And all i could do was shake my head......

[renegadewolf]

Competetive mens league, top of 7, 3-3 score #2 team (home) playing #8 team (visitors) close to the end of the season type game (#2 is trying hard to get to be #1) with no runners on. I am on bases. Lefty at bat (facing the home team dugout(this is relevent! lol) and I am positioned playing back to the grass. Pitch comes in high, I see the batter turn as though he was going to swing, but can't really tell one way or the other if he did swing, so of course my partner steps back and points to me "Did he go?" Having an exceptional view of the number on the batters back I had no idea whatsoever if he went or not, so of course I say "No he did not" making a safe mechanic. Home team bench (there were 4 or 5 of em there) starts going nuts about the call. How could i call that? that's a terrible call!, Am I blind? (in this case, may as well have been) and blah blah blah. I say ok, that's enough, I've heard you but the one player felt the need to continue to expound on the various ways in which my call sucks. Of course they had a perfect view and were maybe 20 feet away while i was at the worst possible angle over 100 feet away, but this player just wouldn't seem to accept this hard cold fact of life.. In a more stern voice now i say, "ok, enough. We are done I don't want to hear any more about it" He finishes off with "you made a terrible call there blue, could have just cost us the game". I had been walking back to the grass ( i had moved in during the discussion to about the bag at first base) I turned around and i actually said "BOOM! you're gone" Didn't even realize i said it that way until after the fact....

[BRUMP]

The famous haller boom.

[Jocko]

I love it! It oughta be taught at every camp and clinic.

[grayhawk]

Did you give him the little hop step and point too? :)

[Dannytheman]

I'm going to add it to Little League Umpire training. But just for coaches. (probably bring the anti gun crowd out of the woodwork) :agasp_:

[Jocko]

Ya gotta crow hop the boom

[renegadewolf]

I figure as long as I'm not calling a plate game a la leslie nielson in naked gun, I'm gonna be ok....