Gentlemen, I am a coach,(I do umpire a few tournament games at end of the season) and I think many of you are missing Mattingly's point. Now unless I am reading the original post incorrectly, he went to the mound for a pitching visit, and then was told by his catcher that he couldn't answer where the pitch was? I could understand if he was asking the catcher right after the pitch(in public, so to speak), but during a pitching conference, in a game where I'm coaching, in this situation, I guess you guys are going to have to run me out too. And I used to wonder why so many coaches say umpires are arrogant ***holes.
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