Foot Outside The Box

[SanDiegoSteve]

Originally Posted by DG

There should be no penalty for a 10 year old going to his mouth because 1) the rule was meant for adults and 2) a 10 year old is not likely to be able to throw a spitter.

Go ahead on an load up there, Gaylord...let's see you make the ball dance!

[soundedlikeastrike]

Not sure where they got this guy, but his twin seems to be working in my area: A coach, see's me at work, "hey blue, you umpire, here's what happened." One of my associations umpires, so I'm ready to straighten coach out and splain his weaknesses in the rules arena. This ump is a rookie, I've seen him work several time's, just, I guess never saw him in this particular situation.

This is adult league SP one man. Local industrial league with some very good teams and basically a very competitive well spirited group.

Not that it matters; but final regular season game, H team is 13-0 and stacked, V team is 12-1, you know who gave em their only loss and that was a beat-n....

Bottom of 7 (the last inning) home team down 1, bases juiced 1 out.
GB to F6, 6-4-3 DP 3 outs. V begins celebrating. O coach reaches a bit and say's, hey blue the run counts (R3), umpire says, "yep, R3 clearly scored before the third out"!!!! Dooh!!

I choke a bit, then ask, so, when you protested what was his response?

He's say's "well I wasn't sure, since it was a DP, it didn't seem right but we didn't argue.."

I say's "well, did he offer you a ring or at least to buy breakfast after he scr---- ya that way?"

The first extra inning V doesn't score, bottom, you guessed it, H team pushes across the game winner for the Dubya..

Again we scorn these umpires for not knowing the basics, but I'm telling ya, coaches, it's worth your time to know this stuff, sometimes just the fact you question and threaten or promise to protest, just might get the guy to thinking maybe snap something in the memory banks back into place...amazing...

[TussAgee11]

Originally Posted by soundedlikeastrike

This is adult league SP one man.

Nothing you could have possibly said would have amazed me following this sentence.