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Originally Posted by MikeStrybel
FWIW, LLWS umpires have to do a bunch of things that some umpires find troublesome. A colleague worked it in the late 90s and said that he was told to dust off the pitching plate and 2B (while working second) and his partners did the same with 1B and 3B. They were told to indicate BB with the point and all were to hold up their hands on foul balls, even when they were on the other side of the field. He did what he was told and enjoyed the trip.
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Those things have all changed. If you watch a well-trained umpire (and one of them works D3 in the conferences I used to work and worked the WIAC tourney the last two years), none of them do this.
They do have to keep the teams into the dugout, though, until told to release them. LONG commercials, after all.