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stevis

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  1. I tell the teenagers I train for Little League--your first game will come at you quickly. It'll seem like it's so much. But your second, and your fifth, games will go even better. Your fifteenth will go even better than that. (At some point they're not going to go better unless you keep putting the work in, but I digress.) As others have said, you'll be raw because you are raw. Nothing wrong with that! You got this brother. If 13 year olds I struggle to keep on task can go out, not get hurt, and do a decent job for the level, I'm sure an airline pilot can. Do you have a pump-up jam? I first saw Hamilton right before my first state tournament; ever since I've adopted "My Shot" as my get-ready music. Gets me in the "I belong here, and I'm about to show it" head space. Find some little pump-up and or comfort ritual that works for you. And report back! We're pulling for you.
  2. My least favorite instantiation of this is LL All-Stars, and ace pitchers messing around with the #8-10 hitters. Save that curve, and those pitches, to upset the timing of the top five hitters who can take you deep! This kid has just shown he can't catch your heat. [Mortal Kombat Voice]Finish him![/Mortal Kombat Voice]
  3. I used to play "modified fast-pitch" that worked like his, where you couldn't take the full windup. It was a base/work league, nobody taking anything too seriously but decades before somebody must have decided they weren't going full beer league slow pitch and it stuck. Never climbed a fence but I did get my pant leg caught in one chasing down an errant throw.
  4. If the penalty is a fine, it means it's only illegal for poor people.
  5. Whiskey Tangos? (As in, Whiskey-Tango-Foxtrot...)
  6. Weather Underground for general, My Lightning Tracker for thunderstorm monitoring
  7. As a cyborg pancreas haver (insulin pump + continuous glucose monitoring) I can only say: welcome to the ranks. Your biological and technological distinctiveness will be added to our own.
  8. I fear you're right...but the other day, LL shared on Facebook a video of one of the kids hitting a HR, stopping three feet from the plate, turning his back on his gathered teammates (behind the plate), and miming taking a selfie. (Then proceeding to complete his award, natch.) Hoping someone at least sees that fun and sportsmanship don't have to be at cross-purposes all the time; at least someone on the social media team does.
  9. LL has taught that HR mechanic yes. I don't love it either, but when I'm doing a tournament game where somebody whose opinion of me means something for me is watching...
  10. No such specific rule. Now that it made notice I'll bet there's an extra-unworkable, stick-up-rear-end rule for us to deal with next year. That's my district--not sure I worked a game with that team though. I don't recall seeing it then.
  11. I do occasionally to get the pellets off our plate on our one turf field, but yeah, it's more a bit of habit than anything else. Especially in the top of the 1st, it's just part of what I'm expecting to do to get going and it would "feel" wrong not to.
  12. Was at U1 yesterday the VA LL Intermediate States...kid was going for a triple and I'm rotating, while in my mind thinking "sendhimsendhimSENDHIM." It was not to be.
  13. "But I didn't now you were called Dennis until just now."
  14. Getting to be the U1 in this, for a meaningful call (i.e., a close play, not a home run trot), is my bucket list call.
  15. I'm not loving including the heckles on the back. Not that the particular ones you've chosen are bad, I think I'd just love the mask logo and TWWU on the front. Maybe the last line attributed to "You" on the back as a quote. I'd order one either way, but my $0.03. (two cents plus inflation.)
  16. Funny, I faced this last night! Little League, 9-10-11 tournament pool game, nothing on the line though. We do the plate conference rigamarole and I ask the coaches when I'm done if they have any question, and then to bring something to the kid "captains," I ask them if they have anything. One of them pipes up to ask where my strike zone is. With a smile on my face and in my voice, I replied (pointing), "Right there, over the plate, and don't ever ask an umpire that." Smiles all around, so I guess that was an OK tactic.
  17. I feel like if we made pins or wicking shirts, there's a merchandising opportunity here.
  18. I can picture the following sequence: 1. Pitcher alerts to R3 stealing 2. Pitcher jab-steps their pivot foot backward to disengage (properly) 3. Pitcher whips a throw home to make a play on R3 4. Batter fails to register the pitcher's actions and believes it's a pitch 5. Call 9-1-1. That seems like a plausible sequence where the batter might swing at what is not a pitch (plus of course there are the just plain malicious scenarios.)
  19. Also, what do you mean no LL umpire wants that scenario? I'm still mad I didn't get to check it off my scavenger hunt list at a state tournament some years ago, when I dropped the flag on four straight pitches on R2, and on the 5th one he figured it out--that, of course, being the one we had the ground ball to third that would have ended up a poof play. And yes, within in the infield--single to the outfield, everyone's getting one base and a run would score, absent the out which gives us room to return runners.
  20. The play before he had R3 only. It's possible he spaced and was still thinking of that mechanic/situation, I suppose?
  21. Super-Talented, Fabulous Umpire
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