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I knew this a few months ago but I didn’t share it here. I have been hired into college baseball at the D3 and NAIA level in Southern California. Looking forward to this year and many more. Feel free to hijack this thread if you’ve been hired into a higher level

I'm sure you're heartbroken at my disappointment.

One more for the Bad Guy!

I don't disagree (though I'm sure the gamblers and bookies would have some input into whether or not they want dead heats)....but.... As the camera and timing technology get better those dead heats will disappear too. I've said it before - as far as I know the Olympics have ties to sometimes two, and usually three decimal places...in ALL race events - from the 50 meter swim sprint to the 50 km cross country ski. If they can live with ties, baseball can live with ties. And I truly hope they never go to four, five and six decimal places. Do we really want to get to a point where instant replay zooms in to 6000x, with 64k supreme-extreme-high definition to determine if the ball beat the runner? At that point you're arguing at the molecular level, and then I'd argue that at the molecular level objects never actually touch - so a ball is never caught, a tag is never made, and a runner never touches any base - and we'd have to cancel baseball altogether. I myself prefer the language in FED and softball, which, to paraphrase, say the runner is out if tagged while not in contact with the base. I think it is more simple, and is more in line with the historical spirit of the game. That is, if you're touching the (proper) base, you're safe. And, in a tie, you're touching the base. Ergo, tie goes to the runner. I know umps want outs. The fans want runs. As @Jimurray alludes, you can't say "it was a tie" because you just create a sh!tstorm - but I have no problem with an umpire in his head ruling it a tie and then simply saying "he was there". In reality, I don't really care if the ump is right or wrong at that point - if the call is truly that close the coach shouldn't be arguing, at all. If a coach utters the word tie he should be bitch slapped. As a coach, I wasn't saying a word to an umpire if the runner was out/safe by less than half a step (and more often than not it was a full step before I was asking him to talk to his partner) - it didn't mean I was right, but I better be certain, in my mind, it was an "obvious" miss - and no coach should be arguing "it was obviously a tie"....and this is where I segue into MLB replay rules - it should be "obvious" before challenging - meaning no phone calls, no TV's in the dugout - you have ten seconds to challenge - your player should be adamant the call was wrong (and he better be right)...and if the umps/head office can't see any reason to overturn the call in 15 seconds, the call stands. Because, back to my original point, I dread the day where advanced technology allows for replay reviews to the microscopic level.

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Um, I believe he was being sarcastic. I've bought black Nike pads new for $50 (harness for $25) so he was saying it's high.

Hey! Don’t dissuade him! I want Trevor to rival Jordan Baker, and when he makes it Big, we can say, “Aw yeah? We knew him when he was a lil’ tadpole umpire!”

@BT_Blue don’t do it!! Those are FUGLY, lol

I agree with you there. But I go the opposite direction is handling big boy baseball (HS, College, spring ball, etc) vs kid ball (and I include Babe Ruth, Travel Ball, summer tournaments, etc). I am much harder on the summer ball guys than I am on the spring ones for the exact reason you listed. Spring ball, they know what their limits are. Summer, they think that they can do anything they want.