Official Tony
 

In my game last week the visiting team had only 11 players.

Since you "demand" a protection for the people in the bullpen how do you handle it when there are no players available.

Let's see . . . I guess you could send the head coach down there . . . in fact you would HAVE to since he had no assistants.

I think we should change the term OOO to an "OfficialTony".

Lah Me.

I certainly am amazed. Instead of moving on to other posts you guys want to beat a dead horse with your garbage about chewing gum being dangerous, spikes in a gymnasium ( yeah that's relevant ), a bullpen in a parking lot ( yeah that's a good retort ), refuge of scoundrels ( what ? ), and an array of equally inane comments. I once apologized on this forum for not giving most of you the respect I felt you had earned. Most of you have now proven that you do not deserve that respect from me. You rebuke the inexperienced and those who have questions that are legitimate to beginners. You ridicule others for explaining their " rationale " after you have replied with your cute little comments. When I ask for NFHS references I get smart a** comments - and I am not the only one who receives those. When I try to contribute in areas where I am a little familiar with either NFHS or experience by fire, you guys seem to find a way to try to ridicule me also - without addressing the original post. But . . . . it's OK. If I didn't have thick skin, I would not be an official. I will continue to post and observe and reply because I think there are a lot of guys and gals out there who can and will share their experiences in an adult manner with guys like me who still want to learn and improve. And I can tell you I have learned an awful lot about people on this forum. So fire away, but at least try to keep it relevant to posts and not ego building or ego bashing.
By the way, you guys managed to establish that I must use 10-2-3g about 12 times a game. Or so it would seem by the way you all reference that rule in your posts. I have used it twice in 5 years ( legitimately ).
But it was certainly worth all the ink and excitement you managed to put forth on this forum - wasn't it?
Time for me to move on. I have pitchers plates to clean, and bases to dust and baseballs to be taken off of the infield and players to put back in the dugout and clickers to polish . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

w_sohl
OOO means overly officious official. Folks on this forum sometimes use it to refer to officials who fall back on the rules in NFHS for every little thing they want to call in a ball game. It is a deragatory term and if used toward you, you may want to rethink the observation you put forth which evoked the term being directed towards you. By the nature of its use here, it is considered an insult ( I guess ). Whatever you posted which drew the remark generally means you are SO wrong in their eyes that you had better go back to square one and rethink your statement.
This is my humble opinion and you will undoubtedly get more after this post.

Everyone knows that these things are stupid things that no one would ever enforce. The thing you don't realize, is that requiring a protector for the bullpen, and not allowing players to play catch, are equally as crazy of things to enforce.

I appreciate your reply .
I am going to end this post though because I just think it got out of control and away from the real issues. I agree that enforcing no ball toss during a conference is disagreeable to most everybody and I am going to adopt that concept from now on ( just in case it happens a 3rd time in my career ). I will, however continue to request that the coach put someone out there with the bullpen. I asked some of the guys from my association about that and they said they were told to request that also by the association. Perhaps my choice of words and emphasis was poor and I acknowledge that.
I will focus on the important things like not making the coach or myself the focus of any contest, but letting the competetitors be the focus.

Thanks to all who constructivey contributed to my learning process.

Gee Tony,
 

You said,

"Most of you have now proven that you do not deserve that respect from me."

What's your point, I do not need anything from you . . . certainly not your respect (BTW, CDP system still sucks).

You added:

" . . . without addressing the original post."

And I gave you an example in my last post about what if there are not enough players? You ignored that just like you claim we ignore things.

BTW Tony, in my game TODAY, when there was a change of pitchers there was a ball in the infield warming up infielders in mid-inning.

It is MY OPINION that you try to hide behind the word "safety" rather than trying to manage your game in an adult manner.

<b>I have used it twice in 5 years ( legitimately ).
</b>

And how many times illegitimately? :D

[Edited by GarthB on Apr 7th, 2005 at 12:16 AM]

Garth.
It was easier to add the legitimate uses.
I couldn't begin to count the illegitimate ones.