First Game of the Season...

[shagpal]

in my 1st game, I had a pitcher named april. she had a really really long ponytail. everything was going fine, and until she started whipping her ponytail around. she swung it around like the guys do in a kung fu movie, then pitch normally, but continue to have the ponytail whirl around like a copter blades. I called IP.

coach comes out, and I explain it's a distracting motion after the pitch. coach asks if she can talk to her pitcher, and not be charged w/ a conference, and I say fine. as coach is talking to her, she starts staring me down, and then points her glove at me while giving me the evil curse eye. next pitch, she does it again, and again I call IP, and coach comes out again. this time, coach asks me to if I can show her pitcher what she's doing wrong.

as I walk towards the rubber, I hear a fan, perhaps mom in the stands yelling, "bad man, bad man!". as I approach, I see a very quick flash of a jumping player and BAM! I'm laying on the field, flat on my back, and knocked out for just the moment. apparently, my partner told me she jumped up and did a flying round house kick to the side of my face. WOW! so I ejected her from the game.

[TXFPBlue]

Man, that is tough to get an unorthodox field,unfriendly coach and get hit in the ear all in the first game of the year, but I really feel sorry that it was your first game of the year, tonight will be #72 and I still manage to keep a full time job off the field. I love north Texas.

[Steve M]

Originally Posted by shagpal

in my 1st game, I had a pitcher named april. she had a really really long ponytail. everything was going fine, and until she started whipping her ponytail around. she swung it around like the guys do in a kung fu movie, then pitch normally, but continue to have the ponytail whirl around like a copter blades. I called IP.

coach comes out, and I explain it's a distracting motion after the pitch. coach asks if she can talk to her pitcher, and not be charged w/ a conference, and I say fine. as coach is talking to her, she starts staring me down, and then points her glove at me while giving me the evil curse eye. next pitch, she does it again, and again I call IP, and coach comes out again. this time, coach asks me to if I can show her pitcher what she's doing wrong.

as I walk towards the rubber, I hear a fan, perhaps mom in the stands yelling, "bad man, bad man!". as I approach, I see a very quick flash of a jumping player and BAM! I'm laying on the field, flat on my back, and knocked out for just the moment. apparently, my partner told me she jumped up and did a flying round house kick to the side of my face. WOW! so I ejected her from the game.

First - here's hoping you pressed charges
Next - You were wrong to call an IP just because it might have been distracting. IP calls must be based on the rules, and if she did nothing illegal - per the rules - you're wrong to call IP. As for distracting, or maybe intending to be distracting - what about a glove slapping the leg. Or twisting the body before making a legal delivery, or maybe knocking the hat off before making a legal delivery. Your IP call - and according to your description, it's a wrong call - makes it that much worse for other umpires.

[HugoTafurst]

Originally Posted by Steve M

First - here's hoping you pressed charges
Next - You were wrong to call an IP just because it might have been distracting. IP calls must be based on the rules, and if she did nothing illegal - per the rules - you're wrong to call IP. As for distracting, or maybe intending to be distracting - what about a glove slapping the leg. Or twisting the body before making a legal delivery, or maybe knocking the hat off before making a legal delivery. Your IP call - and according to your description, it's a wrong call - makes it that much worse for other umpires.

I think he gotcha, Steve.

April 1st, 2010

[IRISHMAFIA]

Originally Posted by HugoTafurst

I think he gotcha, Steve.

April 1st, 2010

And bragging about it on heybucket.com

[HugoTafurst]

Originally Posted by IRISHMAFIA

And bragging about it on heybucket.com

Just saw that.....

Classy, huh?

[shagpal]

if you want to top class, top this one. this one was brilliant. too bad, no one else here had the brains to do it, but it was a technical spoof, so it might not have been possible. I laud everyone that played, got played, and the players who made it possible. they claim those that can't play umpire. I say, BS.

real umpires have thick skin and great sense of humor. those that don't, don't.

Did you hear what this umpire did? - Umpire-Empire

Originally Posted by HugoTafurst

Just saw that.....

Classy, huh?

[KJUmp]

My first was yesterday 4/1. DIII DH...1st game 3-2, 2nd game 3-1 (8 innings).

Visitors won both games scoring all their runs in the last inning of each game.
Had plate in 2nd game, 0-0 for the first 7 innings before going to tie breaker in 8th.
21 K's in the game (13&8 respectively)...I rang up 7 of them. Only 3 walks.
Good pitchers (both games) and quiet coaches. An umpire's dream.

Great weather and more is forecasted for my DH tomorrow.

[HugoTafurst]

Originally Posted by shagpal

if you want to top class, top this one. this one was brilliant. too bad, no one else here had the brains to do it, but it was a technical spoof, so it might not have been possible. I laud everyone that played, got played, and the players who made it possible. they claim those that can't play umpire. I say, BS.

real umpires have thick skin and great sense of humor. those that don't, don't.

Did you hear what this umpire did? - Umpire-Empire

I'm baffeled