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    #24

    Not weird stat: Yankees pitchers have accounted for 4 of the 24 perfect games in MLB history. Weird stat: All 4 Yankees pitchers who have a perfect game have a first name starting with the letter "D"
  2. I played "Paradise by the Dashboard Light" at my wedding reception. I don't think anyone got the joke.
  3. "I don't know coach, it's my first game - let's find out together!" Ok, maybe not that - but it would be tempting :). Like beerguy55 said, just say a standard book zone. Like you mentioned, it's a dumb question. They'll figure it out soon enough.
  4. Saw it called - and fully agreed - in a game this weekend when I was BU. Like this one, the batter 'swung' after the catcher already caught the ball and was on his way up to throw. By rule, once the catcher secures the ball, the pitch is over - can't very well strike at a pitch that's already over. No prob nailing this as BI if it even remotely impacts the play.
  5. That one really isn't an NFHS thing (at least not yet, not in baseball)....but many states have made it a state adoption. From what I gather, these include MI, NC, PA, NJ, NY, NV, but I'm sure there are others.
  6. School game, yea the phone is in the car. But summer/travel ball game? The phone is ALWAYS on me....for timing and....other purposes.
  7. Now you're just backtracking, you very clearly said you would ignore thunder.
  8. I wouldn't change a thing on how you handled it
  9. Yes, someone is arguing that.....if you can hear it, it's cracking around you, even if it's still in the clouds and you can't see the strike.
  10. What exactly do you think caused the thunder? It's not God bowling.
  11. Occasionally we get teams from Canada in some of our bigger summer tournaments, they very commonly use the term "Umpy".....I actually kinda like it.
  12. Who's "everyone"? I don't think i've ever seen this in person with a partner or anyone else at the HS level or below. I don't think this is really all that common anymore, even at the higher levels.
  13. A beard or long hair are as intrinsically part of the person as their arm, it absolutely counts for tags and hit by pitches.
  14. My mistake, thank you. I do virtually no OBR games, so I confused the two provisions.
  15. Oh, gotcha...I imagine it would have to be under the same principle of an out made by a forced runner before they achieved the base to which they were forced. But there was no way abandonment was being called in this situation, trust me 😉
  16. Oh it would have been a force, bases were loaded. This is one of the rules differences in Fed vs NCAA/OBR, only the batter-runner and R3 have to touch their bases in those codes but all have to do so in Fed. If they had appealed it, U3 would have ruled an out in this case, for a missed base on a force. This would fall under 9-1-1(d). Case 9.1.1 SIT D is analogous, though not exactly the same it deals with a runner missing a base to which he was forced and negating the run.
  17. Most definitely. They did delay a bit, about 4-5 seconds, then started walking and then jogging off. It's a fine line, I think, don't want to sprint off and abdicate responsibility but don't want to delay too long or abnormally and give away that there's something there. I don't think abandonment ever entered their minds or would have been the right call, the defense has some obligation here. R2 ran the bases, just not legally. Abandonment would have been quite the firestorm :).
  18. That R2 was required to touch 3rd and that if appealed, the walk-off run would have had to be wiped out....that would have been quite the situation.
  19. He did, as did U3 (this was a 4 person crew), both of them saw it immediately and hung around for a few seconds before departing.
  20. Well, of course it's about the money, it's professional baseball. As in it's their profession, their livelihood, their business. Is any of that a surprise? And also, it isn't even anything new on umpires. Seen any logo on MLB umpire CP's or masks lately other than Wilson? No? Why is that? Could it be....Wilson's money?
  21. Everyone has their limits of what they'll tolerate, and I respect your choice, but gotta admit - not going out in A and not rotating as PU doesn't even register on my radar of things to block people over. Either way is easily handled - I know I've either got the catches or the bases, simple enough. And in 90%+ of the cases, I would anyway. Just doesn't seem like too big of a deal to me, but again, that's just me. I only have two guys on my pay no mind list, both for integrity/lying issues.
  22. Frankly, I think the FED rule here is superior to the OBR one. Makes no sense to me to punish the offense for the defense's failure to catch a pitch.
  23. They can wear it in NCAA and MLB because the players are adults, not minors who are legally incapable of waving liability and accepting that risk.
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