I dislike the defensive huddle before retaking the field. Grab your glove and get out there.
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 don't understand what the big hurry is. Why does it really matter if it takes 84 minutes or 92 minutes to finish the game. If it is that important drop an inning or set a drop dead time or whatever, or better yet just let them play and let the people in a that big of a hurry do something else. .
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.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.
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.I dislike the defensive huddle before retaking the field. Grab your glove and get out there.
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.The question I have is what is the hurry? I get it when there is a doubleheader or being worried about darkness but is there a big problem with a 1 1/2 hour game that someone said we need to strictly enforce this rule?
You go to a 7 inning baseball game and it takes 2 1/2 hours and no one seems to be in a hurry. If it was 30 seconds longer we are talking what, 3.5 more minutes per game.
As far as coaching goes I guess is should have said refocusing or correcting something that may have gone wrong.
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.I don't understand what the big hurry is. Why does it really matter if it takes 84 minutes or 92 minutes to finish the game. If it is that important drop an inning or set a drop dead time or whatever, or better yet just let them play and let the people in a that big of a hurry do something else. .
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.
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.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.