Lineup cards after game

[Guest labdude]

What do I do with the lineup cards after the game is over?

[The Man in Blue]

Pitch them.

I have a bunch that I have kept because I keep telling myself I am going to create a decorative/commemorative project from them.  I have kept line up cards from teams from other states and I want to take them and make a United States map using the card for the state (cutting it into that shape).  Just a neat way of seeing where I have umpired teams from.

[JonnyCat]

50 minutes ago, Guest labdude said:

What do I do with the lineup cards after the game is over?

Sign them and give them back to the scorekeeper. Also, don't forget to sign the score-book. If you don't the game never happened. 

All kidding aside, The Man in Blue is correct. Pitch them or keep them if they have some personal significance.

Honestly, for most of the meaningless games we work especially when we do have a proper scorekeeper, I don't know why we even use lineup cards. Heck, most of the umpires in my area from LL to HS, don't keep a lineup card(or know how to use one), or ever record changes on them. If a good scorekeeper records things properly, and you use good communication with them, my lineup cards are not needed. In 21 years of umpiring, not once have I ever had to refer to them post game, and almost never during a game. Besides, after a while, especially with lots of changes, I can't decipher my chicken scratch anyway. I always make sure the scorekeeper has the proper changes. That's what the administrative bodies are going to look at anyway to see the record of a game, not my lineup card. It seems like it's just an antiquated practice. The scorekeeper has an actual book that is specifically designed to record all aspects of the game. Imagine that! My line up cards can't serve that purpose.

And please, save me the "I used them to figure out a sticky situation that would have been catastrophic in my local league championship game that would have resulted in WW3 had I not had my lineup card." You know what I'm taking about.

[The Man in Blue]

You had me going for moment there ... 🤣

[SeeingEyeDog]

They make excellent kindling to start up the Solo Stove before I pour two fingers of Knob Creek and turn on the deck TV...

~Dawg

[LMSANS]

We had been advised by an interpreter to keep them until the season ends, just in case something happens. Nothing has ever happened. Can them.

[The Man in Blue]

6 hours ago, LMSANS said:

We had been advised by an interpreter to keep them until the season ends, just in case something happens. Nothing has ever happened. Can them.

I think something was lost in the translation.

[kylehutson]

I fold them inside out and stick them back into my lineup card holder. Then I take them to the next game and that's where I track visits, make notes of any weird situations or something to review later, courtesy runners, numbers of all the jerseys leaving the dugout to fight, or whatever else I might need to write down. When THAT game is done, I pitch them and repeat.

[Thunderheads]

I keep them in a pocket of my "Finnerty Supply Bucket" 

I take them out after each game, and put them in the pocket and then will throw them out at the end of the season.  This is just something I've always done, not anything I was told to do.