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Way, WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY too much work and effort involved in all of that. I keep my schedule in my head, know where I am going 99% of the time before I leave the house, and save all of my e-mails anyway (going back over 10 years). The only thing I would like to do is cellphone record one of my games, but I almost never have anyone at the park that would do that for me. But to each their own. BTW: This is not necessarily true. I have about 9 different groups and all of them except my main college association will show years worth of past games if you check the "Show all" box. Our local college group will only show the past season's games, but I can see what I've gotten for high school games going back to 2006.

Anything except Honig's. Bought my first new shirt from them in several years back in March. Only wore it for a handful a games due to the SH*#ty weather this spring (wearing jackets most of the time). First of all, it has a terrible, chemical like odor in the collar area. And no, this isn't a body odor situation. I noticed this after I had worn it for exactly one game on a mild day temp wise. Washed it several times since then to try to get the odor out, to no avail. Also, after exactly two wash cycles, the top button came off and is lost. Thankfully you never button the top button, so it doesn't really matter. The folded over collar hides the fact that there's no button there. The front of the shirt has also started to pill already. In short, I don't care fore the Honig's shirts.

Ummmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm...no. I am not going to look it up on youtube, but I am 99.9999% that Taylor just flat beat out the play in question, there was no sliding involved.

Absolutely an out. Had to see it several times to come to that conclusion, though. This is probably the best call I've see any umpire make in any of the vids posted here, but not sure how he was able to see it at live speed from his position. He most likely just got lucky here.

That guy was toast. Great defensive play.

Of course it's lazy as hell, but when you're one of the most veteran, established umpires on the face of the earth, you don't really have to care what other people think. If I was him, I wouldn't even have signaled, just turned to the runner and said " get your ass back to the dugout."

Which proves that you can't even comprehend the basic concepts being discussed here and you admit that you frequently lose track of the game situation during play. Glad I'm not working with you anytime soon. Why even bother knowing how many outs there are then? The players will head to their dugouts and switch sides after the 3rd out anyway. No reason for the umpire to keep track. You seem passionate about what you would do BUT your inexperience is showing. Back off posting for a while and just read. Respectfully- BigUmpire Shouldn't you be hoarding offensive weapons in a bunker somewhere? Mostly just a cyberspace thing. I am actually very well liked and respected IRL.

Which proves that you can't even comprehend the basic concepts being discussed here and you admit that you frequently lose track of the game situation during play. Glad I'm not working with you anytime soon. Why even bother knowing how many outs there are then? The players will head to their dugouts and switch sides after the 3rd out anyway. No reason for the umpire to keep track.

I'm not saying that you necessarily have to go to this extent, but you can be damn sure that if it's a 1 or 2 run lead in the last inning that I know EXACTLY which is the tying and which is the winning run. Likewise, if it's a complete blowout, I know exactly which run will end the game via run rule. Do you guys keep track of the count while on the bases? If so, why? What the count is should not alter your responsibilities on the bases at all, yet most would agree that proper umpiring says that you should be in tune to the game situation at all times. It's the same principal with the score.

This is hilarious. You literally stand there until both teams line up and start shaking hands? The teams line up to shake hands. Seriously, you know whether it's close or not and you can tell by the strategy and the comments which run is the winning run. Or, you know, you can look at the scoreboard. Knowing what the score is any point in a game is just as critical as knowing how many outs there are or what the count is. To ignore such a critical aspect of the game situation is borderline negligence in terms of doing your job.

Clearly an out.

Well duh. I'm not saying I go out of my way to piss off coaches, but this whole "coach A gave me a 3 and coach B gave me a 4" is about a thousand times more anal retentive than I'm going to get. Also, it pays to get in tight with the assigner(s) and know that you have enough pull that you can override a few minor coach complaints.

When everybody else leaves, I figure it must be over. So you just hang around on the field until everyone is done shaking hands and heads back to the dugout to pack up their gear?

Wow, you must have REALLY missed some calls that night!!! Sent from my Galaxy Nexus using Tapatalk 2 I'm the one that took his phone. It said he missed 2.

Lots of great stuff in this thread. BigUmp, I completely sympathize with what you've been through, but if you're going be this paranoid for the rest of your life, I would suggest finding a new hobby. Just sayin...

LOL, how do you know when the game is over unless you know what the score is? Think about that for a few minutes. If there is some question on what the correct score is, find out, but do it DISCREETLY.

LOL, I used to work several home games at this particular junior college. Whenever we had a later afternoon start, as the sun started to dip a little, HTC would give the PU a couple of brand new balls when his team was coming up to bat. You know, so we could all "see them better" LOL.

No. Make them get you a new one.

The entire purpose of sub-varsity ball is to get kids some experience, fielding, hitting, etc. How on earth is anyone benefited by every batter in the game just standing there because the pitcher can't throw a strike? Nothing good at all can possibly come from that. There is no point in calling a book zone in a game like that, and there is not one single person in the entire ballpark that will be impressed by you calling the MLB zone in a freshman game. Not one.

If you're going to be ultra-tolerant during the game, why wouldn't that extra tolerance extend to the postgame as well? Either way, sounds like somebody deserved to go at some point.

Fed has a rule to keep the teams in the dugout during certain times. While the other team is taking infield, the other team is in the dugout. This is to stop any taunting or intimidation. During the plate meeting they are to off the field for the safety of the umpires and to continue the taunting/intimidation prohibition. It needs to be enforced, it's not a big deal.If Read that carefully, i said i'm not going to let them take infield while i'm conducting the plate meeting but having a huddle or standing around outside the dugout i'm not going to go looking for, as for the hybrid position, i think FED is trying to micromanage the game with this rule, the runner should know whether the pitcher is in the set or stretch position, this is determined by the position of the pivot foot, not the non pivot foot. All you are doing by making/enforcing this rule is setting these kids up for failure when they get to college or go play any other league played under OBR because they wont be looking for the pivot foot's position they will be looking for the free foot's position, this is a completely legal position in OBR and NCAA thus should be legal in FED, but again if a coach brings it to my attention I will address it... That really isn't my problem, particularly when our state HS athletic association puts emphasis on it. If we are told to call it, and evaluators are watching for it, then I guess it's important to me. How often are you evaluated each season? Do you know when someone is going to be there watching you? I have never heard of anyone from the state association coming to watch anyone in my area. And what if they did? Do you think something that trivial is going to keep you from getting a state tournament assignment or something? Seems like a pretty odd reason to justify being an OOO/nit-picker, something that I absolutely refuse to become. I am going to guess that there is like a 0.00005% chance that you are going to be evaluated on any particular night, I know the vast majority of the time beforehand if I am going to be looked at (or at least what the high probability games are that someone could show up, and I have a pretty good idea of who to look for), and I guess I'm just at a pretty secure point in my career where I just don't think something extremely minor like that is going to impact any assignment that I could possibly receive, especially if I'm doing a truly outstanding job at the really important stuff, like calling balls and strikes and safes and outs, which is what should be the primary concern for every single one of us.

Agreed. Look, I get that people take pride in studying the rules, being able to show their friends in the association where to look stuff up, etc, as well as having the "cutting edge" stuff if they can get it. Stuff like this makes them feel like they're on top of the game and doing everything they can to be the best that they can be. For some of us, it's just overkill and is completely unnecessary. I happen to fall into the latter category.

Looks a lot more like a "Safe" than an "out." There is nothing at all definitive there to rule that guy out. He clearly beat the play to begin with. You're better off siding with safe in this instance.

Whatever! He's disputing that he was safe! LOL Did you just say, close enough to be out???????????? Not at that level! No way Ummmm...yeah. The guy at the end of the clip even said they had to look at the super slo mo 8 diifferent times before they could determine what the call should have been. Even the first two replays shown at half-speed are inconclusive. Definitely was "close enough to be out." I would much, MUCH rather call a runner out on this type of play than make an incorrect safe ruling. Nothing will ruin a game faster than a bad safe call. It almost never happens the other way.

A better response would have been "When you get to the pros, you can go ahead and act like that. We don't do that here."