I dislike the defensive huddle before retaking the field. Grab your glove and get out there.
New NFS time between inning rule
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Where I see it mostly enforced is during tournaments where many games are played on the same field the whole day and it's not drop dead, but no new. The ripple effect of delays from morning to evening can add up.
I totally understand tournaments and agree. But for the most part we are playing stand alone games with no reason to be in a rush to get done.
We don’t do it after an at bat. We only do it as we leave the field to go on offense and know we don’t go more than a minute and a half.
Yeah, I guess I was only bringing up the infrequent case of getting games in before darkness, and raising questions of how much stuff that goes on in-between innings is necessary. Personally, I have no problem with length of games. They are still considerably shorter than baseball games.
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Did my first High School game tonight. When my partner and I were discussing things in the parking lot, he said after the first inning he was enforcing "60/20/10" and he did. Called for balls in 60 seconds after the last out. He made sure the pitcher pitched within 20 seconds. Called one strike on a batter for not being in the box ready within 10 seconds after he directed her to be.
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Because you let them dawdle, its 3 minutes, sometimes 4 minutes in-between half innings. Of the top of my head that is 12 to 18 minutes more a game.
The game is supposed to be 7 innings. There are no commercials during a high school softball game, there is homework to get done after the game.
The game I did today took 89 minutes for a 4.5 inning run limit game.
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Not a new rule at all. Yes, I have called it before.
I'm going to paraphrase this from a recent post I made on another forum: When the catcher comes off the bases, heads to the dugout, and sits down. Then she has to go argue with mom over what flavor of Gatorade (I wanted Blue flavored!), then visit with grandma ... meanwhile the 4 coaches look like the King of the Hill gang (Yup.) standing around ... nobody is coming out to warm up the pitcher ... Nope. Not doing this. Not waiting 5 minutes for hte catcher to START getting ready and then thinking we are getting five warm up pitches and a catcher throw down to 2nd base (NOTE: there is NO rule that says a ctacher gets a throw down) and THEN the team is going to huddle up for some socializing (Did you see on Tik Tok who he's dating now!?) and a chicken sacrifice.
If you are looking at game times, you are looking at it wrong. It is about pace of play.
I'm going to paraphrase this from a recent post I made on another forum: When the catcher comes off the bases, heads to the dugout, and sits down. Then she has to go argue with mom over what flavor of Gatorade (I wanted Blue flavored!), then visit with grandma ... meanwhile the 4 coaches look like the King of the Hill gang (Yup.) standing around ... nobody is coming out to warm up the pitcher ... Nope. Not doing this. Not waiting 5 minutes for hte catcher to START getting ready and then thinking we are getting five warm up pitches and a catcher throw down to 2nd base (NOTE: there is NO rule that says a ctacher gets a throw down) and THEN the team is going to huddle up for some socializing (Did you see on Tik Tok who he's dating now!?) and a chicken sacrifice.
If you are looking at game times, you are looking at it wrong. It is about pace of play.
Simple answer from an umpire point of view:
1) It is the rule and has been for a long time.
2) It is a Point of Emphasis this year.
3) I know I am lucky if I get one game in a season where a supervisor/evaluator is looking at me and my partner for Regional/State final selection and I am not going to lose that because YOU coach, think you deserve some special consideration.
Since I do not know WHICH game the evaluator is at, I am enforcing all rules within the spirit of the game at all times.
P.S. If you as a coach/parent want to "just let the girls play" you can do that on a weekend where YOU give them all of the time in the world and choose which rules you and they want enforced and ignored.
1) It is the rule and has been for a long time.
2) It is a Point of Emphasis this year.
3) I know I am lucky if I get one game in a season where a supervisor/evaluator is looking at me and my partner for Regional/State final selection and I am not going to lose that because YOU coach, think you deserve some special consideration.
Since I do not know WHICH game the evaluator is at, I am enforcing all rules within the spirit of the game at all times.
P.S. If you as a coach/parent want to "just let the girls play" you can do that on a weekend where YOU give them all of the time in the world and choose which rules you and they want enforced and ignored.
The problem I have with this is it was not enforced in the past. If a rule is a rule why was it not enforced prior to this? What changed?? Just like some of the pitching rules (Leaping, replanting) some choose not to enforce.
I agree the game needs to move along, but do we need to put a stop watch on a softball game?
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