Mick:

Are you absolutely sure that is the way you want to word that?

I just calls 'em like I sees 'em. :cool:

Mick - "Off" = "Of"? We hope?

mcrowder,
I can tolerate improper interps and mechanics from partners, but not from myself.

Clearly, I am not "on" my game. ;)
mick

Mick:

Now I think maybe you understand what I was asking you in my last post, don't you?! ;)

Well, I certainly feel better now. I was reading down through the posts, wondering when someone would pick up on the interference reference. All the advice was excellent on the new umpire and working with him, I just couldn't figure out why the interference statement was corrected.

Leave it to Mike to correct the situation. http://www.stopstart.freeserve.co.uk/smilie/clap.gif

After looking at this, this guy IS clapping his hands, isn't he, instead of doing something else?

Yes, Scott,
I knew from the gitgo.
There was no typo.
mick

Hey, I'm gonna tell the monitor! Do you know who that is, MICK!?!?

Well, I ain't a king, or a queen, off 4 sports.
And besides, I thought I was being moderate.

Thanks again for your help. ;)
mick

I'm a jack off four sports, master of none.
mick


Freudian Slip?

J/K :P

Nope.
Boxers.

I'll just stay out of this....Seems the originial question
was answered and Mick's reply, well.....

Even when umpiring?

Bad memory!
 

Ooh! Yeah, I did wear 'em once. Bad choice!
McDavid Interawear with cupholder for me. ;)

Update on our new umpire. Gave him another shot last night, schedule for 2 games - 6 and 7:30, working with me. 6:00 ... no blue. Working alone. Fun. 7:15 rolls around, and there he is. "Sorry, Mike - got stuck at work. Called you at work around 5:50, but you weren't there." 1) Yeah, dumba$$ - I was at the field by then. 2) My phone shows when I miss a call, even if you don't leave a message - you didn't call.

Well, the 2nd game is the older girls, so I grudgingly let him on the field. Reteach the A,B,C's, including the why's. Teach him where to move when the ball is hit. Newbie is a treestump when the game starts - stuck in A. 1/2 inning goes by, and I remind him that not only should he move when the ball goes in play, but he should start in different places depending on where the runners are. He moves a little bit this time.

Luckily, we have a forfeit on the other field, so I go 3 man on mine. Well, sort of. We go 2 man, with an added treestump of an umpire planted on the foul side of 3rd base, regardless of who's on base and where the ball is hit (even called a baserunner safe from back there on a passed ball - at least he moved his arms). We actually had, at many times, me at home, 1BU in B or C position, and 3BU in D position. Glad the UIC wasn't there ... oh wait - that's me.

Feeling perturbed, after an inning where the only baserunner was a walk, passedball to 2nd, passedball to 3rd, and 3 outs (the runner on 3rd never left), I go ask him - did you notice the runner missed third? (The runner never had a chance to miss third). He says "Yes, but I didn't know if I should say anything."

It was a nice last day for him.