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Originally Posted by IRISHMAFIA
I bet you win every game you coach, right?  Or would those just be the mistake-free games?
Shit happens and yes, the PU made a mental, albeit serious, error in mechanics. Yes, it MAY have affected the outcome of the game, but if you can believe you can point to one call that cost your team a game, you didn't play good enough to win.
And I, too, believe the BUs would have little to offer from 70'+ away with a poor, if any, angle. It is unfortunate, but a "safe" ruling was all that was available since you don't call what you don't see.
I can pretty much guarantee this umpire feels worse than anyone else about this incident. |
No. I don't win every game.
And I'm sure the umpire feels terrible. I don't agree that "safe" was the only ruling "available". Why? Because the kid sitting there basically lied to the PU and said she was safe? If he's going to go that far, he might as well ask the catcher's opinion about it too. But he couldn't because the catcher was up and looking for the next play after she did her job at the plate. The point I'm making is the PU had NO desire whatsoever to at least ask the field umpires if they saw anything. 70 feet away with eyes on the ball is still better than sitting on your behind looking the other way.
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Originally Posted by RKBUmp
From your last rant about umpires and getting the call right, you still cant explain what umpire would have the authority to overrule another umpire or how to handle situations where the umpires differ on their judgement of a call. In a 2 umpire system do you want it to be a flip of the coin? In a 3 umpire system is it majority rule?
As for "getting the call right", prime example also on national TV of getting the call right actually getting the call wrong. Florida/Auburn game on saturday, tag play at the plate umpire makes out call. Florida coach asks plate ump to check for a bobbled ball on the tag. Plate ump gets together with U3 who apparently saw a bobble and call is reversed to safe. Replay clearly shows no bobble of the ball on the tag and the initial out call was correct.
People make mistakes, it is a fact of life. Even umpires getting together is no guarantee the call is going to be right just as in the example above. Without reviewing every play in super slow motion replay, which by the way I hate in absolutely every sport that uses instant replay, there is no way to make sure every play is called correctly. The human eye does not see things in 20,000 frame super slow motion with stop action. Coaches arent perfect, players arent perfect but everyone expects officials to be 100% perfect on every play. Yes, officials need to be accurate, but we are humans and humans are going to make mistakes.
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Of course all humans make mistakes. I honestly feel badly for the PU. He has to live with it because he didn't ask for help. It's a prime example of a scenario where help should have been sought. I'm not a big fan of instant replay either because nobody has the ability to televise every game across this country.