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Option G. Because our culture has transfigured (mutated) Views & Likes into some f#€ked up form of currency or social credit, today’s generations have been doing everything possible to cash in on it. You better believe that video clips from any of the half-to-full dozen cameras lashed to the backstop are going to make their way to social media mere moments after the game concludes, not only to show off to recruiters, scouts, or coaches, but more inanely to fuel some kids’ social credit card in the form of Views & Likes. (In)famously, this trend even hit me. I had a kid walk up to the plate with a camera on the bill of his batting helmet, during a PG tournament. None of the dozen-or-so PG staffers ever approached me ahead of time to tell me that they’re putting said camera there, and since there were no less than 4 PG staffers floating around the three conjoined fields with cameras in their hands, I prohibited the batter using it, and dismissed him to remove the camera and come back to bat. No further penalty. Just that interaction alone got me posted on multiple SoMed streams, and all the non-umpires made me out to be the killjoy. 🙄 They’re doing it for Views & Likes.

I’m guessing he didn’t have a partner to check with. 😉

Saw a helmet tap in a men's league tournament today, playing not umpiring.. All in good fun. We were up by two touchdowns. Plate, dressed in an untucked black shirt, navy ball bags, and base pants glued to his shin guards, got a kick out of it.