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Jerry Layne edit

You mention in the Edit history of the Jerry Layne page to "not make baseless claims." The television broadcast is showing the location of the pitches and has shown that Jerry Layne has been calling many balls as strikes for Cardinals pitchers and strikes as balls for the Rangers pitchers. This is fact. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.222.155.221 (talk) 02:50, 29 October 2011 (UTC)
I understand that. I do not disagree with your assertion. However, if you make a claim, you must reference verifiable sources. If you hold on until the end of the game, I'll supply the page with specific numbers of pitches missed. As it stands right now, Layne has missed 15 calls, 13 have benefitted St. Louis while only two have benefitted Texas. SOURCE: http://umpireejections.blogspot.com/ . As long as you have a source/reference and write the piece from a neutral point of view, it will be fine. RefereeOrganist (talk) 02:55, 29 October 2011 (UTC)

Fixed line score, replacing dashes (-) with exes (X)?

Hi, just saw your comment in 2011 ALDS edit summary. However, I can't find such scoring notation in the MLB rule PDF. Can you show me where it is? Thanks~--NullSpace (talk) 06:10, 1 October 2011 (UTC)

- Must be a supplementary style guide. RefereeOrganist (talk) 06:52, 1 October 2011 (UTC)

Greg Gibson October Edit

Your recent edit stated vandalism. I would like to know which seat you sat in during this issue, im not going to reverse it, thats your job, I have several people that heard this, present at the game. Myself also, If you would like to sensor the truth from people, thats your business, if you know this person just ask him to watch his language around children for me. --this is intended as a message to refreeorganist — Preceding unsigned comment added by Jwren33 (talk • contribs) 21:01, 24 October 2011 (UTC)

–The edit reversed was at the least guilty of lacking neutrality (NPOV), at worst vandalism. Unfortunately, your description is unsourced and as a result an illegitimate accusation, which should not be placed on wikipedia. Had there been a news story about this and had it been a bigger issue, this would be a more appropriate addition, though the language would still have to be changed to convey a neutral viewpoint in factual reporting. RefereeOrganist (talk) 21:12, 24 October 2011 (UTC)

You are correct, more of a news story, and I am no writer. However, I witnessed it, the fan was out of line, I just dont appreciate the language used by the umpire. The reason I took my camera out and snapped the photo. I was shocked to see a professional umpire repsond to a fan in that manner, also these umpires have mics on them, so it is recorded also. I do understand your point, appreciate your swift response. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 99.72.200.99 (talk) 21:56, 24 October 2011 (UTC)

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	Hello, RefereeOrganist. We are pleased to invite you to join WikiProject Baseball's Umpires task force, a group dedicated to improving articles related to baseball umpires. If you're interested in participating, please add your name to the list of members on the task force page.

 Happy editing! AutomaticStrikeout 18:28, 6 October 2012 (UTC)

Thanks for joining! Welcome aboard! AutomaticStrikeout 19:47, 6 October 2012 (UTC)

Another Invitation

Automatic Strikeout and I have started a new sub-project off of the NFL Wiki-Project dedicated to referees. It can be found here. I know you helped out with the umpires task force a few months ago, so I thought it was worth a shot on this one. Feel free to jump in. Thanks for the consideration--Go Phightins! (talk) 20:57, 9 October 2012 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

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	For all your work on the umpire articles. AutomaticStrikeout 05:17, 12 October 2012 (UTC)

2012 National League Wild Card Game article undone revision

Hello, I'm curious as to why you undid my revision on the 2012 National League Wild Card Game page. I was trying to bring out that the commentators, with years of experience in baseball, a good view of the play, and definitely a good view of the replays, disagreed with the umpire's infield fly rule call in the bottom of the 8th inning. Thank you.

-The commentators' assessment of the play was factually incorrect and, as always, written material—especially opinions—must be sourced.RefereeOrganist (talk) 22:32, 15 October 2012 (UTC)

Thank you. BULKBULKARD (talk) 18:09, 1 November 2012 (UTC)

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Edits on Ron Kulpa

I'm not sure if you're aware, but the edits you have been reverting concerning relevance are being discussed on Talk:Ron Kulpa - please read/comment there before reverting the edits again. Garchy (talk) 20:01, 24 May 2016 (UTC)

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Baseball Umpires

Hi. I don't think we've met, but I am seeing your name pop up quite often at Baseball Umpire Biographies. I myself am very interested in referee articles from all sports. So much so I started a wikiproject. I have been going through all the Category:Sports officials articles and cleaning them up (big issues wwith WP:Undue}. I have already done cricket, rugby union, rugby league, soccer, american football, gaelic football, australian rules and a few other smaller sports. Currently I am working my way through baseball. I just wanted to pop a note on your talk page to let you know what I am doing as I am assuming you have most of these pages watchlisted. I apologise for the watchlist spam. I enjoy, and follow to a degree all sports, but not being American my baseball knowledge is a little limited, so would welcome any discussion regarding my edits here, at my talk page or a specific article. AIRcorn (talk) 09:20, 8 December 2016 (UTC)

Thanks for the intro. Good to see an effort toward organizing these articles. RefereeOrganist (talk) 02:59, 19 December 2016 (UTC)

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