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[carolinablue]

Hi guys, I haven't posted recently. I have been kind of taking the fall off from umpiring after working a record amount of games for me this spring and summer. I also had a job change and am now working day shift and not night shift. No more surfing the web all night at work.

 

My son is playing fall ball at our local LL. He is 10YO and playing minors. He had an interesting game today that resulted in another candidate for a bumper sticker. The league he is playing in is covered by my association and the umpire today was a guy I have seen but never worked with. It was an unscheduled game between the two teams from this league and from the first pitch it had that " seventh game of the world series atmosphere".

 

In about the third inning I saw my associate toss my son's coach for arguing balls and strikes. Then at the end of the fifth ".I heard him call the game on time. Both teams were at the line to shake when I heard a voice say " It's a tie game". This is 21/2 hours in and I'm thinking don't do it bro, don't do it, ah but he did. " One more inning " he said and back to the dugouts they went. I swear that umpire's must have a sixth sense or something, kind of like spider man because I could smell trouble in the air. I guess it comes from being in the middle of so many games, you can see the warning signs innings ahead. I told my wife that this wasn't good.

 

Anyway, that one more inning turned out to be 45 minutes and the game never ended because there was a collision at the plate, parent's on the field, curse words yelled and punches thrown. Nobody hurt but that's when my associate thought it wise to call the game, 31/2 hours after first pitch. I know this was just LL minors but it could be any game with a time limit at any level. So here's my bumper sticker: 

 

NOTHING  GOOD CAN HAPPEN AFTER A TIME LIMIT HAS EXPIRED!!!!

[mstaylor]

I worked a double today with a 1:30 drop dead. I call my game, change out and go to pay the other field. It was an 1:40 mark and they want to finish the inning. Very young PU, he says ok. I gave him his money and said," Cut and run." He said he didn't mind. I got in my truck and left wanted no part of it.<br /><br />Sent from my C771 using Tapatalk 2<br /><br />

[Texas Manny]

I would think that with a time limit game, that if you as the umpires decide to play on after that, then you are assuming a huge legal liability if someone gets hurt. I would have done what Mike did: cut and run.

[blue23ll]

Once the time limit hits, the game is over. You aren't officiating an 'official' game, and I suspect the liabilility for continuing lies with the umpires. I personally don't want to be the one to answer for something bad happening in this 'scrimmage'.

[Typhoon]

I learned my lesson the hard way. The game was over due to a mercy. They wanted to play on for practice so I said OK. Hey! I love umpiring.

Well next thing I know I am on the ground behind home plate with blood streaming down my face. It seems a foul ball just caught the buckle on top of my mask and drove it into my scalp. Well six staples and a multitude of asprin later I made a vow, when the game is over I'm outta there!!

 

Tony

[blue23ll]

When it's time to leave, leave...quickly.

[Scratch Franzeo]

1. "Time has expired, ballgame!"

2. Roll extra baseballs toward dugout(s)

3. Exit field on winning team side with partner in tow

[blue23ll]

1. "Time has expired, ballgame!"

2. Roll extra baseballs toward dugout(s)

3. Exit field on winning team side with partner in tow

3. Exit field through first available hole in the fence, with partner in tow.

[Scratch Franzeo]

1. "Time has expired, ballgame!"

2. Roll extra baseballs toward dugout(s)

3. Exit field on winning team side with partner in tow

3. Exit field through first available hole in the fence, with partner in tow.

^^^^^^even better^^^^^^

[Platejob29]

This fall I've taken up calling LL games to help train one of the local leagues new umpires and that has been quite a change to get used to. I've never called LL or any rec ball before this year so the run limit per inning has been a new experience for me. Any way because of the run limit per inning the impossibility rule comes into affect quite a lot. It seems like every time a home team is down by more than 5 when time expires they want to keep playing and then complain/argue when we call the game. Just last week I was working with a new partner who is in his first year and was only working his 4th or 5th game on the dish ever. Time expires with the home team down 11-5 and the home team had just scored 5 during that at bat. When time expires and the visiting team's coach calls his players out of their dugout and his batter that had just stepped into the box and I start to jog off from A to exit the field. As I'm jogging off I see the home team coach talking to my partner and pointing at the scoreboard. Before I can get to them my partner is starting to tell the visiting team that we are going to play another inning. I quickly tell both coaches that is not the case and that the game was over. The home coach starts arguing with me and try's to tell me that we have to play out the inning to which I responded he was welcome to do so but My partner and I would not be present because we would not assume the liability of player safety for a game that was over. He threw a big fit and started trying to pit my partner's word against mine because he had convinced my partner that they should play out the new inning and my partner had agreed to do so. Needless to say I had a very long talk with my partner about ending a game and knowing when to get out of dodge. As to your bumper sticker idea, I'll take two please.

[KLAH316]

In the LL that I am UIC for, we used to have a Drop-Dead time limit. I used to communicate with all the managers and board members that the drop-dead time would not be argued just like "Balls/Strikes, Fair/Foul, Safe/Out".

 

The home-plate umpire wold keep the time and that was that.... Eventually, our league did away with the drop-dead time and just cut the "No New Inning" time back about 10 minutes per game. Seems to work out ok.

[Pete Peterson Sr]

1. "Time has expired, ballgame!"

2. Roll extra baseballs toward dugout(s)

3. Exit field on winning team side with partner in tow

 

 I exit through the same gate I entered. I don't care what mood the team through whose dugout I am exiting is in. I call a game fair and square, and walk out with my head up. To me, to exit through the winning team's side looks as if you are trying to duck someone. After a particularly contentious game, I once suggested to Pete Jr that we exit through the first base gate. That was met with "You taught me to leave the way I came in, and we will do just that". Hard to argue with what the kid was taught....

[Scratch Franzeo]

1. "Time has expired, ballgame!"

2. Roll extra baseballs toward dugout(s)3. Exit field on winning team side with partner in tow

 

 I exit through the same gate I entered. I don't care what mood the team through whose dugout I am exiting is in. I call a game fair and square, and walk out with my head up. To me, to exit through the winning team's side looks as if you are trying to duck someone. After a particularly contentious game, I once suggested to Pete Jr that we exit through the first base gate. That was met with "You taught me to leave the way I came in, and we will do just that". Hard to argue with what the kid was taught....

Looking back, I guess It really doesn't matter if you exit the winner gate, the closest gate, or if you use the same gate you entered ... As long as you leave the field quickly. As some have said, "be the first off the field."

[Jocko]

1. "Time has expired, ballgame!"2. Roll extra baseballs toward dugout(s)3. Exit field on winning team side with partner in tow

  I exit through the same gate I entered. I don't care what mood the team through whose dugout I am exiting is in. I call a game fair and square, and walk out with my head up. To me, to exit through the winning team's side looks as if you are trying to duck someone. After a particularly contentious game, I once suggested to Pete Jr that we exit through the first base gate. That was met with "You taught me to leave the way I came in, and we will do just that". Hard to argue with what the kid was taught....I do a quick scan of the stands, and the side with the most milfs is the side I go out :

[Jocko]

@Pete Peterson Sr - Not really a fair comoarison. Pete Jr is much of a man. I'd walk the streets of North Birmingham with him at midnight. Big fkn ox.

[Pete Peterson Sr]

 

 

1. "Time has expired, ballgame!"2. Roll extra baseballs toward dugout(s)3. Exit field on winning team side with partner in tow

  I exit through the same gate I entered. I don't care what mood the team through whose dugout I am exiting is in. I call a game fair and square, and walk out with my head up. To me, to exit through the winning team's side looks as if you are trying to duck someone. After a particularly contentious game, I once suggested to Pete Jr that we exit through the first base gate. That was met with "You taught me to leave the way I came in, and we will do just that". Hard to argue with what the kid was taught.... I do a quick scan of the stands, and the side with the most milfs is the side I go out :

 

 

 Dude looks as if he's having a seizure.....