American Legion "Time Called"

[MD Longhorn]

Originally Posted by johnnyg08

Don't ask for feedback if you're going to Duh people.

Well, he wasn't asking for advice on how to keep this from happening again -- I think he learned that the hard way already. He's looking for comments on how he handled the situation.

Time out is time out. Nothing after you said that actually happened.

And I agree with the above - sounds like you guys yell too much generally. No need to yell force.

[dash_riprock]

Whenever you call time, you eliminate the possibility of getting outs. Don't do it! You can sweep the plate with the ball live. That's what partners are for.

[mbyron]

Originally Posted by dash_riprock

You can sweep the plate with the ball live. That's what partners are for.

You have your partners sweep the plate? That's genius! Wish I'd thought of it.

[dash_riprock]

Originally Posted by mbyron

You have your partners sweep the plate? That's genius! Wish I'd thought of it.

One of my fantasies is plate chicks - baseball's answer to boxing ring card girls. They would come out in skimpy outfits and sweep the plate with a whisk broom (requiring bending at the waist) when it needed it. "Time! Can I get a plate chick out here please?" They would also supply the umpires with cold water.

[rbmartin]

R3 is out via force. R1 is called out for abandonment (7.08a(2)). Nothing else happened.

[DG]

Originally Posted by rbmartin

r3 is out via force. R1 is called out for abandonment (7.08a(2)). Nothing else happened.

+1

[jicecone]

Originally Posted by dash_riprock

One of my fantasies is plate chicks - baseball's answer to boxing ring card girls. They would come out in skimpy outfits and sweep the plate with a whisk broom (requiring bending at the waist) when it needed it. "Time! Can I get a plate chick out here please?" They would also supply the umpires with cold water.

You know dang well that if we had that in baseball, either the batter or catcher or most likely me would be kicking dirt on the plate very very frequently. Then we would also have to have an assistant or a "Plate Chick Checker" say that 3 times.

[first2third]

rbmartin, thank you for the reply. I always hear of umpires making things up to call abandonment, but in this case, I actually think that is the correct call and the explanation we should have used.

[FTVMartin]

why do you call time to clean the plate?

[txump81]

Originally Posted by dash_riprock

One of my fantasies is plate chicks - baseball's answer to boxing ring card girls. They would come out in skimpy outfits and sweep the plate with a whisk broom (requiring bending at the waist) when it needed it. "Time! Can I get a plate chick out here please?" They would also supply the umpires with cold water.

And they would brush 1/2 of the plate with their back towards the backstop and the other half with their back towards the field. That way everyone enjoys, unless it's a GLM of one of the players. But sometimes a player must just take one for the team!!!

[jicecone]

Originally Posted by dash_riprock

Whenever you call time, you eliminate the possibility of getting outs. Don't do it! You can sweep the plate with the ball live. That's what partners are for.

When I coached third with R3 and the umpire swept the plate with the ball live I instructed my runners to take a couple of steps, look at the pitcher and catcher to see if they were more alert than the umpire and head for the plate. Of course most umps would say they called time when it never happened but, there were the one's that didn't know better.

Take the time and read what is happening on the field. If your going to bend over with runners on, call time. You can sweep the plate with a live ball, just know when too.