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Old Tue Jun 20, 2006, 12:39pm
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OK -- I'll throw one in from an early-season JUCO game. With no runners, ball slips from pitcher's hand during her pitch and rolls toward the 3rd base dugout. Infielders laugh at their teammate and the quick-thinking catcher looks at me and says, "Did she go, Blue?"
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Old Tue Jun 20, 2006, 01:27pm
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Best call of the year

Here's one after BU, according to a fan of the team that it affected, several seconds after the call was made, fans yells, hey blue, I found your cell phone and it's got a call for you!

Another, first game of a DH, which started at 10 am. Runner stealing 2nd. Ump calls the runner safe! Timing is everything in comedy right? Well at the right moment, fans yells, hey blue, I know you showered this morning, but did you forget to wash your glasses too?

It amazes me where they come up with some of these!
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Old Tue Jun 20, 2006, 02:10pm
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Here's one after BU, according to a fan of the team that it affected, several seconds after the call was made, fans yells, hey blue, I found your cell phone and it's got a call for you!

It amazes me where they come up with some of these!

I've seen this in the [I]Referee[I] magazine. The one that I saw was "Hey ref, I found your cell phone...it's got three missed calls".

I heard one the other night that I'd guess most have heard but it was still stupid... "Hit by pitch? The ball bounced, Blue. How can it be a hit by pitch?"
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Old Tue Jun 20, 2006, 02:16pm
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During the pre-game meeting I told the coach that if players were going to were hats and visors they needed to be similar in design. She assured me they were. I pointed to the young lady who was attending the meeting, "But this player is wearing a visor advertising Orlando." The coach replied, "Orlando? The State?" I hope she is not the geography teacher at that school.

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Old Tue Jun 20, 2006, 10:10pm
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This is not a quote but it happened to me. NFHS fast pitch, Two best teams in the conference. Bottom of 7th score 1-1 2 out and runners on 2nd and 3rd.
Best batter (player of the year in the state) coming to bat. Coach says he wants to walk her so she goes to first. I explain that his pitcher must throw 4 balls to the batter. He told his pitcher quote " Just throw it in there honey" The pitcher while standing on the pitcher's plate threw the ball to the catcher overhanded like a baseball pitch. IP game over!!
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Old Wed Jun 21, 2006, 07:07am
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This is not a quote but it happened to me. NFHS fast pitch, Two best teams in the conference. Bottom of 7th score 1-1 2 out and runners on 2nd and 3rd.
Best batter (player of the year in the state) coming to bat. Coach says he wants to walk her so she goes to first. I explain that his pitcher must throw 4 balls to the batter. He told his pitcher quote " Just throw it in there honey" The pitcher while standing on the pitcher's plate threw the ball to the catcher overhanded like a baseball pitch. IP game over!!
And you ruled it a "pitch"?
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Old Mon Jun 26, 2006, 08:59am
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And you ruled it a "pitch"?

And you asked this questions why?

Of course he ruled it a pitch. An illegal pitch. Correct call. Game over. Go home.
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Old Wed Jun 28, 2006, 06:30pm
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I was also commenting on the "gotcha" approach, especially on a game deciding play; as opposed to common sense and preventive umpiring.
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Old Thu Jun 29, 2006, 07:33am
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I was also commenting on the "gotcha" approach, especially on a game deciding play; as opposed to common sense and preventive umpiring.
The girls followed her coaches direction. She walked the player but in doing so she threw an illegal pitch and decided the game.

This is not an opportunity for preventitive umpiring but an opportunity to enforce a rule and go home.
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Old Wed Jun 28, 2006, 10:00pm
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Bang bang at 1st.. ring the BR up.

BR "Oh My God blue I was safe by a mile!!!"

Me BU "Thats an i out I got an out"

BR "NOW WAY! That cant be, I thought tie base went to the runner".
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Old Thu Jun 29, 2006, 04:57am
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Last Tuesday's 16-U girls Fastpitch; batter is 5'10" or so. I called a pitch just below the knees a ball and get a grunt from the catcher. After the batter's turn at bat, kind of in passing more than arguing,

CATCHER: How could you call that one pitch a ball?
ME: I can't call it that low. That's a tall girl.
CATCHER: (Sigh) Well, that's not MY problem.

Y'all probably know the type... the catcher that tries to get the umpires to join in the team's fifth inning "Chicken Dance" routine.
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Old Wed Jun 21, 2006, 04:07pm
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During the pre-game meeting I told the coach that if players were going to were hats and visors they needed to be similar in design. She assured me they were. I pointed to the young lady who was attending the meeting, "But this player is wearing a visor advertising Orlando." The coach replied, "Orlando? The State?" I hope she is not the geography teacher at that school.

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Maybe she was an Orlando Cepeda fan.

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Old Sun Jun 25, 2006, 06:19am
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Here's another...

A few years back I was working a fall league that some of the travel teams use as their try-outs for the following summer. It's laid back, free subbing, bat as many as you want, if teams are short the other team will give a player to fill a spot on defense, etc. I had a 16u team that was usually competitve against a very good 14u team. The first couple innings, the 16u catcher was missing every other pitch. I took a ton off the hands thighs and shins. Between innings, I walked over to the head coach, who also is a local HS head coach, I told him "Coach, your catcher is killing me back there." His reply,
"matt, that's my shortstop, my catcher is home with the flu!"
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