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This Little League Ump’s Strike-Three Call Seems Designed To Hurt Little Kids’ Feelings

Yeah, right, no problem guy. All these parents came out to watch you, the umpire, not their own kids. And if little Billy's in tears on his way back to the dugout because you made a spectacle of his strikeout, well, you're just trying to prepare him for the majors, where umps tend to make themselves the center of attention too.

[Sweater Punch]

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