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ya no need to give time in this situation..... it does provide a benefit to the defense....same goes for players calling time after a pick off play, if the defensive player still has the ball in the vicinity I'll give the runner time to allow him to get up and gather himself.... if the ball has already gone back to the pithcer generally I'll just tell them to get up... have had coaches whine about it before, simply tell them what was said above... this isn't LL... some times I will ask them why they need it, by the time they answer they are usually up.

I suppose if I had to chose, I think 3 man works really well long as everyone is where they are supposed to be. we work 4 man on our higher age championship games (and semi's if we have the bodies) and I always enjoy it.

welcome to the forums

my dad always said 2 things when he trained me... 1. if you miss the call you'd better damned well be there... and 2. "loud and proud"... will save you a lot of chirping from the bench/stands

just LOL... oops

welcome to the crew (Illinois here, almost neighbors)

we don't have very many of them (pics) but there's a group of photographers locally who shoot all the teams in the tournaments at one of the complex's I work at regularly, this pic was my father's day gift from them. This was taken after we'd worked games on seperate field's, they happened to find us loitering outside the concession stand. Later that day we became the first father son duo to work a game at this complex... not a big deal, but kinda neat

see that's the thing.... your not psychic, and no one expects you to be, so unless your absolutely sure I don't think running the coach or F2 would be a good idea, you could have certainly run the pitcher, a lot of times their body language will give you a clue about intent.

spose you could have ran all three if you watched it all progress and knew what was said, at the very least you could have run the pitcher, but this happens, I wouldn't worry about it

so my son, who I've mentioned on here a few times, is in the field next to our house playing football with some neighborhood kids and his little brother who turns 13 in 2 days. Anyhow, I'm watching them sitting there in my lounge chair, and one of the kids yells "time out", so my son the umpire, not thinking about it, puts up his right hand and says "we got time" LMAO had us all rollin, he didn't realize it for a minute then just shook his head

I'd probably hang out in there

I'm not sure I Could stop laughing if they kicked dirt on me.. be having a Herman Franks laugh a minute flashback

I've seen umpires who wear bags that match the shirt color, if their uniforms are pressed and creased it does look good. I always go with the same color as my slacks, that works for me. I also have no trouble with patent leather shoes and belts, again, if the uniform looks good they add a nice touch to it. I don't use them, but again, if the guy takes pride in his uniform you can tell, and it looks fine. this is of course my opinion. if your shirt has white in the trim, or is white, then a white T-shirt is fine. I tend to wear Black under the cream shirt, and whatever the trim color of the shirt I have on is. I do have a number of colors shirt wise, so as you can imagine there are a lot of possible combinations. I get bored with the basics, very simply. Like to add some color to the uniform. The dork comment didn't read to me as a joke, sorry, maybe it's how I read it. If I misread your intent then you certainly have my apology

ball bags don't have to be black, it's preference, and sorry, the colored bags do look good with a nicely pressed uniform. I use charcoal bags with my charcoal slacks, heather bags with heather slacks etc. I ALWAYS use two bags. using the hook means he likes to be organized, and nothing else (no I don't use one). A lot of people use the 1" brim on their hat, especially the older umpires I've worked with. Your brim size doesn't effect your ability to umpire positively or negatively, again, it's preference. I use a Shock FX, and wear skull caps umderneath... am I a dork to? Not sure you want to be insulting people.

oh ya, and compression tights, she reminded me... 3 pair of those, can fill up my back seat with T-shirts of all kinds and colors..... a laundry basket in the back full of over the calf black socks....... now when she sees me whip out the credit card it's like an intervention