[PeteBooth]

"But what is YOUR review of what I did"?

Moose - True Confessions - Isn't that a magazine?

Moose with the exception of yourself (Big Grin!), we are all human. With that said we are going to make mistakes. No matter how many clincis we attend, rules meetings etc. we will inevitably make a mistake.

The problem is that an UMPIRES MISTAKE is Blown way out of proportion . You mentioned that the team went on to score 4 or 5 runs. Moose were on "the hill" giving up those runs? Were you in the field? You get my drift.

Now when we are unsure of a call, the first thing to check is : Did the offense or defense "tip their hand". In other words is it obvious as to what the correct call is even though we are unsure. In your thread it appears this was not the case. Also, in upper ball, the kids are probably instructed not to "tip their hands". I know when I played even if I was out I would always give the appearance as though I were safe.

Papa C listed those circumstances when we can change a call. Your thread doesn't appear to be one of those.
Now what does this all mean? When it's OUR CALL right, wrong, or indifferent we must now "sell it" even though we are unsure.

You call what you saw and "live with it". As you mentioned you do not need anybody to tell you what you did wrong as you did a fine job of this yourself. All one can do is learn so that we do not make the same mistake twice.

In your example; you shouldn't have gone to your partner since this was not his call. The PU's responsibility on a DP is to watch for interference on the part of r1. The BU's responsibility is to call the out / safe at second and then turn and make the call at first.

Somtimes we just have to "eat it". Remember the AlCS BOSOX / Yanks same thing - make the call and learn from it.

What I find interesting is that we can make a bad call and F1 serves up a "Gopher" Ball and in a way he / she is off the hook because everyone is screaming about the play before. As they say - it comes with the territory.


Pete Booth