just get me thru this game

[mcrowder]

Funny, I find that I don't get as aggravated at coaches as I do with fellow umpires who don't know the rules. Especially rules I specifically have talked about in clinics or one-on-one. D3K on a bounced pitch the catcher fields cleanly gets screwed up at least once a year. BOO gets screwed up at least once a year. Orange-bag/white-bag seems to come up a couple times a year. And OBS STILL gets screwed up at least once a week. Plus the occasional completely made up rule I get to hear about (the last was that on a D3K, "any hesitation by the batter and she's out." The one before that was at 10U where we don't allow stealing of home, on an overthrow of 1st base, R1 (originally on 2nd) was not allowed to "steal" home on the overthrow. AAArghhhh!)

I need to clone myself, or better yet, stick to scheduling and hire 6 of you guys who actually care enough to study your craft.