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Old Mon Jun 18, 2007, 07:49am
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Originally Posted by Dakota
With such a tight schedule (assuming they are finishing all innings), I can understand the desire to cheat on the clock to keep fields and umpires on schedule.

However, why does it fall to the umpire to keep things on schedule with a secret "actual" time limit?
Its not a secret, I use one of the countdown kitchen timers that the coaches can look at when they want to, announce when I start the clock, and usually announce when there is around 10 mins left. Most coaches around here are pretty familiar with how these exposure tournies go.
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