First, Blue has to show us his great-grandfather's 1890 era Spanish gold coin, This side is heads, this side is tails. Who wants to call it? Coaches waste 10 secs hemming and hawing you can call it. No, you're younger, you call it. No, you're from out of town, you call it. Finally that is settled.

The winner of the first flip earns the right to call heads/tails on the second flip to decide who is home or visitor. He wins, and announces he wants to be visitor.

Other Coach says we could have saved a couple of minutes if you would have stated your intention before this double flip.

Just one flip please. Catch it in the air and start the clock.

Thanks for the explanation.

Flipping to decide....who gets the call the flip? OK that sounds more than just a little goofy.

I couldn't agree more.

The things that must be done to humor associations and UIC's seems to get longer every year.:rolleyes:

we have a guy like that in our backyard - uses a 9/11 coin, and goes to great lengths explaining about it - and I bet there is somebody out there who has worked with this guy at a national somewhere...

Me, I use an Eisenhower Dollar - no explaination needed....

I have, however, occasonally used a dollar gaming chip from a certain establishment in Las Vegas :D

I use a Canadian Loonie.

I did use an ASA umpire coin that was given to me by a friend during my first tournament. Unfortunately, I seem to have misplaced it somewhere. I think I need to break out my 1923 Peace Dollar.

I have a few coins I use - an older ASA coin, a silver dollar, a ISC Fastball coin.. I rotate em and whatever I feel like I use. I have a bunch of others (including one from BuggBob!) that I keep in a little minicollection.

Kennedy half dollar. My pops loved JFK. :cool:

Whatever coin I have in my pocket. Or, whatever my partner has.

I go with the latter... I usually end up with a extra $2+ at the end of the tournament... if i work it right. :D

New Trick (for me)
 

Doing more games wear the home team is know, than "flip decisions" lately, I usually forget the coin all together... So this year I learned a new trick.

I put my indicator behind my back and start spinning the inning wheel, then ask Odd or Even.
When appropriate, my usual smart-a$$ remark is, "No fair counting the clicks".

As I'm typing this, it occurs to me that since I have a notched wheel, I could probably exercise some game management and control who the home team is!!! - :D:D

But I wouldn't..

I use one of many association flipping coins I have, since my old faithful was stolen a couple of years ago.

Really? Doesn't it hurt when he lands?

No, but it does confuse people when he tries to say AFLAC. ;)

For our friends to the North:

How did you get him out of Ottawa?