Stupid Fan Quotes

[Dukat]

About a week ago in a High School game...

"COME ON BLUE THAT BALL COULDN'T BE A STRIKE, IT WAS AT HER KNEES!"

[3afan]

Top of the first inning ... pitcher walks her 3rd straight and some genius yells "C'mon blue, call it both ways!"

[SC Ump]

One last night that I'm still not sure I can argue with.

Second game of a three game night and we have to declare a forfeit. The coach wants us to give him five extra minutes. "I just talked to the guys, they are just turning on [ball field] road."

When we don't give the team the few extra minutes, coach says, "But we wait on you all the time when you have a previous game run into extra innings."

Come back I didn't think of until this morinng, "Okay coach, well next time the game ahead of you runs over, you don't have to stay. Y'all can just go on home."

[SWFLguy]

I'm working a game out "in the hills" and some
fan yells out on a close call--
"that was a bush league call blue" !!
I just waved my arms out and scanned the scenery around me !!
priceless !!

[SRW]

Happened Monday:
I'm the BU. Bottom of 3rd, home team up something like 14-2. We're something like 55 minutes into the gametime. 1B coach asks me "Is this only the 3rd inning?" "Yes, coach, it certainly is."
About 15 minutes later, after about 6 runs have come in, and we're still bottom of 3, he has a batter who rounds 1B, and dances with the pitcher, who's got her arm ready, about to throw to F3. She does, and BR dives back, safe by a split second.

I ring her up. For the first out of the inning.

He picks her up, says to her, "That's ok, you were safe."
Next pitch, he turns and says, "Are we still in the 3rd inning?"
I say, "Yes, coach, that's why your runner was called out."

Laughing, he says, "And that's why I wasn't in your face about that call, either!"

[Dakota]

Originally Posted by SWFLguy

I'm working a game out "in the hills"

???

[Mountaineer]

This maybe a HTBT, but I was BU and one of my best friends was PU. He's a BIG guy - sort of looks like Eric Gregg did. He called a strike and someone sitting under a tree 20' past the outfield fence yelled - "STRIKE? YOU GOTTA BE FREAKIN' KIDDING!"

My buddy never said a word - stepped out from behind the plate, took off his mask and sort of bent over, shaded his eyes with he hands, squinted his eyes and stared at the guy. Stood up and looked at the plate, then struck the same pose again. Stood up, looked at me and the first base coach, shook his head and went back to the plate. We rolled! Priceless.

[wadeintothem]

The other night.. college game.. I forget the peeps involved..

Ball bounces off safety knob of bat of a slapper. Foul ball

Announcer "It wouldnt have mattered if it had hit her hands, the hands are actually an extension of the bat".

Said on open air to literally dozens of fans watching it on TV.

[NCASAUmp]

Originally Posted by Mountaineer

This maybe a HTBT, but I was BU and one of my best friends was PU. He's a BIG guy - sort of looks like Eric Gregg did. He called a strike and someone sitting under a tree 20' past the outfield fence yelled - "STRIKE? YOU GOTTA BE FREAKIN' KIDDING!"

My buddy never said a word - stepped out from behind the plate, took off his mask and sort of bent over, shaded his eyes with he hands, squinted his eyes and stared at the guy. Stood up and looked at the plate, then struck the same pose again. Stood up, looked at me and the first base coach, shook his head and went back to the plate. We rolled! Priceless.

Thus, my signature.

[argodad]

Originally Posted by Dakota

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Breath-taking, isn't it?

[tcannizzo]

My ears popped just looking at the picture.

[Skahtboi]

Originally Posted by Dukat

About a week ago in a High School game...

"COME ON BLUE THAT BALL COULDN'T BE A STRIKE, IT WAS AT HER KNEES!"

I have heard that before. I also heard, just a couple of weeks ago, a fan go ballisitic on a fly ball that I called fair. "That was foul. It was on the line!"

[argodad]

Next day of the same HS District Tournament as my OP. Runner gets picked off third by a sharp catcher. Angry at herself, she jerks off her helmet. U3 issues a helmet warning to the team. Coach says, "But Blue -- she put it back on."

[DaveASA/FED]

called 3rd strike at the knees and on the inside corner, right in that corner (low and inside) that I will call a strike at. I ring her up, I hear "That's ok, even if you hit that you wouldn't have been able to do anything with it." Then I hear a guy sitting next to that lady say "well I think that is why she has been throwing them there" ............priceless

[qcumpire]

It happens every year. Just the other day, there was as girl was hit by a pitch...The defensive coach yells "Hey Blue, the hands are part of the bat."

I let it got, and as the same coach was going to the third base coaches box between innings he stopped and said "That ball hit her in the hands and the hands are part of the bat."

My response: "Coach, find me a sporting goods store that sells the hands with the bat, and I'll give you that call."