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Editors Note:Perhaps the most clichéd heckle of all time, "Kill the Ump!" was first recorded in Ernest L. Thayer's 1888 poem "Casey at the Bat." Today, perhaps because of the legal repercussions of screaming a threat on a man’s life, the term is seldom used. The majority of Umpire heckles revolve around two common themes:

  1. The Umpire is blind
  2. The Umpire is partial

Although umpires are seldom within audible range of the bleacher loudmouths, they are within earshot of the box seats behind home plate. For optimum results, umpire heckles are best kept short enough to bellow and should seldom exceed one line. Umpires who hear everything and everybody - from Dad in the stands, coaches mumbling under their breath, and the players fussing in the dugout are referred to as having "Rabbit Ears".

 
 
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It's against the law to make prank calls...
(Hold up cell phone) Is this your cell phone? Because it has three missed calls! That pitch was like your last date, you didn't want to see her or call her. To batter as he steps into the box: "You better be swinging. You're standing in the strike zone." He was as out as a deaf kid playing musical chairs!

After the ump has dusted off home plate: "You're gonna make someone a great wife someday! You're not gonna sleep a minute tonight because you've slept all game. Did you make the call on WMD in Iraq as well?

How's he going to learn if you keep giving him the answers? (to Ump after appeal) That's why they shouldn't let umpires date the players. I didn't pay 35 bucks to watch you call strikes! Hey Ump, how can you sleep with all these lights on If you're just gonna watch the game, buy a ticket

Stevie Wonder could see that one I thought only horses slept standing up! Flip over the plate and read the directions You couldn't call hogs! Keep calling em like that and you'll be bagging groceries by September.

Get a hammer and some nails, the plate is movin' around! You call more strikes than a union delegate! Did your glass eye fog up? Have you lost your strike zone in the lights?

     
  All Time Top Umpire Heckles: Rank
  I thought only horses slept standing up!
1
  Flip over the plate and read the directions!
2
  I've gotten better calls from my ex-wife!
3
  Wake up you're missing a great game!
4
  I'm gonna break your cane and shoot your dog!
5
  You couldn't call a cab!
6
  You need to go to confession after that call!
7
  Leave the gift giving to Santa!
8
  Which one of you is the designated driver?
9
  If you just want to watch the game, buy a ticket!
10
 

Now I know why there's only one eye (I) in umpire You couldn't get a pitchout right That's a bad call....Telemarketer! Telemarketer! Telemarketer!How about some Windex for that glass eye!

The French judge says it's a strike! How can you eat with those hands? You need to go to confession after that call! I've seen better Blues in a box of crayons! Don't bother brushing off the corners, yYou're not calling them anyway!

We know you're blind, we've seen your wife! They're putting your stike zone on the back of milk cartons! Mix in some consistency once in awhile! You must be losing them in the lights!

Why do you keep looking in your hand...do you have a map of the strike zone in it? I'll take three pencils! Hey blue, that's not a 5 iron he's hitting with! (on a low strike call) How do you sleep at night?

I was confused the first time I saw a game too I've gotten better calls from my ex-wife! Good thing there is not three choices! Hey ump is that a dinner plate? Apparently it has no corners! Say ya lied!

Why don't you get your Seeing Eye dog to call it for you? I forgot the Milk-Bone for your seeing-eye dog! Can I pet your seeing eye dog after the game? When your dog barks twice, its a strike! Kick your dog, he's lying to you!

I'm gonna break your cane and shoot your dog Be careful when you back up, so you don't fall over your dog! Did you haul in your strike zone on a tractor trailer bed? Hey Blue, if you had another eye it would be lonely!

I've heard better calls at a square dance! I've heard better calls between two tin cans and a piece of string! Hey Blue, were you looking for the curve? So which one of you is the designated driver? Move a little Ump, you're growing' roots!

I've seen better blue in a toilet bowl! What's a matter you Gotta Broken Arm?Look through the mask, not at it! It really is hot today - that strike zone is melting!

Wrong! You couldn't call a cab! The circus is in town and the clowns are wearing blue! Its a strike zone, not an end zone! You really shouldn't be in the game until you get warmed up! Blue's going' home in the back of the ambulance (after a bad call) Come on blue, turn that mask around and get a GOOD look!! You can go home blue, we'll take it from here!

How'd you become an umpire? Flunk out of tollbooth school? How about asking the audience? Do you want to use another lifeline? 3 Blind Mice, 3 Blind Mice, What were you, a lookout.. at Pearl Harbor (alt:"..on the Titanic")?

How many fingers am I holding up? (For an umpire is slow getting in position) C'mon blue, put the Snicker Bar down. Sweep the plate! It's the least you can do!

Move around, you're tilting' the infield! Move around Ump, you're killing' the grass! You're killing me blue! It sure sounded like a strike!

How'd you get a square head in that round mask? Have they stopped printing the rulebooks in Braille? Don't donate your eyes to science, they don't want em' Does your wife let you make decisions at home? Pull the good eye out of your pocket

Wipe the dirt off that called strike! Sure you don't want to phone a friend? You can open your eyes now!

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