Back to reality later today. Hope everyone has a great day.
Good morning. Denver's cool/gray/damp season continues to start the week as temps today and tomorrow will be in the low to mid fifties with a chance of showers each day. I hope your week gets off to a good start.
So I forgot to tell all of you that last Thursday two of my friends and I were kicked out of our team's baseball game due to arguing calls with the umpire..yes, we were FANS, and removed from the game. We never swore or said anything vulgar.
Today, the three of us had to meet with our activities director, and we were asked what our role was at sporting events, etc. Clearly the response is to "positively encourage your classmates and your school." We received two week suspensions from all sporting events, with an exceptionm for golf, as I play on the team. I just about **** my pants when I was told I couldve had a 2 week suspension from golf. My question to all of you is, did we get out lucky, or were we screwed?
Once again, we didn't use any vulgar terms, nothing derrogatory, etc. It was things such as, "he was safe! C'mon blue!" or " that's a strike! It's right down the middle!" "Who has control of this game?" (After a player was tossed for absolutely nothing.)
I was just curious what all of you would think. I've heard various opinions thus far, including a parent on the team who is very respectful, not one of those tool parents, who stated that he felt it's the umpire's job to do the game without letting the crowd get into his head, etc.
Yeah, I totally understand, and to be honest it doesn't really matter all THAT much to me, us three are just the baseball "superfans" as our core group of friends are baseball players. I'm just curious as to what the take of others is I completely understand both sides, and it is was it is. Personally I'm just glad we didn't get suspended from school or for me, golf.It's completely possible that the schools hands were tied by state high school rules governing fan behavior. In that the school bureaucratically was required to support/enforce the officials decision with supplementary punishment even if the original punishment was unwarranted.
In any case: Life isn't fair, deal with it.
Mav I think you've run into an overreaction to all the over-the-top a-hole fans out there. I think the ump was out of line to report the incident or boot you from the game, but I expect he's tired of the harassment and has been told to not tolerate it any more. Personally I think he should have just warned you all and only taken further action if you kept it up.
At least the little snots are not testing you because you can't escalate the punishment...I have been waiting for UPS to get here all day (the package was supposed to be here by 3pm). So annoying.
On the plus side, I got a job offer today at a local ambulance company. Orientation is on Wed & Thursday this week. Good thing I scheduled my car to be serviced on Wednesday.
I'm going back to bed.
At least the little snots are not testing you because you can't escalate the punishment...
Good afternoon Lodge.
Little gII is healing up nicely. (Refer to post 787 if you missed it)
So......little gII can be quite the butthead at times. I took him to the ER on Saturday. The nurse was checking him out and she was making small talk with him to get him to relax. She noticed a couple little bruises on him (bruises caused from being a accident prone little boy) and asked him what happened. He replied (with a shiat eating grin on his face) "that is where daddy hit me." Nice.
Good afternoon Lodge.
Little gII is healing up nicely. (Refer to post 787 if you missed it)
So......little gII can be quite the butthead at times. I took him to the ER on Saturday. The nurse was checking him out and she was making small talk with him to get him to relax. She noticed a couple little bruises on him (bruises caused from being a accident prone little boy) and asked him what happened. He replied (with a shiat eating grin on his face) "that is where daddy hit me." Nice.