Late last month, we played a game out of town. We threw three pitchers who are all going DI, including my son. They had 14, I believe, BB's. The other team had 7 and their starting pitcher is going DI. These are two teams in the top 15 in the State in the 2nd highest classification. I was not there but listening to announcers, and parents and boys upon their return said it was the worst job of calling balls and strikes that any of them had ever seen.
And then to cap it off, our pitcher in bottom of 7th with us leading 6-5 proceeded to walk the bases loaded with two outs. On an 1-0 count, the 3B runner tried to steal home. Pitcher was not pitching from the stretch. Batter didn't swing, Pitcher sped up his delivery. Tag out at home plate for final out of game. Everyone is convinced that had the runner just stayed at 3B, we would have walked in the tying and winning runs.
That must have been Longview umpiring chapter?
Our maybe just eat Texas in general. Lol