Jeremy
07-12-2005, 09:06 PM
I was in Salisbury MD for an AAU 13U Tournament in March and it was cold and windy. The Championship game finally rolls around at 7:45pm Sunday night and for five innings it is a good game and THEN...
the visiting team and #1 seed starts losing. My zone didn't change but you wouldn't know it by listening to the teams coaches. After calling a pitch a ball several inches outside someone from the dugout yells "Get your head out of your ass and open your eyes!" I call time, the mask comes off, and I inform them that another comment such as that and I am picking someone and it would be the Manager. A few seconds later, the manager informs me and everyone else that he doesn't care because he was ready to go home. Seeya #1. Manager leaves quietly, puts the pitching coach in charge and immediately he chooses to go out to the mound and have a "conference". I prepare myself for what was about to happen: I go out and break up the conference and as I get closer I see his players laughing so I know what is about to happen. Pitching Coach says those pitches were real close and I ask him again if he is making a change and he tells me, loudly, "THOSE PITCHES WERE STRIKES ALL GAME AND NOW YOU ARE SCREWING US" Seeya #2.
Finally, he leaves and Bench Coach is at the lead of the team. As I get back into my stance after putting the ball in play I hear from the only remaining coach left, "you are horrible!"
Mask off, Time called, Game over. That league has a rule that if 3 players and/or coaches are ejected the game is forfeited.
I find out the next weekend that they had no pitching left and wanted to go home because it was so late and they had a 3 hour drive. That was my most eventful four minutes ever! :lol:
the visiting team and #1 seed starts losing. My zone didn't change but you wouldn't know it by listening to the teams coaches. After calling a pitch a ball several inches outside someone from the dugout yells "Get your head out of your ass and open your eyes!" I call time, the mask comes off, and I inform them that another comment such as that and I am picking someone and it would be the Manager. A few seconds later, the manager informs me and everyone else that he doesn't care because he was ready to go home. Seeya #1. Manager leaves quietly, puts the pitching coach in charge and immediately he chooses to go out to the mound and have a "conference". I prepare myself for what was about to happen: I go out and break up the conference and as I get closer I see his players laughing so I know what is about to happen. Pitching Coach says those pitches were real close and I ask him again if he is making a change and he tells me, loudly, "THOSE PITCHES WERE STRIKES ALL GAME AND NOW YOU ARE SCREWING US" Seeya #2.
Finally, he leaves and Bench Coach is at the lead of the team. As I get back into my stance after putting the ball in play I hear from the only remaining coach left, "you are horrible!"
Mask off, Time called, Game over. That league has a rule that if 3 players and/or coaches are ejected the game is forfeited.
I find out the next weekend that they had no pitching left and wanted to go home because it was so late and they had a 3 hour drive. That was my most eventful four minutes ever! :lol: