Impartial_Observer

I dealt with a couple of those parents this weekend!

Defensively? Since you seem to be in the know do tell the story. You do understand that “dynamic” means among other things in a state of change, or fluid.

Don’t know him, don’t have any idea about his personal life, but I know Jeff and its history.

What is incorrect about anything I said?

You got those receipts, right? I never said ANY of that.

Columbus North contacted the HHC and the HHC said no.

The $64,000 question is, would the board be able to control such a person? I had a gazillion people tell me he’d get it straightened out. You’ll excuse me if I take a wait and see attitude……history says otherwise.

It’s Jeff, is now a bad time to remind everyone how they said AJ Moye would fix it?

You’ve also been around enough to know the higher the level of play, the easier it is to officiate. My partner only do V HS games. We only work places that take care of us and treat us decent. We drive by a lot of games to get to the ones we work. I don’t know for a fact but I firmly believe schools continue to hire us year in and year out because they know what they’re going to get. They know we’re going to make them swing the bat, it’s not stupid, but everyone’s here to see you hit….so oblige them! Unlike some posters in this thread they know there’s a bottom of 1 0-0 strike zone and bottom of 4 12-0 strike zone.

What you are describing are the unwritten rules of Baseball that have existed since long before your darling child got punched out on a horrible called third K.

My daughter played with the same glove from 9YO until her freshman year in college. It was a shitty pleather Easton that I bought at Hibbetts in Seymour for 25 bucks. Hey she was 9 at the time. The glove was shot, no stays in the fingers, I begged her to let me buy her a new glove. Finally early in the fall of her frosh year in college and said “dad I need a new glove, I had two line drives go thru mine today at practice. Settled on a Wilson Pro Model, they retailed at $380 I believe back in 2013, 12 1/2” IF Baseball glove. My BSN rep hooked a brother up for like 250 ish. She always wore baseball gloves, but used a SB catchers mitt.

You bitch about the officials every week in the HHC thread. You just wake up recently?

When I was I think a junior I think I did my first radio interview. My coach told me before I went “don’t tell them what you know”. Best piece of advice coach ever gave me.

Don’t drag me into your shit. I met the guy last year at the SB regional, and frankly was curious how he landed that gig. Particularly when they took a pass on alumni Joe Witten. FK there ain’t enough money to get me to wear green.

Sometimes.

Word! But just for illustration here. It’s my zone, you need to adapt.

I will preface all I’m about to say by stating I have been involved in yute sports from every angle, player, coach, official, and administrator, I always felt like I had a pretty good handle on what we, at least I was trying to accomplish with yute sports. And call me a romantic, but I truly believe athletics are an extension of the classroom. With all that being said everyone is aware of the current state of officiating at all levels. Shortages, bad officials, inexperienced officials working to high of levels, rinse, repeat. Over the weekend while supervising a club softball tournament I read numerous posts on FB complaining about umps… from C level to a HS Varsity HC complaining umpires cost his team a sectional championship in a 7-6 that featured his opponent hitting a grand slam. Most of the posts, complete with pics and vids did show a generous strike zone. But the recurring theme I heard was yes it was like that the every game of the sectional. Everything I saw as an uninterested third party looked consistent to me. WTF else can you ask for? I will assure you when I’m on fire behind the dish I’ll still miss a couple. Which leads me to the point of this paperback. I’m 61 years old and I realize I’m from another time, but in my thinking, we need to adjust to Blue’s zone. That would seem a LOT more logical than bitching about balls and strikes on FB wouldn’t it? Today I got involved in this gem on FB. 11 YO gets punched out on a pitch in the other batters box, it’s a bad call, but it IS the call. My point is my thought process in ALL of this I’m trying to teach my kids A) shit just went wrong, how are you going to react and B) to control what they can control. And don’t waste energy on stuff you can’t. Instead of whining on FB and looking like a TOTAL BEOTCH, what if we taught our kids to make adjustments. If Blue’s got a wide zone, let’s throw our hands at it, foul it off and maybe the next pitch will be something we can do something with. On the other side of it, when you’re sitting over there on that bucket, don’t you keep calling farther and farther out until you figure out Blue’s limit is? What are we trying to accomplish with youth sports today? As an official and administrator, what are we doing? Are we here for the NIL money, college scholarships, have fun, child development, social status ( yes I’m looking at you in particular Westfield), I’m down with whatever just let me know what we’re trying to accomplish

Just what we need more complicated taxes.

So the folks who send their kids to private school don’t pay property taxes? State taxes?

I seem to recall an influx of management types showing up as coaches in PAAL. Most were gone by the end of the 2000’s. I would guess 4-5 different guys who were coaching and did a good job. They ended up in Columbus commuting to Greensburg.

Good insight. Having been on one of the teams every Friday for nearly 50 years I felt like I was a little more in the know about what it takes to put on a Friday night production. When I retired from Friday nights, our local AD asked if I would come help out for home games. I am tasked with meeting the officials in the parking lot and taking care of them for the evening. Now having seen from the production aspect of this, there is a TON of work that goes into any given Friday night. Thanks for sharing.

Some factors: Honda and an influx of Ohio residents into the area. PAAL program was at its zenith prior to starting “travel ball”. Quality coaching at the MS level. We’ve discussed in the past, I’m not pumping up any egos here There was an influx of cash from somewhere. I’m not saying anything underhanded. But athletic money was flowing in Columbus. The Peyton Manning effect

Same excuse they used for open transfer.

We had this game many moons ago, it was my understanding at the time the series was ending. Gleising refused a running clock, which Providence started asking for in the second quarter. Pretty much sealed my opinion of Gleising as he refused.

FC-Providence? That’s a special rivalry?