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Originally posted by teacherspit
Oh by the way, "In my judgement he abandoned the base" What are you going to do? Protest?
And if I want to call it a "Making a Travesty of the Game", Who is to say it isn't? It an umpire's judgement.
This is the most subjective objective team sport ever.
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Actually, yes, I will protest. Because it is a RULES question, not a judgment call. Simply putting "In my judgment .. " in front of what ever travesty of "umpiring" you are about to give voice to does not make it a judgment call. If your Board/UIC/Protest Committee has the brains and/or the balls which the creator supplied to little white mice, my protest will be upheld, too.
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Originally posted by teacherspit
I have no quorums as to how I call a game. I am confident in my application of the rules.
If I tell both coaches that their pitcher has to step off the rubber before throwing to a base to make an appeal. That pitcher better step off the rubber. Whether you agree or not. Both teams know it so I don't see the problem.
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Here's the problem: you are confidently MAKING UP RULES to suit yourself. This reflects badly on all umpires, and I bet you could find several quorums of upper level umpires on this board and elsewhere to tell you you should cut it out. The next guy to come along after you has to deal with the s#!%house YOU created when he simply follows the CORRECT rule(s) which you ignored and doesn't use your dumba$$ invented "rule", which you have convinced the poor kids and their clueless Coach is "The Rule". It is hard enough to keep the various codes straight ourselves, and to calm down summer league coaches who expect us to call the HS rule (because that is the best level of amateur ball [& umpiring] they are used to seeing), without adding the grief caused by ad-hoc "umpires" like yourself and the 9.01(c) addicts.
Your problem is not the stuff you don't know [which is a whole lot], but all the stuff you "know" that is just dead WRONG.