德州25岁小伙专程跑去野球场吹哨：Christian Ortiz的「野生裁判」视频单条播放破1600万
在美国德克萨斯州San Antonio，25岁的Christian Ortiz近来靠一件别人没想到的事在TikTok上走红：他不打球，而是带着哨子走进公园和体育馆的野球场，主动给素不相识的野球局当裁判。据《今日美国》11月11日报道，他以@whrissss和@whristan两个账号发布的这类视频动辄吸引数百万次播放，其中最火的一条播放量超过1600万次。
那条视频里，Ortiz从一辆车里跳出来，亮出全套NBA式裁判行头，直接跳上球场开始吹罚。起初将信将疑的球员慢慢接受了他的判罚，直到一名球员质疑他的球技，他亲自下场单挑、投进一球，还不忘给自己补吹一句「And-1（进球有效，加罚一次）」。
Ortiz的裁判之路带着一点反转。他在德克萨斯州Brownsville读高中时是球场上的「麻烦制造者」，自称保持着校史被驱逐出场和技术犯规的纪录，当年最爱跟裁判表达意见。2019年夏天、上大学之前，他开始真正执裁本地比赛，结果发现当年给他技术犯规的裁判成了同事。他说，正是这段经历让他对裁判多了一份尊重，也常在视频里开玩笑说，吹比赛比打比赛更难，因为一个判罚出错，所有人都会冲着裁判来。
他执裁过小学、大学比赛，也吹过休闲中心里最难管的成年男子联赛。最初想出「野生裁判」点子时，他和朋友本想用故意错判去气一气那些曾为难他的球员，但他很快放弃了这个念头，觉得那不是在传递正能量。他的新想法是：野球场靠球员自己喊犯规，一次争议能让比赛停上五分钟，有个裁判在场，比赛反而更顺。球员们起初不情愿，后来大多承认，有他在场打球确实更舒服。
当然也有不买账的时候。他回老家Brownsville拍视频时，当地球员并不欢迎。在本职工作上，Ortiz为体育社交媒体公司House of Highlights制作NBA相关内容。他说自己的目标是不打扰野球玩家，让在场打球变得更好而不是更糟，并给自己起了个新名头：「职业非官方野球裁判」（professional unofficial pickup ref）。
A 25-Year-Old Texan Shows Up to Ref Pickup Games Uninvited: Christian Ortiz's Viral Ref Videos Top 16 Million Views
In San Antonio, Texas, 25-year-old Christian Ortiz has gone viral on TikTok for doing something nobody asked him to do: instead of playing, he walks into pickup basketball games at local parks and gyms with a whistle and starts refereeing strangers' games. According to USA Today on November 11, his videos, posted under the usernames @whrissss and @whristan, routinely attract millions of views, and his most viral one has topped 16 million views on TikTok.
In that video, Ortiz jumps out of a car, reveals a full NBA-style referee outfit and hops onto the court. The players slowly accept his authority until one challenges his basketball skills. Ortiz takes him on, scores a basket and calls his own foul: "And-1!"
Ortiz's path to the whistle comes with a twist. At high school in Brownsville, Texas, he was the court troublemaker, by his own account holding a school record for ejections and technical fouls, always ready to give referees his opinions. He began refereeing local games in the summer of 2019, before his first year of college, and found that the referees who once gave him technicals were now his colleagues. He says the experience gave him a new respect for officials, and he jokes in his videos that reffing is harder than playing, because one wrong call makes everyone hate you.
He has refereed elementary school and college games, as well as men's league games at recreation centers, which he found the hardest to control. The pickup-ref idea began as revenge: he and a friend thought it would be funny to officiate men's league games and make bad calls to infuriate the players. But Ortiz dropped that plan, deciding it was not spreading positivity. His new thinking was that pickup games run on an honor system, an argument over one foul call can stop a game for five minutes, and having a referee there actually helps. Players may resist at first, he says, but most end up admitting the game runs better with him there.
It does not always work. When he tried filming in his hometown of Brownsville, the players were not receptive. His day job is making NBA content for the sports social media company House of Highlights. Ortiz says his end goal is to make sure his presence makes the game better, not worse, for pickup players, and he has given himself a title: "professional unofficial pickup ref."
来源：《今日美国》
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图片来源：街头野球场篮球比赛资料图（PixelManiatiK摄，CC BY-SA 2.0，经Wikimedia Commons）
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