The Umpire Has Left the Ballpark
Armstrong & Getty One More Thing
Armstrong & Getty
4.8 • 815 Ratings
🗓️ 9 July 2021
⏱️ 10 minutes
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Summary
A&G's long-time technical director, MichaelAngelo, hosts another A&G classic segment featuring Joe's story about umping a kids baseball game back in 2005.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, it's Michelangelo here. Thanks for joining me. I got another classic clip for you. |
| 0:04.8 | Armstrong and Getty. One more thing. |
| 0:08.1 | You're going to like this one. I really enjoy this one, actually. This clip is back in December 9, 2005. |
| 0:14.3 | You know, Gladys isn't here today, but I'm going to use my favorite sounder instead. |
| 0:20.9 | Boom! Anyway, yeah, December 9th, 2005, and Joe becomes umpire at a little league game. He |
| 0:27.0 | steps in and saves the day, so to speak. And it's a pretty funny clip. And I believe Joe |
| 0:31.8 | was Declan's baseball coach, and of course he also coached girls soccer. So he is definitely |
| 0:36.3 | the youth sport expert on the A&G staff. |
| 0:39.7 | So without further ado, let's go back to 2005 and listen to this clip. |
| 0:43.4 | I think you'll enjoy it. |
| 0:45.0 | Saturday morning had a baseball game, the little fellas that I coach, had another little league game. |
| 0:51.3 | First two games we played were very snappy, well-played games for this level of baseball. |
| 0:57.8 | Moved along quickly, guys catching, throwing strikes more or less. |
| 1:03.2 | And more or less is fine at the 9-10-year-old level. |
| 1:07.9 | As long as everybody doesn't walk and it's a death march. |
| 1:11.8 | But, well, Saturday morning, we had our first game that was the death march, the minor |
| 1:16.2 | little league death march. |
| 1:17.4 | You know, he had some kids who were having a real struggle throwing strikes and it just |
| 1:22.7 | took a very, very long time. |
| 1:24.7 | And so it was, I think it was, I guess it was the last inning. And because there's a |
| 1:29.8 | five run rule, you can't score more than five runs in an inning. The game was out of control. |
| 1:35.8 | We were winning by many, many runs. So the umpire who'd been there for like two hours and |
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