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Me too....but I had some close calls during the 2019 season![emoji1] post 50, you're just slower! Sent from my SM-G950U using Tapatalk

I now have both Colbalt and Uncap. I will never use Uncap in the field. Probably will sell Uncap if I can’t find usage for it.

@MadMax I am not bragging but, mine was in better shape than those two examples BEFORE it went to Tony.

Hey, yours is in better shape than Culbreth’s or Reynolds’.

As my cousin says, it's not the years - it's the miles! I think I've still got several of both left in me.

If you read the thread of which this is a duplicate you would find that in OBR you still have to determine if F4 or any other infielder had a play on the ball that went thru or by F3. Most likely F4 had a play and the runner would be out in OBR. Your assessment of thru or past would be correct. Maybe the moderator could combine the threads but I suugest you respond in the original thread.

Just received my pandemic project back from Tony. I chopped the throat extension off my steel All-Star FM25 and sent it off to Tony/Mask-It for powder coating in gloss black. As always great service a fast turn around. Tremendous quality finish. This frame has a sentimental place as it is came with my first set of gear. Everything else has either worn out or was up graded.

@SeeingEyeDog did you have a funeral for the ball, or at least a quick moment of silence with caps removed? I've actually done the later on a field with a guy who was trying to break the habit of saying "Dead Ball" and used it on a hit by pitch when I was already in C (R2 only), I had a few seconds before I was going to have to do anything so I looked right at him stood at attention, removed my cap and bowed my head. We both had a good chuckle about it after as he admitted to having seen it and expected nothing less.

So what are you trying to say ? I'm sure you've heard this before @yawetag, it's not what's on the outside, it's what's on the inside that matters. <yeah, that's what she said> Ok, 1st round is on me should we ever meet. Look, I'm not reaching out for sympathy here, but just to put some things into perspective around my "selection" of the name and to hopefully give some clarity since it was brought up again. I realize that from the recent picture I posted (acrobatic athleticism), some could draw a conclusion that they "expected" me to be older than 52, based on my choice of moniker. After 12 years and several deployments, Uncle Sam's Misguided Children decided that (due to compressed disc's in my lower back (now degenerative disc disease) and a total knee replacement from the joint so badly worn that it was bone on bone (probably from those nice walks we used to take together with our little packs, and then the light jogging on occasion), that they no longer needed my service. Combining a 40% disability rating for my back & a 30% disability rating for my knee from the VA, it actually calculates to 60% disabled, and I get a check from Uncle Sam every month for this (hey, it's enough to cover the house note!). Now, given that I've been chasing everything from a 9 y/o to a 22 y/o around the ball field for over 20 years, I may not get to the 45' line when trailing a BR, but I make my rotations..... yes, I FEEL old as hell! SWMBO has openly stated, that I won't stop umpiring until I'm dead. Now while she'd be better off with the insurance, she went on to say that I'll continue to umpire even when I am confined to a wheel chair. Give me a Tim "the tool man" Taylor hot rod "hover 'round" and get outta my way. TIME!!! That's interference.....ON ME.....for running over the catcher!! P.S. - getting the other knee done on 9/19.