Softball personal pet peeves/ semantics

[BulldawgsDirector]

Note: this is light hearted. I'm not trying to have your typical firestorm debate here.

But:

One pet peeve I have is referring to 10 and under as U10 like s@3cer. It is 10U, not U 10.

Another one is referring to the softball pitchers circle as a mound. Baseball has mounds, softball has a circle. My pitcher will be "in the circle" and her brother goes "on the mound". Circle time rather than mound time. Unless you are Mo'ne Davis.

"Circle keep going, it never stop. Mound has hump, we no have hump"

Your turn:

 

[SMc4SMc]

Too funny. Please move to Rants-n-Rave. I'd get drinks, snacks, pizza or whatever for eveyone just so I could sit back and enjoy the fireworks.
P-L-E-A-S-E !!!!!

 

[Mike_Craig_-_Ohio USSSA]

I am Switzerland on this but the constant use of the word "Blue" when referring to officials. I know how it originated and why it gets used. And I have a couple of officials who will correct coaches when they call them blue...

Eons ago, I ran a men's tournament and had an umpire on his lunch break get stuck in traffic. I jumped out there to get the game going until he arrived. I got called "Blue" about 8 times in the first couple of innings. My visiting mother who had stopped by the park on her way out of town asked me where I got the nickname "Blue" from.

Now for real "Old School" fans: YOUR MY BOY BLUE!!

 

[BulldawgsDirector]

Im guilty of this regularly Mike. And that is also my nickname in local Rec.

 

[SBGeek]

people who verbalize scores with their team always first - instead of high score first. Example, "we are losing 4-6", instead of "the score is 6-4, and we are losing"

 

[BulldawgsDirector]

That's a good one. Also referring to 1 ball and 2 strikes as 2-1 when it is 1-2.

 

[shyne99]

Good calls from the "blue" on pitches and parents who start yelling/complaining on a pitch call who are sitting down the third or first base line that are in no position to see the strike zone and the pitch is either clearly a ball or a strike depending on which side is complaining. This gets worse the closer the score is and how much time is left in the game.

 

[mike_dyer]

I love it when a girl throws a drop ball and the umpire says "Ball. Bring it up...."

Yeah, thassa great idea. Hey kid, throw it directly over the center of the plate, thigh high. What could possibly go wrong?

 

[SpinnerPitch]

Low outside pitch called, high inside pitch thrown, hearing good pitch stated. Sorry, she missed her target by 3 feet!

 

[baldguy]

Coaches that are everyone's buddy when things are going their way and instant jerks as soon as the tide turns.

 

[wow]

Or.... parents that are everyone's buddy when things are going their way and instant jerks as soon as the tide turns.

 

[Chad Strahler]

Low outside pitch called, high inside pitch thrown, hearing good pitch stated. Sorry, she missed her target by 3 feet!

Amen...as a pitch caller it drives me nuts. Just because it was a strike doesn't mean it was a good pitch.

Also when you call something high or way outside because of a stud batter up and you don't want anything healthy to hit and she lays one right down the middle the hitter just happens to lay off of and everyone screams nice pitch and inside my head I say that was the luckiest worst pitch you could have thrown!

 

[Chad Strahler]

I love it when a girl throws a drop ball and the umpire says "Ball. Bring it up...."

Yeah, thassa great idea. Hey kid, throw it directly over the center of the plate, thigh high. What could possibly go wrong?

Right? No! We don't throw strikes, we throw pitches that look like strikes!

 

[Chad Strahler]

Just because a lefty steps into the box they instantly holler watch the slap, even when the girl might be an obvious power hitter to anyone with a set of eyes.

 

[mike_dyer]

3 - 0 or 3 - 1 count, coach says "It better be on a tee..."

I heard it a lot last summer.

 

[HITTER23]

The player who watches a meatball go by for a strike and backs out of the box and looks down at me and nods her head emphatically... If you knew it was a strike, wtf didnt you swing????

 

[Heat#12]

I love it when a girl throws a drop ball and the umpire says "Ball. Bring it up...."

Yeah, thassa great idea. Hey kid, throw it directly over the center of the plate, thigh high. What could possibly go wrong?

This is one is my favorite one.

 

[Chad Strahler]

The player who watches a meatball go by for a strike and backs out of the box and looks down at me and nods her head emphatically... If you knew it was a strike, wtf didnt you swing????

Then they swing at a terrible pitch on the very next pitch.

 

[Uber_jones]

A few that have been mentioned are also mine
-The head nod yes it was a strike
-The U12 instead of 12u
-Calling it a traveling team
-The famous 3-0, bat wag in the bunt position. That's pure Rec ball, unless the ball is bouncing or over your head it's almost always called a strike when batters do that.

 

[Chad Strahler]

I am Switzerland on this but the constant use of the word "Blue" when referring to officials. I know how it originated and why it gets used. And I have a couple of officials who will correct coaches when they call them blue...

Eons ago, I ran a men's tournament and had an umpire on his lunch break get stuck in traffic. I jumped out there to get the game going until he arrived. I got called "Blue" about 8 times in the first couple of innings. My visiting mother who had stopped by the park on her way out of town asked me where I got the nickname "Blue" from.

Now for real "Old School" fans: YOUR MY BOY BLUE!!

Alright, maybe I missed it. What aere we supposed to call the umpires then? I would call them by their names and frankly couldn't remember it anyway most of the time.