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| insti-gator
July 7, 2013
11:54:36 PM
Entry #: 4071695
| We had several chances handed to us...Lakers catcher many props...ninja...game MVP...time to right the ship Pub homies...
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| AuggieTech
July 9, 2013
10:51:45 AM
Entry #: 4072071
| Umps are horse shit. Taking the bat right out of players hands. Nothing new I know, but man they sure can take the fun out of the game.
Just keep running around with your thumbs up.
A great way to remind yourself that you're doing a great job.
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| CageBombs
July 9, 2013
11:07:19 AM
Entry #: 4072075
| AAAAAgreed
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| insti-gator
July 9, 2013
12:07:06 PM
Entry #: 4072096
| Agreed yet as we all know one needs to only worry about what they can control.
What continues to confuse me is how umpires in the cities continue to get worse the past decade. Apparently, these organizations are incapable of putting to work decent umpires who can improve.
The fact-of-the matter is these organizations expect things out of their guys that they are not capable of doing. Such as but not limited to knowing how to pivot, running the correct route with thumbs up and all their style points.
One would think these cats are trying out for MLB jobs.
Northwest is the worst when it comes to what they require of their umpires.
They take a kid who is not a baseball guy, throw a suit on him and tell him to work a baseball game because he has studied all of their formalities.
In other words he knows all the lingo, has the flare points down. All the while not at all getting it and being unable to make the correct calls because he is in way over his head.
Most of these guys will never get any better either because they think they are good due to the fact that they do nearly every thing right that the organization would have them do.
Every thing accept being approachable, taking time to call balls and strikes as well as not getting simple calls right. Believing through and through that everyone is there to see them.
The other night when one of Northwest's top guys on a s* show per balls and strikes (both ways) the last four innings of the game is something I am not at all able to comprehend.
It is not like each team brought in a guy all of the sudden who was throwing low 90's with a nasty cut or two seam and legit high 80's slide piece.
Sure it was hot and dish man may have been tired yet I do not at all understand how a zone can so drastically change. Missing six or eight would be one thing but missing a couple dozen or more is insane.
In closing, I ump about ten Victoria games every summer and have done so the past three years. Sure I miss balls and strikes but seriously not more then a half dozen a game at most. I hustle, get in the right position, am approachable and do not think anyone is there to see me.
All the while I do not run with my thumbs up and if a guy looks out from 100 feet away and I can't see the tag he is out. Plain and simple because I am a baseball guy and get it.
Lastly, don't try telling an umpire any of this because they rarely if ever will admit they are wrong. They may hold the personality to do so in real life. However as an umpire it is apparently a sin to do so in a recreational baseball game.
Doing so must be taught to them as being a sign of weakness.
Yet they will always have some type of horse crap explanation that none of us want to hear any way.
Wooden nickel vent piece.
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| insti-gator
July 9, 2013
12:28:51 PM
Entry #: 4072107
| By the way no one on The Pub feels as though we lost to the Lakers because of the umpire. We did several things wrong and were handed the game a few times all the while not being able to win.
Just to be clear.
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| AuggieTech
July 9, 2013
3:32:45 PM
Entry #: 4072162
| Lost the game because of the game, not the umpires.
With you on that one.
I had some really life remembering moments this year with these so called "umpires".
Some of the worst calls/judgements that I have seen, ever.
I would like for once, to have these umps eat one of there many bad calls.
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