Tournament, tournament: Who’s got the tournament?

he end-of-the season tournament in McAllen meant I could put away my gear for a month or so. That’s what I had thought, anyway. But my association president called me last night, and now another set of end-of-the-season games is scheduled this weekend in Brownsville: 6 games in two days. Of course, I’ll have the championship game behind the plate. (grin)

I assumed from the call that word of my upbraiding of Smitty hadn’t traveled the 66 miles to the real tip-o-Texas city. I was wrong. "Hey, Carl," Louis said: "You wanna bring Smitty with you?" Soft laughter slipped across the phone lines.

I’m taking Adam, a sixth-year official who was selected for three play-off series in this year’s state tournament. Let me explain how unusual that is. Yours truly, as they used to say, got only two.

One mistake, two mistake, three mistake, four

Smitty’s first mistake was butting into my business. The four bullets to learn:

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