BLarson

I'm 56 and same, except mines grey. I wear a headband under my helmet, like a skull wrap headband. I could get a short hair cut, but, eh, I still have a lot of hair, might as well flaunt it

lol...we share the same color and wildness of hair. I'm growing mine out...about half way to where yours is.

I get the same kind of nonsense in youth flag football. It's supposed to be no contact, but there's times where contact happens when the flag is pulled, or there's more than one defender going for flags. Or the defender is directly in front of the ball carrier and reaches in for his flag and the momentum of the ball carrier makes contact. Overzealous offensive coaches with a tackle mentality will yell..."Next time just run him over" or "Just run through him" I throw a flag every time I hear it. I issue a warning for unsportsmanlike behavior and the next one they are ejected. These are 8-11 year old kids. Enroll them in tackle football if you want to play tackle football.

I don't know if I would like it. There are several complexes around my house. I don't want to commit to a day/time, and then be forced to drive out of town or out of state because I missed out on the games close to me.

13U USSSA baseball. Had a game the other night where a couple pitches that I called a ball on the outside, the catcher would turn his head to his dugout and tap his helmet. I didn't think much of it in real time, but between innings when I had more time, I was wondering if he was just communicating to his coach, or doing it to mimic MLB catchers who want the called ball to be reviewed. I asked our assigner and he didn't think it was a big deal and "college catchers all have a secret signal to the dugout if they disagree with an umpire call". I get that, but this seems to me he's letting everyone know he didn't like it and would have it reviewed if he could Nothing? Something? Either way is fine, however, I wouldn't want the catcher consistently doing this on every ball he didn't like.

Wow...that's crazy. @grayhawk amazing recovery...keep on, keeping on @wolfe_man I wish you nothing but the best on your healing and recovery, and chance to get back out doing what you love.

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

In Omaha...what @beerguy55 says is 100% true.

Here in Omaha...most all select/travel baseball games are regular USSSA baseball rule games starting at 9U. 7U/8U there are different rules...no IFF, no U3K, home is closed, no leading off etc... Even in fall ball it's typically that way...the worst case is when they play regular rules and don't have a max run limit per inning.

I do a lot of USSSA baseball...that's just the base ruleset we play in Omaha....weekdays, tournaments, fall ball, etc...it's what everyone is used to doing. Depending upon the age and level of kids, we explain to coaches at the plate meeting that we call "age/level" appropriate balks. If it affects play, we will obviously call it, otherwise we communicate with the pitcher/coach. Not stepping and throwing to first or 3rd we will call that...start/stop as well. Twitches, turning the shoulders slowly, switching from windup to stretch, not pausing (assuming it doesn't affect the play) etc..are all things we are very lenient on. Even if they do warnings, it's basically the same thing except we are issuing a warning versus a balk the first time per pitcher. This makes the game go much more smooth In my experience...fall baseball needs to have a run limit per inning if you're playing full baseball. 5 runs an inning is plenty. There's not trophies, medals, or whatever given out at the end of the year. I also guarantee you at 10u, every runner stealing second is going to be safe regardless what the pitcher does...and probably 99% safe at 3rd.

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