Chewing the Fat with Jeff Fisher - 8/12/17 - Jeffy Shares His Life Ambition

Episode Date: August 12, 2017

Jeffy shares what he wanted to be when he was younger, saying everyone wants to be a star, but he'd rather be the guy behind the scenes making people go crazy.  What were your past life ambitions? Follow Jeffy on Twitter: @JeffyMRALike Jeffy on Facebook: www.facebook.com/JeffFisherRadioFollow Jeffy on Instagram: @jeffymra Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Blaze Radio Network On Demand. The Jeff Fisher Show. Saturday mornings, 9 to noon Eastern. On the Blaze Radio Network. I mean, if people grow up, they want to be a tennis star. You know what I want to be? I want to be the guy on the back line of the U.S. Open going, oh!

I want to be him. I want to be the ball call. I want to be the U.S. Open ref. Like you do, sometimes you don't even have to yell at. You just put your arm out. And watch the tennis player look at you like, you bastard. And all you got to do is look at him like, I could have put my arm the other way, but I didn't.

Okay. Out! That's all my aspirations in life. And Elvis's towelboy. Sad. I know. I know. At one time, I really thought about becoming.

So I first moved to Florida. I didn't know what I was going to do with my life. So I meet this guy who's going to umpire school. Right. Now, look, hindsight, 2020, what a gig. Fly around the country, right? Spend the weekend in different ballparks. Call a few games, you go home.

And you make a pretty decent wage. You do that for, you know, obviously you've got to work up the ranks because you start out, you know, in poeunk and Poughkeepsie. You know, and you're in Illinois eating that, what was it, Floyd's barbecue? Nick's barbecue. and, you know, hoping to win the lotto. But you work up to the bigs, it's a good gig, right? And so I want to be, I always kind of like being an umpire, you know, it's fun.

So I figured, well, you know, I won't go to the school, but I'll go, what I'll do is I'll start umpiring these games. And then if I kind of like it, then I'll go to the school. The guy said, yeah, okay, cool, do that. So I got my little balls and strikes and out-clicker. I still have that somewhere. Kind of cool. And that's your inning clicker down on the bottom and your balls and strikes and outs on the main front. And your little circle clicker.

And so I'm umpiring out in the field. Right now, look, if you're an umpire out in the field, are you paying attention to the entire game? No. I mean, are you supposed to? Okay, yes. but are you? No. I mean,

you're daydreaming just like the players. You're out there, you're off a second base. You're, you know, you're almost in center field. You know,

your lot of the game's hot, and it's boring. And, you know, you got, they're calling an empire behind the plates, calling the game.

You're fine. There's nobody on base. And so, I don't remember what any of it was, but I do remember timeout. I'm looking around like, what the hell's going on? And here's,

comes to home plate up her. She comes running out. She gets me a second base and she goes, what's the balls and strikes on this guy? And I looked down at my clicker. I don't even know how many outs. And I looked out of my clicker and I went,

no balls, no strikes, no outs. She was so pissed. She was so pissed at me. It was, it was bad. So that's like, kind of figured, you know, probably shouldn't be. I never get to look at her face.

When I looked, I mean, I actually, I looked down because I knew there was, I mean, I could have just said, I don't know, I wasn't paying attention. But I looked down at the clicker. And I looked down, I go, no balls, no strikes, no us. And she was, if I, if she could have burned me into a pile of rubble on second base at that point, I would have, that would have been me. What happened to Jeff? I don't know, is that pile of dust out there on second base?

The home plate up just threw fire on it and burned them to the ground. So, anyway, that was my umpire. That was one of my last umpiring experiences. I heard a couple more, but we don't need to tell all the umpiring stories. I do like,

I do, uh, like calling close plays, though, and then having people get all wound up. That's fun when you get the, when you get the arguments going. Because you can either fight back,

or you just go, That's the way I saw it. That's the way I saw it and walk away and they just get so... I mean, you know how frustrated. If you've played sports, you know how frustrating it is. And, you know, I mean, I personally know from experience out on the field playing that the frustration happens when those close calls happen. And they don't go your way. And it's just maddening.

And it's always fun as an umpire to do that. Because you can either get in their face and say, I called him out. one more word and you're out of this game. One more word. Don't. And I mean, if any kind of word comes out of their mouth, they're out of here. But those particular times, I knew how many balls and strikes and outs there were in the inning. So it's kind of paying attention to the game.

I mean, what? You're the outfield. I'm behind second base. Why am I keeping track of balls and strikes? Somewhere in America there's that girl. I don't know where she is. I don't know what her name is, but I know she remembers me

because she wanted me dead. Burned at second base. Right at that point. There's not a chance that she doesn't remember that. She might not remember it was me, but she remembers that happening. Oh, she was so pissed. Ha!