Jealous ?
 

For all you Umps who are freezing up ther in the Northern Hemisphere and no games .
Here in Christchurch New Zealand
4 games on Saturday 28 degrees celcius whats that about 83
5 games Sunday 25 degrees
1 game Monday night dropped down to 13 degrees ( hell it felt cold )

Looking forward to 1 game Wed night and a big 3 day tournament fri sat sun with expected temps in high 20's .
Ahhhh you must be jealous
I certainly am when you all talk about games in the middle of our winter with temps 8 or 9 degrees celcius .

Let me translate ... But, I do look forward to the off season; problem is, here the "off season" is almost as long as the "on season"! Give me another month or so; then ask again!

Jealous? Of what? The weather? Ha!

I was at the top of Pikes Peak on a bright, sunny Thursday afternoon last week. The temp was in the 20's (F) with a steady 10-15 mph winds with gusts up to 25. Loved every second of it. There is absolutely nothing wrong with some cold weather.

Yep, the cold weather has hit here in the valley of So. CA too. Yesterday's games were played in low 70's temps with the night game in the upper-50's. It's only in the upper 60's today so tonight's game will be in the chilly mid-50's. I kind of like this "cold" weather. Just last month it was in the 90's with summer temps reaching tripple digits everyday (highs of 100+).

My best shot at poetry:


Rainy .. Windy .. Cold .. Miserable

45.6 degrees on the temp thingy (thats like 1 degree celsius or something, who knows)

snow will be here soon.

I hate the snow.

Hell you guys it doesnt even get that cold here in Christchurch New zealand .
The coldest even in the middle of winter is minus 2 degrees then it warms up to 8 or 9 .
Generally in winter it sits around 10 or 11 degrees during the day .
All celcius by the way .Its too cold for me so occasionally I gravitate to Australia for a couple of weeks for some softball there (when my wife lets me )

u guys and ur messed up degrees. ;)

Yeah, world society has been losing its soul with every passing year since the metric system was invented. Before that, systems of measurement were connected to the world of natural human experience. Now, it is just cold, abstract numbers... I mean, who the heck actually KNOWS what one ten-millionth part of the quadrant of the earth is, let alone the length of the path traveled by light in vacuum during a time interval of 1/299,792,458 of a second?

I KNOW how far it is from the tip of my nose to my longest fingertip with my arm extended at the shoulder! Who gives a bleep if it is hard to use in calculations... that is what computers are for! :D

Heck....sounds like the "summer" weather in New Zealand is like the winter weather we have been having here in Texas. Guess that's why they play softball the year round here.

It's fall now in the Neth.'s... (5-12C). Butthursday it will be like spring: 17C! :D
But still all ice-skating lanes are open and I'm looking foreward for the Alternative Eleven City skating tour; 200km skating in one day.:cool:

yes, i'm missing the summer too, but in winter there are also fun sports to do: IndoorCup in Schiedam (nearby Rotterdam NL) in jan...:rolleyes:

I Knew I would get an answer from a Texan .
Everythings better and bigger .

But of course!!! :D

This time of year in NE Ohio we ump indoors. fifty to sixty degrees, dry field and no wind nor rain. Lots of nets though

Yeah, that's what they keep telling themselves. There is no one left to debate the issue because everyone else is ROTFLOAF!!!

Although I must admit New Zealand could probabley fit in Texas .
Come to think of it we would fit in most of the 52 states.
At least we dont get hurricanes:eek:

I would like to know what the other 2 states are, did you go to school in the US? I saw a survey not too long ago that said that only 28% of US high school seniors could name all 50 states. So how can I expect someone from New Zealand to get it right :(

Sure, absolutely....as long as it is somewhere else!!!;)

debeau

you may not have hurricanes in New Zealand but you sure have some whopping typhoons. I was on a flight from Brisbane to Los Angeles in '88 or '89 and we had to divert to NZ to wait out a typhoon. Got on the ground just as it started hitting the airport. And brother! I sure couldn't tell the difference between a hurricane and a typhoon while we were all huddled in the airport watching concourse windows leak and a few break.

"A typhoon is what hurricanes are called in the Pacific Ocean. Both hurricanes and typhoons are tropical cyclones. Hurricanes are a bit more specifically defined than typhoons. The American Heritage dictionary defines a hurricane as a severe tropical cyclone originating in the equatorial regions of the Atlantic Ocean or Caribbean Sea, traveling north, northwest, or northeast from its point of origin, and usually involving heavy rains. The same source describes a typhoon as a tropical cyclone occurring in the western Pacific or Indian oceans."

From an internet resource

yo Dutch. Do you work that indoor cup? I'm scheduled to come over for the 2008 one.

That is one thing to be thankful for......

What valley in So CA? There are many.

Bob

San Joaquin

Hi Steve,

I don't know yet. A group dutch umpire's (incl me) is asked IF they are available to work there. It's off season now for us, most off us spare their free days for the summer to umpire in the winter. I've mailed the UIC that he can put me on the roster. Saturday we, the dutch TOP-umpire crew, will meet te close this year/season as allways in nov. Maybe then we will hear who's going to Schiedam...
If I'm not chosen to umpire, I know I will go watching!
So see you at the Cup!

Reply to Steve M
 

It has been saturday by now (GMT+1h) and we've had our meeting this morning. I'm glad to be sceduled at the 2007 IndoorCup. Steve, are you at the next IndoorCup (2007) or did you wrote it down correctly: 2008?

I'm at the 2008 games. Here's hoping you go back to back & are at the 2008 games, too

Um...

Of course, San Joaquin is not So Cal..

Sure it is. Take your map out and draw a line 1/2 way between the state (West to East).

The San Joaquin Valley begins at the bottom of the Mts (Grapevine) and extends north to around Redding. No wait, up north there it's the Sacramento Valley.

When the summer temps in Kern County are 100+ (day after day, week after week, and month after month) the more southernly places like LA and SD are in the 80's (sometimes hotter). Except the more easternly places out toward Palm Springs, it gets hot out there too.

Anything else you need to know about my neighborhood?

Ha!

Bakersfield et al is trying to sneak into So Cal huh? What a bunch of sandbaggers.

OK you can trick those on the east coast with the map trick.. The rest know So cal begins at Grapevine.

Personally, if I lived anywhere near the area, I'd be looking for map trickery to NOT be considered part of socali. ;)

Not if you lived in the slime pit that is kern county.. you'd be looking for someone to accept you into their area, any area.

:D

You can no longer be jealous
Saturday morning games a nice 70 degrees , afternoon 86 degrees then about 2-30pm it dropped to 55 degrees .
Today with night games scheduled a pleasant 65 degrees then it hailed ,the skys lit up and it thundered then it pissed down all in the space of 1 hour , consequently games were cancelled .:mad:

I was taught that anything south of Grapevine was considered northern Mexico.

metric system please
 

What happened to those nice Celsius degrees, you were using? Now I can't read what you're writing!:confused:

With two of my partners I'm planning to buy some slacks for next year. It ain't easy with all those different sizes and no converttabels. Why can't we all at this world use the same rules, sizes, laws, lanes to drive over? Be friends no matter the skin, religion or size off ones feet?:(

Its for these damned yanks .
As most of the posters and readers are ynks I thought I better convert
The figures now mean nothing to me ::confused: :p

Shoot, we have national parks bigger than Texas.

We feel so bad about relegating Texas to the second-largest state that we are considering splitting in half, which of course would make Texas the third-largest state.

Well thats not fair... in Alaska, national parks = "We have all this worthless ice covered land that no one wants to buy at any price, has no value, no one even wants to visit it.. so what should we do with it? National park!"

:D

Now THAT was funny! :D :D

I don't think the oil companies think they are worthless ;)

I hate to hijack this with a comment on the OP, but I've realized that I'm jealous of anyone who has FP more than 5 months a year. That's not a new realization, just can't ignore this topic anymore.

Ha! Very true.. so give the "national forests" to the oil companies and we're talkin value per acre baby!

Aint doing no good sitting there being a home for some wandering polar bear.