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[SanDiegoSteve]

Originally Posted by PeteBooth

Tim this is common when working SOLO which is the reason one shouldn't work solo on a regular basis otherwise you get bad habits.

In the one video, the IF was in effect, so perhaps JM had a glimpse of the runners.

We all know or should know to stay down and not come up to quickly however when you are working SOLO with men on base sometimes it's a natural reaction to come up a little quicker than normal.

My question to JM is this.

Why are you working SOLO?

Pete Booth

Pete, with all due respect, you are out of your gourd on this one!

I have worked hundreds of solo games and this has never been a problem. Timing is timing whether there are two, three, four, six or just one umpire.

When working solo games you still have to wait until the action takes you somewhere. Why on earth would you pop up quick just because you are by yourself? That sounds pretty ridiculous to me and it's a flimsy excuse for poor timing.

As to why he is working solo, JM lives in an area, such as I do, where if the game didn't have a solo umpire, it wouldn't have an umpire. Solo games are very commonplace in many larger cities where the volume of games exceeds the number of available umpires. A good percentage of youth games below the varsity level here use one umpire, unless it is a tournament of some kind or a championship games.