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1. Getting help and yielding to coaches demands for appeals in situations such as this is not taught in our association.
2. Imagine a very similar scenario where the plate umpire is wrong and the base umpire is right. Again, yielding to a coach's cry for an appeal the base ump goes to the plate ump. This time a correct call is changed to a bad call. Do you think some one might remember this?
3. Mistakes in judgement are unfortunate, we try to to limit them, but they happen. They are part of the game, always have been, always will be.
4. Mr. Holines implied that no one will remember Mr. B.J Moose getting help and changing the call but they would remember if he didn't. I disagree. Both coaches will remember that Mr. B.J.Moose bowed down to a cry to get help and he will hear that cry over and over. In the future he may even have an ejection or two over cries to get help that he would not have had had he not gotten help.
5. The sugar coated option presented by Mr. Holines is in reality a poison pill. It may taste good at first, but it will kill the career of anyone shooting to move up. Proper mechanics and procedure together with rules knowledge will advance one from B to A to D1 faster than a reputation for reversing calls.
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