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MarsOmega

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  1. I have only been working for 4 years. According to the OBR definition of terms, The STRIKE ZONE is that area over home plate, the upper limit of which is a horizontal line at the midpoint between the top of the shoulders and the top of the uniform pants and the lower level is a line at the hollow beneath the kneecap. The Strike Zone shall be determined from the batter's stance as the batter is prepared to swing at a pitched ball. Depending on the age level I will add balls to the top of that zone.
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    Game Fees

    In NY, we get 103.25 each if there are two umpires and 154.88 if there is only one umpire for varsity games.
  3. I tell them in between batters and very quietly. I will also say that "he's very close to balking" It just depends on whats going on.
  4. Hello, I am personally on a no-stop balk, for the first time I won't call it unless everyone in the park knew it. Instead, I will say to the catcher, hey catch, he's not coming set. Try to slow him down a bit. Then if we have another issue I will call it. I do this even if we have clarified at the plate meeting that we are calling balks straight up. Of course, this is my first year as a adult umpire so please correct me if I'm doing something wrong.
  5. Hello All, Last night I worked a 15u game on the plate. I had a first-year umpire on the bases but he did very well. In the first inning with the home team batting, I have a pitch that I was 80% sure was a foul ball. I asked my partner if he had a foul and he said yes. I singled and yelled that the pitch was a foul ball. The Head coach of the home team was upset saying that there was no way that that could have been foul and that that sound was the bat hitting the glove. I didn't engage until the VT catcher started yelling back at him. I told the catcher to knock it off and the game continued. Same inning. The VT pitcher just keeps hitting the batters. not intentionally but hard enough to cause the HT pitcher issues from being hit in the shoulder. He hits 1 batter and I don't think anything of it. He hits another. Again I don't think much of it. After the third, I start looking into the VT dugout to see if their manager wants time. spoiler alert: He doesn't. the pitcher hits a fourth batter. We are hearing loud grumbling from the HT dugout at this point. Then the pitcher hits a fifth batter, this time it was their pitcher and the ball hit him up in his shoulder. I call time and tell him to take a second and then go to first. The HTC comes up to me from the 3rd base box, rightfully upset in my opinion, yells that he's hit 5 of his guys in one inning, and asks me why I haven't warned the pitcher yet. I explain that understand where he is coming from but that I can't warn the pitcher if he isn't hitting the batters on purpose. He yells that someone is going to get seriously hurt. Then he turns away from me and starts walking towards the VT dugout yelling at the VTC about why he hasn't taken the pitcher out yet. I say "Coach you need to go back to your coaching box". Thankfully the VTC didn't say anything back or come out of his dugout. The HTC starts walking back to his box. We didn't have any other issues for the rest of the game and the HTC apologized to both me and the VTC. I understand that a lot of guys may have tried to get in between the HTC and the dugout, but I'm 5'5, a young woman, and don't necessarily like the idea of jumping between two coaches who are arguing with one another. All things considered I think it went really well. '
  6. Update: After talking with the league president, the solution is that in the event this fan shows up again, I am to notify a coach who will call the president. The president will then call the police. One of the coaches will be required to walk me to my car to ensure my safety. Thanks for the recommendations and ideas to present to the league.
  7. The issue I have is that this man has already demonstrated that he won't act correctly after being asked to leave. He chased me down to my car after the game and threatened me. My problem is that if the coach "deals" with the fan, I have no assurance that he won't be waiting for me in the parking lot or even assult me after he was asked to leave. IDK maybe I'm just super paranoid. I do have anxiety after all.
  8. Hello all, I have a question that I need answered from more experienced umpires on how to proceed. For refrence, I am a 18 year old umpire with 2 years of youth umpire experience and this is my first year working with an association on higher level ball. About two weeks ago, I ejected a parent in a 10u game for using extremely innapropriate language directed at myself. He ended up waiting for me in the parking lot and aggressively approcached me as well as threatened me. You can read the full story in the ejection forum. I ended up making a police report. The league has banned the fan from all of their leagues property. My question is what the proper response would be if this fan shows up to another of these games. I have no idea how to respond. Any ideas would be helpful.
  9. We don't have a TD or site admin. LL has no tolorance for profanity or innapropriate language. Also, these were walk up songs. the ball was live and the music was in the dugout.
  10. I worked a 12u travel game with little league rules last night. Teams were playing music inbetween innings and playing walk up songs. Everything was fine until VT 4th batter had a walk up song that included a four letter word that starts with P and refrences S** work and a six letter word that starts with H and again refrences s** work. At the half inning I go over to VTC and explain that that players walk up song was innapropriate and needed to be changed or shut off. He tried to argue that those words wern't innapropriate. The kids are 11 and 12. Seriously? they switched the song. Any thoughts on profanity or innapropriate language in music for youth baseball, travel or otherwise?
  11. Yeah, I get that, but I think my issue was that they were attempting to get me to draw lines on their batters. In the past, clarifying my strike zone with landmarks has only resulted in confrontations. If I go with the "chins to shins" approach, and I call a strike just above the chin, the coach may decide to come out and argue given that I had told them at the plate meeting that anything below the chin was a strike and anything above was a ball.
  12. Hey all, This has come up a couple of times this season and I honsetly have no idea how to reply to this question. Any ideas are welcome My 15u game last night was cancelled due to air quality up here in the northeast. So my assignor asked if I could help out a youth umpire with a 10u game. I had just gotten my F3 shinguards and had not gotten a chance to try them out so I agreed. At the plate meeting, both coaches asked me to clarify the strike zone. I replied that my strike zone would be a 10u little league strike zone. They kept pressuring me to give them landmarks on the players. I said that it was going to be a 10u strike zone. Eventually we shut it down and the game was played without issue. I had no idea how to reply. I was pretty sure that I shouldn't give them any landmarks as it might lead to a argument about the strike zone later in the game. Any ideas on a scripted response to this question?
  13. Hello all, I belive I am right here but need to make sure. This game was played with standard Little League Majors rules. In my game last night, fielders were constantly asking for time when they had the ball with runners on base. I wasn't calling time because I know in little league, runners can advance until the ball is with the pitcher and he/she is on the mound. A coach asked why I was not calling time, and I told him that the ball was still live. Was I correct here?
  14. I reported the incident immediatly to the president of the league who also happens to be the assignor. I know him well. They are in the process of banning him from all games in our three league orginization. As for the coaches, they were lovely during the game. They understood that their fan could not say such things at a little league game and needed to leave. They told me that he has caused trouble at other games and I was right to chuck him. I leaft the game immediatly after it ended as I usually do. The way this field is, there is a large dirt berm that obscures the parking lot. There was nothing they could do about the incident after the game.
  15. Wow... Ok.... I worked a Little League Minors game tonight in Rochester. It was 85 degrees at the time of the game which I know is not that hot for you southern folks but for us, thats hot. Inbetween the top of the 1st and the bottom of the 1st I asked a catcher to wear a mask with a throat guard. While I was waiting for the coach to find one, A fan who was situated behind the plate fence started making comments. The ones I completely ignored were: "Where are your parents" (I'm 18 thanks) "You need to calm down" and "You're horrible". After the comment: "You probably have never kissed a girl" I gave him a look and then continued waiting. Then this happened: He says "You've probably have a very small (insert inaproppriate male appendage)" At that point I went over to the coach and said that we wern't going to play until the fan left. After some complaining the man went to the parking lot. In the 2nd inning he comes back just like a boomerang. I make the coach make him leave again. The rest of the game goes on without a hitch.... or so I thought haha. After the game, I grab my water bottles and make a break for my car. My dad was picking me up since he had a game as well. As I am taking off my gear and putting it in the back of the car, the guy storms up to me cursing, calling me very interesting names and threating me. Now I'm 5'6" and weigh 120lbs. So I was a wuss and yelled for my dad to get out of the car. After I got the rest of my stuff I went and sat in the passenger seat. This guy continues cursing, calling my father names and threating him. He snaps a picture of the guy and he runs off. We leave. So I guess my worst fear in umpiring came true. A disgruntled fan waited for me in the parking lot.
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