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Obviously you do.

Agreed. Hackett is the best coach they have had since Marty Feltner. Hacket has accomplished more in three months then the previous coach (I use that title loosely) did in his entire tenure.

That's a good one

All they needed was a half way decent coach that knows just a little bit about baseball. Imagine how good they will be next year when Hackett gets to bring in his own assistants instead of the clowns he inherited.

No. What im saying is that if the players were capable of making "routine plays" (routine means "easy" for you NBG's) and could throw the ball to the first baseman chest (also considered routine/easy) then the first baseman would have never got in the runners way. There would never be a collision at first and the umpire would not have kicked the call by erring on the side of safety. What I was implying is if you make routine plays the umpire usually becomes invisible. But I am being to negative. On a brighter note. I hope Scott88 enjoyed his first baseball game. Did you get a batting helmet sunday?

One more thing about the EJ (that's short for ejection for you non-baseball guys). If the fielder had made a "good" or "decent" throw to the first baseman (like hitting him in the chest). Then none of this would have happened. Well, you still would have had 10 errors combined.

The coaches get paid. Shouldn't they be able to teach their teams how to field a ground ball and make a good throw? 10 errors in a district game is pitiful!! That's why you get T-ball umps, you field like T-ballers. Just saw the box score for the Creek/Catholic game, ZERO errors. Just saw the box score for the Harrison/Nicholas game, 1 error. 10 errors and you guys want to gripe about umpires, unbelievable. CATCH A GROUND BALL!!!!

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Combined wasn't there like ten errors? Sounds like a couple people had "off" games.

I'm sure he thinks your great too.

So let me get this straight. You used to umpire but you were not very good. You didn't want to put in the time to be good so you stopped. Now you come on message boards and diss guys. Well you might have officiated a couple baseball games in the past but it doesn't sound like you were ever a umpire.

Then you do it. For real man, do it. Sign up next year and do it. And as for the money, take your game fees and donate them back to the booster club. That would be awesome!

You should be the evaluator.

The heard is already trim as can be. The cupboard is bare. That's why you see old fat guys working the games. If they had a PT for HS umpires there would not be enough umpires to cover all the games. Unless of coarse some of the fellas on this site want to give it a try and see if they can help improve the game for the kids in the community that they claim to love. Oh wait, that takes time and true dedication, it's a lot easier to just complain.

No there is not and you are right there should be. There isn't even a PT for most college umpires. The D1 conferences in the south have a PT but it is very very easy... Some of the people on this site could even pass it (maybe).

Looks like you had a few already

I heard all the good umpires in NKY go across the river to work good baseball.

Will the Umpires get the the credit for the win? They always get blamed when MoCo loses...

I don't doubt that a high school umpire missed a call five years ago. What I find hard to believe is that a umpire ejected a coach over something that was said five years ago. How did it happen? Did the umpire just walk up to the coach and say, "I remember what you said five years ago, your Ejected". Is that how it happened? Find that hard to believe? Was this the first time the coach and umpire had seen each other in five years? Find that hard to believe also. I would just like to hear the real story because Blockhead's version seems a little fishy.

Do you really believe that?