Timing play or not?

[yawetag]

Originally Posted by DG

Touche'. But he had a laptop, and apparently access to internet to ask the question. So he had access to an OBR rule book at MLB.com

This. At the least, keep a PDF copy on your computer.

[MD Longhorn]

Originally Posted by etn_ump

I shouldn't have asked.

You purport yourself to be a college umpire. It's not so much that you should have asked... it's that either A) you shouldn't have had to ask... or B) you are severely misrepresenting your credentials.

Originally Posted by etn_ump

I was in Atlanta working a week long tournament, out of town, without my rule books, went on my laptop to ask a question and I catch all this crap. All I wanted was rule cites not a whole bunch of garbage.

Seriously? This is a basic principal. You should have this down pretty clearly after your very first season of 10U ball. Seriously. You wonder why you're catching crap? This is a DUMB question that implies that you're either a REALLY bad coach, or you're out on the field umpiring with absolutely no training or even a single read through the rulebook.

Originally Posted by etn_ump

You wonder why more people don't use this site, this is why.

Hmm. I don't recall wondering anything of the sort. Seems that except for 3 trolls and the occasional parent/coach who wants to come on here just to bag on umpires, we have a good group here - and everyone here comes to get better - not to display the fact that even though they umpire college games they've never read the book.

Originally Posted by etn_ump

Do the letters, F.O., mean anything to yall?

Oo. Ouch. You really got us there. We're wounded.