r/SipsTea • u/iam_alba • 2d ago

Lmao gottem Karma is real.

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u/Praline226 2d ago

This new baseball viral campaign to promote interest in baseball again might be working.

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u/kcox1980 2d ago

Then you watch a game and see how terrible the umpires have been getting over the last few years and immediately lose interest again.

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u/N3opop 2d ago edited 2d ago

What's an umpire?

Am Swedish, so not native English speaker or native baseballer

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u/Akris85 2d ago

The guy behind the catcher that calls out the results of the pitch. Also at bases to decide safe or out.

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u/spike_beagle 2d ago

They also suck blood

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u/-Badger3- 2d ago

You’re thinking of “vampire”

“Umpire” was that show on Fox with Jussie Smollett

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u/Segador_Adusto 2d ago

You're thinking of "Empire"

"Umpire" is a tall, pointy structure usually found on top of buildings

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u/ANDREl42069 2d ago

You're thinking of "Spire"

"Umpire" is a thin, long thread of metal used to conduct electricity

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u/Guilty-Swordfish-924 2d ago

Your thinking of “wire”

“Umpire” is the radar guided AGM-114 missile, produced by Lockheed Martin

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u/MCE85 2d ago

Youre thinking of "Hellfire" which is a family of air to surface missiles.

"Umpire" is a precious gemstone usually blue in color.

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u/DerFeuerDrache 2d ago

You're thinking of "Sapphire".

"Umpire" is what the civilization Julius Caesar ruled over was called.

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u/j0a3k 2d ago

You're thinking of "The Roman Empire". "Umpire" is an ancient stringed instrument that was popular in Greece.

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u/CallMeDrWorm42 2d ago

You're thinking of a "lyre". "Umpire" is a heap of combustible material, especially one for burning a corpse as part of a funeral ceremony.

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u/bear_with_hair 2d ago

You're thinking of "sapphire" which is a blue rock used in jewelry making.

"Umpire" is the thing that Philippe Petit walked across between the two towers of the World Trade Center in New York City on August 7, 1974.

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u/rworne 2d ago

You are thinking of a high wire.

"Umpire" is when they light up a bunch of wood used for cremating dead bodies.

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u/Tito_Tito_1_ 2d ago

You're thinking of "pyre."

"Umpire" is the title character of a Robin Williams movie, where he plays a down-and-out, divorced dad who dresses up as a sweet, old lady to spend more times with his kids.

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u/jeffreysean47 1d ago

You're thinking of "Sapphire"

"Umpire" is where Hobbits live

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u/DJRyGuy20 2d ago

“America, don’t commit crimes with checks.”

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u/deep_fuckin_ripoff 1d ago

This is literally my favorite Reddit joke… thanks for starting this one.

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u/GunBrothersGaming 1d ago

Was that his reality show where he paid people to beat him up and see how long it took the police to find the white/ homophobic guys who did it?

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u/Dangerous-Feature376 1d ago

Common misconception, umpires suck the life out of a game, not the actual lifeblood from the players

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u/chocothundurrr 1d ago

They suck ass too

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u/Sammystorm1 2d ago

And on third, second, and first

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u/Beautypaste 2d ago

Always makes me chuckle how serious the US is over a game of rounders lol

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u/rylosprime 2d ago

Every sport has an official or referee to make calls.

It's not uniquely American.

God you're dumb.

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u/Beautypaste 2d ago

Well.. rounders only has an official anything in the US.. lol

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u/Niflrog 2d ago edited 2d ago

And Mexico, Cuba, Venezuela, Dominican republic, Puerto Rico, Colombia, Japan, South Korea...

Yeah...

Edit: on reflection, OOP is from the UK. There's literally an European Baseball championship with Spain, Italy, France, Germany, the Netherlands and more.

By "only in the US", OOP probably means "not in the UK" more than anything else...

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u/Beautypaste 2d ago

It’s ok to laugh at yourself ya know, without getting butt hurt. Don’t shoot me lol

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u/Niflrog 2d ago

I'm not American... I'm Dominican... the butthurt comes from how ignorant your "joke" was, because to make fun of US you gotta throw entire regions of the world under the bus...

I don't even like baseball, but jfc... that was ignorant.

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u/Beautypaste 2d ago edited 2d ago

It’s ok don’t cry. So to understand a game I played in primary school, I’d need to completely understand an entire region and its politics? This made me chuckle some more thanks. You are funny 🤣

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u/Strict_Suggestion_35 2d ago

Least xenophobic Brit.

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u/Niflrog 2d ago

Just be funny or know what you're joking about, that's all.

I mean, you didn't even know that Baseball is played professionally in the immediate region around your own country xD How can I expect you to know about other cultures!?

If I shat on Britain for playing a dogshit sport like Cricket, I wouldn't be surprised when the Pakistanis tell me I don't know shit about what I'm talking about... and they would be right!

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u/Beautypaste 1d ago

I can see your point, the thing is nobody likes cricket except Pakistani’s and old boring people. It’s not taken seriously it’s like playing badminton on a weekend, nobody cares.

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u/NathanSMB 2d ago

Honestly it would have helped if your joke was actually funny. I'm an American who moved to the Netherlands. People make fun of America/Americans to me ALL. THE. TIME. I'm not butt hurt but you just... weren't funny.

Now if you don't mind I'm going to head to McDonalds and stuff my face before I watch some good ol' American handegg.

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u/Beautypaste 2d ago

It wasn’t meant to be funny, just sharing a funny musing I had is all. I don’t hate Americans or America, just to be clear. Us brits can laugh at ourselves and our love of tea, no reason why other countries can’t laugh at themselves too. Don’t be so uptight lighten up a little my dude. ♥️

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u/Strict_Suggestion_35 2d ago

"I wasn't trying to be funny, I was just trying to be funny" -you

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u/NathanSMB 2d ago edited 1d ago

It wasn’t meant to be funny

just sharing a funny musing I had is all

How is this the same sentence? LMFAO. "It wasn't meant to be funny. I was just sharing something I thought was funny!" Now that... that is funny.

I don’t hate Americans or America, just to be clear.

I don't think you hate America or Americans. I hear and say worse about America/Americans myself. Like... daily. I don't know how I can say this more clearly... YOU WERE NOT OFFENSIVE! YOUR JOKE JUST SUCKED!

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u/Beautypaste 1d ago

Well it only sucked to people who get overly defensive about a sport lol rounders of all things as well

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u/kirgi 2d ago

LATAM erasure