Rec softball gone too far

That's what shooting middle is for ...

 

What you've got is a bunch of guys who get shit on all week at work, who have to sit there and take it, getting their outlet to yell and threaten and generally be idiots.

I'd say better that they do that then to go home and act like that to their wife and kids ... except I'm pretty sure a lot of them do that, too.

 

Oh, certainly. In addition, we've played entire teams whose strategy consisting of taking as many walks as they could to get so they could score cheap runs.

One guy didn't take the bat off the shoulder for his first four plates appearances.

 

Pathetic. I HATE walking in softball, especially in rec leagues. If the ball's near the plate, I'm a-hackin'.

 

Absolutely. Even if it's 3-0, I'm swinging, sometimes just to get another pitch. Hit the frickin ball people!

 

They also use it as an opportunity to find some stray ...

 

Albany, is it?
As in New York?
Yet no regional humor
go figure

 

Very true. And in my experience , it gets really annoying when the goof off teams don't know the rules and argue with the umps left and right during a game with somewhat serious players.

And it's really bad when the umps aren't consistent or know the most basic of rules, like interference or the infield fly rule.

I'm 50-50 on the baseball pants rule. Two guys on my team, both dead serious players. Both wear them, but one's a complete jerk and the other is cool.

 

Seeing a thread for Rec Softball only brings memories of my weekly newspaper days back. It was a great space filler and always featured such great names as the Psychotic Phlegm and my personal fave, the Fightin' Amish.

 

Just reminds me of the two categories of umpires/referees: The ones who when they showed up you said, "Thank God," or the other ones when you saw them and said, "Oh God."

 

Brawl at the ballpark, part 2,563 ...

Last night, August long weekend tourney, A/B team playing some soups. Soupie pitcher keeps tossing low and outside, giving A/B no choice but to hit the ball ... up the middle. Beast at second takes offence. Except he doesn't go after one of the big guys on the A/B team, he goes after A/B's 50-year-old pitcher. One of the A/B guys, however, managed to tackle Soupie Beast before he got to 50-year-old pitcher.

Neither team was tossed from the tournament but a few guys were sent to the beer gardens early.

Only in slo-pitch, I say.

 

What's a soup?