Your line up card

[IRISHMAFIA]

Originally Posted by Dakota

I just have one question... how does a person "present lineup management" in an umpire clinic without addressing the practical issues of how to do lineup management? That had to be a rather pointless consumption of time on the agenda, I would think.

Not really. Line up management is just on facit of game management. If both are coverd in a clinic, the management of the line up can be offered separately than the issues surrounding the need to properly manage a line up.

However, as I recently discovered, when doing so, it is best to have the clinician giving the line-up management stick strickly to that and allow the clinician giving game management to address the importance of the line up card.

[wadeintothem]

We didnt have anything about Line Up at NUS.

Probably the only reason it was discussed at your NUS is that system you use. Not only was it not discussed.. I've never seen it in use anywhere, and I only even heard about it on this MB the few times its been discussed.

Must be an east coast thing.

[Andy]

Being fortunate enough to live in the same city as Emily, and sitting under her mentoring and teaching for my entire softball umpiring career, I have attended her lineup management class a few times.

She schedules one evening in late February every year to strictly discuss lineups and lineup card management.

She has made a statement every year that I have attended that says that this is not the "official" or "accepted" or "recommended" way of keeping a lineup card, just the method she has put together. Of course, with her reputation and background, everybody immediately accepts her system as the best.

Personally, I do not follow her system to the letter, but use some pieces of it to keep my lineup card. It works for me and could be followed by another umpire if necessary.

I also use a red ink pen for my markings on the card. Very few coaches fill out their lineups with red ink, so my markings stand out.

[wadeintothem]

Originally Posted by Andy

Being fortunate enough to live in the same city as Emily, and sitting under her mentoring and teaching for my entire softball umpiring career, I have attended her lineup management class a few times.

She schedules one evening in late February every year to strictly discuss lineups and lineup card management.

She has made a statement every year that I have attended that says that this is not the "official" or "accepted" or "recommended" way of keeping a lineup card, just the method she has put together. Of course, with her reputation and background, everybody immediately accepts her system as the best.

Personally, I do not follow her system to the letter, but use some pieces of it to keep my lineup card. It works for me and could be followed by another umpire if necessary.

I also use a red ink pen for my markings on the card. Very few coaches fill out their lineups with red ink, so my markings stand out.

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[Dakota]

Originally Posted by wadeintothem

...Must be an east coast thing.

Just like a cali-nian. Everything east of San Bernardino County is "back east."

It is the first time I've heard of Pheonix being referred to as "east coast" though. That's pretty extreme even for a left coaster.

[wadeintothem]

Originally Posted by Dakota

Just like a cali-nian. Everything east of San Bernardino County is "back east."

It is the first time I've heard of Pheonix being referred to as "east coast" though. That's pretty extreme even for a left coaster.

ha!

oops...

OK, must be desert thang.