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  1. The Man In Blue

    Two calls from last night:

    Congratulations on the promotion! (Yes, that was legitimate sarcasm. 😁 ) You are up in northern Illinois, right? Or am I misremembering? PM me!
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    Dropped third strike play

    Can I explicitly explain it to you? No, as these are usually HTBT moments (Had To Be There). However, yes, there are a few possibilities: 1.) The "trainwreck" is generally accepted with a batter taking off and the catcher coming out to field the ball. "That's nothing!" is the prescribed...
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    Dropped third strike play

    When I coached rec, that was the #1 priority. I preached keeping first base open since U3Ks were so common.
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    Continuing Education - Umpire Evaluation

    You totally missed the point of my posts (sarcasm, although, those were real conversations). I was agreeing with what you say. As @marriard stated, you are largely going to get retirees, guys who are unemployed and will do any game (machine pitch? Sure!) to make rent, or the exhausted 3rd...
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    New Coach, advice appreciated

    @sanderson47 . . . thank you for stepping up and doing what you are doing. As somebody who made a mid-life career change and became a teacher, what you are describing is no different than what I see in the classroom every day. I'm in my 4th year and I feel like a miserable failure every single...
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    Continuing Education - Umpire Evaluation

    Follow-up: D3 coach: “Why can’t we get better umpires for $100 on these Tuesday noon games?”
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    Is this a knockoff?

    Laughing because I just had this conversation today: Mr. TMIB: “So, what does this mean?” Student: “I don’t know, but Google said it is the answer.” Mr. TMIB: “So, you copied it?” Student: “No. Google gave me the answer, but I wrote it down.” :oops:
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    Player safety when injured

    No answer to the first. To the second: Quick answer, because there is no safety standard for fielder’s masks. NFHS is not going to REQUIRE a piece of safety equipment that does not have a uniform standard. More in depth answer: because NOCSAE’s standards are about concussion prevention, which...
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    Player safety when injured

    I’ll take that one step further: What training is your travel program providing or requiring?
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    Dropped 3rd: Safety Base

    Largely, I agree. The only reason I would say it isn't semantics is that there is no line or boundary on the fair side (as there is on the foul side).
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    Continuing Education - Umpire Evaluation

    Ol' Smitty's assignor sends him because he is available for those noon games on Tuesday, not so he can be evaluated.
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    Runner tag-up after Infield Fly?

    Giving the like, but your last statement is not correct. Schrodinger's Batter . . . they are simultaneously not out and out. They aren't out until they are out, but they have no legal reason to attempt to advance as they are either out or it is a foul ball. If fair, the batter is out and you...
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    NAIA ruling on Transgender athletes

    Not that many of you care (just as I am not reading much of this thread), but the Pablo Torres video is highly worthwhile. Here is a shorter version of that student's story and a quick overview of what Ohio was doing.
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    NAIA ruling on Transgender athletes

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    NAIA ruling on Transgender athletes

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