What do you keep on your line-up cards?

[Tim C]

Never have I heard of or seen an umpire keep score.

[UMP 64]

We have enough to do, let alone keeping score. We are the police, enforcer, rule interpreter, secretary, financial adviser, janitor, judge, jury, weather forecaster, ring master and some other that I cannot think of now. But score keeper, not this ump!

[SanDiegoSteve]

Originally Posted by Rcichon

...or when a travesty is at hand.

Hey Rob, are you like obsessed with travesties or what? Or should I say, travestaaahs!

Originally Posted by UMP 64

Honig's sells the black plastic folder that has a mini clip, that holds the teams line up sheet. It comes w/ a pencil and a plastic card that BU can record C-runners, trips & pitching changes, Off. & Def. conferences, and other info you feel is impt. This is a great organizer when working the dish. Anything to keep track of the game is helpful. Our ump association buys these every year for our umpires. I recomend this item. #KIP @ $7.95.

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Originally Posted by UMP 64

We have enough to do, let alone keeping score. We are the police, enforcer, rule interpreter, secretary, financial adviser, janitor, judge, jury, weather forecaster, ring master and some other that I cannot think of now. But score keeper, not this ump!

Are you writing all this down on your Honig's KIP Black Plastic Folder w/Mini-Clip, which retails for $7.95 by any chance?

[Rcichon]

Originally Posted by SanDiegoSteve

Hey Rob, are you like obsessed with travesties or what? Or should I say, travestaaahs! ....

It's a travesty, isn't it.....? But that's how we roll up heahhh....

[Ump Rube]

Originally Posted by Tim C

Never have I heard of or seen an umpire keep score.

Closest I come to keeping score is writing it down when a coach lodges a protest (along with runner, count, outs, ect.). Or checking with the scorekeeper between innings (around the 4th) to see if we are going to have a 10RR, but that is it. (BTW, our fields do not have scoreboards, otherwise I would have no reason to talk with the GLMs that typically keep book.)

[bossman72]

we never have a problem with the line-up cards being too little. i HATE it when coaches give you a full 8.5x11 sheet of printer paper with their line-up on it. I like it though when they give you half-sheets. I think that's the perfect amount of paper for a line-up card.

[Kevin Finnerty]

Originally Posted by Tim C

Never have I heard of or seen an umpire keep score.

Well, you're lucky or ... I don't know; what do you want to hear?

That's great, Tim. Good for you, Tim.

Oh, I get it! We don't keep score, we keep track of the score. Never heard of or seen that, either? Well, around this little area where I work, the umpire is required to keep track of the score on a little card or sheet that resembles what I posted earlier.

[UmpJM]

Kevin,

The Umpire is REQUIRED to keep track of the score?!?!?!

That's amazing.

Who so requires?

JM

[mbyron]

I share JM's amazement. Unless it's on the scoreboard, I rarely pay attention to the score.

[Kevin Finnerty]

Originally Posted by UmpJM (nee CoachJM)

Kevin,

The Umpire is REQUIRED to keep track of the score?!?!?!

That's amazing.

Who so requires?

JM

The following units or leagues require the plate umpire to record the runs on a sheet or card like I posted: H.S. Varsity; H.S. JV; H.S. Varsity Summer; 18-U Wood; 18-U Metal; 25-U Wood; 25-U Metal. Those that don't require it: American Legion.

I wish it was like you say. I could do without it.

[Rcichon]

I learn something new everyday.


The only time I want to know the score is in the last inning or when a travesty is at hand. Just so I don't stay too long...

[Kevin Finnerty]

... Well, Steve, it's because they're speed-up rules.

[SanDiegoSteve]

Originally Posted by Kevin Finnerty

... Well, Steve, it's because they're speed-up rules.

Yeah, that's what I figured...wonder what he was thinking.