Assigning playoff umpires in Texas

[nopachunts]

Originally Posted by lawump

It is as screwed up as it sounded in the newspaper story.

"I want a 9-game series, like the MLB World Series in the 1910's!!!"

Under Texas UIL playoff guidelines, a winner has to be decided by midnight of the Saturday following the previous round. I think that they can't play more than two games in one day.

Last year, I was on a neutral crew that was going to do a Friday night game, with the second and "if" game on Saturday. Friday night was rained out, so it became a one-game Saturday series. If the Saturday game had been rained out, a team would have advanced based on a coin flip.

Texas spring weather plays havoc with three game series because of thunderstroms, lightening, etc. Last Saturday it was in the 80s, two Saturdays ago, the temperature was in the upper 40s with a 15 mph north wind.

[lawump]

Originally Posted by nopachunts

Under Texas UIL playoff guidelines, a winner has to be decided by midnight of the Saturday following the previous round. I think that they can't play more than two games in one day.

Last year, I was on a neutral crew that was going to do a Friday night game, with the second and "if" game on Saturday. Friday night was rained out, so it became a one-game Saturday series. If the Saturday game had been rained out, a team would have advanced based on a coin flip.

Texas spring weather plays havoc with three game series because of thunderstroms, lightening, etc. Last Saturday it was in the 80s, two Saturdays ago, the temperature was in the upper 40s with a 15 mph north wind.

I truly believe in the saying, "just because its different doesn't mean its wrong."

But...deciding a playoff "series" on a coin flip is wrong.

I mean, the weather played havoc with our state's Class AAA state playoffs, but our state league just kept rescheduling the games until they could be played...and they eventually were.

[umpjim]

Originally Posted by lawump

I truly believe in the saying, "just because its different doesn't mean its wrong."

But...deciding a playoff "series" on a coin flip is wrong.

I mean, the weather played havoc with our state's Class AAA state playoffs, but our state league just kept rescheduling the games until they could be played...and they eventually were.

We played 5 innings in one Texas town and drove 25 miles to finish the game in another town that did not get hit by the thunderstorm.

[MD Longhorn]

Originally Posted by nopachunts

thunderstroms

Any relation to Earl?

, lightening

As opposed to darkening?

(Sorry, couldn't resist 2 right there in a row)

[UMP45]

Dash I have him doing a "stop and go".

[DG]

Not a good video but I don't have a balk. PU is in a real good spot to see a no stop balk, and he did not call one that I can tell.

[dash_riprock]

Originally Posted by UMP45

Dash I have him doing a "stop and go".

I don't know what that is.

[BigUmp56]

Look at 52:37 of the clip and tell me if you would have balked him there.....


Tim.

[Steven Tyler]

Originally Posted by BigUmp56

Look at 52:37 of the clip and tell me if you would have balked him there.....


Tim.

Are you asking because you don't know?

[BigUmp56]

Originally Posted by Steven Tyler

Are you asking because you don't know?

Since I'm not much of a seer, of course I don't know who else here would have balked him, Wayne. I'm hoping most of the members here would have. Do you have an opinion worth sharing? About the call or non-call of the balk...............

Tim.

[dash_riprock]

Originally Posted by BigUmp56

Look at 52:37 of the clip and tell me if you would have balked him there.....


Tim.

Sure looks like he broke his hands before stepping off.

[ODJ]

How about the FPSR at 26:50. Anything there?

Player gets ejected. And no, he wasn't the one sliding.

[Rich]

Originally Posted by dash_riprock

Sure looks like he broke his hands before stepping off.

He balked. But they were saving their balk until it could end the game.

[nopachunts]

Originally Posted by MD Longhorn

Any relation to Earl?

No relation to Earl. Went to Junior High with him. He, his brothers, and his mother are GREAT people. He also makes some pretty good hot links. If you watched the Heisman ceremony, he couldn't go up on stage. He can barely walk.

On the weather issue, I don't know who the teams were but last week they started a playoff game in Waco, and in the bottom of the first inning the weather caused the game to be suspended without a chance to be finished on Friday night. They drove to Arlington to finish the game. Otherwise the series would have been a one-game series completed on Saturday. I hope the crews turned in a new pay sheet for mileage.

[MD Longhorn]

Originally Posted by nopachunts

No relation to Earl. Went to Junior High with him. He, his brothers, and his mother are GREAT people. He also makes some pretty good hot links. If you watched the Heisman ceremony, he couldn't go up on stage. He can barely walk.

On the weather issue, I don't know who the teams were but last week they started a playoff game in Waco, and in the bottom of the first inning the weather caused the game to be suspended without a chance to be finished on Friday night. They drove to Arlington to finish the game. Otherwise the series would have been a one-game series completed on Saturday. I hope the crews turned in a new pay sheet for mileage.

You went to junior high with Earl Strom? WOw.