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I rarely post, just read. But I fill so tempted... A couple things. Carl, when an official sees one of the 5 things to over turn a call, does he/she automatically take over the call and over-turn, or do they need to go to their partner and let them decide with the information he was given? When does the ump seeing the violation take over jurisdiction?
Also, as a business man, a can't think of baseball in the same way. The "customer is always right" can not apply here. Hey, if the customer doesn't like your product or service, let him go else where. There is plenty of customers out there to be had. But, you better make sure that you are confident you are giving your customer the best product. And who's job is that, the assignor? So if you have a product that fails, who put that product out there to fail? Who is setting up the umpire to fail? Who is doing the quality assurance checks that most businesses do? The assignor?
Now on the last note I have; everyone fails sometime or another. Even the smallest blunder seems huge at the time (if you take the game and your job serious and aim to improve). If the ump is dedicated enough he will make sure he never does that again. I can only see a few reasons why a major err would occur:
Lack of mental focus
Lack of training
Lack of good mechanics
Lack of desire
Lack of hustle
If someone notes any of these in an umpire, then that umpire should not be in the position of taking the "big games". Maybe they should be assigned more to lower practise games.
Now if someone happens to be in a "Big game" and blows a huge play that affects the outcome of our world, and they do not show any of the above symptoms, then lets suck it up and put it down as part of the game. Not every bad call happens at the proper time. It would not be intentional, it could happen to any crew, and finally, who gives a rats *** what a coach thinks about my product?! If I am the assignor and confident, then water off a ducks back.
Just a thought
Max
P.S. About the coach who never forgot about the blown call that cost his team the championship, I bet the other coach also remembers it in another way; that the umpire crew was the best, most professional, dedicated crew in the world! And you have their business for life.
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