Re: Tie goes to runner.
How often do I have to remind you guys, you can't make any money calling safe or ball. We get paid for outs and strikes!!!!!! d
Seriously, a bit of good advice (I believe I heard it originally from Carl Childress) was that on the banger that could go either way, to give the benifit of the doubt to the team executing the play well. ie: F6 reaches into the hole to snag a shot and makes an execelent throw to 1st resulting in a banger, call the out. Conversely if F6 fumbles a routine ground ball, and as a result of the fumble we have the banger at 1st, call the runner safe.
In my experience, you will get little grief following this advice.
Or you could tell both coaches that you are really just a referee and that it was just too close to call, so we're going to have a "do over".(G)
Roger Greene,
Member UT
p.s. COR = coefficient of restitution
[Edited by Roger Greene on Mar 6th, 2001 at 07:57 AM]