Quote of the day
I reported to (Navy) duty at Bangor from San Diego in 1987 and they (the Peninsula Umpires Association) told me I had this assignment and I started thinking about it and psyched myself out. Sometimes your nerves get the best of you. I just basically shot myself in the foot. I called them up the day before the assignment and told them I couldn’t do it. Nobody remembers it now, and I moved on.” – Bob Theal, board member of the Peninsula Umpires Association, remembering how he got so nervous about his first assignment as an umpire that he just couldn’t do it.