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yes, the american league used this black one and the national league used the blue colored one made by Priesmeyer Bros. Trunk Company out of Missouri, and went back as far as umpire George Barr using their trunks along with the teams but of course those trunks were without the wheels. and with the transport that @MadMax 6 mentioned, prior to DHL it was Pilot Air Freight majority owned by MLBU attorney Richie Phillips that provided the no umpire touch service. there is something to that Bull Durham movie where crash is on the bus telling them about his short callup to the show. you never have to touch your bag again. umpires too.

looks like. hoye, dreckman and tumpane are still possible for a trifecta. an ASG, DS, WS all in the same year.

techies know most people probably read this back in 2021, but i am slow to the game. but i believe that yolo stuff that i will never understand and speed and accuracy and if you give up accuracy with speed is somewhere in that formula. and maybe yolo does not have anything at all to do with baseball. just an analytics type history article. https://theanalyst.com/2021/04/how-the-analytics-movement-has-forever-changed-baseball

just remember it is the hour of travel time there and back and your rate of pay at work or overtime rate to start with, and the 67 cents per mile wear and tear and other car expenses there and back. then everything else mentioned. https://www.msn.com/en-us/sports/other/football-referees-in-short-supply-how-officiating-shortages-impact-greater-cincinnati/ar-AA1r8UWr?ocid=BingNewsSerp

go ahead rant on. how are we going to learn anything if withholding is going on.

if i am working 4 times as many games a week and facing 4 times the concussion chances, i want 4 times $450k or $1.8 mil per season to even start to think about that. didn't some pretty good hockey guy have a lot of concussions and have to give it up. and congrats to Larry Vanover. one of the few left that started MiLB in the 80's with the exception of Layne, who must have taken a DL season, as the only one left from the 70's ie 78 Applalachian League, now that West, Davis, Hallion also from the 70's are gone. https://www.si.com/mlb/bryce-harper-five-mlb-rule-changes

it still shows dora as a coordinator of softball umpires in a NAIA conference. so, it would seem they should know their stuff.

Be watching for news out of New York for playoff assignments or a local article where one of the umpires who receives an assignment lives. The umpires working the Wild Card or the Division Series have been notified as of Monday. The LCS wiil be notified the day after the last game that is played in the Wild Card. The WS will be notified 2 days after the last game that is played in the DS. per mlb umpire media guide.

dang TMIB. here goes that word disdainment again on the ncaa baseball guys. lets just disdain on the guys doing t ball baseball that cannot get the baseball to stay on the t, and on the super slow pitch softball guys that cannot spit out illegal pitch quick enough when the pitcher tries bringing one quickly in with no arc at all.

ewwwwww, Jimurray, just like that perfect positioning (not blocked out or straightlined) and a pulled foot request. ain't happening. if missed, it is missed, just like a pitch.

the only tie is the one you wear around your neck with a suit, or something you do to make a knot. pretty much the fact that horse racing backs up the physics. per googleing at betzillion dot com, since 1801 and all the horse racing that has gone on throughout the whole world, there have only been 64 dead heats. pretty much you are either out or safe, not both at the exact same moment in time.

why would you need a conference. unless the rules changed, any umpire that sees the ball hit off the batters foot/leg/etc exactly like in this play can call a foul ball. if it is not seen then it would not be called by any of the 4. conference is needless. but it is managements fault again for not making this a reviewable play. and it is managements fault for not installing the infrared technology that would catch this as show in the 2011 playoffs with layne as the PU. once again blame management of an 11 billion plus dollar industry.

but what about a tie in the check swing/hbp happening simultaneously situation. hbp or strike in all rule sets, mlb, ncaa and fed. nobody worries about which way it is to be called, just tell us how that tie/simultaneous situation is to be ruled. one way or the other. no mamby pampy. it isnt that tough for the powers that be to make a decision for us to use. somebody will be unhappy either way, unless it happens the same number of times in each game to both teams in the same game. how about an arrow situation. home team gets the first tie situation to their advantage and visitors the 2nd tie situation to their advantage. kinda like jump ball arrow in basketball.

so, this means on all check swings (although i guess it has been this way since 1880? or whatever) the umpire on the line is parsing the exact moment when that check swing goes to0 far and is a swing while also getting that exact instance the batter is hit with the pitch. if the bat is far enough to call check swing a strike, before the ball hits the batter it is a strike. if the ball hits the batter before the bat gets far enough to call the check swing a strike then it is a HBP. good luck on having the eyes judge the two separate points at the same time. oh yea, and if in the umpires judgement it is a tie situation, does the offense get the benefit of the tie situation or does the defense get the benefit of he tie situation. believe by rule in book (maybe not, or maybe not now versus in days gone by) there are 2 different situations and interpretations of a tie going to the runner or not after a ball that is hit. in one situation a tie goes to the offense and in another situation the tie goes to the defense. seems like one is the batter running to first and a tie, and the other situation is the runner on 1st running to 2nd and a tie on that runner. very interesting

this is what it is all about no more yogi berra's, hank aaron's, roy campanella's (not well healed) of the world need apply https://www.aol.com/worth-10-questions-athletes-consider-120952827.html

i go with double work equals double pay $120/$160. i take it, the 75/100 as only getting a 25% raise rather than a 100% raise for 100%/double more work. or you could work it, the 120/160 from the high end and say you are only getting a 50% pay cut on both if you don't like the looks/optics of 100% raise from low to high vs 50% cut high to low.

are we making sure we are doing rank and yank for the reasons mentioned in the sentence above, at all levels of professional umpiring, irregardless of professional umpires of amateur players or professional umpires of professional players. if not ,why not. i like to see when all levels of umpiring are having the same reasoning enforced. how come they say there are a dearth of professional umpires for the amateur player level, or is that a bunch of hogwash. so why not make it time for them to go and get new ones for quality waning, and cranky old man on a power trip. and if new ones are good, don't make them play a waiting game to get playoff assignments, the ole you got to wait your turn like i did (forgetting that lucky uncle Huey/lewey/dewey got that umpire into umpiring to start with, and jumpstarted their quick rise of varsity, right off the get go and right into the playoffs either that same year or the next, without the wait your turn like i did syndrome. and, let's see if the system for playoff assignments keeps all those having a rough year from getting an assignment, like they say it does, for those in that rough year situation.

in the old days catchers mainly (never say always-and no where near moving around as much) set up right down the middle of the plate. they just moved the glove over their knee for in and out. the plate umpires with the balloon set up straight over the catcher and in the kill zone all game. same view of the plate as the catcher at least for the corners and the belt pitch. the knee pitch was more challenging due to being higher over the catcher. you could probably set your feet right behind the catchers shoes and rarely take a shoe hit. so, if the umpires are working more of a outside protector position but with an inside protector, they are opening themselves up to more kill shots and the concussion odds and ramifications of that decision, in exchange for better results on their plate scores. just imagine working the balloon directly over the kill zone every plate job starting in the minors and all the way through a major league career, back in the day. maybe hunters father worked more over towards the middle like that too. have to get hold of old footage.

yep, and that's why (the last paragraph) i kicked that play here, and you explained it well, for the newer, and not newer, and i believe Larry Barnett would whole heartedly agree.

1. was there contact with the empty glove or was i the only one seeing/or dreaming that. 2. since the ball was in his bare hand at the time, he was not legally tagged. this was mainly for some of the newer guys, not those who are blind in one eye and cant see out the other like me.

another look without having to get to 9:09 do we have a runner ticking the pitchers glove at 20 and 26 while the pitcher has control of the ball in his bare hand, which is no good for tagging a runner with the glove (not out), while the ball is in the bare hand. must touch runner with ball in bare hand, or with the glove with the ball in the glove. maybe i am not seeing that and just making it up and maybe i forgot the rule or it changed. https://www.mlb.com/video/tommy-kahnle-in-play-no-out-to-josh-smith?q=new york yankees&cp=CMS_FIRST&qt=FREETEXT&p=0

if it works, play at 1b, at 9:09. what cha got. 3 loses in a row for yankees. yankees will be cranky, starting now and for game tomorrow. could there be fireworks??? https://www.mlb.com/video/game/744968

no different than wearing the beanie plate hat vs 4, 6, or 8 bill hat on the plate, or even turning the bill around when on the plate like catchers do if the back has more protection than the front bill area does, or the pivot step vs look over the shoulder or rim or do not rim or those stogy ole young guys that don't like my flip phone, and those that don't like my red nose from niacin and won't let me play in the reindeer games anymore, or wearing all black base shoes rather than flash some white streaks here or there, or the point vs the fist strike, black leather vs high gloss leather. shave vs no shave on the plate, pointing and yelling foul ball vs hands over head and yelling foul ball. high water pants vs touch the ground pants, taking mask off with right hand versus left hand. balloon vs inside chest protector. on and on. or the printer doesn't work, versus the printer has a paper jam. or a gazillion versus a whole sh_tload. or myocardial infarction vs heart attack. on and on

congratulations are in order for Larry Vanover working last Thursday, August 22, 2024 as the PU on his 69th birthday. and Phil Cuzzi working last night, Thursday August 29, 2024 as the 2BU on his 69th birthday. """""Highly Believe""""" these are the only ones to be working full time at 69 on the field in the history of MLB umpires and yes, i may have choked or kicked the sheet out of that statement. Joe West and Gerry Davis only got to 68 as full time on the field. will Larry and Phil stay to work till they get to 70 and above (only the shadow knows). only another sport (basketball) had officials working into their 70's, off the top of my head. Dick Bavetta and Jack Nies.

congrats to #91