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Originally posted by jicecone
Actually Warre,n I was paying you a compliment. Despite any disagreement we may have, you are a good writer.
I too agree with Garth, but probably like most of the guys on this Forum, I deal with the day in and day out baseball from American Legion and below. Working full time as an Engineer limits my College games in the Spring and Fall. A majority of the games are NOT D1v 1 games. Bottom line, most of the ball is not that good. They play in respectable Leagues, however the talent is just not there, compared to the Leagues you work.
Therefore the approach I suggested (which works for me), was tempered to the type of ball I mostly officiate.
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Thank you for the compliment.
I'm starting to sound like Peter Osborne with all the plugs, but I've just submitted a 3-part series to Officiating.com on
Baseball in Australia, which should help a lot of you guys to understand the game in my country. I don't really know what American Legion standard roughly equates with down here, but I have called for a couple of touring college teams from Denver Colorado and as I remember the best standard I saw was at or above Div 1 of our District League. I don't really know whether they were good or ordinary D1 or Dx College teams that toured. I remember one team was thumped by a hot Under 18's Regional squad, but the other absolutely ploughed through a below average District League All-Star outfit.
Just remember, Jim, I didn't really say your approach was necessarily WRONG - only that there were several identifiable problems with following it. If it works for you and your league, and doesn't result in inconsistency from official to official, that's probably all that matters.
Cheers
[Edited by Warren Willson on Jul 1st, 2003 at 09:42 AM]