What is a LL Umpire

[Rcichon]

We all had to start somewhere. LL usually provides this opportunity. Usually people find out just how difficult it is to be an Official and just fade into obscurity, leaving an enormous gap for mediocre Umpires to flourish or fester.

Still, I am grateful for two things:

LL for providing the opportunity to enter officiating and

Forums such as this where I have learned about the abstracts in officiating AND how to further my knowledge in 'other associations'.

[PABlue]

Heck I will do ANY kind of ball! I love being on the field watching baseball. So I do everything from LL to CR,BR,legion,Fed and softball.
Are games at the higher divisions better? Sometimes yes sometimes no but it's still baseball and it's still better then a day at work. LOL

[tjones1]

Speaking of Little League....

Little League looking at pitch count limits
http://msn.foxsports.com/mlb/story/5863548?FSO1&ATT=HMA

My personal opinion..... it's about time!

[UMP25]

tj, LL Baseball already incorporated this into their rules efective this year. LL pitchers have pitch counts they must follow if their league chooses to follow the rule. The big thing about all this is just how that's to be enforced. I can't see how the umpires will be involved, for it'd have to be the responsibility of the managers and individual league officials.

[SanDiegoSteve]

Actually it is a pilot program, in which around 500 leagues nationwide participated this season. It has not been mandated for universal use, but the rules folks are meeting soon to see about making it mandatory.

[LMan]

Originally Posted by IceGator8

I blame it on a long day at work. RIPKEN derrrrrr

fixed

Ice, take comfort in the knowledge that you are not alone:

..from the LA Times today:


Cal Ripken Jr. played in a record 2,632 consecutive major league games, but none since 2001. Evidently, some memories are short in the media.

Monday's edition of the New York Post ran a five-paragraph story about Ripken's endorsing an Australian bedsheet product, misspelling his name five times, including the headline: "Cal Ripkin's Clean Sheet." According to the story, "The Baltimore Orioles slugger has lent his name to an Australian wool company that's renamed its core bedding product the Cal Ripkin Underlay and Duvet." Impressive, really. Not only was the bedsheet renamed, but so was Ripken.


Another sentence reads: "Turns out Ripkin, known as the Iron Man for playing 2,632 straight games, really values a good night's sleep." Turns out the Post really needs to hire better copy editors.

The article finally spelled Ripken's name correctly in the last paragraph and in the photo caption. Ripken was a .276 hitter. The Post, going two for seven with "Ripken/Ripkin," hit .286.