My Official Arbiter Game Report for Tonight’s Game

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This is my game report for today’s game. We don’t do reports unless something significant happens. Something significant did. I got to work with a retired 70-something partner who has knee issues, but who I’d honestly choose if my life were on the line over Joe West. Score was 15-5 after 6:

”Working a game with _____ is like working a game with myself as a partner. Effortless. I know exactly where he’ll be and why. I know exactly where he physically can’t be and why. And between us, we always seem to get it right, even if we have to get together to get it right. ___ might not always have distance, but he ALWAYS has the most beautiful angle geometry allows. We both got to the field an hour early. We both had intel on the teams and coaches. We discussed dbl play mechanics, because the ________ field has a high probability of a thrown ball going OB at 1st (happened 3 times in our game). After that our pregame was 100% complete, giving us time to catch up. Working a game with _____ is joy. And that’s my game report. Oh, and the (Losing) coach gave me a Covid hug in the 6th. :-)”

True story

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And our 1/2 hour post game was nothing but giggles about our game, about what I did, about what he did, about what we did, and what the players and coaches did. God, I love this game, . . . and us!!

[aaluck]

Having someone out there you enjoy being around is a great afternoon/evening.