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For friendly non-tournament games, we can end in ties. For tournaments, typically all POOL games can end in a tie. For tournament BRACKET games, we typically have one of these (since there must be a winner)...up to each individual tournament. Runners on 2nd/3rd with 1 out Runners on 2nd with 1 out

Mine are Wranglers...I have a 2007 JK Sahara, a 2011 JK Sport, and a 2020 JL Sahara. My son drives the 2011 and my daughter has the 2007. I've had my top off my JL since April. Jeep life.

Play with my Jeeps...good enough reason for me. I have 3 of them.✌️

I do a lot of tournament games 9-12 in USSSA. It's typically mid to lower talent teams. Local tournament rules don't mention anything about balks, so you assume straight up. You're basically forced to talk about balks at the plate meeting, because most coaches want warnings, 1 per pitcher. If I warn for one thing, the youngster will most likely keep doing it because they don't know any better or haven't been coached enough of what to do or not to do. We just tell coaches we call balks age/level appropriate, if it affects play we'll call it. We remind players to not to turn their shoulders, come pause during set better, etc... Lots of umpires give warnings in tournaments, so when we show up, the coaches were: "The umpires gave us warnings last night." Me: I wasn't here last night.

I do NFL Flag Football games in the fall. Every Sunday for 2 months...4-5 each Sunday.

Dang...I'm going to have to look at mine before heading out tonight.

I would say 99% of the time in select (travel) baseball, teams bat their entire lineup. On non-tournament games, when coaches ask we do with that spot, I explain that it's an automatic out, but since it's a friendly game both coaches can agree to skip that batter. In tournaments, we obviously just take an out in that spot. Again...very rarely do teams have subs.

If it's on youtube, kids will try it.

@beerguy55 Is spot on. The HOF changed it's rules that players must be on the eligibility list. Once MLB put Rose in the ineligibility list, he was never going to get in. The HOF is a museum. Let him, Bonds, and the others blackballed in, put them in their own wing, and put asterisks around their admission.

I also have been using the Oakley Flak for a long time as well.

For USSSA games, I would say the majority wear either black or powder (carolina) blue. I do most of my games with my buddy so obviously we match. But on the games I have to do with a partner I've never met, I give them the choice of color of shirt it's one of those 2. I have a navy shirt. I wear that when I do solo games to break up the black/powder routine.

We do basically all USSSA games here in Omaha and I've never seen an umpire in a red shirt.

USSSA rules are based on OBR. USSSA rules: https://www.usssa.com/docs/baseball/usssa_bb_rules.pdf This will list any rules USSSA supersedes OBR. This site shows a good list of NFHS to OBR differences. https://www.stevetheump.com/nfhs_pro_rules_dif.htm

Sorry to hear you have to hang it up.

Depends...did you only work 10 games...maybe. If you worked 100 games...probably not