If five year-olds could talk, they would have much to say about global warming and the Eastridge Wiffle Ball Tournament that wrapped up Friday night with the championship game between the Sugarstone Sweethearts and the Buttonhill Brutes. After a sweeping victory of 18-17, the three people who saw the game are feverishly debating the final strike that was called at the end of the game.
Fans of the Brutes claim that the five year-old pitcher of the Sweethearts cheated by using a delayed pitch against superstar slugger Buff Blaster. When a pitcher uses a delayed pitch they feign a pitch and then spin on the mound a couple of times before actually throwing the ball.
The game’s umpire, Getsum Glasses called strike three when Blaster swung before the ball had even left the pitcher’s hand. In an exclusive interview, Glasses said, “It doesn’t really matter if the ball was thrown or what the rules of the game say. It looked like a strike to me, so therefore, it was a strike.”
When asked his thoughts on the call, spectator Travis Distance of Nome, AK said, “Someone promised me free beer and they never delivered. I’m so pissed.”
Margie ‘old’ Maid, another spectator, says she’s never seen such a controversial game. “I just came to support my son,” she told us. “Sure, he’s 40 years-old, but he just loves playing Wiffle Ball with the neighborhood kids. Are you single? He is. I could make dinner for the two of you. There’s room in his room in the basement if you decide to move in. You just might have to move his collection of action figures to make some room.”
The third and last spectator, Eydident Doit, furthered the controversy by saying he didn’t care about the outcome of the game. “My parole officer said if I came to his kid’s Wiffle Ball game, he’d take 40 hours off my community service debt.”
Widely known sports talk show host, Jim Nome, was angered by the call, “What are you talking about?”, he said during a phone interview. “What do I care about little league? Get off my phone line!”
A random person, who spoke to us on the condition of anonymity and knows nothing about wiffle ball, blames global warming and Al Gore for the now national controversy.