[ecurebel]

Asking for assistance on a foot pull may save you time for processing a call but in the end it may also make you look like you don't know what was up...cuz if you ask for a footpull and you get no and you call him safe they are going to question what is up.

So basically what I am saying is don't ask for assistance on a call about a footpull or a tag if you know you are going to get the answer of yes he was tagged or no the foot wasn't pulled. you know that you fluffed it.. either remake the call right there...your judgment is going to be attacked either way, but if you get the call right thats one thing, letting another coach feel that you are being coerced by the opposing team is the other.. just live with it, or change it before anything is said (you are going to look like an idiot either way but if ray charles could see that he was safe and you banged him changing it before anything is said might help..)

main thing is slow down with the bang bang plays and think things through about where the ball was where the foot was and what not you wouldn't have to change a call that you fluffed. it don't matter whether you make the call as the play happens, a couple seconds/mins later, or next week, as long as you get the dang call to mirror the play you just saw...cuz calling it like you see it is the most important integrity part of baseball...

every call could go against one team but if at the games end you could walk out the parking lot with your partner to change and get ready to leave and are capable of saying i called the game to the best of what i knew...then you did your job well