Baseball players expect their umpires to call balls and strikes. What they don't expect is an outlandish improv performance to go with it. That's exactly what players in a New Jersey amateur baseball league got recently. The ump, not content with ringing up batters in a traditional manner, was punctuating his punch outs with references to 2 Chainz and "Gangnam Style" instead.
Jeff Bendix, a member of the baseball league and the man who shot the video told NJ.com that "[this umpire] calls games like that all the time and is generally a fun guy to be around. He is one of the reasons the league is a great way to spend Sunday afternoons trying to stay young."
The only question that remains is whether it's funny enough to unseat the original titleholder of best musically-inclined strike three calls.
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