The Smitty at my Son's 9-10 Dixie game

[T-Rav]

It's dangerous to wear a 4 stitch hat with a HSM, the bill comes through the mask and if I take a foul ball all that energy will be transferred directly to my head.

Why wear a hat at all?

It look's much more professional looking.

[BT_Blue]

I use a black beanie when working the plate with my HSM, other than that it stays in the closet.

I will never have that problem, mask man forever.

Agreed... tried a helmet for two innings once and never want to go back.

[T-Rav]

This is now one of my umpires.... just became UIC for my LL.... guess what we are going to work on? Hint: No ball bags and wearing his cell phone

[BretMan]

Guess what we are going to work on?

Not giving big loud demonstrative "FOUL!" calls on obvious fouls hit back to the screen?

[johnnyg08]

Tell him to stop chasing foul balls. He's making us look bad! :-)

[Cajuncubsfan]

He also needs to stop the one knee and work on the box stance.

[johnnyg08]

I just got a new order for our group's embroidered caps. Yep, pulled 14 beanies out of the box. Sucks for the vendor to be eating 14 perfectly good caps, but he should've asked me before making them when I told him we wanted the exact same model from last year (not the beanies).

Sigh.

[carolinablue]

You guys are going to have some lazy catchers come tournament time. LOL

[Cajuncubsfan]

I have an update about Smittys at my sons games. The Assining umpire's son plays in bossier where I umpire and he is the coach. Well I had the field for one of his sons games. On my way home after the game I get a phone call from him asking me of I would fill in on Saturday for a tournament his park was having. I thought about it and Remember one of yalls posts. I said yes, do this way I could get an in with his group and try to influence some of there umpires I posable. I was in there locker room changing cloths and one of the umpires that made an awful call in one of my somes games comes walking in. In introductions I asked him about the call and got all pissed off. After a few mins I told him I would drop it we shook hands and moved on. What I found out was that it's a family thing in the 9-10 game. You have two brothers and two sons of one of the brothers and they all call ball the same way. So I'm not even going to mess with them. They must be happy umpiring 9-10 baseball. I umpire a game and my partner is a first year umpire. Good kid, willing to learn and he has a long way to go. I game him a few pointers and tried to teach him some signs. You can't over load a green umpire. The next game, I have the plate and I umpire with another guy who could be a very good umpire. He has picked up some bad habbits from his pears. The main one that kept messing me up was that he didn't know signals, he didn't have a clue that he needed to cover the Y with runners on base. I couldn't trust him to get the calls right. Now in going to work on building a relashonship and see if I can help some of these guys.

[Mike Prince]

I have an update about Smittys at my sons games. The Assining umpire's son plays in bossier where I umpire and he is the coach. Well I had the field for one of his sons games. On my way home after the game I get a phone call from him asking me of I would fill in on Saturday for a tournament his park was having. I thought about it and Remember one of yalls posts. I said yes, do this way I could get an in with his group and try to influence some of there umpires I posable. I was in there locker room changing cloths and one of the umpires that made an awful call in one of my somes games comes walking in. In introductions I asked him about the call and got all pissed off. After a few mins I told him I would drop it we shook hands and moved on. What I found out was that it's a family thing in the 9-10 game. You have two brothers and two sons of one of the brothers and they all call ball the same way. So I'm not even going to mess with them. They must be happy umpiring 9-10 baseball. I umpire a game and my partner is a first year umpire. Good kid, willing to learn and he has a long way to go. I game him a few pointers and tried to teach him some signs. You can't over load a green umpire. The next game, I have the plate and I umpire with another guy who could be a very good umpire. He has picked up some bad habbits from his pears. The main one that kept messing me up was that he didn't know signals, he didn't have a clue that he needed to cover the Y with runners on base. I couldn't trust him to get the calls right. Now in going to work on building a relashonship and see if I can help some of these guys.

Not an advisable way to win friends and influence other umpires. To him you are now an irrational Daddy from the bleachers, time to (try to) rebuild the relationship you just shattered if you truly want to help these guys get better.

[JaxRolo]

Not a smart move to bring this up.

Please check your spelling. I had a hard time reading the post.

[Cajuncubsfan]

Not a smart move to bring this up.

Please check your spelling. I had a hard time reading the post.

I'm an aweful speller also Dyslexic, I normally would have read over that but I was on the can and someone started banging on the door needing go bad and I just sent it. My bad

I did apologize to him for coming off as an ass and told him I was just trying to understand his call and figured there in the locker room was a much better place than out side somewhere. He said its a rule you can not nock down a player at the plate if there is a play. I told him, the ball was by the fence and it was incidental contact. The pitcher was trying to block home and he didn't not have the ball. Anyway, I dropped it and just know he doesn't know the rules. This guy is the father on the two boys that umpire out there and him brother also. His some is the one i started this post about. He thinks he is King and there is no helping him. I'm not looking to help him because he must be happy working 9-10 age group. I'm looking to help the younger guys and find out if there looking to move up or if it's just a summer job.

[JaxRolo]

This is now one of my umpires.... just became UIC for my LL.... guess what we are going to work on? Hint: No ball bags and wearing his cell phone

Has he had any training??? Yikes!!!!