Too Old To Ump

Beasley Digital

Dave & Chuck the Freak talk about the risks that come with elderly people being umpires for any level of baseball/softball and a specific example Chuck witnessed at one of his son's games.

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00:00this guy hails from cape coral florida and he was arrested this week after he punched an elderly

00:16umpire in the face during an adult softball game you get it though this guy's 78 and still

00:23umping games don't ump games what are his knees like 78 you can't you don't even know there's a

00:30time when you gotta wrap it up when you gotta stop you gotta hang up the whistle well i think you can

00:38go down to the bottom level but even there it's dangerous please say they were called t-ball to

00:45the northwest they were called to the northwest sports complex in cape coral for a disturbance

00:50with injuries about 8 30 at night they say aaron charles dorvac came to the plate to complain

00:57about a strike call that the elderly umpire made while the game was being played the two guys

01:02argued dorvac ended up punching the umpire in the face cut his lip police say he was ejected from

01:12the game he ended up leaving the park but he has since been arrested on battery on a person 65 years

01:18or older there is his mug shot yeah punch that old man right in his mouth he did right in his old

01:25man mouth listen i you know you don't want to speak ill of the elderly no but like we got this one time

01:34we got a uh an old umpire like i he was old right like 78 old or like old old yeah like 78 80 like

01:43retired for a long time i don't know how at least he was old okay he was old frail old and

01:49he in the middle of the game as like a one of the batters like went into the batter's box and was like

01:57warming it like taking his like couple warm-up swings he walked right out in front and the kid

02:05hit him with the baseball bat and so we hear this terrible noise of an old man

02:12and he's then he's down and he's down and no one really saw what happened so you just assume he's

02:23had a heart attack he's dead he's dying he's down

02:27it's so bad but the wheels of an old man he got up he got a baseball bat like what i think so

02:37he just wandered out in front of the kid he like wandered out like his head down

02:41and the kid just like boom like i hit a home run right off the side of his head

02:49the cries of an old man oh my god so we run down and he's like hey babo

02:56no what's wrong what happened what what hurts he's like i hit it and the kid finally was like i think i

03:04just hit a double right off his skull all right all right we're gonna we're gonna pick up the

03:12pieces here oh man so after he wailed and was hit was he okay yeah he was fine he ended up being

03:18fine but man it was touch and go there and then and we all looked at him it was like when you hear

03:24those sounds you expect the worst right yeah we did but like when you hear the wails of an old man

03:29you expect carnage all the coaches kind of got like looked at each other like this like we've

03:36made a mistake this isn't this wasn't smart no no they're done there does come a time i think when

03:45you you're too old to um you know your eyesight probably not the best you can't hear very well

03:51you have to you have to move you have to like move your reflexes are just not there you're hit by a

03:57ball it could just you have to like crouch down a little bit and also what happens is you think

04:03you know the game but you've forgotten stuff right but you're more stubborn than you've ever been in

04:12your hole even though it's wrong so even though you're wrong there's no changing your mind you can

04:18like show someone a line in a book and they can read it and be like that's wrong it's in the book

04:26please give me the whale one more time

04:30but the thud the thud was what really

04:36the thud was unmistakable an umpire falling onto home plate

04:42wow he's all right

04:46well i don't know i don't know well he may not still be with us he may be gone he was all right

04:53then my guess is what i'm saying oh yeah that's it for him that's i mean so that's our message of

04:58the day don't let your old folks ump no right for their safety and the safety of my dad all of a

05:04sudden was like boy i tell you i got a great idea what i'm gonna make a little extra money

05:10i'm gonna be coming up i'd be like don't because you'd fight he'd fight everybody oh god yeah he'd

05:15fight your dad my dad they should think you're right huh they'd be able to defend themselves oh

05:20well maybe they think they might be like a 37 year old who's ready to kick their ass right

05:26then it'd be different

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