orangebird

Guys you're interrupting the Star Wars discussion smh 😂

Yeah I enjoyed it as what felt like a free-standing Star Wars project that required basically zero knowledge of the lore and then S2 started introducing characters from cartoons and other stuff and I felt pretty checked out after that Also assuming BCG is backup car glasses?

Well everything has been largely uneventful so far...until yesterday where I took my first serious foul ball to the mask! I'm fine, seemingly not concussed...but my glasses split perfectly in two right at the bridge of the nose! Thankfully it came with two outs in the bottom of the seventh in a 5-run game where I just needed to squint my way through about five more pitches but yeah, can't say I expected that as an outcome for a foul ball to the mask.

Very much besides the main point but what is going on with the variety of fonts in this?

This is what CCA has

No idea if there's a correlation, but I've found it interesting CB has a pretty negative reputation while being seemingly the only guy still using the scissors stance

Need to know the bathroom tally too lol

I understand D3 budgets might be a little limited but I think that's the first time I've seen footage of a game filmed from seemingly a building across the street lol

Alright so yeah, my first official game went pretty smoothly, no slide rule discussions, no balks, no batting out of order/DH/courtesy runner tomfoolery. The base umpire had the two most interesting calls on a pair of drops made by the CF but both of those looked fine to me and didn't get any arguing from the fielding team coaches. My zone seemed fine, definitely a few times the catcher went "oooohhh" on a close ball call but nothing that felt like any more than a normal reaction to me. My main feedback for myself was I was definitely too focused on making sure the in-game calls went fine where I wasn't really focused on some of the game admin stuff, I wasn't tracking the lineup card too closely, didn't exactly count warmup pitches and am pretty sure I allowed two player conferences in one half-inning which I know is a new rule meant to prevent that. Fully aware of the importance of all of these for pace of play and/or keeping the game from falling into chaos, but I wanted to make sure I could walk before walking and chewing gum. There was also a bit of bench jockeying, but I had zero frame of reference for what was a normal bit of light banter vs something more serious so I just trusted the more experienced base umpire to judge when it was getting too strong.

These sound good to me?

Alright will debrief more later but first JV game is in the books and it went fine, so that's a relief!

Slide legally? Yes. Veer away? Yes. Duck? Going to say yes, but the casebook play I checked only specifies slide or veer. And for illegal slide, well, the humble 2-32 lists six examples

As in the play? It was just a guy kept running straight after a force was made at second, fielding coach came out and pretty respectfully pointed out that you need to get out of the way on that play in HS. Rule 8-4-2-f and caseplay 8-4-2, situation y!

Alright, first actual game tomorrow, so let's recap some stuff Weather was real fun. First scrimmage was meant to be a Saturday, then a Monday and then finally a Tuesday where they swapped who was hosting lol. Then another one was scheduled for that following Friday but was cancelled due to snow! So through weather and the scrimmages meant to rotate people, I have 8.5 plate innings and like 5 base innings under my belt from scrimmages. My main takeaway from the game I had a full seven innings on the plate was a toooon of low and away pitches. No idea if that's the norm for JV or if the scrimmage was just a chance to make sure the kids practice that spot but it was just pounding that area of the zone. Learnt I didn't know the force play slide rule, but now I do and that's the value of a scrimmage. Spent my energy focusing on NFHS-specific rules for DH/CR/subs where something like the slide rule just wasn't fully on my radar but now it is. Had a balk neither person called right away which didn't look great, even after some more review still don't think I feel great about calling them tbh Also had what felt like a pretty clear no-catch call where the fielding team coach seemed to argue that the rules are different with 2 outs? Seemed to be some kind of argument based on dropping on the transfer and there not needing to be a transfer if you have 2 outs? But the coach didn't yell or insult me and I felt pretty confident that was just a normal drop so the call stood. For some more positive news, did the test for the rec/travel org I'll work with on the side that I worked with last year. Felt way more confident about the material and recognized some of the questions that tripped me up last year and missed only 3 questions out of about 60. Definitely was nice to have a concrete sign of progress for my understanding of the rules that aren't some courtesy runner mumbo jumbo. Anyways, tomorrow I wanted to work the base but my partner is working the plate for another HS game later in the day so I've got the plate. Looking forward to seeing a real lineup card for the first time lol!

You can save 23 dollars by having your org use CCA at least lol

Yeah I mean I haven't worked an actual HS game yet, let alone tried to organize anything like this, but I'd assume any coach-based rating system needs some way to highlight what's honest feedback vs a sore loser coach to really be helpful

Had my first scrimmage tomorrow...until I learnt it got rained out lol

The sober part has reinforced every stereotype I've ever heard about Wisconsin lol

Doing some casebook reviewing, I see the value of this example but it also seems kinda funny to picture the scenario where this is a plausible outcome, hit-and-run where R1 and BR are the two slowest people on their roster? R2 is a pinch runner borrowed from the track team?

So I'm going through my HS training which includes more details on mechanics and they recommended the CCA manual for us. I've been browsing that and found this mechanic which makes sense, but also seems like a pretty wild-looking play for umps So, has anyone seen a clip of this scenario being correctly executed by the umps and/or personally done this? Because it seems like a hell of a situation and I'm curious how often it has come up in any level of baseball with 2-man crews.

Hmmm https://medium.com/@brentcsutoras/the-em-dash-dilemma-how-a-punctuation-mark-became-ais-stubborn-signature-684fbcc9f559

Asked about the courtesy runner questions and the org's rules chief basically said one of the questions is needlessly complicated and not to stress over it, so that was reassuring for me haha

Yeah I find the idea that my HS test was open-note, open ask your org's employees for help and untimed pretty amusing when my two rec orgs last year were closed note, turn on your camera on Zoom so we can see if you're cheating and open note but timed

Yeah my org has a rules committee that said they'll be doing a few Zooms to help with the test, no idea how close they'll come to straight up giving the answers but figure it'll be worth listening to regardless

Yeah to be clear I can't see the test now, but I can in about a month, same timing Maryland uses for every spring sport test it appears