Your best practical joke?

[cpa]

I work for an assigner who had picked up a roster of umpires from another assigner. Went to camp w/ the "inherited" folks and they all wanted to know what the new assigner was like, what her pet peeves were.

I informed them that the main pet peeve was lack of communication, particularly on calls at HP. I told them that if you call a ball, you need to let folks know why it was a ball -- Ball high, ball low, outside inside, etc. Also, close strikes could either be "on the Corner" or "right down the middle"

Also told them the assigner thought it was the height of arrogance for umpires to show up early and in street clothes -- it's like "look at me, I so important, you can't play the game without me" -- far better to show up 25 minutes before the game and dressed ready to go.

I think the assigner is still working to de-program some of these folks!