Tuesday night, after hitting a pair of unimpressive
pop-ups in his previous two at-bats, Barney decided to try
something a little different. Right before he came up for
his third trip to the plate, he told us that if he popped up
again, he was going to call time-out while the ball was in
flight.
Sure enough, he hit one
straight up. As the pitcher was circling under the ball,
Barney turned to the umpire and loudly declared,
"Time!" Of course, this threw everyone off for a
second. Calling time right after hitting a ball?
What kind of screwy crap is that? Well, it screwed up the
pitcher just enough so that he dropped the ball. And
Barney was safe at first. Brilliant.
Our new strategy: Confuse Rather Than Lose.
