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Originally posted by chris s
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BUT it your job to make sure crap like this does not happen, come on guys!!!!!Anybody ever heard of "preventive officiating"? Skippy tells me we got a "must slide" other one sez "NO", I am gonna figure this out before game starts. Unless a league ad comes to us BEFORE the game, we be going by what is discussed at the plate meeting, trust me, I cover all the crap that COULD happen......
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I am very much aware of "Preventive Umpiring", but giving a rules clinic before the game is not it.
Obviously, we umpire in two different worlds. Around here, you know what you are umpiring when you make yourself available for an assignment. A good part of that is to protect the official. For example, if I am an ASA umpire and I am working a game which is not sanctioned by ASA involving teams which are registered ASA and assigned by a designate of ASA, my insurance isn't worth crap.
If there is ever a game between teams from different sanctioning bodies, the umpiring would be voluntary, but it is still the teams' decisions what rules to use, not mine.
Besides, I wouldn't be caught dead on a field where someone has instituted a "must slide" rule, even if it were ASA sanctioned.