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Had my right hip done on 8/15. Almost a week now, moving around with a walker/cane, getting better every day. Pain is gone, range of motion is already much improved. Best of luck to you! After it's done, you'll wonder why you waited so long!

It’s happening. August 24th. The left hip – beaten and destroyed by four decades of intense athletics, manual labor (including Amazon, those jerks), and having to “drop-step and pivot to the midpoint!” (what the hell is the midpoint? ) – is finally getting replaced! This has to happen. It’s the only way to continue my umpiring and trades careers. What makes this so ironic, is if I was to abandon the umpiring and trades-work, and focus on what I got a college degree in (graphic design), it wouldn’t get any better, since I’d be (back to) a desk job, sitting down… which is the worst thing for ya!! So! Guard your health and fitness, good friends, and wish me luck! Let’s hope the surgeon doesn’t get cute with the stitches! 😁

No beef but like stuff without logos. The football pants and shorts are worse, in my opinion, with a giant white S on the back belt loop. Just my $.02

Pardon the hi-jack...that upper image always hits all the feels. 6-Mil was the first episodic TV show I ever watched. The opening credits of that show did more in 60 seconds than some 2 or 3 hour films. There has never been a better opening credits sequence in the history of TV... ~Dawg

Bumping this to say I’m open to selling the Power outright at this time. If you let me know you’re interested by Tuesday I can have it in my possession by Wednesday morning to ship out to you. Or local pickup in California. Here are some more pictures, feel free to DM with questions and offers. Thanks

Paint me weird, but I actually think the undershirt should be sky blue. And, instead of Wht/Blk/Wht numbers, it should be Sky/Blk/Wht numbers (matching what MLB previously used on jackets). Oo! And, instead of a white-on-black logo, it could be a black-on-sky logo?

I will say that my proudest rule was the complete re-write of the verbal warning, written warning, ejection rule. The year they first tried to create this rule (2015 rulebook) it was a complete disaster. The summer of 2015 was my first year on the committee. I told them it was a disaster and some at the NFHS appeared a little insulted that I said that. However, all of the state administrators who were on the committee at that time quickly spoke up and whole-heartedly agreed with me. It was, in my opinion, an example of all the administrators telling the NFHS staff that the rule was not working and was causing them nightmares in their state offices. We literally had some states interpreting the rule as saying a coach could not be ejected unless he had both been verbally warned and restricted. Other states took a different interpretation. It was bad; there was no consistency. I re-wrote the rule (including making sure that it was clear that an umpire can eject without any warnings if the game participant's behavior so warrants.) I know that no constituency today outright loves the rule, and that every constituency (umpires, coaches, administrators) has gripes. However, the fact is that the number of complaints about this rule went from "too many to count" in 2015 to zero in 2016. It was the best case of putting out a fire I have ever done in my life. Now, eight years later, pretty much everyone has bought in to the verbal warning, written warning, ejection process as it exists in the NFHS rulebook and casebook and how it is to be applied. It took a long time to re-write the rule and case plays on that one. And while it may not be universally loved...at this point its been there for eight years and no one is clamoring for it to be changed or modified. (There hasn't been a proposal since I re-wrote the rule to modify, amend, or change it.) So, it has stood the test of time. And, I'm proud of that.

......and Michigan!

Coming soon to a HS field near you unless you live in OH and NJ!

On the contrary I think 275 is more than fair for this CP. Even a bit cheap considering historical prices

When I work youth ball under FED, non-scholastic? I try to let safety and the flow of the game guide me. Injury is a risk all of us inside the fence accept. As an umpire, I try to avoid situations (if possible) where a player could get hurt. Most of all because I don't want the player getting hurt and secondarily I don't want to face upset parents or coaches or get a post-game phone call from someone within the brotherhood wanting to know why I didn't intervene. I'm not a magician. I can't prevent every injury...nobody can. I still face upset parents and coaches and I still get phone calls. Fortunately, the phone calls are usually just fact collection and not lecturing me. So, if it's the above scenario in my first sentence and I have a batter in the box who is NOT alert to the pitcher and the pitcher starts his delivery? I call time and step out of the slot. I will then say quietly to the batter, "Do not step into the box until you are ready. Once in the box, get alert to the pitcher." I will then walk out to the mound, swap the baseball and say, "Please wait until the batter is ready before starting your delivery." This takes care of things for the remainder of the game (unless there's a new pitcher) 98% of the time. That 2% when I have a repeat problem with the same pitcher? I go to the coach. ~Dawg