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Originally posted by jumpmaster
Carl and Peter,
I know you have avowed never to speak to Windy again...however, I am curious to hear your thoughts on the situation in question. After all Peter, didn't you say "real umpires talk situations?" 
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I did not know that I ever made a vow about Windy but to answer your question:
Jurassic is right regarding officiating from the past. Jurassic's name says it all. The Jurassic period in Earth's history was 80 million years ago and Jurassic's officiating philosophy is ancient.
Windy is correct for the way that things have changed in the last five years of baseball umpiring. Today, we have to get it right while custom, pride, and procedure take a back seat. I trace this change to the destruction of the MLB union after the ill conceived strike. The process was well under way before the strike, but the strike was the final nail in the coffin of the old way of doing business.
The argument that Juarassic tries to put forward that the original calling official changes the call is a red herring. In a perfect world, he may be correct, but that is only window dressing. Other officials are seeing missed calls and one way or another, calls are being changed. Jurassic keeps blowing the horn for an ancient way of doing business, but the argument has already been lost. Today, we have to get it right no matter how it looks. The 2nd base umpire has yet to change a ball/strike call but that day may be coming.
Peter