Learned 3 things in my game last night

[Umpire in Chief]

I had a summer wood bat league game last night.

 

#1. You can have the best timing in the world 99.99% of the time. The 0.01% of the time your timing is off makes you look like a dumbass. 

My evals across the board have given me pretty high marks in timing, both in calling pitches and calling plays. Not to go into too much detail but last night I feel my timing was pretty good... EXCEPT for on one call. And it caused me to kick the $#!+ out. of it. Remember timing is the proper use of the eyes. I thought I saw one thing and jumped all over it. A split second later I realized I didn't see what I thought I did. It didn't cause any grief with the teams and I'm sure my partner and I are the only ones who knew I was wrong anyway. 

 

#2. For the love of God lock in and stay locked in

I'd been hit by a pitch and a foul, had some other close calls and stayed locked in and was fine. Then there is a bouncer I got happy feet on and...... BAM it got me and it hurt. It found that 1/2 inch gap between the top of my shoe and the bottom of my shinguard perfectly. I've never been hit there before and back at the car I was trying to see just exactly why. I couldn't fit my index finger in that gap. The top of my shoes are worn from my shins rubbing them. Just that 1 :1,000,000 shot. Had I not gotten happy feet the ball would have either completely missed me or maybe been a glancing blow to my shin guard. 

 

#3. Apparently I have developed the bad habit of watching the pitcher's pick-off attempt from behind the plate.

There was a speedster on 1st and the pitcher was trying to hold him and he had some pretty good moves to first. Then there was another attempt and as I was looking at first and it popped into my head, did he gain ground to first? I really didn't know I was too busy being a spectator watching the pick off attempt. Focus man, just focus. 

 

 

Learn form my mistakes.

[BigUmpire]

Report to the UIC for discipline

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

and beer  

[grayhawk]

Wow, you suck.  I would never do such things...

 

#yeahright