[phone rings again]

You do get that occasionally and normally give back a “on the plate” or some short and obvious answer, but I was taught to give a little extra information to head that off on close ones on the corners of the zone so you don’t hear it as much. If a pitch is right at the knee but outside, “ball (sort of loud), that’s…

I know NCAA isn’t MLB, but if I let something like this go even in a D3 game I would have expected a phone call by the time I left the parking lot and an empty schedule after that.

Ah, so you saw this? https://deadspin.com/how-a-senior-league-hockey-fight-ended-with-one-player-5868584

Max the rear downforce, minimize the front, and pop a wheelie on Seattle Circuit straight away. If you hit it just right, you can break through the wall and then you’re in the matrix and continue accelerating until speed reaches, I think 2,147,483,647 MPH, which is the maximum size of a 32-bit integer. Then the game…

“Two base award” is how it’s generally referred to in umpire circles. I’m pretty sure that terminology is used in case books that supplement the rule book like you linked to. It’s definitely how it was verbally referred to in various training I had to take back in my umpire days.

Goodell would call Angel Hernandez and we’ll have no catch, obstruction, and Reddick ends up on second base.

What is the better part of a Natty Light 12 pack? The cardboard box?

Robert Kraft: [hugs]

Robert Kraft is still interested.

Rob Manfred is adding this to his list.

Bingo. I just wrote a separate comment about it, but it was basically a non-factor. I worked D3 and D1 in the midwest for a few assignors and the only visible change to fans (parents) was an umpire looking at a stopwatch periodically like a weirdo.

I forget exactly when this happened, but probably 8-10 years ago the NCAA added pitch clocks: 20 seconds with no one on, and at that same time there was a 90 second clock between innings (120 for TV games). Of all of the games I worked after this was enacted, I had to call a 90 second violation once (stickler coach…

Leave it to the Mets to figure this one out.

+1 JD Power award

I thought you were going free-range? Or is that the one where they just need a view of the outside world?

-75,000,000

The correct translation was “we need to get pucks deep”.

You sound cool.

Dabo seems like the name two burnouts would give a child born in an Arby’s who will later go on to be a star lacrosse player.