cyclonehokiece

The more I hear Big Frank speak on these topics the more I respect him. He says it as it is, each situation is different and needs to be treated as such. And parents need to let their kids play, coaches coach, and officials officiate.

Exactly, that's not a concealed weapon. The only time I should see it is if you intend on using it for a legal purpose. I don't think other leagues have been forced to address this because it hasn't been an issue. However, in current society, this may change.

Good. Now let's get rid of the dead ball balk.

I think that it’s also that HS games tend to start so early that many can’t get from day job to field in time. If you can only work Saturday I can see why you wouldn’t pay your fee.

In my line of work (engineer) this can be a perfectly valid way to make comments, because like umpiring there is a lot of judgment calls in engineering.

I couldn’t say it any better. I had a UIC and TD call this “addition by subtraction.” If it gets out you put on good events and don’t take crap, good teams will keep coming. You do the opposite the good ones won’t. Same with umpires. Same goes for me when I take assignments. I have a few organizations I will no longer work for because they run their games poorly, have bad game/tournament management, and/or don’t respect the umpire (this includes paying in a timely fashion). More than enough ball to fill my schedule.

I am having a hard time finding a way that having a double base or not necessarily prevents this collision. It’s a footrace to the base and neither one is necessarily trying to stop on a dime on their bag. Could the second baseman do more to peel off after touching, would have to see actual play. I think as I am reading this it’s a train wreck.

Lesson for everyone here. If you eject, you report. Assigner at the minimum, might include a UIC, commissioner, sanctioning body, and/or HS state association as appropriate. I have worked high school in 4 states, 2 of them assigners isn’t enough, you file with the sanctioning body, 2 of them you had to go through assigner who sent it to state association.

Wisconsin- officially you need 2 umpires for any high school baseball. Period. So you will never work an official game solo. If it’s a scrimmage the officials requirement goes away. This has been done for subvarsity during the current shortage (Wisconsin is down 39% in number of officials registering in all sports from 2019). So you can do one of these solo. Fee goes from 1.5 normal fee to you get both fees they would of paid if they could of gotten two.

I never send a minor to the parking lot. Once coach has gotten his explanation and the offender is in the dugout, we continue. What happens to him after that is out of my control. Coach is in charge of supervision, not me, so if he sends kid away, I will be fighting that I never made him do it. If a coach asks me, I will tell him the is allowed to stay on the bench if he behaves, if he can’t, find someone responsible to take him away (never had it happen, and I would never say it, but if a HC won’t or can’t figure it out, I might make the decision he can go to the parking lot and he might as well take the kid with him).

I try to verbalize if I get the chance. However if runner breaks right away or catcher goes for an immediate tag not much time to say anything. Also if to the backstop I tend not to vocalize, why do it when it’s obvious to everyone F2 didn’t catch that. If the runner doesn’t run on that one, that’s on him.

Had one at one of my first league games. Although they knew protocol so no one complained, and since the spectators were literally next to neighbor’s backyards the volume was kept at a reasonable level.

I had one last year working solo with a steal of home on a passed ball, I break to home with pitcher to get a better angle of , he stops earlier than I thought he would, boom, pitcher goes down. Not once did it enter my mind to eject the kid. I apologized to the coach, and he just said “kid’s fine, I’m just glad you are out there hustling on that play”. You have to have a feel for the game. You will know when someone is going after you to contact you. The situation in the OP does not sound like it.

Another one of those plays you will nail rulewise but will probably end up issuing written warnings/restriction and/or ejection.

As long as you only click them three times before use, use whatever size and style works for you.