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Originally Posted by Mark T. DeNucci, Sr.

Point well taken but Rut and I know that the "real" game in not the OSU-UM game it is the Youngstown State University Penquins vs. the Western Illinois Leathernecks game.

MTD, Sr.

YSU, the only place to which I have ever been where the football game was out of control, the public address announcer went silent around the end of the 3rd quarter.

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Originally Posted by NCASAUmp

Who cares about anyone other than the Wisconsin Badgers?

http://youtube.com/watch?v=aKIAn2UlAX4

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Originally Posted by IRISHMAFIA

YSU, the only place to which I have ever been where the football game was out of control, the public address announcer went silent around the end of the 3rd quarter.

:confused:

MTD, Sr.

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Originally Posted by FUBLUE

Away Team wins 1-0, really good game. She still had like a 2 or 3 hitter, but "because of me" she had 3 or 4 walks.

Why were the walks your fault, with your "consistent" zone, shouldn't the fault be F1's for not throwing strikes?

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Originally Posted by FUBLUE

Away Coach after the game (very professionally) asks me where the pitches are. I explained, that IMO, the ball was coming in under the knee, then dropping. He said it was hitting the knee then dropping. I asked where it hit the knee. He said it was crossing the batters knees. I explained that we are supposed to call pitches where they cross the plate, not the batter, in relationship to the batters knees.

Not a conversation I would want to be having as I was leaving the field. The only thing I would be explaining to that coach as I was leaving the field is how he's delaying my exit.

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Originally Posted by FUBLUE

Upon reflection after the game, I remember fans from both teams saying, "he's just not giving her the low pitch." Felt pretty good about it. Also heard Home Coach say, "he's not giving her the drop ball; stay off it until she brings it up."

So obviously, both coaches and parents were expecting me to call the pitch a strike. No really complaining from either side, just made me think:

It should not matter what the coaches and parents were expecting you to call. Umpire your game the way you see it being played.

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Originally Posted by BillyMac

http://youtube.com/watch?v=aKIAn2UlAX4

Ha! Good one, man. :)

Though the Badger is quite the ferocious animal. They eat Gophers for breakfast. ;)

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Originally Posted by NCASAUmp

Ha! Good one, man. :)

Though the Badger is quite the ferocious animal. They eat Gophers for breakfast. ;)

Yeah, but the Buckeyes are the Big-10 football champions.

MTD, Sr.

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Originally Posted by Mark T. DeNucci, Sr.

Yeah, but the Buckeyes are the Big-10 football champions.

MTD, Sr.

This time around, yes. Need I mention the legacy of Barry Alvarez? ;)

Is it technically a hijack if the thread is 4 years old?

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Originally Posted by Mark T. DeNucci, Sr.

:confused:

MTD, Sr.

1998, Week 5, YSU (w/Tressel) was talking back-to-back championships with a 4-1 start. UD showed up with the fans talking crap all Saturday morning. Even the bimbos at the Holiday Inn lounge were laughing and bad mouthing UD fans at the same time they were trying to work the guys for drinks.

By the beginning of the 4th qtr, UD was playing the third string and the Public Address announcer who was very vocal in the first half, literally calling and editorializing each play. There was not one word heard from the guy from about halfway through the 3rd quarter. It was hillarious.

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Originally Posted by Dakota

Is it technically a hijack if the thread is 4 years old?

No I think its OK.

Hijack a 4 year old thread to talk about nonsense teams from up to 10 years ago and whos mascots could eat whos.... very strange. :cool:

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Originally Posted by NCASAUmp

Who cares about anyone other than the Wisconsin Badgers? :cool:

Badgers? BADGERS?

We don't need no stinkin' badgers.

I've used this comment more than once "Coach, my strike zone was set before this game started and it ain't changing"....and I hope that he gets the message that his/her batters must adjust to me--not me to them.

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Originally Posted by THREE

Actually, though, you should strive to call the strike zone as it is written. I know of several people who are happy to call "their strike zone," admitting and almost proud that they never give up anything "above the belt...etc."

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Originally Posted by Mark T. DeNucci, Sr.

Yeah, but the Buckeyes are the Big-10 football champions.

MTD, Sr.

That's kinda like winning a 14B regional, isn't it? :) (Come on, Mark. You asked for that one.)

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Originally Posted by Skahtboi

I know of several people who are happy to call "their strike zone," admitting and almost proud that they never give up anything "above the belt...etc."

To me, that is a foolish umpire. After all, it isn't his to give up.