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ChampaignBlue: "but why wouldn't you go to him on the pulled foot call?"
I thought that you were suggesting that I may have been a little stubborn in not going to my partner on the pulled foot issue.
I never saw it! I had no reason to go to him. The only thing I heard from the coach was "Can we get some help here?" It is possible that because I was trying to come to a stop, see the play, and make a big sell call that I did not see a pulled foot. (BTW - I am 63, and at least that many lbs overweight - started behind F2, and was about 15' from 1B at the end of my sell call! Maybe I should have pulled up a little earlier and been a little more stationary to make the call.)
To be honest, I really don't think there was a pulled foot! Remember that he spent a lot of time with the fans of the visiting team. That he put the shaft to the home team in the top of the 7th. That he came into this game with an attitude that, as home plate umpire, he has the responsibility and authority to overrule base umpires when they make a mistake.
In my mind it is possible that he saw the runner as safe and made up the pulled foot to get the safe call. Now that is a terrible accusation against a fellow umpire, and I certainly cannot prove it. But I am not convinced there really was a pulled foot.
WMB
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