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Originally Posted by scrounge
you get micromanaged to this degree?!? uh.....ok
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Things are weird all over...
Scrounge, I'm sure that you are familiar with the Central Ohio Baseball Umpires Association.
Back around 2004 I had started using the Gerry Davis stance. About that same time I was scheduled for an on-field evaluation by one of the senior umpires for that group (who I believe is still with the group).
On my evaluation I was dinged for "putting my hands on my knees" and told that a plate umpire should NEVER do that. I was using the stance exactly as it's described, working a little bit higher and a little bit farther back and I got dinged for "being too high and too far back" too.
We can get goofy advice from a variety of sources!