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Windy,
I will not attempt to tell you how to handle a situtation in baseball because it is not my domain. However, in football I would have a way of handling a situation like you present. It is called a USC foul and if you persisted it would be followed by an ejection.
I have a question for you. You have been espousing that one should strive to always get the call right. I have yet to read a single post on this very long thread that has disagreed with this general statement. Every one in their own way had agreed with you on that. Here's my question. Your partner in a game makes a call that you, and only you, see to be incorrect. You approach your partner and inform him that you saw it another way. What do you do if he says he saw it the way he called it and you are wrong? In baseball you may have a crew chief who is by rule incharge of the game and has the authority to overrule any other official on the field. In football, there is no official who has authority over the other officials. The referee is informally called the crew chief because in most cases he is the most senior member of the crew. The referee wears a white hat only for differentiation from other members for easy identification by the pressbox, radio/TV personnel, fans and coaches because he signals the information. No where in the rules of football does it say that when there is a dispute among officials the referee shall have the final say.
I have had situations where I have asked a fellow crew member about a call that I thought he had wrong. A prime example is the block in the back. If the block is originally a legal block and the opponent spins on the blocker and the blocker does not break contact then there is no block in the back. I will always ask when this foul is reported to me if the official saw the initial contact. One of the cannons of football officiating is that if you did not see the complete action you do not call the possible foul. I have many times not called the possible clip because all I saw was two guys on the ground with one laying on the back of the other's legs. I'm pretty sure we had a foul, but I didn't see the whole action.
The way you have come across in you posts makes it seem that you say that you call is always better than the other guys and you will make sure it is corrected to what you saw because that is the "right call". Maybe that is not what you are saying, but that is how you are being perceived as coming across. Always remember that perception is reality to those who perceive it.
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