techno ump

Dakota · #1 (**permalink**) Tue May 31, 2011, 12:53pm

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Originally Posted by jchamp

.... please don't accuse us all of being gee-whiz technophiles.....

I wasn't accusing anyone of anything; I was just wondering whose money he was putting at risk here... his or his mom's.

It's like one of the ads a couple of years ago for an iPhone app where it was being used as a bubble level. Just what I'd want to do with a $600 piece of electronics... use it as a carpenter's tool!

NCASAUmp · #2 (**permalink**) Tue May 31, 2011, 12:56pm

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Originally Posted by Dakota

I wasn't accusing anyone of anything; I was just wondering whose money he was putting at risk here... his or his mom's.

It's like one of the ads a couple of years ago for an iPhone app where it was being used as a bubble level. Just what I'd want to do with a $600 piece of electronics... use it as a carpenter's tool!

One that doesn't work very well to begin with!

dilligaf · #3 (**permalink**) Tue May 31, 2011, 03:35pm

I did have an occasion to work with a young man around the age of twenty who was found to be texting while he was on first base. I found out that he has be cuaght at it before but the UIC did nothing about it. Suffices to say that I will never work with the techno-dork again.

Andy · #4 (**permalink**) Tue May 31, 2011, 05:45pm

I had to have a conversation with a local HS umpire a few years back.

It was reported that he was pulling his cell phone out between innings.
When I asked him about it, he told me that he wasn't calling or texting anybody....he was checking the Yankees score.....

The cell phone was bad enough, but when he said Yankees...that was it...he no longer umpires in our association!

Dakota · #5 (**permalink**) Tue May 31, 2011, 06:05pm

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Originally Posted by Andy

I had to have a conversation with a local HS umpire a few years back.

It was reported that he was pulling his cell phone out between innings.
When I asked him about it, he told me that he wasn't calling or texting anybody....he was checking the Yankees score.....

The cell phone was bad enough, but when he said Yankees...that was it...he no longer umpires in our association!

Are you sure he was a fan? Maybe he was like me... one of my favorite teams in baseball is whoever is playing the Yankees!

BretMan · #6 (**permalink**) Fri Jun 03, 2011, 08:35am

My phone has a really cool countdown timer app that would be great for the field. Plus I have a PDF version of the ASA rule book downloaded that might come in handy sometime. But, like others, I refuse to take my phone on the field.

Last year on the plate I had a pseudo-foul tip come straight back and and right into my left hand. When I opened my hand, my indicator literally fell apart into about a dozen pieces- wheels, shattered case, all the guts. Sure would have hated for that to have been my phone!