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Old Tue Aug 07, 2012, 11:32pm
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Yet I'm sure it was a bang-bang play at XX base that cost them the game, not the fact that they dropped every other hit ball right???
It was the same two teams I had last week. I had the managers together and said, "If there is a question on the rules tonight, I will answer it if it comes from you and you only. There won't be any umpiring by committee."

They understood, complied and had much more fun.

It's the way it should be.

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Old Wed Aug 08, 2012, 07:25am
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I refuse to do adult softball. Heck, I hated it when I played. I sure as heck don't want to subject myself to the pains of umpiring it.

Besides, I just don't look good in shorts...
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Old Wed Aug 08, 2012, 05:12pm
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I did some years and years ago-on the condition that My partner and I would dress like umpires.
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Old Wed Aug 08, 2012, 10:35pm
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No one wants me to umpire in shorts.
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Old Thu Aug 09, 2012, 12:06am
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You don't have to umpire SP in shorts but I sure do enjoy it better than pants when it's 100+ degrees out.
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Old Thu Aug 09, 2012, 12:20am
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You don't have to umpire SP in shorts but I sure do enjoy it better than pants when it's 100+ degrees out.
Hot here is 85. Usual about 66

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Old Thu Aug 09, 2012, 08:12am
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Rita, were you around in the days when . . . what was his user name . . . Ed, used to talk about "alleged adults" or AAs? That's what you're dealing with.

I think that was in the eTeamz days. I wonder whatever happened to Ed; I used to enjoy his stories of practicing how to judge pitch arc, involving a ten foot pole and his cap.
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