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Originally posted by teacherspit
What is your diffinition of upper level?
And who cares about upper level? I sure don't.
You nick pickers are something else.
I bet y'all say one thing and then when you get on the field you do something else.
I don't appreciate personally being attacked on my views. EX: telling me someone is going to laugh me out of a room. If I am wrong so be it. Because I disagree with you doesn't mean you have to attack me.
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.
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.
What I have read in this forum so far for the most part pretty good information.
But what I have also seen is that there are a small few whom have taken it upon themselves to have a closed mine on other umpires interpentations of the Rules. And ridicule any whom oppose.
Heck, most everyone that reads the Bible has a different interpretation. So why not a simple Base Ball Rule Book?
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I had to laugh. A simple Rule Book - NOT. Because this is not a simple game. Surely umpires can make it hard, but there is a lot to the game of baseball.
But, using common sense will get you a long way in umpiring. Calling a runner out when there is no rule for it is NOT using common sense. Think about it.
And for an umpire to make up a rule saying he abandoned or made a travesty, that's even worse than missing the call.
This forum can be a great help, but you have to be willing to get the book out and search. Don't discount the many many hours that many of us put into the rules weekly to be better umpires.
thanks
David