Friday OT #1 - Stacks On Stacks

[madguy30]

If you want to do some little league this summer, let me know. A little more laid back than HS.
Softball is much easier than baseball as well. I can do games solo for 10 year olds and be done in 70 minutes.

Funny, little league was maybe the most intense baseball I ever played. Coaches and parents were nuts.

 

[0u812]

everyone should have a side hustle.....foolish if you dont.

I have a couple rentals.....was a good deal...purchased them both for $32k, and rent for $1075 per month.

I buy and sell cars....fix, and such too. Some minor side jobs for friends, family, etc.....easy stuff like oil changes, brakes, minor repairs and fixes. Detail cars too....but thats hard work for the $$ it pays. Better off to buy a $3500 car, fix and detail, and sell for $5500.

I also tinker with motorcycles, buy and sell.....lucrative on small kids bikes.

I want to do more with real estate in the future....become the bank and sell property yet carry the note. Good $$ in this, long term, big picture....

 

[Doc]

I was doing FanDuel for awhile and made >8k 3 years in a row, but work got more mentally taxing, they stopped doing college basketball, and other players got too damn good at it. Now it’s more of an occasional hobby where I lose money. I guess I shouldn’t call playing the lottery a side hustle. I think it would take maybe 2-3 hrs a day plus watching a ton of games to be good at it.

 

[jdcyclone19]

I opened this thread hoping it was about pancakes.

 

[cyhiphopp]

Funny, little league was maybe the most intense baseball I ever played. Coaches and parents were nuts.

I'm sure it depends on the little league. Some are terrible, some are fine. It helps that I'm a regular at most of the places I go.

 

[cyhiphopp]

I opened this thread hoping it was about pancakes.

Thanks. Now I want pancakes.

 

[Doc]

Funny, little league was maybe the most intense baseball I ever played. Coaches and parents were nuts.

You want intense...check out some church league softball.

 

[cycloner29]

Do this for friends and others on the weekends mostly. Did coach little league and youth football

 

[cyrocksmypants]

Women pay me to have sex with them.

 

[cyfanatic13]

I like to think I'm not ******, but I have bad days too. Some days I'm just not seeing the strike zone well and I make bad calls that throw off the whole game. Luckily I'm usually on one of my "home fields" and I don't catch too much crap.

Here are some bad umpire stories for ya though. I've gone into tournaments with guys who've said with a straight face, "I'm going to throw at least one coach out today". For 10U softball, and they are serious, and they did it. They went into the day basically wanting to pick a fight. The first coach that argued a call they went off on, the coach clapped back, and they ran em. The parents in the stands were just, "What the **** just happened?"

I've also worked with guys who were just plain bad. I'd be in the field and I know they were blowing half the strike calls. I just kept my mouth shut, even when coaches were asking me what heck was that guy on.

A couple years ago I umped a varsity doubleheader with a pretty old guy that, in my opinion, the game had passed him by. It was painful. First game he was behind the plate and strike zone was just brutal. Then the second game he called a kid safe at second on a force play that the ball was caught before the runner started sliding. Luckily the coach was a super nice guy and didn't freak out like he rightfully could have. Coach wanted to appeal to me but the ump was adamant he saw the play right. I apologized after the game to the coach, cause it was still to this day the worst call I've ever seen. Other team's coach (who it benefitted) told me between innings the same thing

 

[BCClone]

Women pay me to not have sex with them.

fixed it.

 

[BCClone]

Agreed, I was more thinking along the lines of youth sports that you mentioned you typically officiate. Strike zone is the strike zone and is hard to tell from the dugout. To me baseball and softball are a little less questionable. Get into wrestling when you have a lot of official subjectiveness involved and your head can spin.

I have a couple kids in HS and for my daughter who plays basketball, I've gotten to the point where I almost prefer to sit in the opposing crowd. There is one family that has no idea what the rules of basketball are but yell things non stop. I got dirty looks from them a couple games ago when my frustration with their bellyaching boiled over. They started complaining about a foul called on a blocked shot. I responded to my friend next to me loud enough for the whole crew to hear that it was an obvious foul because I could hear the slap all the way up here where I'm sitting. It quieted down after that for about two minutes.

At a game last night and the irritating crew was a few rows in front of me. Guy sitting next to me, set them straight. They were even going nuts up 30 with a couple minutes left. When he corrected a stupid yell from them, they asked him what team he was cheering for. He told them he's just being a good fan, that when up 30+ late in a game you don't whine about questionable calls. They tried to tell him that score doesn't matter, he informed them they were wrong.