[IRISHMAFIA]

I think some are taking this way out of context. I am not suggesting that a call be changed because another umpire has a different opinion.

Judgement calls are made based on what an umpire sees. And that usually isn't the problem. Often, the problem is what the umpire doesn't see.

If you are going to your partner before you make a call, you're not going for help, but you are giving away the call.

Other than the obvious (check swing, pulled foot, etc), I am never going to holler across the field to my partner. I'm going to have a private conversation with him and compare notes. There may be something that the other umpire did see that you didn't.

There is nothing wrong with this method. Too many people are offended that someone is "changing their call." No one is changing anyone's call. A partner is merely offering another observation to a play and it is entirely up the the umpire whose assignment it was to make the correction or stand with his/her call.

Personally, if I'm wrong, I'm wrong and I will make a correction. I don't know what to say about those who won't purely out of principle.

I know more than a half-dozen umpires who refuse to work anything but a one-umpire game for the sole purpose of avoiding appeals. To me, that is not only unprofessional, but unfair to the teams playing the game.

JMHO,