I really dislike USSSA's new courtesy runner rule!

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Originally Posted by TxUmp

Are u seriously asking for help from the scorekeeper???!!!!

The scorekeeper should be there to keep score, certainly not be an alternate official. Would you want the scorekeeper alerting you (or either team) of a BOOO situation? I think not. And certainly not inserting himself in keeping track of CR's.

Haven't coached in awhile but I always wanted a good scorekeeper. For a good one I would EXPECT help. The job description requires it and I explain this very carefully before we get started with a season. If I can't get help during a game I have the wrong scorekeeper. I want him (or her) to tell me, without me asking, of any substitution issues, including BOO and wrong CR. I want him, if I ask, to tell me what the current batter has done his last at bat, or the one before, where he hit the ball, fly ball or ground ball, what the count was, what the next batter did his last time up. A real good scorekeeper will tell me what the pitch was that the guy up hit out of the park his last at bat, although I probably know that.

The score is the least of my worries, and usually kept on the scoreboard. Oh, if the scoreboard is not right I EXPECT my scorekeeper to alert me to this also.

I am speaking from coach perspective here. From umpire perspective, the scorekeeper, and assistants don't exist.