Leaving for TUS

[Thunderheads]

Warren, @Umpire in Chief

 

Can we nominate a member of the year!  This blog, and posts have been the best!

 

Thanks @JonnyCat, and congratulations!  

[GreyhoundAggie]

Awesome blog JonnyCat. Awesome to get a first hand perspective of TUS and see what it is really like. At the end of the day, was it worth the time and money?

[JonnyCat]

Awesome blog JonnyCat. Awesome to get a first hand perspective of TUS and see what it is really like. At the end of the day, was it worth the time and money?

I'll answer that question in my final blog post this weekend. It will be some thoughts about the whole experience and I will touch upon that and other observations.

Thanks to everyone for all the support. Now I'm off to work and back to reality!

[Thunderheads]

 

Awesome blog JonnyCat. Awesome to get a first hand perspective of TUS and see what it is really like. At the end of the day, was it worth the time and money?

I'll answer that question in my final blog post this weekend. It will be some thoughts about the whole experience and I will touch upon that and other observations.

Thanks to everyone for all the support. Now I'm off to work and back to reality!

 

YEAH, get your butt back to work!! LOL!

 

If you have pics from your adventure, post those too! :

[UmpJeff]

This was a great read.  I enjoyed every minute of it!  Thanks, @JonnyCat! 

 

You know, this is making me want to go to school more than ever before!!!

[JonnyCat]

 

 

Awesome blog JonnyCat. Awesome to get a first hand perspective of TUS and see what it is really like. At the end of the day, was it worth the time and money?

I'll answer that question in my final blog post this weekend. It will be some thoughts about the whole experience and I will touch upon that and other observations.

Thanks to everyone for all the support. Now I'm off to work and back to reality!

 

YEAH, get your butt back to work!! LOL!

 

If you have pics from your adventure, post those too! :

 

I do have some pictures. As soon as I can download them onto my desktop, I'll post some. Unless I can figure out how to post from my phone, that might be easier. Either way, I'll figue it out and get some on this weekend.

[JonnyCat]

After a few days, it’s back to work and reality. I did not look for any games this weekend, but one of my associations has a tournament next weekend, so hopefully I can pick up a few games. I just wanted to wrap up a few thoughts about pro school, as this will be the […]

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[JonnyCat]

I just posted my last blog entry, but it has not yet come up on the RSS feed yet. In the meantime, I'm going to try and post some pictures. Hopefully it will work out. If anyone has some questions, feel free to ask, or send me a PM. I'll be more than happy to answer any questions.

 

Here is a look at the entrance to the classroom and dining hall.

 

[JonnyCat]

Here is a picture of the classroom. Very nice and comfortable.

 

[JonnyCat]

Picture of the field work. We are getting into formation. We did the basic 4 and go/stop/call it everyday. Occasionally they threw in some other stuff.

 

 

 

 

[johnnyg08]

Did you have the option to change your seats?   

[JonnyCat]

Field drills. We did this everyday as well. I don't have any pictures of the cage work, but it was pretty standard.

 

 

[JonnyCat]

Me with my award. To the left is Mike Felt, and on the right is Jeff Nelson.

 

 

[JonnyCat]

@Johhnyg08   We did not, unless you had some issue with hearing or seeing. The moved us periodically so we sat in 3 different seat locations while we were there.

[Matthew Turner]

Umpires with trouble seeing? There's a joke there somewhere.

[johnnyg08]

Oh okay, so they moved you around.

 

There probably weren't too many umpires admitting that they had poor eyesight at umpire school huh? :-) 

[JonnyCat]

Picture of my crew at the banquet. Spent most of my time with them. Great group of guys.

 

 

[johnnyg08]

Were they all trying for a job in professional baseball?

[JonnyCat]

Yes. If you click on the photo, you can see all of them. 3 of them made it to the eval course and one on the reserve list.

[JonnyCat]

I have lots more pictures. I'll try and do a gallery of most of them later.

[Rulekeep]

Those baseball lights in the first picture are hilarious and appalingly tacky at the same time. The fields look nice.

[JonnyCat]

I can't seem to use the quote feature. Anyone have any ideas on how I can change the setting?

[th3]

Picture of my crew at the banquet. Spent most of my time with them. Great group of guys.

i only see one old guy

[Tksjewelry]

Very cool @JonnyCat I shared your blog on our local association board and had several comments at our meeting today about what a great blog it was and how much they enjoyed reading it.

[JonnyCat]

Those baseball lights in the first picture are hilarious and appalingly tacky at the same time. The fields look nice.

Those lights are all over the complex. There must be over a hundred of them.

 

Picture of my crew at the banquet. Spent most of my time with them. Great group of guys.

i only see one old guy

 

That's me! LOL!