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[NCASAUmp]

That ball was fair, blue! I heard chalk!

Originally Posted by NCASAUmp

That ball was fair, blue! I heard chalk!

Some of our fields here have the foul line painted on the grass, so there's no chalk...so here goes:

That ball was fair, blue, I saw chalk flying out of the grass! (and where was this coach? sitting on the 1st base side bench when the hit was down the 3rd base line!)

I have one from when I worked 1-man in a slowpitch tournament. I was following BR up the 1st baseline, and had a bang-bang out. Sold the call (or at least I thought I did). Coach of the offensive team comes out and asks me about it (and he was a drunk college kid). I offered to ask my partner for help, and coach said sure let's go to him. Starts to turn, looking for my partner, and then looks back at me, and said, ummm, where is he? I smiled and said, time to go back to the dugout. His head was hanging low on the walk back to the bench.

[wadeintothem]

Me: "I dunno coach, these players are faster than my brain. I thought for sure I heard the sound of leather on a tag."

Unfortunately my evaluator heard that one and I got to hear about it..


Working a flame thrower: Catch - "Where did that miss?"
"Heck I dunno, sounded a little low."

Me to catcher "Hey stop moving your dang glove, how am I supposed to know where the pitch was?"

Me to Shortstop .. runners @ 1and3:
"You guys dont try to pick off that girl at 1 do you?"
"Sometimes"
"Well ok, but you gotta tell me if you get her cuz I sure wont be able to see it."

[NCASAUmp]

On an in-the-park HR last night...

Me (to F4): Call the cops.
F4: Why??
Me: That runner blew through every stop sign on his way home. He MUST be drunk.

[umpirebob71]

Hard shot down the third baseline strikes the base and shoots up in the air. I immediately signal fair ball. The defensive coach started screaming "It hit the bag...it hit the bag." I said "I'm aware of that, coach. That makes it a fair ball." "No, no, no, he says. Didn't you see it hit the foul side of the bag?"

[IRISHMAFIA]

Originally Posted by umpirebob71

Hard shot down the third baseline strikes the base and shoots up in the air. I immediately signal fair ball. The defensive coach started screaming "It hit the bag...it hit the bag."

This is about the time I start laughing.

I said "I'm aware of that, coach. That makes it a fair ball."

Response may be something along the lines of "No ****, coach" instead of such the nice little explanation above.

"No, no, no, he says. Didn't you see it hit the foul side of the bag?"

Again, laughing......hard!