Humor

duga · 12-02-2014, 12:56 PM

Playing baseball is one thing. Umpiring baseball is a different beast altogether.

I used to umpire little elementary school kids (the youngest even played t-ball). For the most part, everyone was just there to have fun and the coaches/parents understood that. Every once in a while some ****wad would take it entirely too seriously and freak out on me. One time, the ball landed right behind the first baseman and he couldn't for the life of him find it. He was getting really embarrassed. They got 2 runs on him with a third coming up shortly...there was no chance they weren't getting that third run so I just told the kid to look behind him. The coach flipped a **** on me, saying that's cheating blah blah...it got so bad I had to threaten to kick him off the field.

Then I moved on to eighth graders where there was a real chance some of those kids could play varsity the next year. Oh man, that's when I stopped umpiring.

Chula Vista · 12-02-2014, 12:59 PM

I like humor that is funny.

Neapolitan · 12-02-2014, 03:24 PM

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Originally Posted by Plankton

I've never been a fan of baseball. I got hit in the head with a ball thrown while sliding into home plate once while playing on a Tee Ball league, then my Mom made me quit the team. That team went on to win the championship that year.

Why does that sound like a Jack Handy story?

But if weren't taken off the team, been bitten by the baseball bug and devote more time to it, than guitar?

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Originally Posted by Chula Vista

I like humor that is funny.

I like humor that misses it mark. Any one can be funny, but I think it's a more difficult undertaking to be almost funny and end up being funny. I think they call that rye humor, Jewish rye humor is the best.

Plankton · 12-02-2014, 09:22 PM

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Originally Posted by Neapolitan

But if weren't taken off the team, been bitten by the baseball bug and devote more time to it, than guitar?

All the events that lead up to where I am now are supposed to be there. I could go insane thinking about the what-if's. It's an interesting thought though.

Neapolitan · 12-03-2014, 08:55 PM

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Originally Posted by Plankton

All the events that lead up to where I am now are supposed to be there. I could go insane thinking about the what-if's. It's an interesting thought though.

I know, I think about how even the simplest choices we make change our lives. I kinda wonder what all those hours watching comedies has done to me.

Chula Vista · 12-03-2014, 09:57 PM

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Originally Posted by Neapolitan

I like humor that misses it mark. (1) Any one can be funny, but (2)I think it's a more difficult undertaking to be almost funny and end up being funny. I think they call that rye humor, Jewish rye humor is the best.

(1) Disagree. I've been to enough comedy clubs and watched people totally bomb to know.

(2) Agree.

The Batlord · 12-02-2014, 01:23 PM

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Originally Posted by duga

Playing baseball is one thing. Umpiring baseball is a different beast altogether.

I used to umpire little elementary school kids (the youngest even played t-ball). For the most part, everyone was just there to have fun and the coaches/parents understood that. Every once in a while some ****wad would take it entirely too seriously and freak out on me. One time, the ball landed right behind the first baseman and he couldn't for the life of him find it. He was getting really embarrassed. They got 2 runs on him with a third coming up shortly...there was no chance they weren't getting that third run so I just told the kid to look behind him. The coach flipped a **** on me, saying that's cheating blah blah...it got so bad I had to threaten to kick him off the field.

Then I moved on to eighth graders where there was a real chance some of those kids could play varsity the next year. Oh man, that's when I stopped umpiring.

He should be embarrassed, he ****ing sucks.

duga · 12-02-2014, 01:33 PM

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Originally Posted by The Batlord

He should be embarrassed, he ****ing sucks.

Why the hostility? I'm betting this happened to you as a kid, didn't it?

The Batlord · 12-02-2014, 01:41 PM

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Originally Posted by duga

Why the hostility? I'm betting this happened to you as a kid, didn't it?

Never played. I just like making children feel bad about themselves.

12-02-2014, 12:56 PM	#1 (permalink)
duga MB quadrant's JM Vincent Join Date: Dec 2009 Location: Washington, DC Posts: 3,762	Playing baseball is one thing. Umpiring baseball is a different beast altogether. I used to umpire little elementary school kids (the youngest even played t-ball). For the most part, everyone was just there to have fun and the coaches/parents understood that. Every once in a while some **wad would take it entirely too seriously and freak out on me. One time, the ball landed right behind the first baseman and he couldn't for the life of him find it. He was getting really embarrassed. They got 2 runs on him with a third coming up shortly...there was no chance they weren't getting that third run so I just told the kid to look behind him. The coach flipped a ** on me, saying that's cheating blah blah...it got so bad I had to threaten to kick him off the field. Then I moved on to eighth graders where there was a real chance some of those kids could play varsity the next year. Oh man, that's when I stopped umpiring. __________________ Confusion will be my epitaph...

12-02-2014, 12:59 PM	#2 (permalink)
Chula Vista Toasted Poster Join Date: Oct 2014 Location: SoCal by way of Boston Posts: 11,332	I like humor that is funny. __________________ “The fact that we live at the bottom of a deep gravity well, on the surface of a gas covered planet going around a nuclear fireball 90 million miles away and think this to be normal is obviously some indication of how skewed our perspective tends to be.”