When we came up with the name "Behind The Plate" for the title of my blog it was because I'm an umpire and it sounded good. So today, I'm behind the plate again but not as an umpire.

One of the great benefits of working with Active and Little League during the Regional and World Series is that I'm part of the official media. I'm able to write this blog, tweet and video pretty much anywhere in the stadiums. Today, I'm sitting in one of the small press media rooms just "behind the plate". As I write this, we're in the bottom of the 1st inning and Trea Crop and Cole Scieszinski of IOWA just hit back-to-back homeruns and lead MISSOURI 3-0.

I have a great view of the action but it would be nice to be able to watch the game on TV too but I'm not complaining. All of the Central Staff and volunteers here have been great to work with. It's hard to believe that we're down to the final 2 games. I head back to Michigan in the morning and fly out to Williamsport on Wednesday. A short turnaround for sure but well worth it!

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I hope you have enjoyed the Blog, videos and my tweets so ar. I want to thank Michael Clarke back at our Active office in California for all the work he has done editing and then uploading my videos. As you can imagine, I take a lot of videos and then uploaded them for Michale to do his magic. He does make me look good!

I'm going to watch the rest of this game now... we're in the bottom of the 2nd and the Urbandale Little League team still leads 3-0 over Daniel Boone National Little League from Missouri.

If you haven't had a chance to view the videos, click here to check them out.