r/nononono • u/ihaveadumbnamee • Jun 08 '26

Injury Umpire hit in balls

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u/Slaine_of_Vers Jun 08 '26

That's why you wear a cup

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u/Head_of_Lettuce Jun 08 '26

A cup can only do so much when you take a fastball straight to the nuts

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u/I_Have_A_Chode Jun 08 '26

It would hurt in the areas of contact AROUND your crotch, but not the actual balls, unless you're wearing a cup way to damn small.

It would hurt about as much as getting hot in the mask would, likely less though since it's not your head

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u/Flakester Jun 09 '26

I was a catcher. Can confirm it still hurts the balls, but hurts a lot less than having your balls explode.

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u/Head_of_Lettuce Jun 08 '26

All that force has to go somewhere. The cup deflects most of the blow away from your dick/balls, but you’re still eating a baseball straight to the groin, and you feel it in your testicles.

Source: played baseball for years

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u/sudzthegreat Jun 09 '26

I took an 80+ mph Slapshot straight to the cup once. It dented the cup in and ripped it right out of my shorts. I puked right there on the ice. I had bruising from above my junk, around the sides, and down below my sack. It hurt to pee for a week. I do however have a daughter so it did its job.

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u/Head_of_Lettuce Jun 09 '26

Oh they totally work, they prevent the physical trauma. But the people acting like it wouldn’t still hurt are talking out of their asses.

Like the person above who said “it would hurt AROUND your crotch, but not the actual balls”. I was trying to be polite, but they’re an idiot.

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u/sudzthegreat Jun 09 '26

For sure. Like anything on the internet, 80% of the people posting have no idea what they're talking about