Mon Mar 21, 2005, 08:51am
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Re: Not so fast.
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Originally posted by JRutledge
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Originally posted by Chess Ref
I just started softball after ending basketball this month. I am astonished and amazed at the difference in the fans, player, and coaches. Basketball people are neanderthals. When coaches in SB have a question, they politely ask you for a ruling or ask you to ask for help-rather than questioning me and my sexual orientation, my family tree, etc. . I will do basketball again but softball is so much more pleasant and enjoyable. And yes I have worked a game with the village idiot and all he did was ask for my INTERP on a call I made against his team. In comparsion in basketball I have been locked out of locker room so all the parents could come by and take a shot a verbal shot at us while we waited for the losing coach to let us back in.
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I was working a Men's Fast Pitch Softball tournament several years ago. I believe the bases were empty. I was the BU and there was fly ball hit to RF. As the ball approached the fielder, the fielder had the ball first hit is glove, bounce off the glove, hit is other hand, then his chest, then the ground. He fell to the ground and it was hard to tell at first if he caught the ball. When he reached for the ball on the ground and held up the ball after he was lying on his back, I ruled a no catch. By the time all that happened, the batter had pretty much reached home on an in the park home run. The team in the field argued emphatically that he caught the ball. They even told me "the ground cannot cause a fumble." Being a football official as well, I was in shock. This was just not a simple argument, you would have thought they were very knowledable of the rules by the way they were trying to tell me how much I missed this call.
That was the last time I worked Men's slow pitch softball.
Peace
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Did you say it was fast pitch, slow pitch or both? LOL
Last summer I worked slow pitch 1-2 night per week and decided that it would not be worth it this year.
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