Saturday, April 4, 2009

Speak what you see, mr. umpire

Hi I'm Joshua Song from Maris Stella High School, and I don't think anyone expected this thing to happen.

We were playing against Anglican High, and it was the final and deciding point, the score was 29-29, Daryl Ho, our third Singles player, was playing his best, trying all he could, to help the team win this, and get into the next round.(top 8)
Then, the opponent did a drop shot, a sharp one, but Daryl dived for it, and managed to save it, just hitting it pass the net. The opponent thought he had won, but when he saw Daryl's return, he just stood there, stunned, at a loss of words, slowly trying to accept his defeat. We jumped for joy, and rushed forward to hug Daryl, and till then, the umpire did not announce the victor and the loser. After celebrating, we went back to collect our bags, when we saw and heard Anglican High shouting for joy, just like we did 10minutes back. For a moment, i thought they were challenging us, trying to tell us that they could shout louder although they lost. Then Mr. Umpire walked up to us and told us we lost, the shuttlecock landed outside. Mr Umpire, are you mad?
You knew what you saw, I'm very sure, but you definitely didn't tell us what you saw,and made something up, which is one of the most childish acts I've seen in history.


Wait, Mr. Umpire, are you kidding me? After all the joy after seeing our teammate win the deciding match, you tell us that we lost? Do you even have a conscience? I'm 99.9% sure that you knew that the shuttlecock landed in the court, that we were so eager to get into top 8, yet you still wanted to "joke" around. This ain't a laughing matter, get that in your mind, Mr. Umpire. Are you guilty? If you aren't, why did you disappear for the seen so quickly eh?
P.S sorry Anglican if we offended you in any way, but it was just because we were fuming mad. With the umpire. When victory belongs to us, no one else will get it. READERS, please support us.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Why are you not 100% sure? 99.9% only?

ACS_4_EVArNoobs said...

..."99.9% sure that _you knew_ that the shuttlecock landed in the court..." Use your english, he said that there was a 0.1% chance that the umpire really thought the shuttle landed outside. I.e. 99.9% the umpire was trying to lie (he knew the truth).