Cheat Sheet

[Canned Heat]

Originally Posted by Deep

Mike, if you have to use a sheet, then go ahead and use it. But it does look better if you don't have to. Couldn't you give the sheet to your umpire so that he could discretely check that you covered everything?

That's kind of how we do it. If you work with a steady crew for any length of time...even as little as a year's worth of games, this will usually become second nature after awhile. I think the tip off to a coach is obvious nervousness and that's usually tipped off by a very quick and fairly uninformative meeting with one or both of the coaches. Relax and take your time. You have to remember they're going to get their first impressions of you and your crew from this PG meeting and your ratings for the game may start out on a bad note from the get-go.

[mbyron]

Dude: it's bad form to dig up nearly 4-year-old threads.