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Armstrong & Getty One More Thing

The Umpire Has Left the Ballpark

Armstrong & Getty One More Thing

Armstrong & Getty

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4.8815 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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