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it's not something you teach young umpires
That's for sure! Any clinic or school I have ever attended, and the ones I have taught, we emphatically teach umpires NOT to call the location of pitches.
It usually leads to more b!tching and moaning, and second guessing. If you haven't had a problem with it yet, you've been lucky. If you just call "Ball", there is not much they can argue about.
I have not had any college coaches saying, "Where was that one Blue?". They are smarter than that. I don't even here that out of most HS coaches. I do sometimes hear it from Men's Leagues, but those guys have no clue most of the time anyway.
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