Top 5 Umpire Heckles
Listen, I'll be the first to admit that sometimes I've given umpires a little bit of a hard time at a baseball game. I know that they have a tough and thankless job...but at the same time...come on...call some fair balls and strikes, would ya??!!
Over the weekend, I was at a baseball game (NOT in Mid-Michigan) where the home-plate umpire was terrible. I mean, ABSOLUTELY HORRIBLE. So, on this rainy Monday, I decided to google "bad umpires." In my 'research', I came across a list of "Umpire Heckles". Now I realize that my mom taught me that if you don't have anything nice to say then you shouldn't say anything at all. However, sometimes I just simply forget to follow her advice.
That being said, here are my top 5 favorite heckles that I found online. For the record, I have NEVER used any of these! (For the complete list, click here.)
- Hey Ump, how can you sleep with all these lights on!
- I thought only horses slept standing up!
- Flip over the plate and read the directions!
- You're making more bad calls than a telemarketer!
And...finally...#5...(fitting for what I saw over the weekend) Don't bother brushing off the corners, you're not calling them anyway!
I know...shame on me...and I do want to apologize to the umpires (and there really are a lot of them out there) who are getting it right. But...well...you know...sometimes there's that one that ruins it for all the other ones...
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