You're not going to believe this. My sister ended up going out to dinner with the umpire crew!

She went to the game with some friends and the husband has dinner with the umpire crew every year at this time (I don't know what the deal is). He told my sister that she and the wife couldn't go.

Well, the umps had to go to a mandatory meeting about the betting scandal in basketball, and they weren't going to the dinner, so my sister and the wife went anyway. Halfway through the dinner the umpires all showed up!

She had a great time. She said they were all pretty raucous. One of them told her he is never behind home plate at night because he can't see the ball coming at him in the dark, there's a problem with his eyes. So she says to him, why are you even umpiring if you can't see at night?? (Kathy had lasik surgery and the surgeon completely destroyed one of her corneas, so she knows from not seeing at night.) They all were discussing how they change the rotation so this guy doesn't have to work behind the plate at night, and Kathy was appalled.

Then they all started laughing at her. "We had you going, didn't we?", etc. They must pull this on everyone.

She said it was an amazing night all around.


Edit: They didn't say anything about Bonds except they were pleased to be the umpiring crew at an historic game.
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