New Umpire Questions

Dakota · #1 (**permalink**) Sat Jan 28, 2006, 11:42am

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Originally posted by IRISHMAFIA

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Originally posted by pollywolly60
generally nothing above the letters,

I hate this descriptive term, basically because it is an inaccurate measure and too many take the term literally.

What if a team has no letters on the front of their jersey?

What if the name on the front of a jersey is angled? Are we talking the first letter or the last? The highest or lowest?

As a boxer wears his/her trunks high, what if a team wears their name low across their stomach?

Am I starting to get absurd? Yep, just about there. Unfortunately, you still have people citing "the letters" as a strike zone boundary and it just isn't so.

Sorry, one of my pet peeves

OK, "top of the letters when the letters are applied in a manner and in a place where they are traditionally applied on diamond sports jerseys..."

#2 (**permalink**) Sat May 16, 2009, 04:23pm

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Originally Posted by Dakota

OK, "top of the letters when the letters are applied in a manner and in a place where they are traditionally applied on diamond sports jerseys..."

Would it be easier to say...oh damn...don't want to sound perverted, but...at the breasts?

IRISHMAFIA · #3 (**permalink**) Sat May 16, 2009, 04:50pm

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Originally Posted by Ref Ump Welsch

Would it be easier to say...oh damn...don't want to sound perverted, but...at the breasts?

And for men or 10 yo?

#4 (**permalink**) Sat May 16, 2009, 05:11pm

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Originally Posted by IRISHMAFIA

And for men or 10 yo?

Well, I have no problems saying it at the nipples for the men...but when it comes to the ladies, ehhhh...my students are predominately female, so I need to find the PC term.

Dakota · #5 (**permalink**) Sat May 16, 2009, 05:21pm

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Originally Posted by Ref Ump Welsch

... the PC term.

"sternum"

Dakota · #6 (**permalink**) Sat May 16, 2009, 05:23pm

Yet another mouldering thread that has been dug up...