u/Zpage03

One thing about me is that I love to communicate when working a 2 man system, not only does it help me stay engaged with the situation and slow the game down in my head, but it helps me gain the trust of my partner since they’re constantly changing. Making sure they know the situation and where I am going to be is always a good thing in my book. Obviously all the standard ones like IF/cancel IF have been with me for a long time, this year I added pre AB indications of where I am going to be (Standard rotation, I got third on the double steal or batted ball, and staying home) which almost everyone has integrated just fine when working with me. Also timing play (which is my biggest pet peeve when people signal that every time there’s two outs rather than an actual scoring opportunity). Any other fun ones that you guys use?

Looking at getting an aftermarket spoiler but I really want to avoid drilling new holes if possible and don’t trust 3M tape alone. Would like suggestions for one that uses the stock bolt locations and if need be can be paired with 3M . Rally type style preferred but I’m an open book!

This happened a while back for context. Nothing really came of it and all coaches came to a mutual consensus pretty quick but would like to know the actual correct ruling. Bear with me as some of the situational details have long eroded in my memory.

Situation: LL Majors div. Runner on third, count had either 0 or 1 strikes (since batter did not strike out on the swing). Anything else not particularly relevant to the given question

Pitch comes, batter swings and misses, catcher squeezes too hard and the ball pops almost straight back out on the path it entered(potentially even up a little bit. The back swing dinks the ball into basically a perfect bunt down the first base like (admittedly very impressive). I don’t believe the runner ended up trying to advance.

Since the bat didn’t ever touch the glove or interfere with the catcher I didn’t call batters interference though that was my first instinct. The reason I didn’t is because the backswing was still controlled and the ball hitting the bat was more or less the fault of the catcher failing to do their job and not on the batter being sloppy. After standing there with each of the coaches looking at each other like “damn I have never seen that in the long time I’ve been doing this” I made the net decision to call it null and void and just move on from there as if it was a foul ball. All coaches were cool with it and more surprised that it happened at all.

That said Ive got a gut feeling that by the rulebook this was not the correct call. But given the skill level/seriousness of that given game, the fact that time limit was approaching and the score was very lopsided it was not consequential by any means and we all preferred to just play it out rather than going on a hunt through the rule book.

Hello all! For context, this is my 13th season I started at 9 and umping had been the pleasure of every summer. Historically speaking I get really good reviews for parents coaches and kids alike. That said, there are still some games (maybe 1 in every 20-25) where I just feel like I can’t get in a rhythm the way I like and every call retrospectively feels a little off from what it maybe should. This is likely due to going from as low as 9u little league up to maybe high school varsity from one day to the next. Anyone have advice on how to cool down, collect, and reset effectively so that I can finish those games that feel rough (even if they maybe aren’t that bad) more consistent and confident?

Hi y'all! So I have done some work on typewriters, I stripped down and worked a lot on an Underwood Standard 6, but I am looking to expand my collection, and particularly am looking at electric models as I want to draft a book and some of the spell corrects would be neat to utilize. I have noticed that a lot around me are either non-functioning as a whole, or have a motor that will turn on but won't type. This leads me to my couple of questions: How accessible are parts for electric models from the 60s-90s, of those which brands are most common to find for parts. Are most of these issues with the mechanical sides or wiring issues? For those who have learned how to work on mechanical and electric typewriters, is there actually a drastic difference in difficulty, as it would seem? Any insight into how to learn to work on electrics via manuals, good YouTube channels, etc., would be dope.