Time limit - -when does clock start running

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Originally Posted by bkbjones

At the risk of incurring wrath:

1. Why start the clock at any time other than on the first pitch? the only exception I can see that is fair to the teams is to add one minute and start it at the end of the plate conference. The home team has been determined by this time.

2. What in the !$#@ gives us the RIGHT to "interpret" anything concerning time, time limits or time remaining? It is not our game, our field or our anything. These teams pay beau coups bucks (including your pay) to play in these tournaments. If they have, say, a 1:20 time limit, interpreting that to mean 1:18 or anything else less than 1:20 is no less of a sin than, say, a supermarket checker or bank teller tapping the till. If you feel that you need to "interpret" 1:20 as something less, you're stealing from the players and stealing from the game. That is not my opinion; that is fact.

Nope, you start the clock in anything less than championship play.

You go.

I've worked with umps like you who start late, run their fields late.. etc.. that just messes up everyone... by the end of the day, because of your "clock morals" the fields 45 mins late and everything is screwed up. Your partners are screwed up, field crews are screwed up, teams are screwed up TD is NOT happy, the only one happy is your clock moral angel on your shoulder.

YOu'll actually find it VERY rare these parents paying all this $$ would ever complain that you keep it moving. They are sitting there all day too.

Just go.. keep everything moving, everyones happy. No need to be anal about the clock morals there pal.