Minor Notes before Part II

Here are just some quick notes/musings before we get back to the DEYP Guide later on in the day.

1) I've spoken (electronically) with an administrator at Blogger, the company which hosts this site, and they're having some trouble with the Polls, specifically for Internet Explorer users. So my apologies if you can't vote on this week's poll. Firefox and Netscape do seem to be working...if anyone still uses Netscape..

2) The weather is looking a little dicey for today/tomorrow, but the games WILL be played unless it gets really bad with thunder and lightning and frogs, etc.

3) Thank you to Evan Stancil for being such a good sport about this week's posts. It's all in good fun.

4) Just to clear something up, which I occassionally have to deal with, I do NOT play on any of the teams in this league. I never have. I'm a full-time umpire for DcCityball and I get paid for my time. Because of a difficulty in finding quality umpires (and yes we do sometime use ASA guys, but the Commissioner really finds it more beneficial for the league to use umpires who are familiar with both the players and the spirit of DcCityball), occassionally Dave and Ryan Hemingway, both Swingers, will umpire games in a pinch. I've been umpiring for almost 10 years, and doing this league for like 4, but I cannot do ALL the games. Henry and Erin have stepped up this season and done a fantastic job, but with the boom of new teams, we are sometimes shorthanded. It is only in a difficult situation, ie the 24 game rain-make-up weekends, that we sometimes use players, who are also experienced officials, to umpire games. They have never and will never umpire their own games!


Anyway, that's all. Check back later.

-Play ball