The Joys of JV

[Andy]

....and you didn't have a partner to share all this joy with.....

[teebob21]

Originally Posted by Andy

....and you didn't have a partner to share all this joy with.....

I guess that's what I get when I contact the HS office for a last-minute assignment. My JC games up north yesterday were cancelled due to snow.

Also, my protective equipment earned its keep last night. Everywhere that had gear got hit, and I do mean everywhere. Luckily, I didn't get hit anywhere that there wasn't gear.

[RKBUmp]

Well hopefully my schedule gets better, first 3 scheduled games are all JV. The first one was miserable, neither pitcher was even close to being legal and there was nothing they could do to get legal for the game. They simply were not pitchers and had been thrown out there with no instruction.

Hopefully todays wont be as bad as Mondays.

[IRISHMAFIA]

Originally Posted by RKBUmp

Well hopefully my schedule gets better, first 3 scheduled games are all JV. The first one was miserable, neither pitcher was even close to being legal and there was nothing they could do to get legal for the game. They simply were not pitchers and had been thrown out there with no instruction.

Which is why some JV games need coaches more than they need umpires.

[PandaBear]

most JV and other lower, developmental games, need a LOT more coaches who are either much better at coaching, or much better at herding cats.

[teebob21]

One of the coaches was a good coach, if a little too serious, given the talent he's been handed. I thought he was going to have a heart attack right there in the coaching box. It should be noted that he wasn't some A-hole berating his players, either. He was just frustrated that he would tell his players to do ONE THING, and on the next pitch, they would do everything but the ONE THING. Any parent knows exactly what he was going through.

[SNIPERBBB]

Originally Posted by IRISHMAFIA

Which is why some JV games need coaches more than they need umpires.

Had a JV game years ago where the visiting team didnt have a coach till almost the beginning of the season. Poor kid they brought in as I think was a relief pitcher, pitched a ball that went over the backstop(cleared it by a few feet). Didn't help it was 40* that day.

[RKBUmp]

Seriously, why do they waste money on umpires for some of these games.

Todays game, 1 hour to complete the first inning and it was all the visiting team batting, home teams sent only 3 batters to the plate. Completed the 3rd inning with 10 minutes left to go in the time limit and home coach said he had enough and didn't want to continue.

Final score, 30-0, 3 innings in 1 hour 35 minutes and up until the 3rd inning the home team had only sent 6 batters to bat. They did manage to get a walk and a base hit in the 3rd and finished the game having sent 11 to the plate.

Wednesdays game I had to keep asking the catcher to back off of the batter or she was going to get whacked in the back of the head. Todays game I couldn't get either catcher to get within 5' of the batters. Mondays game I was just waiting for the one first basemen to take a ball in the teeth. Every time she caught the ball she held the tip of the glove right under her chin and more or less used it as an aiming device for her glove. I'm pretty certain by the end of the season she is likely to be missing some teeth.

[Manny A]

Originally Posted by RKBUmp

Seriously, why do they waste money on umpires for some of these games?

Because the girls are out there trying their best to learn the game. They could otherwise be out in the streets getting into trouble.

I had one of those games last year with one of our inner-city teams. It was brutal from my perspective as the PU, but I just grinned and beared it. During the game, a fight broke out in the stands between two girls who were watching. It got ugly fast, and parents from both teams went over to break things up. Some of the players looked on in shock. It was pretty sad to see.