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Sure they do....It is so cold, they break. You know how
these gals, after hitting a ball in January and early
February, shake their hands claiming, "that stung"...

TexBlue, you better get off the "<b>Yanks</b> about their
cold weather...You are liable to bring us a "blue northern".

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TexBlue, you better get off the "<b>Yanks</b> about their cold weather...You are liable to bring us a "blue northern".

Now I know who to blame for the temperature only being 48 outside today!

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Yeah, it might be too late. Feels like it blew in last night. It's only 56 degrees right now. Almost broke my coats back out. Oh, yeah, did I mention no snow?

Nope; my next game is the 13th. Just as well. Weather has been cold with a few flurries the last couple of days.

All you guys have it made. We still have two feet of snow on the ground and are supposed to start our high school season on the 24th. Not looking too good for that date. We try to squeeze our season into 4 weeks before the school year is over. Will probably get a week or so late start and have many more games crammed together.

Ed,

Few years ago, we had a team from Alaska come to the 18U AFA
Nationals. They lasted two days in the heat. The umpires all
sorta adopted the team. We had them over to our compound and
feed them a couple of first class meals. They love watermelon
and gumbo. Everyone at the tournament, 121 teams, enjoyed their
participation. They tried hard, but the heat got to them. They
were from Anchorage, Alaska Lady Bears, Manager: Sam Senner.

I know the team and the coach very well. The teams that come to the states always are welcome with open arms. As an umpire I too have had nothing but good to say about my reception where ever I have been in this country. A lot of people have a misconseption that where we are located that softball and fastpitch don't happen. We are very lucky to have some very good umpires here and get a lot of military personal that come through here with some very good experience. It is wonderful to come and do tournaments in the states and I have been very lucky to have been selected to come to Clovis,California in August for the Girls 18-under A. I'm looking forward to that Championship and am also traveling to two other tournaments this summer.

[Edited by Ed Maeder on Apr 11th, 2004 at 10:54 PM]

I'm impressed. I can't even recall who I called yesterday and what their coach's name was. Hmmm...must be time for the Aricept!

Scott,

This bunch was a lot of fun. You would have remembered them
also. They just could not handled the Texas July heat. That
whole week that year, was a killer. Heat index over 100 every
day of the tournament. Team dropped from tournament on second
day, but stayed around visiting the surrounding area and watching
games. Umpires figured we would just show them a good time, so
we had them fed with us. Our food was catered from various
places
around town. They handed out some nice pins of which I still have.

deja vu!
I don't think Rule 7-3-6 applies to this kind of play. It is about the bat actually going toward a fielder like when it slips out of the batter's hands and flys toward F1 or F5. The word "whole" is in the book because it differentiates a whole bat from a broken piece of a bat, also covered in 7-3-6, which is not interference. This case did not sound like the bat went toward a fielder.
Also it is about a "thrown" bat; whereas this case is apparently covered by 7-4-1-k and it's case F.

Ain't cut 'n' paste great! ;)