Eagle Eye in the LLWS
 

Rodney, you looked really good at first base today! Great call on the check-swing!

They did a focus on you late in the game, telling us about your experience from last year. Congratulations on your assignment for this year!:cool:

Yeah, lots of face time and Brent Musburger telling your "interesting" story. A treasure for the rest of your life for sure. Good job!

Not only face time and Brent's story but his name plastered all over the screen and some talk about 'those eyes'!

Nice job. Congrats.

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I really appreciate the comments.

I was very nervous for the first inning and half, but when the crowd started chanting USA, USA, USA.....I got chills and was able to settle down and have fun. The Japan kids were some of the most polite and all around fine young men you could want to meet.

I am aware that some of you all are the best of them out there, and I appreciate your comments.

Thanks and drinks on me.......if we ever meet.

Eagle Eye......aka Rodney Picard

PS Thanks Jeremy Sparling for the support

You lookd great, sharp, prepared. A tribute to all of us.

Congrats on a job well done

Excellent work Rodney, and again -- congratulations!

What he said. I don't know how to say it any better.

Crew in general did a nice job. Congrats.

Ace
D2, CT

When David Thom [U3] sold a call, he was so convincing that I almost got up and went to the dugout. :)

Congrats!!

Yes, he certainly did nail that banger at 3rd! Great timing and flawless execution of mechanics.

That was one of the best looking call mechanics I've seen all year. Making the correct call, of course, is what counts most of all, but I'll tell ya some of the officials (especially in softball) moved like wind-up Robot toys and quickly became annoying to look at. :eek: ..Al

That's the way it's supposed to be done. David Thom is an umpire who works LL, not a LL umpire.

Hopefully, LL will use more such umpires in the future.

What I'm finding hard to understand is that this is what they all should look like...granted this guy did a nice job (so you all say)...but he simply is doing his job as I'm sure he does the other 90 or so games he probably works in a season...yep, it's great...but isn't that what you'd expect at a big game such as this? Not taking anything away from him...but I think he gets the point that he did a nice job and made a "good call" but what the phrase we all use in officiating..."we're only as good as our next ________"

Dave is one of my best friends, but he'd probably tell you that this wasn't a big deal. It wasn't even close :)

I was just sorry he didn't get the championship plate. After working probably over a 100 to 150 games with Dave the past 5 seasons, I'm confident he was the best choice. They didn't ask me, though.

I'm glad he's home, though, cause I need my regular line judge on Friday night. He calms me down when the white hat starts turning into a red a$$.