Pre Game Discussions

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Originally Posted by canadaump6

There isn't much point to having a pregame mechanics and positioning discussion when you're only working a 2 man system. First to third rotation, and going out on a flyball are the only 2 things to go over, and everyone knows them anyways.

Going to disagree, there are tons of things (new rules, applying them, local rule interps...) to talk about.

In my city we have a lot of partners showing up 7 minutes before game time. I always try to show up a half hour before the game, but if there is no umpire's room there is no way I am going to loiter around the area before my game. They can provide an umpire's room for me, and only then will I show up early.

I have never seen an umpire's room. The 7 minutes before? Typical. Most umpires are busting their asps to get to the ballpark for an 1800 when they got off real work at 1700..or later.

Which is why all these smug retorts "you should have gotten this squared away in pre-game" I see on this Forum is a bunch of unrealistic BS. Just another method of many posters here to undercut the real umpire and his real issues.