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Old Sat Aug 09, 2008, 03:15pm
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Watching the Senior LL Softball on ESPN 2. Home Plate umpire using baseball strike mechanics.
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Old Sat Aug 09, 2008, 03:59pm
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Watching the Senior LL Softball on ESPN 2. Home Plate umpire using baseball strike mechanics.
Notice the corn fields beyond the outfield fence. This place is in the middle of nowhere.
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Notice the corn fields beyond the outfield fence. This place is in the middle of nowhere.
Wait a minute, those games are not taking place here.
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Wait a minute, those games are not taking place here.
Nor are they at Hess Field in State College, PA!

Lower, slower DE where you either grow corn, alfalfa or chickens!
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Nor are they at Hess Field in State College, PA!

Lower, slower DE where you either grow corn, alfalfa or chickens!
Nothing wrong with any of that.
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Nothing wrong with any of that.
Really? Last year the Dept. of Homeland Security targeted propane as a possible terrorist target. That means they were in Sussex County, DE since that is one of the largest chicken farm areas in the country. Since propane is used to heat the coops, it was deemed a possible target.

http://www.dpichicken.org/index.cfm?...details&id=290

Your tax dollars at work!
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Nor are they at Hess Field in State College, PA!
And Shoeless Joe retrieves the home runs at the end of the night.

Got to love the shout out for Nittany Lion Country!!

And before anyone starts, the "squad" in town will NOT be contending.
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Old Sat Aug 09, 2008, 04:03pm
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Watching the Senior LL Softball on ESPN 2. Home Plate umpire using baseball strike mechanics.
I don't know. OBS was the obvious call, but from behind the play it looked like the runner initiated contact laying the shoulder into the catcher instead of going for the plate.

I would ask if LL allows for "about to receive", but then I heard the TH say the catcher is allowed to be there because the ball was on the way. If they said it, it must be true.
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Old Sat Aug 09, 2008, 04:47pm
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In my area we only give the safe sign if there is a play. Everyone is different, of course

"About to receive" was removed from the LL baseball/softball books about 6 years ago. As in ASA or NFHS the fielder must have the ball.

I'll be at our World Series in Portland tomorrow and Monday, so you might get some "bonus coverage" before the TV games. The best parts of being there: The ice cream at the concession stand (the fields are owned by the dairy that makes Baskin & Robbins)...and not hearing Michele Smith!
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Watching the NJ/PR game on ESPN. I know the plate umpire. He is a high school baseball ump. Calling the strike zone like I would, but using baseball style signals.
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Old Sat Aug 09, 2008, 05:51pm
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Watching the NJ/PR game on ESPN. I know the plate umpire. He is a high school baseball ump. Calling the strike zone like I would, but using baseball style signals.
I don't know, there were some worm burners called strikes.
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Old Sat Aug 09, 2008, 09:45pm
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I don't know, there were some worm burners called strikes.
Agreed. Low strike zone and that might be a result of working a lot of baseball and not a lot of upper level softball.
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Old Sat Aug 09, 2008, 05:45pm
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I would ask if LL allows for "about to receive", but then I heard the TH say the catcher is allowed to be there because the ball was on the way. If they said it, it must be true.
I'm new here but I though the comment about the hands being part of the bat was laughable too.
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I'm new here but I though the comment about the hands being part of the bat was laughable too.
Welcome to the board!

You are correct, it is laughable. I missed the actual pitch, so I'm not sure if the umpire was correct or not.
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Old Sat Aug 09, 2008, 05:54pm
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Welcome to the board!

You are correct, it is laughable. I missed the actual pitch, so I'm not sure if the umpire was correct or not.
Thanks for the welcome.

Batter squared to offer on a bunt attempt and the ball hit her upper, right, hand.

OC was looking for the HBP and award.
Umpire called dead ball and a ball since her hand was out of the zone.

Commentator said there was no HBP award because "the hand is part of the bat". I can't believe that myth is still kept alive by idiots like this.
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