RightSports has contracted with me to produce a film aimed at helping beginning and intermediate umpires get started.

How to walk on the field, where to stand, how to study, <I>what</i> to study, getting along with coaches, players, fans, partners, association top dogs, etc.

Don't be asking when it's out: It's not been shot yet. I'm in the process of writing the script now.

But the title has been chosen to reflect the temper of the times.

We'll call it

<b>Basic Training</b>, and Childress is the DI.

BTW: I forgot to make it clear: The "film" will be released on a CD.

Great; but, who are the cast members.....
 

and please, use some overhead camera's showing the overall field as the umpire's move into position on the various plays.

Some of the current video's have no depth perception, making it hard to comprehend what is happening.....

just a thought, which you probably have covered already!

Carl, would you consider doing a video regarding the rules? Examples of obstruction, interference, etc. It is one thing to discuss when you should call obstruction, but it is someting else to see the play and see the umpire call obstruction, and those discussions could take form in a video.......

<i> Originally posted by Carl Childress </i>

<b> RightSports has contracted with me to produce a film aimed at helping beginning and intermediate umpires get started.

How to walk on the field, where to stand, how to study, <i>what</i> to study, getting along with coaches, players, fans, partners, association top dogs, etc.

Don't be asking when it's out: It's not been shot yet. I'm in the process of writing the script now.

But the title has been chosen to reflect the temper of the times.

We'll call it

<b>Basic Training</b>, and Childress is the DI. </b>

Papa C what rating (G, PG-13, R) will the film receive?

Also, what actor is going to play you?

Pete Booth

I believe the cast breaks down like this:

Carl Childress - Jack Palance
Jim Booth - Tom Hanks
Steve Freix - Joe Pesci
Manny A - Antonio Banderas
Bob Jenkins - Billy Bob Thornton
Garth Benham - Kenny Rogers
Trish Hillman - Kathy Bates

Carl Childress - Jack Palance ? - or !!!
 

Walther Matthau....

Re: Carl Childress - Jack Palance ? - or !!!
 

Errr, he died a couple of years ago, Rog. We needed someone with a pulse to play Papa C.

<i> Originally posted by Jim Porter </i>

<i> Originally posted by PeteBooth </i>


<b> I believe the cast breaks down like this:

Carl Childress - Jack Palance
Jim Booth - Tom Hanks
Steve Freix - Joe Pesci
Manny A - Antonio Banderas
Bob Jenkins - Billy Bob Thornton
Garth Benham - Kenny Rogers
Trish Hillman - Kathy Bates </b>

Jim playing yourself in the movie?

BTW have you visited Papa C's new website called " Carl's stuff" at eTeamz yet?

Pete Booth

the character part would have been interesting...
 

I guess I should have captioned this better...

Walther Matthau....
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Errr, he died a couple of years ago, Rog. We needed someone with a pulse to play Papa C.

But then - - - ;-)

No. Because I am a card-carrying member of the Screen Actor's Guild (SAG) and the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists (AFTRA), RightSports could not afford the union scale. Also, they were unwilling to give me my union-mandated coffee breaks.

They wrote me out of the movie, claiming my character was killed in a freak pine tar incident.

Yes. Good articles that I've read before, and a message board that requires "approval". I ain't needed approval for nothin' since I asked my ex-Father-in-Law for his daughter's hand in marriage - - and we all know how that turned out. Bad experience - - very bad.