First Game Coming Up

[canadaump6]

I just got a call from my assignor asking me to do a game this coming Sunday afternoon in a neighbouring city as they were short on umpires. It's going to be an adult recreational game, but the players still take it seriously and can get really mad. Canadaump6 is going to be umpiring adult baseball.

I tried doing an adult rec game a couple years ago when I was 17 and that didn't go over too well. I felt out of place and didn't have my best game. I called a guy out for being hit by a batted ball at second base, and it turned out he was never hit by it. They were already mad at my plate partner, and then they started screaming at me, and I was too chicken to throw anyone out.

Sunday's adult league game is going to be my first game of the season. I'm on the bases again, and it's with the same partner. Fortunately this is a different league than the one in which I had my other problems in. Does anyone know how I can not be nervous this time around?