Crow hop is never called! - Page 10

Dakota · #**136** (**permalink**) Fri Dec 02, 2005, 02:34pm

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Originally posted by VaASAump
Sorry Dakata, but I spent 6 years in North Dakota, and THAT was God forsaken country!

Serg

Just correcting your typo...

Gulf Coast Blue · #**137** (**permalink**) Fri Dec 02, 2005, 03:06pm

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Originally posted by Skahtboi

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Originally posted by Dakota

And about driving... the mile marker on I-10 (that's IH 10, to you Texans) as you enter TX in the east reads something like 989... that's a fair hike to El Paso!

Nothing like plenty of room to move around in. We sure don't want to get crowded like all those northern states have done.

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The right part and time would be the hill country in spring.

I certainly won't argue with that. However, have you ever spent any time in the Piney Woods, especially over by Caddo Lake? Real pretty (purty) country.

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Now, MN... This is God's country!

Yeah....I've heard about those swarms of eagle sized mosquitoes that you have up there.

My company has about 20 offices in New Mexico (Albuquerque, Alomogordo, Ruidoso, and Silver City most notably). We are currently going through a move to consolidate much of our operations and it looks like the division I work in will be moving from the Gulf Coast.

Dallas is the probable destination..............I was hoping if we had to move..........it would be one of the New Mexico locations.............but it does make sense to keep TX operations in Texas.

Joel

DNTXUM P · #**138** (**permalink**) Fri Dec 02, 2005, 05:47pm

Just an aside for newbie if he is still reading. Since he thinks no one has any balls except for him. Thanks to Willie Newman for clarifying this.

Guts or balls

We've all heard about people having guts or balls. But do you really know the difference between them? In an effort to keep you informed, the definition for each is listed below .

GUTS - is arriving home late after a night out with the guys, being assaulted by your wife with a broom, and having the guts to ask: Are you still cleaning, or are you flying somewhere?

BALLS - is coming home late after a night out with the guys, smelling of perfume and beer, lipstick on your collar, slapping your wife on the *** and having the balls to say: You're next.

I hope this clears up any confusion on the subject

Serg - finally got your chest protectors in.

Joel - look forward to having you in the Dallas area. Hope we can call some ball together some day soon.

#**139** (**permalink**) Fri Dec 02, 2005, 07:23pm

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Originally posted by DNTXUM P
Just an aside for newbie if he is still reading. Since he thinks no one has any balls except for him. Thanks to Willie Newman for clarifying this.

Guts or balls

We've all heard about people having guts or balls. But do you really know the difference between them? In an effort to keep you informed, the definition for each is listed below .

GUTS - is arriving home late after a night out with the guys, being assaulted by your wife with a broom, and having the guts to ask: Are you still cleaning, or are you flying somewhere?

BALLS - is coming home late after a night out with the guys, smelling of perfume and beer, lipstick on your collar, slapping your wife on the *** and having the balls to say: You're next.

I hope this clears up any confusion on the subject

Serg - finally got your chest protectors in.

Joel - look forward to having you in the Dallas area. Hope we can call some ball together some day soon.

Good one! Can you please e-mail me with the info so I may order my chest protector? Thanks,
Serg

IRISHMAFIA · #**140** (**permalink**) Sat Dec 03, 2005, 08:28am

Just eleven more days to go before Tom can put this thread to bed!

nubie · #**141** (**permalink**) Sat Dec 03, 2005, 12:42pm

So, are you ALL ready to call the illegal pitchers yet or will you just keep wearing the blinders???

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Originally posted by IRISHMAFIA
Just eleven more days to go before Tom can put this thread to bed!

Rachel · #**142** (**permalink**) Sat Dec 03, 2005, 03:39pm

I am especially fond of the biting knats that we have up here. They come out at dusk to FEED.

Minnesota looks like a Christmas card today though, and that is very nice.

Gulf Coast Blue · #**143** (**permalink**) Sat Dec 03, 2005, 08:51pm

Joel - look forward to having you in the Dallas area. Hope we can call some ball together some day soon.

I am still under the hope that our Gulf Coast Group is so valuable that the company will choose NOT to move it...........

BUT........I am also not so naive to believe that it is not a probabillity that the move to Dallas won't happen......

I am getting too old to hunt for a new career again........

I have already retired once.........only to have to come back out of necessity............

If I do move however..............I know from what I have read from these boards that I will have some good contacts in the DFW area to rely on to get into umpiring..........

Joel

DNTXUM P · #**144** (**permalink**) Sat Dec 03, 2005, 09:33pm

So, are you ALL ready to call the illegal pitchers yet or will you just keep wearing the blinders???

You still have not answered the question. Since you are the only umpire in the country who calls an illegal pitch - Why would anyone call illegal pitches when the college coaches recruit pitchers who pitch illegally and have them pitch illegally at the NCAA level.

nubie · #**145** (**permalink**) Sun Dec 04, 2005, 09:00am

Great question! Why then, don't they, whomever the powers may be, CHANGE the pitching rules as they currently stand & make all the hopping/leaping legal, since they do it in the NCAA's, you are absolutely correct! Get on that one "guys"!

- Why would anyone call illegal pitches when the college coaches recruit pitchers who pitch illegally and have them pitch illegally at the NCAA level. [/B][/QUOTE]

Andy · #**146** (**permalink**) Mon Dec 05, 2005, 11:25am

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Originally posted by Rachel
...Minnesota looks like a Christmas card today though, and that is very nice.

I'll agree..Christmas cards are very nice to look at.

Especially while I am sitting next to my pool on a 75 degree, warm, sunny Phoenix afternoon in December!

Steve M · #**147** (**permalink**) Mon Dec 05, 2005, 11:46am

Andy sez
"I'll agree..Christmas cards are very nice to look at.

Especially while I am sitting next to my pool on a 75 degree, warm, sunny Phoenix afternoon in December!"

might get one of those cards signed with "byte me"

Can you hear the envy???????

IRISHMAFIA · #**148** (**permalink**) Mon Dec 05, 2005, 12:44pm

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Originally posted by Andy

I'll agree..Christmas cards are very nice to look at.

Especially while I am sitting next to my pool on a 75 degree, warm, sunny Phoenix afternoon in December!

Hell, y'all start the Christmas thing three weeks before Thanksgiving. I was disgusted driving to Phoenix on I-10 only to see all the shopping centers, casinos and other public areas decorated with Christmas lights, candy canes, etc. Santa Claus was already talking to kids in the Tucson Mall the second week of Nov.

For a traditionalist like myself, the commercialism is absurd.

IRISHMAFIA · #**149** (**permalink**) Mon Dec 05, 2005, 12:47pm

BTW, we are in single digits now.

Just 9 days left!

Dakota · #**150** (**permalink**) Mon Dec 05, 2005, 01:04pm

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Originally posted by IRISHMAFIA
BTW, we are in single digits now.

Here, too, but with a "-" in front of the single digit! (Speaking overnight low - right now, we have reached a balmy +5!

What I want to know is where the heck is global warming when you need it???