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Old Mon Aug 23, 2004, 09:40am
WindyCityBlue WindyCityBlue is offline
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Re: I have not once called you a name.

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Originally posted by PS2Man
WCB,

I have not called you any names. I did not even get personal with you. The only thing I have said that is remotely personal is about your behavior.




You are a travesty because you are trying to make a mountain of a molehill. You have name called, insulted people that do not agree with you and acted like a complete and total ***.

WCB, go away. Go back to the back to the baseball board. You were laughed off the basketball board and Jurrassic got all over you there and the baseball board when you talked out of turn. I am not taking sides at all. I am just pointing out that you are a troubled individual if you cannot disagree without being disagreeable.

Yes, these were you words from a couple posts ago. But,you did not call me names or insult me. Your sense of righteousness is misplaced.




As a baseball umpire myself I have never overruled a partner. If they ask for help I will offer help. If we have discussed something before the game I will only give that help in specific situations. That is my opinion and if it is only my opinion it has worked for me for almost 20 years.
Excellent advice...your experience has shown no need to ever correct a bad call. I've seen multiple plays in the MLB and two in the CWS that showed improper calls being made and the crew corrected the mistake. I have never once advocated stopping play and announcing, "Hey, Nimrod, that was a horsesh*t call, let me correct it." You may want to revisit my narrative and see that I suggest there is a proper way to handle it. I am a member of three D-1 baseball crews. I am the crew chief of one. If one of my guys boots a call (rare, because they are very good) we get together and point out that we have a different ruling and that WE NEED TO GET THE CALL RIGHT. His ego may be bruised, but we gain the respect of the people that matter, by making sure the game is called correctly. You may have a different tact, c'est wonderful. All I've ever asked, is that when YOU SEE a call that is blown, you have the stones to get the call corrected.

Some of you understand that this is going to be tough, especially in big games when a prize is on the line. That is when it is even more important. Look at the Olympics...Paul Hamm won a gold medal because of an error made by the judges. Not a judgement error, mind you, but a human error that caused the outcome to be altered. The Lorean did not file the protest correctly, but if there is justice in the world, the governing body will award two golds and acknowledge the error. If not, his award will always be tarnished and the officials will never be respected. The good of the game demands that if you can correct a bad call, you do it. If the rules forbid it, then work to change the rules. Officiate the game like your son was playing in it and the bad call went against him.