[Simply The Best]

Originally Posted by TussAgee11

I actually got in trouble for not getting the score straight in the 7th. I had the score right, visiting book had it right, home book was short 1. It was a 9 run game at the time. Home team comes back to lose by 1 (they think tie) and now we got a s###show. The discrepancy was in the top of the 7th, so it would not have mattered had I compared books to start the inning.

Which is why I teach the top of the last possible inning or last playable inning before time would expire.

I found exactly where the mistake was in the home book. They insisted that even though it was wrong (I practically got them to admit it was wrong), it was official since it was the home book. I told them to take out their purple crayon and start coloring, they would never lose a game.Tournament director agreed with the "home team is official" nonsense on the phone, despite me telling him that I was 100% the game was over. He insisted to play extras.

Well, you were screwed to begin with. Doing a proper accounting on the scorebook guarantees it accuracy. If the TD wants to be Arthur Anderson of Accounting Ethics, all you are ever going to have is a fiasco you can do nothing about.

Thank god the visitors refused to play because I would have had a hard time walking back onto that field.

Good for them. I would have refused to officiate.

It was the last game I did for that league after I got my *** chewed for not verifying the score. What a bunch of nonsense.

The number of umpires that can lock or proof a scorebook is infintessimally small to the number of umpires overall. It is rarely taught. Kudos to you.