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Wednesday, December 26, 2007

I come to praise the ump, not to bury him

Here's an interesting challenge for you sports fans out there. This blogging referee will give $1 to the Special Olympics for every person who says a nice thing about one or more referees in the comments section of his blog tomorrow. He's setting a limit of $250, but are there even 250 people on the planet who have something nice to say about sports officiating? I'm thinking maybe a haiku about Nestor Chylak.

Besides, you would think that a referee would be donating money to assist blind people like himself, heh.

Could be a long day. Then he's going to pick the best comment and give some more dough to that person's favorite charity. I hope he's got instant replay.

Comments (4)

Jack:

I accept your challenge.

Nestor George Chylak
Hurt at Battle of the Bulge
Calling home plate? Harder.

Hope to see you and a bunch of your readers tomorrow. --BR

Upon further review, the last line is too long.

Here is an interesting quote from Mr. Chylak: "Ballplayers will cheat under any circumstances if they think they can get away with it. Our job is to prevent it."

So does that mean the umps are responsible for the steroids and HGH. What steps did they take to stop it. Now we can blame the umps for this mess.

As Chylak himslef put it: (And I bet you didn't know he ruined his sight reading small print editions of Shakespeare.)

"Hath not a umpire eyes? Hath not an umpire hands, organs,
dimensions, senses, affections, passions; fed with
the same food, hurt with the same weapons, subject
to the same diseases, heal'd by the same means,
warm'd and cool'd by the same winter and summer
as a spectator is? If you prick us, do we not bleed?
If you tickle us, do we not laugh? If you give us steroids,
do we not get bigger?"




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