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In A Few Good Men, Tom Cruise is having a bad day. After a particularly crushing set-back he says: "And the hits just keep on coming."
For Tom, those hits were pop-ups. For Officiating.com, the hit is a home run. We have completed negotiations with Jim Evans to add him as a contributing writer for our magazine. At present, he's not going to do articles; that will come later. Beginning in January, we add a weekly feature called "Ask Jimmy." Submit your baseball questions to [email protected]. A committee will choose one or two each week. Multiple submissions are legal, and any question not chosen in one week holds over for the next. Here's what Mr. Evans wrote on 9 November: Hopefully, the questions we generate for the column will not be all rule questions. Philosophies, lifestyle, etc., will spice it up. I envision my answers as being brief, poignant, and perhaps controversial at times. They may generate interest in a specific area that deserves more attention and a possible longer article down the road. If your question is chosen, you'll receive a camp T-shirt. In September (to give the winner time to make plans), Mr. Evans will select a grandprize winner. That person will receive free tuition at either the Desert Classic or Florida Classic 5-day camp. That's a $550 value. Contributing writers may ask questions, but they may not win prizes. We all know Jim Evans was a busy man as an MLU. Here's his schedule for the next few months: I am now preparing for the Desert Classic next week in Arizona. I'll be in Japan November 30 - December 13 and off to Florida December 27. I'll be there until the middle of February and then off to Osaka and Seattle the last half of Feb. Then to Cocoa, FL, for the PBUC evaluation course the second week of March. Jim is very big in Japan, the only American ever asked to umpire the Japanese All-Star Game. His itinerary makes it clear why the column starts in January. But Jim wants the questions to start flowing now, so he can think about them, answer a few, and -- in his words -- put them in the can for those hectic days ahead. Officiating.com will acknowledge receipt of each question. Winners will be notified the day after the answers to their questions are published. Please use "Ask Jimmy" as the subject of your emails. (added since first post) Include your T-shirt size. As they used to say on radio about contests back in the 40s: The decision of the judges is final. In case of a duplicate question, the earliest postmark (email mark?) wins. Don't wait. The hopper is open - and empty right now. [Edited by Carl Childress on Nov 10th, 2004 at 09:44 AM] 
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