First game

[kylehutson]

Does anybody else just love scraping the snow off their car before heading out for their first game of the season?

[GPblue]

Still on schedule?

[kylehutson]

Yep. It's about 75 miles away and on the other side of the snow line. Supposed to be 41 and sunny at game time

[Thunderheads]

WHOA!!!!!  75 miles each way?  Better pay me FORTUNE to do that crap in 41 degrees!

[kylehutson]

That's actually the closest JuCo to my house. I go to the same town for high school games

[Thunderheads]

1 minute ago, kylehutson said:

That's actually the closest JuCo to my house. I go to the same town for high school games

[The Man in Blue]

@kylehutson knows this ... but welcome to the Midwest!  Driving is a part of the game.  We don't get to live our lives in a 20-minute/mile radius.

Up to this year, I traveled regionally quite a bit for work.  I would pick up games as much as two hours away from home, but only because I was there for work.  This year I won't be travelling for work, but my radius will still be about an hour (unless I want to see the same few teams all the time).

We have about a month to go before HS starts here, but speculation is we will be seeing the same weather.  We're supposed to get up to 4 inches of snow today.

[Thunderheads]

22 minutes ago, The Man in Blue said:

@kylehutson knows this ... but welcome to the Midwest!  Driving is a part of the game.  We don't get to live our lives in a 20-minute/mile radius.

Up to this year, I traveled regionally quite a bit for work.  I would pick up games as much as two hours away from home, but only because I was there for work.  This year I won't be travelling for work, but my radius will still be about an hour (unless I want to see the same few teams all the time).

We have about a month to go before HS starts here, but speculation is we will be seeing the same weather.  We're supposed to get up to 4 inches of snow today.

I utilize my Arbiter account to place travel limits ....and starting last year I limited my travel to 50 miles from work which dramatically helped my commute stress

[kylehutson]

If I set my limit at 50 miles, that would limit me to 10 high schools and 0 colleges (except the D1 university I work at for my day job)

[ArchAngel72]

MY GOD,,,   And I worry if my game is 35 min from my work which is actually 8 minutes from my house LOL

Damn.. 

[The Man in Blue]

I am fortunate that I am in a "larger" city centrally seated, so that opens up a little bit.  However, a 50 mile radius for many of my counterparts would be similar to Kyle's situation.  We have entire counties that only have one high school in them.

[umpstu]

4 hours ago, kylehutson said:

Does anybody else just love scraping the snow off their car before heading out for their first game of the season?

I hate it, but then I realize it will be in the 70's with nothing but sunshine and I'm ok.

[kylehutson]

I've driven over 150 miles to go to my kids' Friday night football game - not a playoff, just "a game".

[kylehutson]

BTW... Forecast was wrong. It was 35, breezy, and occasional snow pellets. :-(

[Aging_Arbiter]

Puck That

(Ice Hockey pun intended)

[The Man in Blue]

7 hours ago, kylehutson said:

BTW... Forecast was wrong. It was 35, breezy, and occasional snow pellets. :-(

So ... short sleeves or light jacket?

[kylehutson]

6 hours ago, The Man in Blue said:

So ... short sleeves or light jacket?

You misunderstood. I'm from Kansas, not Canada

[yawetag]

6 hours ago, kylehutson said:

You misunderstood. I'm from Kansas, not Canada

So ... black or camo?

[Aging_Arbiter]

blaze orange even

[kylehutson]

 

15 hours ago, The Man in Blue said:

So ... short sleeves or light jacket?

I appreciate your misplaced confidence in my heartiness.

[The Man in Blue]

No, no, no ... Canadian is either flannel or denim ...

 

[wvumpire1984]

my farthest drive this spring is 200miles one way.  

[kylehutson]

I drove 262 miles one-way last week.

[umpstu]

On 2/12/2020 at 2:54 PM, kylehutson said:

I've driven over 150 miles to go to my kids' Friday night football game - not a playoff, just "a game".

I've driven from SoCal to  Cape Cod to umpire, but it was great ball.   I've also driven 300 miles to umpire crappy ball.  A roll of the dice.

[Replacematt]

My longest drive on the schedule as of now is 226 miles for a D2 weekend. The distance between the two most-distant schools is 700 miles and I'm located close to the middle on the shortest route between the two, so I fully anticipate that could change.