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Originally Posted by LIIRISHMAN

You know in a perfect world every game we do is played at Shea or Yankee stadiums where there isn't a blade of grass that isn't perfect.Unforunately for most here we call games in the real world where fields abutt each other and chaos is all round us. Where things can go wrong pretty quickly. I wil kill a play always when safety becomes a issue (especially girls FP). It's a lot easier to do then being sued for negligence

I don't know what you mean. All of our fields are perfect...every speck of dirt in its proper place, every blade of grass is 3/16 of an inch ;)

I support the do-over almost always up here for a couple reasons:
1. Because SRW and I are the crew chiefs for many tournaments here, and we think it's almost always the right thing to do.

2. Many (not always, but many) times the balls do impact play because attention gets diverted to the stray ball and not to the actual ball.

I appreciate and understand other thoughts on the subject. Not saying they are wrong, but it's just the way we're doing it right now. It could change; after all, we are walking the line again.

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Originally Posted by bkbjones

Hmmm, I think there is a little more than spring in the air in that neighborhood.

Some years ago, while umpiring the bases in a tournament, there were players from another team playing pepper or something like that just beyond the centerfield fence. Several times their ball came onto the field and we stopped play each time while the F8 ran out to get the ball & toss it back to them. It got annoying. So I fixed it. I had F8 give me the ball and I tossed it - right into and across the empty soccer field that was on the other side of 3B. I could hardly lift my right arm for the next couple of days, but that was a long throw. Can't tell me that players and parents won't cheer for us umps.:D

Anyway, the other team decided to either be much more careful or move - 'cuz no more extra balls came onto the field.