Most Embarassing Moment...........

Another brief story. A kid on my team tries to steal second, gets half way down the line, and trips over his own to feet. His right foot kicked the heel of his left. He face planted, gets up, and falls right back down, and makes it to second safely, without a throw. Go figure, we aren't sure to this day what the catcher was doing?

 

That's easy....he was laughing too hard

 

What Jock?

I was a GA for Bowling Green University in 1983 and we were in the Carolinas during spring break to train and race. We had a meet at Duke on Wednesday and I jumped in the 400.

Racing shorts have a liner sewn in so you do not have to where a jock. As a GA I did not have much money, so I was still racing in shorts from previous years. Heading down the back stretch of the race, the lining in the shorts decided to give way and with racing shorts cut extremely short I soon had a dangling participle. I was leading the race so did not think I should stop or do anything but to just keep form and maybe nobody would notice – wrong! I had often heard roars from the crowd coming up the home stretch, but not unbridled laughter. Meet management had girls that would bring a Popsicle stick with your place to take to the scoring tent. After hitting the tape for the victory there was no place to hide as the coed from Duke brought the stick. Had to ask her to wait I minute as I turned around while I get things straightened out.

The following Saturday we were at NCSU. Needless to say I had a different pair of racing shorts on. Just as we were getting into the blocks for the 200, the campus when crazy as the Wolfpack had just upset Virginia to go to the final four. They waited for 20 minutes for the horns to stop blowing and finally they decided that it was unlikely to stop anytime soon so the just went ahead with the race. 100 meters in, the lining in this pair of shorts lets go. At least I did not win that race so most people’s attention was elsewhere, but not all.

What are the odds of two blowouts in consecutive races?

 

My sophmore year in HS I got called up to the varsity baseball team, the first pitch I saw I doubled to the oppo gap. I'm on second base feeling very much like a stud, the second ball thrown in my direction on varsity baseball was the pitcher picking me off second base.

Funny- no
Embarassing - very much so

Coach wore me out- I think that he still wakes up in the middle of the night and fusses me out.

 

...which soon became commonly known as a "Hanging Chad"

 

IT WASN'T ME

The night my wife caught me viewing TBR at 3 am on my way back to the bedroom from the bathroom........she swore it was a porno site. And she would not believe me when I told her it was better than those sites!!!!

 

I bet you had a hard time explaining Plate Dad to her

 

1. He is still on the watch list.
2. His marbles are locked in the night stand drawer.
3. She has the key.

 

Funny

I got a call from a local tourney host and they wanted me to throw a team together to fill a bracket. It was a 12 YO tourney, so I got on the phone and networked on Wednesday night to get a team together for a Saturday morning game. With no practice or introductions we took just what we got. First game, my catcher gets hurt and one kid tells me he can catch. I go over the pitch signs with him and he says all is good. Before he takes his first pitch, I give him the sign rotation, indicator, then sign, then indicator. He looks at the pitcher and immulates the same signs without transposing it. The umpire falls out laughing and gets back in position and the pitch is a strike. I go through the motions again and he again gives the same signs I do with hand signals to his mask. The pitcher then falls out laughing and calls time. I go out to meet the pitcher and the catcher and the ump approaches and everyone is in tears laughing. I didnt see what the catcher was doing after I gave him signs so they told me. It was so hysterical, I just told the pitcher to throw what he felt.

 

"It was so hysterical, I just told the pitcher to throw what he felt".

Probably a good approach anyway...but we'll leave that for another thread !