HokieUmp

Honestly? I swear more or less like a pirate, so I kinda wish the 4Ps were actually the 3Ps, and leave Profane out of it. I'd be okay with it, since I would easily/happily provide an equivalent-level rejoinder. To use the original scenario - although I'd never brush a damn base off..... Player: "You gotta be f---ing kidding!" Me: "No, I'm not f---ing kidding, and you need to get outta here before you get run." And ........ scene. He get his f-bomb out the way, and blow a little steam off, I get mine, and hopefully he goes away, and doesn't get tossed. If he decides to keep going, well, he's had his chance.

I'm late to this, since I've been WAY behind on here, but I'll vouch for them. I used to live in San Antonio, and they weren't that far from my place. Best years of my umpire career - actually have a place IN THE TOWN I LIVED IN. You can trust them.

That's probably the best strategy, and one employed by hockey linesmen world-wide - wait until they stop swinging from being tired, or hit the ground.

Holy crap! This is out my way .... ish. I'd seen this video on FB reels more than once today. (Yes, I *know* I watch too many videos on there. Shut up.) I didn't realize until I followed the link from your post where it occurred. I live on the coast of NC, and Wilson is about two hours in-land from here. With the mask, the umpire had a decent right hand. (And I believe my own mask would be defined as "boat anchor Wilson," @JonnyCat, thank you very much!)

Dare to dream, baby. Dare to dream.

Welcome from the eastern side of the state! Unless one of us road-trips in a big way, we're not likely to cross paths at a tourney, etc, any time soon, but welcome to the group! This is a good site, and you should learn a lot along the way.

Man, the money I've spent on Follage Lamps, I tells ya .....

I'm kinda thinking you made those names up.

In the "Dogpile of Hot Garbage" category, I'd like to nominate the official software of Satan: DragonFly. Everything about that software is painful and dumb - and I was an IT person in the US Government for 3.5 decades. (And I just found out yesterday their payment system is hackable, and was for at least one person I've worked with.)

You're not wrong, and it's thankfully true.

I have lived in the middle of Outback Australia, and recently spent four years in San Antonio. It is NEVER too hot to wear black.

I feel you - I do - but I've done it before when I was in Texas. My philosophy is "any league that wants to pay me folding US currency for working machine pitch, can do so, and I *refuse* to be offended by that."

North Carolina: $82 varsity; $71 JV. Zero mileage. It makes me miss San Antonio for reasons *other* than Tex-Mex and brisket.

<Raises glass in toast from the other ocean>

I just did my first season of Legion in a good while. We were not dictated anything as far as the shirt. Most of the games I did were the MLB black/gray. The ONLY thing our Legion overlords were very insistent on was making sure we had that blessed (2-syllable version) patch on.