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  1. It was clearly voluntary release. This is pretty much the very definition of it. If you don't think that is a catch then there are dozens and dozens and dozens of outs that you are leaving on the field throughout the course of your season.
  2. Clearly an out at the plate. Not even questionable. Bad call. The play at 2nd is interesting and not unlike the "voluntary release" thread from a few weeks back. Runner's foot knocked the ball out, not sure how that can be considered control unless there is some kind of interference ruling, which this clearly was not. Looks like two blown calls on the same play.
  3. What? Seriously? You can't get more cut and dried than telling an umpire, "you're a piece of sh!t." I don't care if Little poisoned his cat, you can't say that without getting run. I'm gonna go ahead and say that if the dude poisoned his cat, he should get a little more rope than normal.
  4. Fantastic call. Should have dumped the guy, though.
  5. What the hell does this mean? It couldn't possibly be any simpler or more self-explanatory. Maybe you can find a gradeschool kid somewhere that can explain it to you. Either counters are MANDATORY for everyone, or they are optional for everyone. If you cannot comprehend that statement then I don't know what I can possibly do to help you out.
  6. You should be getting an e-mail notification saying that there are "changes" to your game. Your assigner is probably not doing something correctly.
  7. I agree on the bases, on the plate your job is to track the count and this a tool to do so. It's like not wearing plate shoes, a personal choice but not a smart one. Who the hell are you to tell people what to use/carry/not carry behind the plate? Just because you are incapable of mentally keeping track of 5 or so pitches per batter does not mean that others are so handicapped. I will also point out here that a veteran coach in my area noticed that I wasn't using one the other day and complimented me on it after the game. I impressed the hell out of that guy.
  8. I also used to feel "naked" without a "counter" (proper terminology), but was determined to do away with it this year and have not had a single issue through a full college and then a full high school season. I will say that I have noticed that guys staring at/obviously clicking their counter after strike 3 or the third out of an inning look like morons. Glad that's not me anymore. One key factor is how often you have a working scoreboard at your games. I did work one HS game without a scoreboard and that one was a little dicey, but as the season has progressed I find myself correcting the scoreboard more and more frequently. My last point is that anyone who would ding a PU for not carrying a counter but feels that the BU can get by without one is an idiot. Either everyone should be forced to have one, or either should have their choice. Saying that it's mandatory for PU but not BU is beyond stupid and frankly I have trouble taking someone that thinks like that very seriously on a baseball field.
  9. First one ever... http://msn.foxsports.com/mlb/story/major-league-baseball-umpire-let-go-after-drug-violation-070213
  10. It is beyond ridiculous that the national anthem is played before sporting events. They have absolutely nothing at all to do with eachother. You might as well play it in a movie theater before watching a movie or at restaurant before dinner. Just stupid.
  11. Are you kidding? Everyone screws up a rule from time to time. Hell, they even do it in the major leagues. I've seen even great rule umpires that have had a momentary brainfart. It happens to all of us on occasion. Now if they blatantly don't know a rule or insist it's one thing when it's really something else, show them in the book and maybe they can learn something from it. But if a guy just spaces out on the field once in a blue moon but can recognize his mistake in the locker room, no harm/no foul.
  12. Definitely taught by ASA (as well as NCAA), and I have never seen a softball umpire worth a crap that didn't start out working ASA, so basically any softball umpire than has a clue what they are doing will be brushing bases and rubbers frequently (usually the bases too often, but the rubber should be done every inning or so).
  13. OK, I'm not going to pile on here and assume that you were in the right for 99% of what went on and that the partner in question is a gigantic idiot, but I will take exception to the quoted passage. According to your own version of the story, this is 100% factually accurate. The other guy wanted to stop the game and you wouldn't let him. What exactly is the big deal with acknowledging this fact? Once a decision is made to either halt or continue play, that needs to be owned by the umpire making this decision. There should be no attempt made to hide who was responsible for this call after the fact.
  14. The pitching plate is swept so the base umpire can watch to make sure the pitcher is in contact with the rubber and not committing an illegal pitch. The bases are swept for a similar reason, as base runners cannot leave the base until the ball has left the pitchers hand. It makes it a lot easier to see these violations when the plate/bases are clean. I've worked a lot of softball, and cleaning a bases has nothing at all to do with watching runners leaving early. It has everything to do with being able to see the base when the next play is made there (force or tag). And yes, softball umpires tend to do this WAAAAAAY too often.
  15. How are you supposed to call the game if you can't see the bases?
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