CommentsDisplaying Scaredfuzz's 10 most recent comments.

• Major League Baseball Player Goes Ballistic After Strike 3 Call, Hits Ump With Bouncing Helmet

  May 16, 2012 at 11:50pm

  In reply to Scaredfuzz.

  I agree, taken way too seriously by this guy, unfortunately I have had much worse happen to me and fellow umpires, to the point where police were called and 12 & 13 kids got to see mommy or daddy arrested because they thought little bobby was safe at first.

• Major League Baseball Player Goes Ballistic After Strike 3 Call, Hits Ump With Bouncing Helmet

  May 16, 2012 at 7:53pm

  As an umpire for many years, with extensive training, it is nowhere as easy as we make it look, there a literally books of material we have to know, and then there’s books on how all four umpires are supposed to move on EVERY possible play, and those umpires are responsible to know them by instinct, no thinking just pure reaction. Also after 9 innings, 3+ hours and a couple hundred pitches, mistakes will be made. The first pitch was a good call, the second one was borderline but still in the strikezone, and especially since the batter tried to do the umpire’s job for him on the first pitch, the umpire will send him to the dugout on the next strike regardless.

  Any one of you who thinks they could do a better job than that umpire is A) extremely ignorant and would looking like a fumbling idiot in less than 30 seconds and B) has know idea what those umpires went through to get to the MLB.

  I have several friends there now and they worked their butts off for years, and lived in constant fear that one small call that someone didn’t like would end their career.

• ‘Sounded Like Eating a Car’: Watch Footage of the ‘Bird Strike’ That Damaged Jet Engine, Required Landing

  April 21, 2012 at 7:39pm

  “they didn’t do a good job of keeping the passengers updated about what had happened.”There was no P.A. announcement. Nobody was saying anything”

  I’m sorry did you want the Captain to state the obvious or try to land the plane? As a pilot myself (I fly a small business jet), there is enough stuff to get done to get the plane ready to land, coordinate with the controlling agencies AND just fly the freaking jet. The man should be thankful he is alive.

• Should ‘Self-Defense‘ Apply to McDonald’s Cashier Who Beat, Crushed Customer’s Skull With Metal Rod?

  October 18, 2011 at 6:39pm

  War, once declared, must be waged offensively, aggressively. The enemy must not be fended off; but smitten down. You may then spare him every exaction, relinquish every gain, but, til then he must be struck incessantly and remorselessly.
  - Alfred Thayer Mahan

  Sage advice for any fight, this isn’t Hollywood show fighting, you win the fight and don’t stop till the opposition no longer poses a threat

• Coast Guard: Occupy Boston Protesters Spit On Female Officer

  October 14, 2011 at 12:50pm

  In reply to lukerw.

  A) The 82nd Airborne was deployed to Detroit under the Insurrection Act of 1807.

  B) The United States Coast Guard while recognized as a branch of the Armed Forces is only officially one when it falls under the Department of the Navy when conducting military operations. Otherwise it is considered a maritime law enforcement agency.

  Title 14, Part 1, Chapter 1, Paragraph 3:

  Upon the declaration of war if Congress so directs in the declaration or when the President directs, the Coast Guard shall operate as a service in the Navy, and shall so continue until the President, by Executive order, transfers the Coast Guard back to the Department of Homeland Security. While operating as a service in the Navy, the Coast Guard shall be subject to the orders of the Secretary of the Navy who may order changes in Coast Guard operations to render them uniform, to the extent he deems advisable, with Navy operations.

  Therefore the Posse Comitatus Act of 1878 does not apply to the Coast Guard. The Air Force, Army, Marines and Navy are forbidden from operating inside the U.S. in an enforcement capacity unless the Insurrection Act is invoked, however the National Guard is a state militia when not under federal orders and therefore can be deployed at the will of the Governor.

• Sidestepping Peace Talks, Palestinians Launch New Statehood Bids

  October 10, 2011 at 9:33pm

  In reply to hazmat_factor.

  I personally hate the U.N. but we could sabotage them from within.

  A) Reduce our yearly donation to $1 just to maintain membership.

  B) Veto everything the U.N. tries to do, since the Charter gives us that veto power we can effectively check and stonewall everything the U.N. tries to do.

  By leaving the U.N. we surrender a huge card the we could play to cripple the U.N.

• ‘First We Ought to Kill Them and Eat Them’: Sights and Sounds from Occupy D.C.

  October 7, 2011 at 12:57am

  In reply to Magyar.

  @Soveriegn

  Pretty sure that benefit is well earned and not too uncommon in the civilian world. Also I haven’t to date ever heard of the GI Bill program running a deficit.

• Ohio Now Allows Concealed Carry of Firearms in Bars

  October 4, 2011 at 8:57am

  In reply to INTHEBEGININGGOD.

  Oldphoto:

  Why would they be randomly pulling out a gun? There’s this stupid mindset that concealed carry owners just randomly brandish their weapons cause they feel like it.

  As a person that conceals yourself, tell me do you carry your firearm because the restaurant or store you are going to? or more likely because you want to protect yourself the entire time you are out of your home?

• Does Ron Paul Want to Pull Plug on A/C for Troops in Afghanistan?

  September 7, 2011 at 11:17pm

  In reply to Corinar1.

  “If take air conditioning out of the Green Zone, that would bring our troops home…” Please somebody explain to me how exactly that would work

• You Can Now Liquefy Your Body for a ‘Greener’ Burial

  August 31, 2011 at 6:06pm

  Yeah cause highly corrosive alkaline solutions aren’t a problem to clean up or dispose of at all. Seriously, when I taught chemistry labs back in college, it cost thousands of dollar to properly dispose of chemicals wastes, and if you had a spill corrosive materials are way more dangerous than CO2. How far is this idiocy of global warming going to go? They are trading something relatively benign (unless you fill a room full of it and try to breath) with something that has an actual threat to humans and then environment.