Falcons Forum

Since it was not a strike there should not be a fine. Until now a strike has never been awarded "On the way up". I quote.

Couldn't find anything in the rule book about strikes being called after bouncing on the ground and then (silently) hitting home plate afterwards, which was one of the mouth-frothing explanations given to us.

Dance Dad pizza fine: Nope... if he had to protect on that pitch, swinging at a ball that short is a grounder at best.

In any event, I'll put my charcuterie board in the bat bag in case we have to play by cricket rules again.

Technically there are no stats from yesterdays game, so ALL pizza fines incurred (if any, debate notwithstanding) should be wiped out.

So 11 guys suspended?

Technically, yes. We COULD have been suspended a game. Thankfully the other team saw what we saw and based on the early indications we will not be penalized by the league since we really didn't do anything wrong. In my opinion the Ump should be reprimanded for taking away an inning from both teams.

Thanks guys for the support, I agree he should be reprimanded for his actions and should really get his eyes checked and ears for apparently hearing things, I still don’t understand why but that was the most rediculous call I have ever seen, I didn’t leave the batters box right away as I thought he was joking but apparently there is no joking in baseball and a 2 year old could see that it was a ball! I hope we don’t see him again, my boy said “ what an idiot”. Sorry must have got that from his dad, he may have even given him the finger......he didn’t learn that from his dad! Let’s get em next game, maybe we’ll get a good OLD ump that can see! Look out for those strikes that may hit the plate after hitting the ground, could be some new techniques for Ash!!

Prediction - For the rest of the year Dance Dad will adopt the Pokemon (Curtis) approach to the plate and swing at every single pitch!

For the rest of the year I wish Chef Goliath would adopt Pikachu’s approach to pre-game meals and tell us how best to eat 50 cheese strings from Costco in one sitting.

I miss Pikachu.

OMG... someone called an Umpire “an idiot”... Team Reps and the Executive would recall an email that I sent a month or so back about Umpires and I was reprimanded for the exact same language that I used... lol... Tough loss boys! Win the next one, as long as it isn’t against us!

Umpires are not idiots....normally I would say they are only human like us and make mistakes but that was clearly intentional and not a mistake, does that make him an idiot.... maybe! Why, I don’t know, was it something against me or against the team? We will never know, Anyway......what an idiot!!!!! All I can say is Karma!

I remember seeing that Drew, not sure the details of what went down with you guys but I felt like our issue was completely unprovoked. There was no buildup to this meltdown. 0 to a 100 real quick.