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No...
Crew chiefs in D1 and Minor League baseball carry a little more authority. I have had calls changed and I've changed calls as crew chief - all of them have been after conferring with my partners, because baseball allows this. A couple of times I have had to prevent fights from breaking out in our locker room after the game, but on the field, we did our jobs. Sometimes our "conferences" were a signal - ala pulled foot, bobbled ball, "Safe" for no catch, double set for a balk, etc. I've worked with some of my partners for fourteen years and often don't need words to show what we want or will do. Work with a crew long enough and this happens. I do not suggest it to rookies or inexperienced crews. But does it happen, you bet. Did you ever see Joe Brinkman call a check swing without taking his hands out of his pockets? He did it in a playoff game two years ago.
Tensions are obviously high about this issue.
Jeff, in order to end this, I will agree that changing/overruling/altering a baseball call/ruling is a difficult decision and should be done only when warranted and then, properly. My intent was to show that the steps taken by our professional brethren is for the good of the game. We owe it to the players, coaches & fans to make sure that the game is called fairly and correctly. Adopting this practice ON THE BASEBALL FIELD is sure to come. FED already said that they want any incorrect call that is made that puts a team in jeopardy should be corrected. Then they come back and say that even if you call a fair ball "Foul", it is foul. We know that they did this to protect a call made in error, that would be difficult to change.
Jurassic,
You didn't have to tell us that you weren't a baseball umpire..it was obvious. The only mistake I made was trying to convince you that when you say something can't possibly happen, someone is going to give you a REAL example of it occuring. I did, you can't believe it...oh, well. Working at the D1 level in any sport is an accomplishment. You complained about me posting my credentials to back an opinion, sorry, but jealousy becomes you. I had no intent to make enemies of you when this first began, but you broke the cardinal rule of officiating. "Don't take anything personally." You did, I gloated and you've been sneering ever since. You'd better be careful or your face will stay that way. Uh, oh...too late.
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