I think the PNW is scared of the rest of the country.......

It is a matter of communicating in an effectual and understandable manner.

Enough people have a problem dealing with the player designations at the beginning of a play. Could you imagine how difficult it would be if it changed midplay?

B4, with a 3-2 count, hits a ball to RC. Seeing the ball get past F9, the BR moves wide into foul territory to round 1B. Still watching the ball, R4 bumps into F3 and ....

Three separate designations of a player in a single play that isn't even over yet.

Hell??? You had two of the horniest fillies in the place fixated on you. You could have spent the whole weekend with those two and had all the good beer you wanted :rolleyes:

The only thing would have had to do is figure out how to put on the spurs ;)

True story. But, oh dear God. I have much more respect for Darrell drinking beer he considers swill than if he had even made eye contact with that readhead (let alone her companion).

We will not only out-drink you, we'll close the bar down and shut out the lights after you leave (once we find out where you are).

:)

Our NUS is this weekend in Olympia - begins tonight. It sounds like we have a similiar deal with our bartenders already set up - $5 buy in to an open bar. 8 NUS instructors, plus KR showing up to "observe" how we continually and successfully pull off a NUS with over 200 attendees (I think last count we were at 210 or so..) He doesn't think it's possible to be successful (even though we proved the NUS wrong in 2006 with 276 attendees). It's gonna be a good time!

Well, if you were with us, that is exactly what happened at Chisholms Saturday night. They actually locked up, cleaned up around us and then we went to breakfast.

Trust me, you are dealing with professionals here. You wouldn't have a prayer.

While I'm sure it is good, I don't believe there is any way an umpire gets their money's worth at a school that big.

How many State schools are there in the Region?

The school was great. The final count was 212. And yes, they got their money's worth. That's because we know how to do it right. Didn't hear one complaint about anything other than the sub sandwiches delivered on Saturday for lunch ran out of condiment packets (mayo, mustard).

All of the states (WA, OR, ID, MT, AK) have state schools - except this year WA combined theirs into this NUS. The three metros hold their own schools as well. Seattle's is spread out over 4 2-hour days - one per month for four months.

Swill? It could have been A1 or Lucky Lager!!!!!!
I will vouch for the PNW/Region 15. They were still in shock because their hospitality was so much better than Region 14 and felt it was better to remain sequestered than to be out and about and -- for no obvious reason -- break into hysterics.

You couldn't sell me on that with your money. I have a hard time believing an umpire can get the necessary attention with that many people, even with a 25-1 ratio. Just a personal opinion.


And that is another problem(not WA specifically). I have yet to have an umpire return from a National school stating it was boring. There are far too many inexperienced umpires dumped into National schools. It's great that they fill the schools, but those who are there to get to the next step sometimes end up learning little to nothing more than what they already knew.

General comments, not directed toward Reg. 15

Congratulations on conducting a successful school, but you would die a slow and painful death at the bar :D

Then I double dog dare you to come out to our next NUS in Region 15 and experience it for yourself.

One reason ours are successful: when you come up here for a national school, you get personal neck rubs from Malcolm and Bill.

Not happening. I've been to the PNW once, and that was enough.