Giving a batter time

[BretMan]

Originally Posted by HugoTafurst

You should see what the baseball guys do when someone hollars, "DEADBALL"....

I have and it ain't pretty!

[MichaelVA2000]

Originally Posted by HugoTafurst

You should see what the baseball guys do when someone hollars, "DEADBALL"....

Originally Posted by BretMan

I have and it ain't pretty!

Years ago while watching a baseball game where the BU who also umpired softball called dead ball because the batter hit a pitch into his foot while still in the batter’s box. The PU hustled to the ball, picked it up and began blowing on the ball several times. The PU then announced that all was ok and that through resuscitation he’d brought the ball back to life and it was time to play ball.

Originally Posted by MichaelVA2000

Years ago while watching a baseball game where the BU who also umpired softball called dead ball because the batter hit a pitch into his foot while still in the batter’s box. The PU hustled to the ball, picked it up and began blowing on the ball several times. The PU then announced that all was ok and that through resuscitation he’d brought the ball back to life and it was time to play ball.

Are you serious? I'm ROTFL over this. What age group was this?

[MichaelVA2000]

Originally Posted by Ref Ump Welsch

Are you serious? I'm ROTFL over this. What age group was this?

HS Varsity. I chuckled for several innings.

[wadeintothem]

I believe in NFHS BB they are using the DDB signal now?

They'll come around on the dead ball call as well.

That will be fun because heads will explode.

Originally Posted by wadeintothem

I believe in NFHS BB they are using the DDB signal now?

They'll come around on the dead ball call as well.

That will be fun because heads will explode.

Headless umpires...chaos will ensue. Headless coaches...serenity for umpires.

[NCASAUmp]

Originally Posted by Ref Ump Welsch

Headless umpires...chaos will ensue. Headless coaches...serenity for umpires.

"Headless coaches?" Isn't that redundant?

If so, who stole my damned serenity? Because I sure as hell don't have any on the field.

[SethPDX]

Originally Posted by wadeintothem

I believe in NFHS BB they are using the DDB signal now?

They'll come around on the dead ball call as well.

That will be fun because heads will explode.

Says Jim Evans about the DDB, "What does that mean? Is it in a coma?"

[wadeintothem]

Originally Posted by SethPDX

Says Jim Evans about the DDB, "What does that mean? Is it in a coma?"

Did he really?

Thats funny

[MichaelVA2000]

Originally Posted by SethPDX

Says Jim Evans about the DDB, "What does that mean? Is it in a coma?"

While at the Evans Academy several years ago an umpire yelled dead ball and one of the instructors ran over to the rolling ball and beat it into the ground with a bat. When the instructor finished he declared that the ball had still been moving but it was dead now.

I don't recall hearing another dead ball called for the remainder of the five weeks.

Originally Posted by MichaelVA2000

HS Varsity. I chuckled for several innings.

And the friendly white uniformed gentlemen with the nice wraparound white strait jacket and rubbered white paddy wagon van didn't come to take this blue to a nice state-owned "hotel" equipped with a bunch of rubber rooms?