In a week that has seen Pudge lose the ball in his catcher mitt (I wish I had a link to this because its hilarious) and an $18 million starting pitcher shipped to the bullpen, I have this gem of a play for you.
(I’m bummed that yahoo beat me to this story. I had it ready to go but couldn’t get it posted in time)
Take a look at this college play.
Fordham was down 9-1. They then went on to make it 9-8. With the pond full of ducks, the batter ripped a shot into left center. They wave the guy from first around third and he does this:
Absolutely incredible.
Not that it would have mattered as the score was now 9-11.
My first thought was how can this opposing coach come out and argue this call. That was an AMAZING play. Then I realized their conversation probably went more like this:
Opposing Coach: “Did you see that!?!?!”
Umpire: “Ya I was standing right here”
OC: “No actually you were standing over here”
Ump: “Um, no I was right here, I remember seeing this kid diving right over me and the catcher”
OC: “Now you are exaggerating, he only jumped over my fat lazy catcher”
Ump: “No this kid is the next Evil Knievel, he jumped your Catcher, me, and the 2 previous runners”
OC: “Stop embellishing this play, it wasn’t that great”
Ump: “Embelleshing??? This kid just dove 150 ft down the 3rd base line”
OC: “This line right here”
Ump: “Ya that one”
OC: “This line is only 90 ft to 3rd base so he couldn’t have done that”
Ump: “I swear on my life he did”
OC: “That’s it lets go to the replay”
Ump: “We can’t, its only used for Home Runs”
OC: “You just know you are lying”
Ump: “No I’m not”
OC: “Yes you are”
Ump: “No I’m not”
OC: “Yes you are”
Ump: “Nu uh”
OC: “Uh huh”
Ump: “That’s it, you’re out of here”
