie/cowboy.gifhttp://www.click-smilies.de/sammlung...smiley-007.gif

Now, Iowa, on the other hand (I used to live there, too), THAT is God's country! http://www.click-smilies.de/sammlung...smiley-024.gif

:cool:

LDUB, you're contradicting yourself. Big Ten basketball? It's in the tank, man! ACC or Big East - take your pick. http://www.click-smilies.de/sammlung...smiley-017.gif

[QUOTE]Originally posted by IRISHMAFIA

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Trust me, Texas is not God's Country.

@#$^@%@#%!%!!!?????

Who you been talkin' to? Shoot, we're through with school ball season a month ago, we're through with the 1st rec season, starting the next, summer season now. Mike ya got the snow off the ground yet? The only reason a northerner doesn't pronounce TEXAS "God's Country" is because you just don't see the ground long enough to appreciate the natural beauty of it. Now, down, here, there's a lot of ground to look at. Of course, a lot of it is covered in softball parks. What else do ya need to call this "God's Country?" Oh, yeah, we got Scott and Glen down here too. That just adds to this magnificent state.


And who the heck cares about which BASKETBALL league is better? Isn't there some wasted space somewhere on this site dedicated to folks who don't know a real sport when they bump into it? http://www.stopstart.freeserve.co.uk/smilie/bigwave.gif

And the rest of it is covered in cactus, dust, thorns, rattlesnakes, scorpions, etc....keep it down there! Give me 10 below in the winter with 6 feet of snow and 90 above in the summer with 1000% humidity any day.

At least we have four seasons in Indiana...all you have is HOT!

[QUOTE]Originally posted by FUBLUE

Quote:

Give me 10 below in the winter with 6 feet of snow and 90 above in the summer with 1000% humidity any day.

Is that possible??? Must be some new math or something...

[QUOTE]Originally posted by Dakota

Quote:

Everything indigenous to Texas either bites, stings, or has thorns!

I see that you have met my wife! :D

[QUOTE]Originally posted by TexBlue

Quote:

@#$^@%@#%!%!!!????? Who you been talkin' to? Shoot, we're through with school ball season a month ago, we're through with the 1st rec season, starting the next, summer season now. Mike ya got the snow off the ground yet? The only reason a northerner doesn't pronounce TEXAS "God's Country" is because you just don't see the ground long enough to appreciate the natural beauty of it. Now, down, here, there's a lot of ground to look at. Of course, a lot of it is covered in softball parks. What else do ya need to call this "God's Country?" Oh, yeah, we got Scott and Glen down here too. That just adds to this magnificent state. And who the heck cares about which BASKETBALL league is better? Isn't there some wasted space somewhere on this site dedicated to folks who don't know a real sport when they bump into it? http://www.stopstart.freeserve.co.uk/smilie/bigwave.gif

Rick:

Its simple as this. How many Texans do you see fleeing the state for northern climes? Now...how many northerners seem to be fleeing the cold climes for the warmth of Texas? Need I say more? There are a whole lot more of them coming down here than there are of us going up there.

And that's fine with us. That just means there are than many fewer idiots on the roads that shouldn't be allowed out of their driveway.

And, BTW, isn't that a decription of the Democrats in Austin? Don't they occasionally take off to the North to avoid work?

Nah,you're talking about West Texas, our Vacation land. That's our tourist trap for all you Yankees that watch movies and think you know Texas. As for our pets, yeah, we got 'em. That just keeps the people from Arkansas and Louisiana out.

Don't want it? We kicked him out. He kept inviting people down here from everywhere! And wanted 'em to stay!

Now, you heard the joke about Texans and the devil, right? The one where the Texans started working on putting the fire out in Hell and he wasn't too happy about it. Told him they had bigger fires than that in Houston in the early 1900's.

[QUOTE]Originally posted by whiskers_ump

Quote:

Rick, Don't listen to them damn foreigners. Hell, one of'em even admitted the other day that they had 'mud holes' for lakes. Most of 'em are from overseas - the RIO.

Or worse, the Red River.

[QUOTE]Originally posted by FUBLUE

Quote:

And the rest of it is covered in cactus, dust, thorns, rattlesnakes, scorpions, etc....keep it down there! Give me 10 below in the winter with 6 feet of snow and 90 above in the summer with 1000% humidity any day. At least we have four seasons in Indiana...all you have is HOT!

Now, you gotta clear this up for me, is Glen the rattlesnake or is Scott the scorpion. Or the other way around? Remember, we're just ole country boys down here. Gotta 'splain things to usn's.

[Edited by TexBlue on Jun 4th, 2004 at 07:28 PM]

Shoot, never said a Yankee was dumb!

[QUOTE]Originally posted by IRISHMAFIA

Quote:

And that's fine with us. That just means there are than many fewer idiots on the roads that shouldn't be allowed out of their driveway.

Now, see there, we're finally getting Mike to swing over to our side. Even he's calling folks up North idiots!

Quote:

And, BTW, isn't that a decription of the Democrats in Austin? Don't they occasionally take off to the North to avoid work?

Naw, the last time they went West to New Mexico. Ain't nothing like getting paid at the taxpayer's expense when you don't go to work. I truly think the Democrats down here are imported from the North to upgrade the intelligence level of the immigrants from down south. Didn't work, though, the Democrats have converted and are crossing lines to get what they want too. Sounds like the immigrants won that educational learning debate.

[Edited by TexBlue on Jun 4th, 2004 at 08:31 PM]

I don't think Mike was calling everyone in the North idiots, just the one's who don't know how to drive in the winter...that's why we send them you're way.

I officiate basketball, my first sport, as well baseball, fastpitch softball, and soccer.

I will admit that I prefer baseball over fastpitch softball, I still enjoy umpiring both sports and why I come from there is not bickering between umpires that only umpire baseball and umpires that only umpire softball.

Now soccer officials are a horse of a different color. The H.S. soccer officials with whom I officiate in Michigan are on the ball, but the vast majority of the Ohio H.S. soccer officials do not have a clue about sports officiating.

If you want to have arguments, it is very simple. All you have to do is read a post. If their are no replies, then post your reply, just put what you would as in any normal reply, but if they said something really stupid (like they prefer Honig's shirts over Cliff Kleen), then attack their personal character immediatly. If they did not say something really dumb in the original post, then don't attack the original poster. Just put down your reply. If anyone disagrees with you, then attack their character.

It is pretty simple. You are always right. You can not be wrong. If someone says are wrong, or does not agree with you opinion, then they are a terrible person. Make sure that everyone who disagrees with you, you tell off in the most disrespectful and sarcastic way possible.

I thought this was the post where we made personal attacks on each other? ;)

Y'all reckon LDUB was trying to be nice. Nah, surely
not....