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Kids These Days Just Don't Appreciate or Get Baseball

Discussion in 'Journalism topics only' started by daytonadan1983, Apr 24, 2011.

  1. JC

    JC Well-Known Member

    because they are not legit
     
  2. Stitch

    Stitch Active Member

    With the disparity in college baseball, I take a lot of accomplishments with a grain of salt.
     
  3. Ace

    Ace Well-Known Member

    DD,

    You announced a no-hitter in progress?
     
  4. daytonadan1983

    daytonadan1983 Well-Known Member

    Yes sir ... Took over in the bottom of the fourth and finished the game -- a 7 inning affair because it was 2nd of a DH.

    Kid finished with a 2-hit shutout -- the e4 was changed back to a hit for some reason.

    It was actually a rush knowing you're calling a no-hitter.
     
  5. Mark2010

    Mark2010 Active Member

    Yeah, I butted heads with more than a few coaches and ADs over scoring decisions when I was an SID years ago. I understand up front that, moreso in baseball than most other sports, there are going to be subjective decisions to be made on hits/errors and such.

    And I understand that people can have honest differences of opinion on such. But if I am charged as the official scorer in a game, DO NOT try to twist my arm for the purposes of influencing statistics and such. I try to make as good of decisions as I can at the moment. If that's not good enough, get someone else. But don't try to manipulate things.
     
  6. Ace

    Ace Well-Known Member

    I thought it was a no-no to say that out loud.
     
  7. JakeandElwood

    JakeandElwood Well-Known Member

    Some dance around it, but they'll usually say it at some point. For example:

    "Call your sons! Call your daughters! Call your friends! Call your neighbors! Mark Buehrle has a perfect game going into the ninth!"
     
  8. Ace

    Ace Well-Known Member

    Sure, keep it in the subtext like that, but it sounds like DaytonaDan just blurted it out.
     
  9. albert77

    albert77 Well-Known Member

    I think he did it to point out to the kid he took over the mike from that the story wasn't the offensive production he was gushing over, but the fact that his pitcher had a no-no going.
     
  10. Ace

    Ace Well-Known Member

    That's cool. I'm just messing with Dan.
     
  11. daytonadan1983

    daytonadan1983 Well-Known Member

    It was more towards the kid calling the game. I can understand the kid baseball contact's attitude with the way we score runs and also with aluminum bats, a no-hitter is really rare.

    The kid calling the game was in my office yesterday and I was trying to explain about the love of the game and that baseball is the grandest of dammes who deserves your respect and he looked and said "daytona dan, what the f--- are you smoking?"
     
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