how to be a Baseball Umpire by San Diego Steve
 

YouTube - How to Be a Baseball Umpire : Going Over Ground Rules as a Baseball Umpire

This is my favorite video of all time.

Joe In Missouri

I love the description!

"Before a baseball game, an umpire should go over the ground rules with both managers. Learn how to go over ground rules as a baseball umpire in this free video on sports officiating.

Expert: Len Bari
Bio: Len Bari is a semi-pro bowler with a 216 average, and is the manager of Maric Lanes is Astoria, Queens NY.
Filmmaker: Buccola Richard"

Semi-pro bowler huh? Stick to bowling lol

-Josh

THAT field is rated for little League World Series play.

It looks very similar to the complex they always use. Well...at least the parking lot of the complex. He is talking out of his {insert favorite saying here}

-Josh

I have watched about 5 now-they only get better.

I saw these before, but I forgot how great they are.

"This is a great field for Little League. There's no holes in the backstop. You could have the LLWS here." :D

But my favorite baseball video of all time is right here (watch out for the language):

YouTube - Earl Weaver

ROFLMAO!!!

MTD, Sr.

Ah, the don't play baseball like that anymore. I really miss the good old days. :D

MTD, Sr.

But would Mr. Finnerty approve?:D

I stand corrected. THIS is me favorite video of all time.

That is hilarious.

"You're not going to knock anyone on their a** Earl!"

Hahaha!!

OK, I've gotteon hooked on this "How To Be A Baseball Umpire" series. Personally the funniest clip-

YouTube - How to Be a Baseball Umpire : Equipment for Baseball Umpires

at 1:30, "A very important thing, I can't show it to you, is a cup"...

how to be a Baseball Umpire by San Diego Steve.:confused:

I'm still trying to figure out why my name is associated with this garbage. I guess it was an attempt at humor, but I am not finding it funny. Here I thought I would see a very professional looking and speaking person in the video, such as a major league umpire, which would be much closer to how I would make such a video.

MTD, Jr. and I belong to two umpiring associations in the Toledo area. One assigns H.S. baseball and fastpitch softball and H.S. summer baseball and fastpitch softball, as well as travel league baseball and fastpitch softball and slow pitch softball leagues. The other association only assigns travel league baseball and fastpitch softball and slow pitch softball leagues. The membership of the first association are all OhioHSAA registered umpires; the second membership is made up of both umpires who are OhioHSAA registered umpires and umpires who are not OhioHSAA registered umpires. The same person is the assigner (and member of both associations).

Last night I had a travel league (11U) baseball game assigned by the second association. My partner was straight out of the video. He was not an OhioHSAA registered umpire. He worked the plate. He wore his hat backwards all of the time, wore a red (frame and pads) catcher's mask, and a watch on his left wrist, and did NOT wear any ball bags (he stuffed the game balls in his pants pockets. I will say this, he did wear heather gray plate pants and plate shoes.

MTD, Sr.

I am sorry Steve. I was joking. because most of us don't know each other personally, you did not take it the way I thought you would. My apologies.

Is there any way to change the title of the thread?

Joe In Missouri.

Lighten up steve! :D

I'm hooked on this series. This stuff cracks me up.

My favorite so far is in the equipment video:
"You awlso need onea 'dese - a mask. It helps keep you from geedin' a loose tooth, a bwoken nose, or an eyeball pawped out."

Oh gosh. That's too much. I can't watch anymore. Ok, maybe one more!

Did you see in this video while ole #7 is talking to the camera, a kid is warming up the pitcher without a mask on?
C'mon ump. What if he gets a tooth knocked loose, a broken nose, or an eyeball popped out?

:):):)

Now I've gotta quit. The guy who works for me just came in to see what all the laughing is about.

This is my favorite so far:

YouTube - How to Be a Baseball Umpire : How to Be a Home Plate Umpire

His Bowling videos are awesome, as well.

YouTube - How to Be a Baseball Umpire : How to Umpire Different Levels

Home Place?

There are so many "mistakes" in these videos it would take forever to point them all out. That one did catch my attention last night though. How silly!

-Josh

I cannot get enough of this guy...Watching the Bowling ones now.

Expert Village is the name of the outfit that puts this out. I can only imagine their " How to meet girls":

Hi, my name is Joe. I work part time at Sonic, live with my Aunt in a spare room and play Atari most of the day. Works EVERY time!

Yeah, I should feel honored that this guy reminds people of me!

No disrespect to Mr. Jenkins (with all honesty), but how many unproductive comments does one have to post before something happens?

UmpRube,

A moderator will find this nonsense eventually and take out the trash. You can report it by using the triangle icon in the corner of the post if you like.

Do not be overly concerned with this individual, who has made brief visits before and will likely come again.

Sorry.
 

Thanks, I have tag some of the responses. I do feel that I have to appologize to the forum for (lack of a better word) baiting him/her. Being part of an online forum for such a short time I now know that the best thing to do it just not respond, I will remember this in the future.

Don't worry about it, you're fine. Trolls come and go all the time around here.

This one is one of the best on there. Him running around the infield and then running back and forth to cover the rundown is hilarious.

I think I my partner from last night's game watched these videos and took pointers from them :eek:

Giving loud commentary on everything that's happening (runs scored, total runs per inning, saying out loud that the batter reached first because of the dropped third strike). He really was acting like a color commentator.

Wearing baseball cleats behind the plate, the only thing that was protecting his feet were the ends of his shinguards.
*Edited*-He also didn't have a plate brush, just called time and kicked dirt off the plate.

The real kicker was that we were fighting darkness at the end of the game. He announced for EVERYONE to hear "*fielding team*, your assignment is to finish this inning in less than 13 minutes so you can get one more turn at-bat." However, we may not have needed to do that if he didn't spend 2-3 minutes between each inning chatting it up with the parents in the stands.

And I looked at my schedule, I have games with him 4 more times this summer...

A lot according to this thread. I like this umpire's passion for baseball, even if he hasn't received a lot of training.

Now that's baseball they way it used to be. Love it! The umpire was just as good was Weaver was. Love it when he says "I aint going no where Earl", classic line...

Thansk
David

Which is cooler, his velcro-closure hat worn backward, or the ultra-hip zip front shirt ? :rolleyes:

Apologies for not being here 24x7.

Plus, I can only edit or delete posts -- I can't remove users.

canadaump6,

I agree.

JM

He was referring to some inane comments from a well-known ignoramus that have since been deleted.

I think the guy in the videos would be a great umpire if he could only get some quality training. He definitely has the desire.

He is not talking about the guy in the video who thinks that the center fielder needs to hear the count.:rolleyes:

Well stated. However, deleting doesn't seem to phase this person, as he has sent me the usual nasty, vile private message under his new, creative name (see above).

You don't seem to be able to look at this from an umpiring viewpoint, so lets try something more familiar to you.

What if someone, with a great passion for psychology, your field of study, but no training, hung up a shingle and began giving advice to people who believed him because of that passion?

The clown in those videos, if you read the posts at that site, is actually influencing people. His so-called passion and his nerve to post those ridiculous videos makes him, in the eyes of some neophytes, credible. This is another, more modern way, to perpetuate myths and make the lives of umpires who work to really improve their craft, miserable.

Passion, my young friend, must be tempered with some amount of reasonableness or knowledge in order to positively benefit someone.

The only positive attribute of those videos is their comedic value.

Maybe I just don't feel the same way some people do about his videos. To me they were good for a laugh, but in a fun way. I don't think the videos will make umpires look bad as a group, and I don't think umpires with basic training will imitate what they see in the videos.

I think comparing psychology to umpiring is like comparing apples to oranges. The result of someone taking the umpire seriously is that they might develop some bad habits. The results of someone taking the amateur psychologist seriously could be much more costly. Baseball is just a game afterall. I really don't think the posted videos will cause any harm. The people responding are probably being sarcastic.

People complain about flowerchild's insults in the same thread that they diss the guy in the video. It doesn't work both ways.

I don't know what is motivating this flowerchild guy to do all these nasty things. There probably is an anger component to his actions. I don't miss Garth one bit.

Good to see we're on the same page for this one.

The guy in the video needs to umpire L.L. games in Queens. He will do a fine job, and I'm sure they need umpires and appreciate him.
He doesn't, however, need to be doing instructional videos on the internet. By doing so he opens himself up to pats on the back or laughter.
Would you go to a clinic if this youtube hero was the featured instructor? I hope not.
I have no idea how to play the piano. If I get on youtube and try to show people how - with passion - I suspect I would deservedly be ragged on some message board somewhere.

On a side note, I respect this guy and small-ball umpires everywhere. I don't have the patience to work these games, but I'm glad some of you guys do! Thumbs up!

I think the disses are a bit much in the same thread that people complain about flowerchild making disses. It would be nice if the insults would stop period and we could all share a laugh over the guy's enthusiasm combined with naivity.

I believe small-ball umpires deserve as much credit as those who do big-boy ball, because those younger kids deserve good umpires just as much as anybody else does. This Len guy probably works for nothing and they are happy to have him. He did say in one of his videos that safety is the most important thing, so even if he has stuff to work on, at least everyone is going home in one piece.

Sure, he deserves credit. I help coach my son's nine year old team. We have HORRIBLE umpires. I would never make fun of them.

But THIS guy is an arrogant SOB. He posted videos with an outfit called EXPERT VILLAGE. He announced to the world: Hey World! I am a moron...Please ridicule me!

I really don't see how you can compare what the foul-mouthed, nasty-talking troll was posting, which were hateful, personal comments directed toward myself and others here, and the comments made about the buffoonery displayed by this clownish umpire. Yes, he has great enthusiasm, but he is billing his videos as "How to Umpire" videos, which they are most certainly not. If he were doing this tongue-in-cheek like Lance Cokalinski, then it would be funny on a much higher level. But this guy seriously thinks he's a great umpire, and that is what is being insulted, not his parentage or manhood or anything that remotely resembles what the troll was posting. I hope you get the point and see the huge difference. You don't miss Garth, but I'm really starting to.

Personally, I prefer "YOu're full of sh*t Earl, F*ck you." Umpiring at it's best.:D

Good points made SDS. There are differences in the disses towards the Expert Village umpire and from flowerchild.

I also like the videos on how to lay the verbal smackdown on people, and how to meet chicks at the store.

How about the dissing of Earl Weaver...that was different all together...:D:D:D:D:D

Since you are so opposed to "dissing", was it really necessary to "diss" someone who has been gone for over a year? Did it feel feel good to get a free cheap shot at someone who won't reply?

On the other hand, I found his insights on umpiring quite valuable. It really is a shame that he felt it necessary to leave. On the other hand, I don't miss fitump one bit.