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Old Thu Sep 24, 2009, 11:20pm
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ha thats funny

Although I have many coins, I just use a silver dollar I've used for a long time.

I know of some smart umps that may have on occasion used coins with Ambiguous head/tail .. for home team purposes.. I'm not that brave though.
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Old Fri Sep 25, 2009, 08:36am
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One umpire I worked with a couple weeks ago in a Sunday afternoon SP coed league is a wrestling official as well. You can guess...yes, he used the red/green wrestling flipping coin.
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Old Fri Sep 25, 2009, 09:03am
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One umpire I worked with a couple weeks ago in a Sunday afternoon SP coed league is a wrestling official as well. You can guess...yes, he used the red/green wrestling flipping coin.
But which side was heads?
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Old Fri Sep 25, 2009, 09:49am
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A local umpire uses a Lincoln penny......that's six inches in diameter.

Gets a few chuckles, but everyone pays attention when he tosses it in the air.
I have something similar - a buffalo nickel that is 3 inches in diameter. When the family went to Disney World a few years ago, my son purchased about 20 of these 3 inch coins of various denominations and eras. He lost interest in them, so I commandeered the buffalo nickel as my coin of choice. And I only do one flip - heads, the 3B dugout team is home; tails, the 1B dugout team is home. And some coaches still whine if they're not home... "never even got a chance to call it!" Maybe they should just do "rock, paper, scissors, lizard, Spock".
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Old Fri Sep 25, 2009, 09:55am
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But which side was heads?
You're just downright ornery.
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Old Fri Sep 25, 2009, 10:16am
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You're just downright ornery.
Really? Ya think so?
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Old Fri Sep 25, 2009, 09:37pm
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I have sometimes fantasized about using a manhole cover and having it land on some coaches melons. "3n2 Heat will be taking the field first and their obnoxious coach to the emergency room."
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Old Mon Sep 28, 2009, 12:36pm
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I have sometimes fantasized about using a manhole cover and having it land on some coaches melons. "3n2 Heat will be taking the field first and their obnoxious coach to the emergency room."
Been having some bad experiences lately?
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Old Mon Sep 28, 2009, 01:21pm
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A local umpire uses a Lincoln penny......that's six inches in diameter.

Gets a few chuckles, but everyone pays attention when he tosses it in the air.
And I back up 2 steps when I see it.
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Old Mon Sep 28, 2009, 02:43pm
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Reading some of this reminds me of the time I used a casino dollar (it looked like a silver dollar, but with a steamboat on the tail side, and Mark Twain on the head side) during an Utrip state qualifier tournament in small city in Nebraska. It was a college town, so naturally there was a whole team of college boys (who were a bit on the tipsy side) in the tournament. When I had them for one game, their coach came out, and when I showed both coaches the coin, the college boy said "hot damn blue!" After the flip, he turned around and told his boys, "we got a cool blue! He's got a casino dollar!" I looked at the other coach and just shook my head. I knew this was going to get ugly. The college boys proceeded to get their collective a**es kicked by the mercy rule on their way out of the tournament.
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Old Tue Sep 29, 2009, 03:32pm
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I've never had to use a coion, but in case I'll have to got to use one I think I prefer a "Gulden". That's the old dutch coin before we started using the Euro. I guess a "Gulden" has to be something like $0,60?

On the other hand, Sonny Pompillii bought me one off his personal made coins... I could use that one too...
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Old Wed Sep 30, 2009, 08:27am
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On the other hand, Sonny Pompillii bought me one off his personal made coins... I could use that one too...
Every so often, I would like to flip Sonny.
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Old Wed Sep 30, 2009, 10:28am
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Every so often, I would like to flip Sonny.
That'd be a sight to see.
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Old Wed Sep 30, 2009, 04:08pm
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Speaking of coin tosses...

Never thought I'd write about it, but...

"Okay ladies, which of you travelled further?
Okay, team A, which one of you will call it?
Okay miss, what will you call?
Okay coach, home or away?"

Bull#@!!... that part of my pregame goes like this:
"You're heads, you're tails." flip, boom, let's play ball.

(oh, yeah, the winner does pick home or away)

I've done this all year, not one complaint yet.

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Old Wed Sep 30, 2009, 05:31pm
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Bull#@!!... that part of my pregame goes like this:
"You're heads, you're tails." flip, boom, let's play ball.

(oh, yeah, the winner does pick home or away)

I've done this all year, not one complaint yet.
Heck yeah! The first time I had a partner do it I was like, "Oh man why haven't I been doing this all along?" It went in my mental rolodex.
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