[bniu]

For those of you that do both baseball and softball, do you try to keep your signals as common as possible? Like on plate, do you stick with the hammer for strikes and if you do, do you keep it as high as you do for softball or do you point instead? For outs, do you just casually hold the hammer to your side chest high or do you bring it up high like in softball? IMO, the games are about 80% common and I think there are elements in each game that can make us better umps in the other game.

In my area, we have three kinds of umps, the softball guys who feel baseball guys are all old, fat, and lazy...the baseball guys who feel that softball guys are pansies...and then the third group consists of the peacemakers who do both games and seem to be the umps who have a much better grasp on the game/rules. I feel that doing plate in baseball makes me a better softball plate guy and doing bases in softball helps me improve my base work in baseball.