Best baseball prank ever

[newfcollins]

Apparently, a minor league baseball team convinced former major leaguer Jeff Francour that a relief pitcher was deaf. It went on for quite a while before the team finally clued him in.

[The Bottlenecker]

This video made me think of a story my grandfather once told me.

My grandfather once told a family friend who arrived for a visit and who hadn't visited in years that my grandmother was going deaf. He instructed his friend to speak loudly to her. Upon entering the house, and while the guest removed his coat in the porch, my grandfather told my grandmother that the guest was going deaf and that she should speak loudly to him if she wanted him to hear her. The legend goes that the whole dinner conversation was shouted across the table until my grandfather finally fessed up as the guest was preparing to leave. It must have been hilarious!