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Fed wants you in B. Everyone wants you in B Yes, without you in B we can't have a cookout and evaluation party on your PU. Please join the rest of us umpires in B immediately!

Anyone familair with Babe Ruth rules? Do they allow for dead ball appeals, or do they mandate a regular OBR appeal? In younger age divisions I think the problem doesn't need and explaination. Thanks!

Sorry to take so long to reply,life intruded. Will send picts along later today! You got it!

Just another series of games, relax and have fun

Gentlemen, and any ladies out there! I have multiple shirts I must get rid of as fast as humanly possible. We had a meeting the other day and the shirts asked out of the contract, they liked my comfortable closet but they wanted a change of scenery. I tried to convince them to stay but after a long discussion I told them I'd put them on the trade market. No waiver wire deals however. Nor am I looking for a shirt to be named later Some are new, some are used, none were ever abused. So take your pick, use them quick, save them for St. Nick. Send your cash, to my stash, and out of my trash. All prices are negotiable, volume discount available First, Two Short-sleeve Honig's College Black fresh from Pakistan (err, their warehouse) Size XL, fits like a large. $10 each, no shipping. 1 SOLD TO Bkesler24 Second, New With tags in original package, Tonix Carolina/Light Blue with collge black collar. Never worn, not needed Size 2XL. $22, no shipping. Third, 2013 Smitty model College black size XL Used about 5 games this spring. $12 no shipping. SOLD TO gnhbua93 Fourth, 2013 Honigs Black long sleeve size XL, Used 7 games this spring, $15, no shipping. SOLD TO Jax Rolo Fifth: New +POS shirts in two sizes: All Shirts have never been worn, some still have original tags and packaging, others do not. I believe I purchased them in 2010 or 2011. SIZE THEM DOWN ONE SIZE: 2XL= XL, XL= LG for sizing purposes All short sleeve: XXL: Navy Blue with red and white piping. (No pkg, no tags) Gray with Blue collar and Red and White piping, also Navy Blue with Red and white piping on sleeves. (No pkg, with original tags) Gray with Blue and white piping on collar and sleeves. (in original plastic bag with tags) XL: College Black (No pkg, no tags) White with Navy collar and sleeve ends with white and red piping (No pkg, no tags) Red with Navy and White piping on sleeves (No pkg, no tags) These shirts are $15 each, no shipping, take all three of either size for $38.00 no shipping. Or take all six for $70, no shipping! Special Big Man's Sizes, 28.50 for all 3 no shipping Made in USA Honigs Carolina/College Blue with Black collar, in original packaging size 4x Made in USA Honigs Red shirt with white/navy trim, Has Babe National Umpire Patch on pocket and #24 in Navy with white piping on sleeve size 4x. Made in USA Honigs Light Blue shirt with Red/White/Navy piping on sleeves on sleeves and collar size 2x Very special Take all of the shirts for $135, no shipping. I will add more stuff another day. MAKE AN OFFER IF YOU WANT< I CAN ONLY SAY NO!

Wow! Are you kidding me? Where is there interference by F2? If the batter swings you might have a case, but in that play you have nothing, nothing, nothing and nothing. PU shouldn't have given a safe sign, but who hasn't done that? Great thread.

I receieved and e-mail from the site owners today. Very nice note. Will report more later.

What kind of sin visor do you have in the silver frame wilson mask? Rolo the SINER I hope your visor hides you from the sin you see on the field. If you need counseling about this sining, let me know

http://www.go-stop-call.com/belgard_protector.html You ought to take a look at this site. Has a ton of interesting stuff on it. It looks like they have about a million color combinations of mask padding with a very different design to it. Looks comfortable to me quite frankly. But the posted URL is to the protector page, That protector looks very interesting. It has several different designs over a basic pad set. I assume the more expensive ones have more padding and/or some kind of hard shell over the inner padding. The shoulders look very well armored, and it looks like they reinforced the area of the heart with different and extra padding than the rest of the protector. It looks pretty thin up top so it might not fit broad chested and big shouldered people, but I kind of like it. It also has a bunch of colors to it, They have a bright gray/off white color and an off white/bright gray with a gold chest area that look good in photos, along with black ones. If anyone could translate the site fromJapanese it might be interesting to look at them. As to another poster above I agree with his point, but if the protector they sell is made in Japan as opposed ot the US it's a lot better than all the manufacturers who build their stuff via slave labor in China. As a side note they sell +POS stuff, including the famous Joe Brinkman scraper plate brush, and shin guards. I wish they had old +POS harnesses, they were good. Interesting enough they didn't have any of the small plate brushes Jim Evans used to sell that were supposedly all the rage in Japan a few years ago. I will send off an e-mail to them and see what I get in return! Note: they also sell team Wendy pads!

Hi men, I am sure most of you will be bored by such mundane things as this post, but for those of you in HS association hierarchies I want to ask: "What are some successful things you use to retain young umpires in your association?" I have a training class for new umpires every year, along with the local SB guys. We train guys, I check on them during the season, keep my door open for questions, and do everything i can to help them. Next year, most of them don't renew their HS card, and by three or four years in the game only a few survive. We are not a big association by any means. We seem to have a good number of SB umpires, especially since if your not willing to work it's an easy game to call (IMO) on an average or below average level. But the BB umpires are dwindling in number and if I wanted I and two or three other guys in the group could work 50 games in the HS season. We need young men to do the job the kids need, and who care about the game. Thanks for your assistance.

Never too old big guy! I'm wondering if you could get a Carlucci off someone if somebdy can't do a little work on it and make it fit for you. Soor you can't have mine. Or even somone like Douglas coiuld custom make one, they have to do it with their FB gear, why not with a CP?

Lame. Better than Roseann, at least.

Dang, I'm only 6'4" and I can wear Size 15 4e if i can find them. You make me feel a lot better about life Big Ump. Hope you can replace your gear. Drop me a line sometime maybe I can help out....

Did you bring your clone to the game and let him work an inning? Don't worry about it If this is the only mistake you've made this season you are way ahead of eveyrone else on the site. Congratulations!

Jax and Kyle, You can wear white Converse All-Stars with a Tuxedo but is it apporpriate or just something to draw attention to yourself? To wear an adjustable hat is a signal you really don't care about looking like a professional umpire. I hope he decides to start wearing bright red SH*#s in the summer months so it looks good and consistent with his headware. I'll obviously never be as good as he is adjusted to be since I 'll never be in The Show, but at least I look sort of professional when I'm on the field.

Ohio does not require it's use either. FED won't require it until a need is shown for it.

It's an embarassment, why someone in the office or another veteran crew chief doesn't talk to him about this is beyond me. If I ever saw him at a game I'd present him with one after the game.

IMO. there hasn;t been a good umpire hat/cap made in years. They are all awful. I hope somone will start making good ones again soon.

did this this season, center of plate. mid thigh in a college game F2 misses, and I got ripped by mgr and assigner.

You owe my a new keyboard after I spit coffee over mine....

+1 here! and if the coach gets mean or continues dump him without a 2nd thought, especially if he's the Home team coach.

In Ohio it's a suspended game.

+1. Other than a JUCO league I am assigned to I have never gotten a ball in college game that wasn't rubbed up. Freshmen have to earn their scholarship money somehow!

More and more it seems on upper levels PU will give location it missed at. <ego> I think know I have a great and conistent zone </ego> but IMO it's a bad idea. But you might want to consider doing it.

When I saw one of these CP's my first thought was that the owner needs to send them to Douglas for another set of shoulder pads. But the term 'UE Douglas Douglas just doesn't go together, neither does 'UE UE'. If you have one I hope it works well for you.