It’s Father’s Day, and what could be more appropriate than chuckling a little at the kind of situation that saw dads felled on America’s Funniest Home Videos for decades.
Yesterday’s Stanford-NC State College World Series showdown included one of the more fun broadcast innovations the college game offers: ump cam. Unfortunately for the home plate ump, that included this moment, when a bounced pitch evaded the catcher and ended up in the worst possible place.
If 2020 was a sound, huh?
The weird thing about clips like that is that every man watching it probably makes the exact same sound instinctively. Fortunately the umpire was able to continue:
He was ok.
— Rob Friedman (@PitchingNinja) June 19, 2021
Always wear a cup out there, everyone. Can never be too careful.