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Originally posted by DG
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Originally posted by JRutledge
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Originally posted by DG
Way too much bull here for me to absorb. I keep track of innings, but not score. The indicator I like to use has a thumb wheel and counter for innings but not score, so it is easy to do.
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But wait a minute, you are not suppose to use those either. Have you not learned anything from these discussions we have here. 
Peace
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I know I should bow to the all knowing, but I will keep my indicator, and it will keep track of innings with just one push of the thumbwheel, just once per inning. Don't seem like much to me.
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Have you ever used one of those +POS indicators that only has BALL/STRIKE/OUT and doesn't have Ball 4, Strike 3, or Out 3? Couldn't use anything else these days -- I'm so used to the fit in my hand.
There are reasons why we don't use indicators in the field, but I agree that it is such a tired discussion I don't have the energy for it.
The main reason we don't have enough umpires is that high schools schedule baseball games without realizing that umpires (and parents for that matter) have to work during the day. Many good umpires I know don't work much school or college ball -- they prefer to keep their day jobs and wait until the summer season when most games start at a reasonable time, like 6PM.
Now that DST is here and it doesn't get dark until 7:30PM or so, schools still start their games at 4PM. How many more qualified umpires would there be if games started at 5PM instead of 4PM or 4:15PM?
The pool of baseball umpires will always be smaller because of this. I will take varsity basketball games up to 100 miles away (actually worked one game in Illinois last season 112 miles from my house) but baseball? I hesitate taking COLLEGE BASEBALL games that far away. The games start too early and last too long for me to be traveling that far from home. I'd just as soon work a HS game close to home, which is what I usually do.
[Edited by Rich Fronheiser on Apr 19th, 2004 at 09:18 AM]