Umpire in Chief

I do not miss taking that test... Not the best written, but overall if you paid attention in one of the regional meetings you should come out okay on the new rules questions.

I've finally completed a laundry list of software updates some of which were very over due. For the geeks, this upgrade included: Newer version of PHP Conversion of the databases from MyISAM to InnoDB Multiple security updates So I am again allowing new registrations to the site. Please note. This upgrade is in preparation for a new full version of the software in February. Going from 4.7.X to 5.0 in February. I've skimmed through the change logs and the only thing which will directly impact users seems to be that members will no longer be able to log in with their username they must use their email. I will send a couple of email reminders out to all members before I launch this upgrade.

The first thing today on my YouTube feed was @Lindsay appearance on NBC Sports. She gave a great and honest breakdown of the "Robo Ump" situation. Great job and Congrats!

I'm still looking into the options. The other site I got the idea from uses the authenticator app. The problem with the email is that all 96 of these spammers did verify their email addresses.

I've been following the CWS this year and particularly the Chants since eliminating ECU, but was away for these 2 games. First, I really respect Coach Schnall and Coastal Carolina, they really stand out as a class act, the coaches, players and fans every time they come to East Carolina win or lose. In 2022 ECU was the host of the Regionals, and beat them, everyone concerned were amazing, humble and very professional. So much so that it stood out. This year we hosted them for a series and lost 2 of the 3 and the same thing, very classy - I was at the Saturday game only. And look at the stance he took against Florida's coach and team at the Regionals this year in Conway when they were acting like complete D-bags. That said the coach ultimately should have absolutely ejected for arguing balls and strikes. But I also think the warning and EJ came really quick. Initially it was reported that the suspension was for the "bump" and when the "bumped" official got up he signals 2. There was no bump. Plain and simple. Now the narrative is the suspension is for prolonged arguing. Towards the end of the video you see him raising the 2 fingers, and I'll take that as prolonged arguing. Now people on SM are saying the prolonged was about the bump suspension. And since there was no bump that he shouldn't have been suspended for prolonged arguing something that didn't happen. In spirit I agree, but at some point you need to give up and let your AD and the NCAA hash it out. Class act or not, he deserved the ej and suspension, but the optics of the whole situation for the umpires looked really bad IMO. And we all know assistant coaches are like children - meant to be seen and not heard. So he was an easy one.

Earlier this month U-E got slammed with 96 spammer accounts, and over 1000 spam messages. This was a coordinated attack by real humans, they beat the Captcha and the little quiz I had to try and limit spammers like what color are the threads on an MLB baseball, how many sides does home plate have, and such. I do have multiple upgrades to do for the site. One is a major upgrade that will require me bringing the site down but I'll find the time to do that in the weee hours of the morning one day. But my question is.. I belong to another forum that requires two factor authentication at registration, every 45 days or if you log in from a different IP than your last log in. I am considering implementing something like that. Would using two factor authentication like Duo, Google Authenticator, Microsoft Authenticator or something similar for registration, new IP logins or every X many days (30+) deter you from using the site?

Are you still seeing those posts.. I thought I got them all

LOL...🤣

I've been waiting for Lindsay's analysis of this and got exactly what I was hoping for. This has blown up my social media and I've been asked a few times about it too. Not a great situation on either side.

Sorry for the slow reply... A few people have contacted me directly with this. I've been looking into it. There is a major update about to come out I'm going to wait until that drops get it installed and see if that fixes it, otherwise I'll get some paid support in. I've just about exhausted everything I can think of to do. It seems to be intermittent. comes and goes. I lease this server directly and have access to the stats and there doesn't seem to be on that end.

Wow memories. Being its been about 6 years since I called a game I can't remember my finger combinations well. But I will say I did this as a back up to having an indicator. A few times in my career I either lost or broke an indicator during the game and had to come up with something.

Been there just under different circumstances. My new job in 2018 wasn't flexible with my umpiring schedule and I stepped away, but it really wasn't planned and not truly my decision. At first I think it will be hard, but then you'll get to the point where you really appreciate the open time you have because you're not umpiring. But congrats to you and your umpiring career.