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Originally posted by LDUB
Ok thats fine, if you do it because it may block your view. I thought you were just saying that he was blocking your view as an excuse to get him in the box because he was stealing signs.
That still leaves Rich out there though. He enforces it for one team but not the other. And then when the manager asks for him to enforce it evenly, he tells him to get off the field and not be picky about rules that are customarily ignored, right after he just enforced it.
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I supported what Rich said so I'll throw in my 2 bits.
The other team did not have a coach out of the box. If he was then as Atl Blue stated he will get in the box.
I don't let a lot of coaches tell me what they are going to do. They have a place and that is where they will be.
If they don't like it I don't care what the other team thinks. I'm there to do my job.
If they want to steal signs is not the question. They can steal signs if they want. That is baseball.
As an umpire I do it all the time. Call it my hobby but I like to watch the coaches give signals and usually after a few innings by observing the game I pretty much know what they are going to do ahead of time.
I guess I was a F3 and F2 too long. We were taught as F3 to watch the coaches and find out the signs if we could. Pays dividends when you know what the team is going to do.
Thanks
David